Seven track

Here's most of my week's studio produce. Nothing brilliant or even album or EPable but I hope some of it's entertaining. In the collection you will find probably good with vocals but abandoned beaty fuzz, drums and phasing, dreadful but fun easy listening electro lounge reggae horridness, a Suicide rip off riff without a Suicide song to back it up, an early Christmas tune in denial and my first proper attempts at using samples of real drum hits (cut up, rubbished and mixed up) courtesy of Meg White, Buddy Rich, Joe Morrello, Benny Greb, Thomas Lang and Akira Jimbo (mostly taken from YouTube after searching "drum solo", aside from Meg whose parts come from Little Room and Jimmy the Explorer). Animal almost made it but was too fast to cut up.

Seas
Fuffle
Blue
Not Christmas
Supermarket Tentacle Mayhem
Organise

Bonus song to counter the electrocentric others: Vandals and car thieves

Lyrics

It was a dark swivel chair
Fixed with grey cushions
An unknown stain
And a rip to the top right side
(It had nothing, nothing to do with you)

Carpet mixed with clumps of hair and I've found
The keys to your car hit the pedal to the ground
And I only drive three miles before I was missin' you
Vandals and car thieves by day
A star struck wreck in the afternoon
I'm comin' soon and you'd better be breathin'.

Complete?

I feel as though I have spent half of today changing settings and switching cables and dials. Aside from hooking up my speakers so I don't have to put everything so close to my worried ears I think things are pretty much as complete in Studio Josephine as they can be. I've said this before I know but I think it's there now, midified and ready.

Here's what I did between 22.00 and 23.15 this evening once I came home to it working:

Midi rest

"Lyrics"

I wanted to write some lyrics
But I've nothing left to write
It's late and dark and I'm alone
Within this house tonight.

I guess I'll have to improvise
I know it's just a test
To see what I can do in the future
Slow it down and have a rest now.

Piano loops

Please take this group of loops and give it a song if you have the ability. I made it today and do not know what to do with it. For some reason (probably the fact that it's the same notes just repeated) it ties in pretty nicely with the start of Hullo.

helpIamaloopedpianodemo.mp3

Hullo instrumental draft

Another day, another bash at the keyboard, another half finished, probably never to be finished track.
I recorded vocals but they didn't stick. It's sort of a sequel to Margaret's Dead

Hullo (demo)

Here are the attempted lyrics in case you want to attempt to sing them. Feel free to add bass or other instruments in your head or otherwise.

Most of all I've been open to your feelings
I know there is a darkness that you've not yet come across
And when the doorbell rings I know my time has come at last
The angels sing my name aloud and they go

Honoured to be somewhere new
I'm away from you
Honoured to be somewhere new
I'm away from you
Honoured to be somewhere new
I'm away from you
Honoured to be somewhere new
I'm away from you

After the funeral
The tributes melt into a boring pot
And I'm happy with all the friends I know I haven't got.

Scripted lifted out of where I once thought I would find my peace
Now I'm safe just knowing that your time away will never cease.

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Postscript: I set up a Facebook Page with some of my songs, pictures and other information on it.