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| November 2006 - June 2007 |
Number 15 / June 2007:
Interpol
A dumb thing I did in 2004.
Number 14 / May 2007:
Outtakes
This time it's a video. You're gonna need Windows Media Slayer. These are the
outrageously funny and infinitely entertaining outtakes from my latest talkbox video. Watch
at your own risk...
Number 13 / April 2007:
A Singular Moment
This is actually two pieces that I combined. One is an ambient drone, and the other is a
little electro-trance type ditty that I improvised in one take in Reason. Then I messed with
the drums a little bit. The two elements complement one another pretty well, I think. This
was done in 2004.
Number 12 / March 2007:
Good Nintentions
I've been really inspired by these dudes like The Advantage and The Minibosses who
play rock versions of old 8-bit Nintendo music on guitars, bass, and drums. It's a great
idea, and I can't believe nobody thought of doing it sooner. I am of the Nintendo
generation, having grown up being completely obsessed, no, consumed with it as a kid.
Anyway, it got me into thinking about making my own music on an old NES, and I
searched around online until I found the next best thing: YMCK's Magical 8-Bit Plug, a
software plugin synth that emulates the Nintendo sound chip very well.
I threw this together really quickly. It's designed to loop, just like it would in a game.
Number 11 / February 2007:
MB's Garage Band
Here's an example of a me trying to sound as dirty and lo-fi as possible. The result
was...interesting. Sounds like it was recorded around 1976, but was actually recorded in
2001. This trip begins in blues-rock land, but ends up in the avant-prog netherworld in my
then 18-year-old brain.
Oh yeah - the amplifier...Everything except the drums was run through an old Lecternette
portable PA system.
Instruments: DeArmond S73 electric guitar, Univox bass, Rogers drums, Moog Micromoog
synthesizer.
Number 10 / January 2007:
Russian 3rd
I was talking with my friend Andrew Watson on instant messenger one night, and we were
sharing music that we had made. I said 'I am going to send you something nobody's ever
heard before' and he said 'what is it' and I said 'I don't know yet'. 30 minutes or so later,
this is what I sent him.
For this tune, I did NOT use any sequencers, quantizers, or even a metronome. And it's
not completely steady. I don't fear being arrested by the 4/4 police.
Instruments: Synthesizers.com modular synth, Rhodes suitcase 73, Roland Space Echo
RE-101.
Number 9 / December 2006:
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Merry Christmas to all my friends, family, and otherwise. This is a
halfway-decent-sounding mix of my "Merry Talkbox Christmas" that many people have
seemed to enjoy on YouTube. I personally don't like it anymore, one, because I wore it out
at Christmas time, and two, because I was not that good at the talkbox then. If you can't
tell by now, I didn't post this in December 2006. :-)
Instruments: Custom Talkbox, DeArmond guitar, Synthesizers.com Modular synth, Reason
stuff.
Number 8 / November 2006:
Funk Motor (Idea #11)
Pretty often I have ideas in my head that I don't have time to see through to fruition, but I
want to make a record of in whatever state they are in when they come to me, just to have
something to come back to later when I want to finish or use them. This is a rough mix of a
rough idea I had. Just some funky stuff with guitars and bass, playing along to a loop I
recorded a long time ago. I copped that one hook from Miles Davis.
I want to make a song out of this eventually, but for now, I'm sharing this with you.
Instruments: DeArmond S73 electric guitar, Warwick Corvette fretless bass, Drum Loop.
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