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Praeludium
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not classic but trip hop
a too long intro has been extracted to become a hole song.
The story so far:
Why a praeludium?
A long time passed since the last tocodille-song had been published. And the one I'm working on is - except for the intro-part - not yet finished.
This maybe caused by its length. The intro-part e.g. is allready longer than a radio-edit single.
The reason why it has become as long as this:
I planned to show all the diffent shapes, a do-it-yourself sound-file gots on its diffenent pitches:
from high sharp crickets to low warm crooning.
Cause I didn't want so do this by playing pling, pleng, bloong, blowung in one mesure, it took me 5 minunte and some seconds to get to the starting point for the core track.
Think nobody want to wait online as long as this to get to the main part of a song without knowing if he likes a song or not.
Therefore I split it up and added - for it's not too boring to listen to the decrease of the pitch - some nice beats. And a bass-line of course.And other plings and plongs. And some noises.
So in the end, it has become a fully funtional version, and not just some annoying shareware.
To show this additional effort, I didn't call it Intro but "Praeludium".
True? - see you don't belive, let's try this one:
I don't kown how many bands have a song called intro, cause when I tried to check it out with the search-engine on cdnow the server couldn't handle the request. There really must be a innumerable hugh amount of songs with this specific name.
As every human being, I seek for some individuality, even in the infinit expanse of cyperspace.
That's why I had to look for another name.
I checked with prelude, witch actually means more or less the same. I was lucky, the cdnow-server didn't crash: he listed about 200 available songs.
Still too much for my ego. So I gave another try with the latin version "praeludium": only 20 hits! And the most of them by some band called d.j. (or was it j.s.?) bach.
20 is fine for me. I didn't want to search any longer to prevent me from being accused for runing D.O.S. attacts at cd-now and called it "Praeludium".
True? - see you still don't belive, well, ok, read this:
To reach a lot of people with my music, I decided to surf on the still unbrocken wave of latin pop.
To do so, I called the song praeludium and profit on the fact that mp3-players open usually in a new window showing the song title.
So if you click on a latin-named song, what you got?
A latin-named-pop-up-window. And I think this is very close to latin pop. Just 3 words more.
But latin lovers be aware: don't expect the song to be some Mambo #5.5. With its 66bpm, the countless offbeats and timbales-samples, experts would say it could be rather reggae.
But it isn't reggea neither.
Think you or at least I can't produce its positiv vibration groove electronically. Maybe the missing human factor in processing notes by hardware causes a lack of inaccurancy, the guarantor for swinging sound.
Don't think this problem is because computers lack the ability to smoke. As we know they can: After a big crash they do smoke. (with human beeing it's the other way round).
True? - yes. And if you still don't belive, go back and click on Praeludium to see the latin pops up.
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2304
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think progressive electronica could match
this is the main part of the song, where I extracted praeludium.
same same, but different.
story behind the song:
song finished at last.
if you liked praeludium, you'll like its sequel.
if you didn't like praeludium you'll like its sequel.
cause it's the same but different. i.e.: I used the same sounds, softsynths and effects, but tried to create a total different songs-structure and atmosphere with them.
song lyrics:
8
1
6
for all those wondering about what the numbers means: numbers don't mean anything but their value. that's enough for me. don't need numbers having deeper meaning, their values are sometimes strange enogh.
look at Pi e.g.: infinite and always changing without any regularity.
the antithesis of tocodille-songs (unexpected ends after having been repeating always the same loop)!
think next time I should make a song about pi. would be an interesting synthesis.
anyway, that's why 816 is just the measure number, where they say 8-1-6 and the song is called 2304 cause it stops at measure #2304.
enjoy the counting!
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without flute
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progressive electronica
it's a song without a flute
story behind the song:
Who said about samples: "...but when you play them you'll gonna find out, that the name of the samples don't have a lot to do with the sound they produce..."?
O.k., it doesn't matter if you don't get right now. I'll make it short and tell you right away: it was tocodille, talking about not like A .
But did I learn of it? He? Look at tshelloFi e.g., a song with an excessive use of a cello and a violin-sample. "You miss the different sound attack of a cello-bow pulled or pushed" a flute player told me.
Well, I didn't learn of it! it got ever worse, ´cause I planned to use a flute-sample-part in my next song.
But in the end, I had to admit to myself, that it didn't fit to the song. So I removed the flutetrack, and that's why the song is now without flute.
You don't belive the story? For all unbelievers: I put a previous version of it with flute in the trash . guess under what name.
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tshelloFi
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symphonic electronica?
no, just that intro-sequences lets you fear this. Just wait long enough and you'll hear: it's pure tocodille.
A better style discription would have been "dirty cheep techno", but this genre is not yet approved by the the style council.
story behind the song:
actually, it's not really a new song. I had to free some harddisk-space. For this purpouse, I reopened some of the old files to check if they were worth to keep but hanged on this cello-song and started to work it over until I thought: well, you didn´t published a lot in recent times, let´s beam it up into cyperspace.
so, this is a tocodille song for people who allways want to show their avand-garde insider knowledge by ansering other peoples small-talk question "do you like the band whateveritmaybe" with "yes but only the earlier tapes/discs/records".
For people interested in new material, please wait for my next release. I promise, this is the last of the older songs, because all the other material was bad enough to throw away. (tocodille-avand-garde insider knowers know: they must have been terribly awesome, otherwise they would have landed in the trash -section on my homepage.)
The name: first I planned to call it cello, ´cause there is a cello-sample in it. But the sample with it´s 11MHz mono freaquenzy is very low Fidelity and sounds more like tshello than cello. But to be honest: the very reason to call it like this is, that there are some mp3-sites, that lists songs alphabethically. and I want to place new songs in first place and leave older songs at the bottom of the playlists.
Let´s bet (quotes are 26:1): my next new songs will start with the letter A (cause B ist allready used by the song bad? ).
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bad?
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somehow old-fashioned with its hand-claps, but it's not old school, it's new beats and one of my better songs. I recommend to play it loud.
story behind the song:
I found this hand-clap-sample called "bad-clap", but it wasn't bad at all. I had a lot of fun with transforming it in all kind of shapes and in the end there was no need to add some other drum sounds or -machines.
this good claps did it all. (yes, the hihat you'll hear is made with the bad-claps, too)
song lyrics:
there was this teenager-hobby in the 70-ties and 80-ties:
playing heavy-metal disk backwards to find some satanic verses in it.
with cd and mp3, this isn't possible anymore, allthough I heared that somebody programed a tool that allows to this with mp3-files, but I forgot the url.
music-service is tocodille's purpose, so for all those who do not know the mp3-revers-play-tool-url neighter I downloaded some word-samples, reversed them and put the results in these song.
but I have to confess, I didn't recognize any satanic verses in it, actually I don't get any sens out of these transformed samples.
who cares?
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wip3
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was a work in progress, but I couldn't figure out, what to add, so it stayed with drums and basses only.
wasn't a mistake.
story behind the song:
I was trying to use my software on a base-level, not adding to much samples but generate the sounds by synthesis.
then I let it rest for a while, but published it as a W ork I n P rogresse, in bmx-format.
actually the thirt song I published this way. (you can get workinprogress.bmx in the buzz-downloadeaea at www.scene.de . click on the tsu.download button, if you want to get the bmx-file or get rigth here )
I call it workinprogress, cause I was still thinking in adding something what ever it may be.
but I listen to the song again and again and again and hadn't any idea what I should add.
so i thought: maybe nothing is missing, why don't you just publish it the way it is?
as you've seen, I did.
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LL
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not too slow, not too fast, not too melodic, not too monotonous, not a letter too much, not a letter too less:
what do you want more?
song story:
me and my girlfriend went to an openair-concert this summer. A heavy rain started while the band was playing. we were lucky to get under the shelter of the tap bar. most of the audience went home cause it kept on raining, but the band kept on playing and the bartender kept on serving.
so we got nearly a privat concert, didn't had to queue for the beer and were enjoing the additional sound effect of the mixture with heavy rain sound and the tunes out of south-east-europe (or was the near-east, I don't remeber anymore, maybe we were a bit too closed to the bar).
after all, it was quite nice and after comming home I had still this melodies in my ear, sat down on my computer and tried to make a sound alike.
song lyrics:
hiphop mcs know, that's it's good for promotional purpouse to repeat their name in a song quit often, cause in this case it doesn't matter, if the radio dj forgets to announce the band name.
I, after becomming now really comercial (yes, you still can buy dam-cds of tocodille!) planed to do even more and spell t-o-c-o-d-i-l-l-e, for people may easier remember it.
but, maybe you know this effect from your answer machine: when you hear your own voice, you can't belive that this is the real sound of your voice. it's was the same on my computer-record, my voice sounded too thinly, high, fragilly, in one word: uncool.
so I transformed the waves with flanger, delay, pich-shifting and every other effet-machine I could grab, but it didn't realy change it. if the source bad, the water is pissed all down the river (maybe an old cowboy-proverb).
the only sequence that sounded o.k. was the double l, so I left it and deleted all the other letters. so at least the lyrics are now easy to remember: LL
by the way, if someone got a good voice (check it first with your answer-machine): it would be kind to send me a T, an O (one is enough), a C, a D, an i, and an E (the double L isn't necessarily requested, as you 'll hear, I got it already), preferably in mp3-format, for a remix of the song or for the next one, thanks.
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dreamin´
2trash |
feat. DJ Electro Kermit and the Grü.
not a lullaby, it's rather a nightmare.
I don't think it's real trance, but that's probably the closest match. think you gonna like it.
song story:
In summer nights, while listen to the rhythmical sound of the crickets,
I wish they 'ld have some b-drum-, snare- and bass-mashines in their legs, too.
but they don't,
so I added them with my tracker.
song lyrics:
I found a nice poeme and because the song is about summer nights
I reduced its text to the words concerning night.
there were only 4 left, therefor I used them 3 times in order of apparence:
... night ... night ... late ... night ... dreamin' ... night ... night ... late ... night ... night ... night ... late ... night ... dreamin' ... night ... night ... late ... night ... night ... night ... late ... night ... dreamin' ... night ... night ... late ... night ... sleep
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didadedo
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a lazy downtempo song but funky anyway. a contradiction? - just listen and you'll know
song story:
on a Saturday afternoon I came from the Neubaugasse and was walking down the Maria-Hilferstraße.
While walking, I couldn't get rid of this Cuban song with the simple bass-line everybody knows. Even when I passed a Peruvan Street-Band, their "el codor pasa" wasn't catchy enought
to free my inner ear from the previous one.
I really couldn't stand it anymore because our self-styled office-dj play it on hot rotation. Think I have to give her a tocodille-D.A.M.-CD.
so I tried to think of another song fitting this lazy city-walk feeling but wasn't able to find one. Either were the songs to less catchy or I wasn't able to remember the lyrics.
therefore I speeded up to get to my computer and to start working on a song based on the bass-line mentioned above for to get rid of my "not to get rid of" problem.
song lyrics:
as mentioned in the song story section, I had problems in finding the right words:
I don't recall
how the colored girls went:
was it di
was it da
was it de
was it do
was it di
was it da
was it de
was it do
I don't recall
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was it da
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was it do
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was it de
was it do
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was it de
was it do
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was it do
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how the colored girls went:
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was it da
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nosing
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some sort of club sound, lets you dance I guess
song story:
I planed to give this song some 60'ties groove and therefor sampeled a lot of old-fashoned organ-sounds.
but only the samples where I totally modified the original sound shape seemed to fit. (the fat bass and the syntetic drums must have caused this).
so sorry, no hippie-feeling this time, but maybe next time you'll wrap or unwrap your helping means for consciousness-extending.
song lyrics:
there is somthing witch is really hard for me to say :
the TH.
I think as an non-native-english-speaking person you'll hardly never learn to pronouce this two letters as they should sound. but there are 3 different kind of solutions to come quite near to it:
1. say "s"
2. say "f", with the tongue (your own) between the teeth
3. say anything in a very low voice and pretend to know the right pronuciation
in this song you can hear all of this three possibilities (in order as listed above).
but the most intresing version of them is the first one, the "s", sorry se "s", cause it offers a hugh bandwide of meanings. so let's have a closer look at this one.
the first line e.g. in the song goes like this:
...is no"s"ing in "s"is song
witch can mean "there is nothing in this song" or "there is no sing(ing) in this song".
it may also mean "there is no sin in this son" or "there is nosing in this song" (cause the song smells?), but that's not what the song is about.
the song is about the advantage not having to add some texts to songs. thanks to the trend in eletronic music to reduce or skip singing totally, people got used to consume pop-music without having some profound texts in addition and I as profit oriented comercial producer (yes you may now buy DAM-CD of tocodille!) feel free at last to do so, too.
you have to know: in earlier days, when I was a singer-songwriter (another youthful misdeed of me, for more check the songinfo Ring), well at this period music composing made great fun to me (it still does), but when a song was finished, the sword of damokles was hanging above my head, cause I felt forced to find some really very important personal messages to add, althogh I had nothing to say. but being a singer-songwriter and playing just instrumental-versions would have been a contradiction. (and singing just "na-na-na-na-na-na-na" or "lay-la-lay, lay-la-lay-la lay-la-lay" was already copy-protected by the beatles and paul simon).
That's why I'm so glad this time is over and not having to think anymore about rhymes for the pros and cons of realationships or eh... (were there any other subject for pop-songs? I hardly remember).
enoght background text, it's about time for the plain song text:
nosing
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is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
(repeated a lot of time)
refrain:
got nofing to say
no ing
(also repeated)
is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
(repeated again)
refrain:
got nofing to say
no ing
(and repeated...)
is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
is nosing in sis song
(repeated? yes!)
refrain:
got nofing to say
no ing
(not to mention that's repeated)
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5R
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feat. noHi!
a fast big-beat song, slowed down a bit by the strings
song story:
as promised a faster song than the last one.
that's why I started with fixing the bpm on 145, put some techno-base with drum and bass-synths and then played around with the different string-samples.
the result was something I would call teenage-techno. not because teenager listen to this kind of music but techno sounded alike when I was teenager (the "orchestrial hit" in particular).
for short: old fashioned.
so I thought it's necessaraly to add some avand-garde thing. What would be better then introducing a future rap star not yet known by public and enemies: noHi!
(after all he did great work with his artworks for my site, so (after just having quoted him in Stop monsky!) it was about time to give him some credit by getting him into music).
fortunately I got a recording of him on my harddrive that's seemed to fit quite well. but when I presented noHi the result of my mix the only thing he said was "why did you add the music".
maybe he's right, decide yourself while listening to 5R!
song lyrics:
exceptionally more than a word, thanks to noHi!
so without loosing too much words let's go straight to the lyrics:
Praterstern,
Schnellbahn, U-bahn, Bahnhof Wien Nord
Endstation
umsteigen zur Nordbahn, Nordwestbahn
zu den Linien
S1, S2, S3, S7
U1
O und 21
sowie zur Linie 80
bitte alle ausstiegen
pfiiiuuuuu
5
Praterstern,
Schnellbahn, U-bahn, Bahnhof Wien Nord
Endstation
umsteigen zur Nordbahn, Nordwestbahn
zu den Linien
S1, S2, S3, S7
U1
O und 21
sowie zur Linie 80
bitte alle ausstiegen
pfiiiuuuuu
5
5
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
5
pfiiiuuuuu
pfiiiuuuuu
Praterstern Praterstern
Praterstern,
Schnellbahn, U-bahn, Bahnhof Wien Nord
Endstation
umsteigen zur Nordbahn, Nordwestbahn
zu den Linien
S1, S2, S3, S7
U1
O und 21
sowie zur Linie 80
bitte alle ausstiegen
pfiiiuuuuuuu
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no cure4butt
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some kind of trip hop(e), without loosing too much words
song story:
think the main story is explained in the lyric-section below. the only thing to add is a preview on next song: it will be faster.
song lyrics:
as usual, there's just one single word in this song, witch doesn't mean anything. If you want so it may sond like "borderland" (but it isn't).
that's the reason (I mean the lack of real lyric) why I usually discribe here where the titel comes from:
I tried to imitate the sound and ambiance in the refrain-line of the butthole surfer's song silver (think I came quiet close, but it would have been better to sample it directly).
after that I recorded a dry e-guitar-cord and this one reminded me of the introducing guitar-riffs in cure's boys don't cry.
but the two song-elements didn't fit together so I had to separate them in different parts of the song. that's why there is no cure for the butt's sequence. (ok.: I've already got better titels).
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tocatoc
2trash |
nice conga-beat
song story:
no story, sorry
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chili's out
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chill out song, short and long version available
song lyrics:
the songs starts quite quiet, but is finally getting more and more exaggerated, so you can say that in the end the chill out is out.
because of this and the fact that I like to play with words, I called it chili's out.
there are two versionen of this song:
a short (in former centuries called single version) and a long version (if there where still long-player you would call it LP-version). I made this two versions just beacause I think,that avarage net-surfer don't have the patiance to quit clicking for 7 minutes, but if you like the song I'll recommend to download the long version, because I think the ambience of this song just developps with its lenght.
story behind the song:
I planned to compose a song where the main element (in this case the arpeggio-line) is different in every mesure. actually this concept is an anachronism in computer aided music-production, where repetitions are an obivous structure mode. that's maybe the reason why I got tired in the middle of the song to permant variating the notes and I went over to the common copy and paste.
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Ring
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nice bass-loop with bum-jack-bum-jack-bum-jack drums: move you feets to 130bpm
song story/ song lyrics:
not much to say about this song.
while surfing the net, I just found this sonic fm-bass, I longed long for.
I added a simple bum-jack-bum-jack-bum-jack drumloop and this was it.
nearly.
because after finishing I thought less is more is more or less too less this time, so I add some more and sampled a section of a march we played with the brass-band "Kadettenmusik" (one of my youthful misdeeds ). but the sample had an error at the end I had to cut out. (un)fortuanlly I saved the cut-out section instead of the errorless part of the samlple so it remained just a strange "puing"-sound. but when us play this in a loop, it produces this ringing sound simular to old electric relays.
I liked that so I left it in the song. well that's the reason for alling this song Ring and not march.
no lyrics this time, I run out of words.
so it is the instrumental version, if you can call bytes and bits an instrument.
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stop monski!
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a club song you may dance to above 0,7 °/oo (105bpm)
song lyrics:
noHi, my art director (the one who designed the virual cd-covers) doesn't know english. (some may say me neither). but he instisted in saying that "stop monski!" is an english expression or sentence, because Wallace has said this in the Wallace and Gromit film: A Grand Day Out.
so the Czech-Walk sisters and Ready, the english- (actually american-) expert, spend an afternoon in rewinding and forwarding the video to find this words.
I personally didn't care about the right quoting, I just thought, that it sounds nice, and so I used it for my new song.
Oh, before I forget: the other expresion (something like "sidätschn") doesn't mean nothing at all and there isn't even a story about. but after using just one single word in "Roan", I thoght this time there should be at least two of them.
story behind the song:
1. theorie
this time I played with transforming the pitch of the synthetic samples.
A good synthetic sound of an accoustic instrument is built with multiple wave-samples. that's because you can not (yet) mathematically define the different shapes, that waves of one instrument have on higher or lower pich-rates.
(uff - that was quite difficult for me to explain in english, but I think you prefer this to the bablefish-translations, allthoght they may be funnier).
Anyway, what I did was to take out one specific wave of an multi-wave-instrument sample and played it on pitch levels, they aren't designed for. (i.e. the bass-tone of the song is a samle of an electric slap-bass-guitar played too low). I also used synthetic sound generators below and above the pitch-aera recommended by the progammers (for buzz-insiders: i.e. the Omega-Generator).
2. practice
forget about all the blablabla, p l a y t h a t s o n g !
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distorted g.
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nice guitar-reef for headbanging (128bpm) in the sea of techno (extended version)
song lyrics:
as usual: there are some voice-sample in it, but you can't call that lyrics. they 're rather an electronic ornament, so no deeper meaning in that song.
story behind the song:
actually, I'm a guitar-player and started to do computer-music just to have some accompaniment with bass and drums while playing my solos.
but working with the music-software made such a lot of fun, that I couldn't quit programming until I got a entire song, where adding some live-guitar-playing wouldn't match.
this went on until now with each new work I started . so I didn't touch my guitar for more than a year.
therefor, it was about time to add some guitar-playing in my work. but I only managed to sample just one single cord of a distorted guitar before going on with hitting on my computer-keyboard.
hope this single "teng" is enough for all you headbangers and air-guitar-players in the world, so be kind and lend your ear to the distorted g. (and please be careful while stage-diving from your desktop).
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oWo
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dance music; still my personal favorit
story behind the song:
I just played around with buzz-tracker. a nice freeware, witch doesn't blast your cpu.
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Roan
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a mellow 2 cords-song with a single word sample
song lyrics:
I read in a news paper, that a well know lower-austrian politic became godfather for the word "Roan", (Roan means the last line of a wine-yard) and his job is now to use this word frequently to prevent it of becomming extinct.
So (knowing that he is a friend of literature - he's proud to have read one book) I imagine, how his next speech would sound alike.
story behind the song:
I tried to use the default machines you get with the buzz-player and to develope a song based only on 2 cords: a minor and his dominant with modulation to a major-dominant in the end.
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not like A
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unusually a soft song
song lyrics:
I've got a wave-table. such a furniture is normally included with soundcards on your pc. and these wave-tables contain the sounds of a houndred (128 to be precise) instruments such as trompet or electric guitar. but when you play them you'll gonna find out, that the name of the samples don't have a lot to do with the sound they produce.
e.g. there was a sample called:
"choir's ah". The sound of this one wasn't so bad, so I took it as lead for this song, but it does not really sound like A's, sung by a choir. Just listen to it and you too gonna say: not like A.
story behind the song:
not a new song but an old one previously unreleased. in fact, it's the first song I ever made on pc (there were others before written for accoustic guitar and - horribile dictu - containing some singing in it, so let them r.i.p.).
but untill lately I wasn't able to save this first midi-song down to a wave format (thanks to muehle for his Midi2BUZZ-programm).
available now: some improvisations put on a continuos walking-bass background. and of course some drums, playing 4-quarter-rhytms.
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blindTexT-remix of Roan | and workinprogress3
to stream these songs, you need a buzz-browser-pluging (not yet tested on this site) and I think you have to download the buzz-tracker -software. both are free available. the advantage is, that the file remains small (130Kb! | 23kb!!) allthohgt it´s the hole 5 minute-track in hifi-quality,
and you may render it down to a wav-format.
...steadygo
song lyrics:
Instead of Roan it says ready
story behind the song:
before I got a mic for my computer, I had this ready-sample ready on my harddisc and took it as blind text for the Roan song.
to fill the DAM-CD , I mix this first version a little bit up and that´'s it. if anyone want´s the mp3-file up, just mail me .
By the way, you may buy this version on maz-sound.com. it's on the traked works 2000 compilation.
...workinprogress3:
thirt song publishe in bmx-format. it's still a work in progress, but nearly finished. check it out.
playlist!
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