Day 154: Not Your Rock'n'Roll

Sometimes, late at night, you will stumble onto something magical.  At first you don't know what you've found, then it begins to take shape.  I hope this magic transfers to you and you cherish it as much as I have.

Please enjoy the New Rock'n'Roll.

Lyrics:
This is not your rock'n'roll.
Do you have the key?
Are you in front of me?
This is not your rock'n'roll.

The path is not very long.
But you try to remain strong.
As long as you know I got your back.
I know you're never coming back.

Can't you see that the lies are covering me?
Can't you hear nobody's ever coming near to you?

Day 93: What you might find

In an attempt to keep from getting bored (like that's possible) and to continue to challenge myself I keep buying rack extensions.  I'm going to stop for awhile soon, but most recently this guy:

Has continued to confound me on a daily basis.  It makes beautiful and strange noises, doesn't seem to be super practical, and is a black hole of time-wasting.  I've mentioned it on some other posts, but I just wanted to point it out again today.  You can hear it in the background on the drums.  It's subtle, but they are processed.  It becomes a little more prevalent towards the end of the track.

Lyrics:
You don't want to wake up yet,
You don't know what you might find. 

Day 88: Pop is Modern

Once again, an experiment to do one thing went in a completely unexpected direction.  I started off using Neutron and trying to very subtly manipulate it to try and get a "usable" sound.  Something somewhat musical, but different.  Well, I was applying it to a tasty little bass guitar lick and stumbled on to what is a very close imitation of a very scratchy bowed cello.  So, to note, the sound at the beginning of this track is not a cello, or any other string instrument.  Just a sampled bass (from the Electric Bass Refill) run thru Neutron Particle Emitter.

After that, what was going to be an experimental track mutated into a modern pop/rock tune.

Lyrics:
You better hold on.
You wanted it, you got it.
You took it from me.

You're a holy terror,
You got holy fire,
You are wholly unholy,
Filled with desire.
I have nothing left
You took my best and threw it on the fire to die.

Ultimately, I was never going to take you back.
At least that's what you knew.
But, there is no war now.

You got a loaded mouth,
It's filled with lies.
You're sending out all your spies.
You can't try to trust,
It's too easy to kill.
You shouldn't see us as a total loss.
We're a total loss.

Day 84: Down the Rabbit Hole

I would call this some "serious" experimentation with a few different rack extensions.

 Neutron

Buffre

Uhbik G



I sampled my son and myself talking about dinosaurs (just snippets - don't try to make sense of anything) then kind of deconstructed it all.  About the only thing that is really intelligible is me saying "What do you see?"

Day 82: Particle Emitter

Today is an experiment with a new rack extension:  Neutron Particle Emitter by LoveOne.  You'll hear more of the same over the next few days as I figure out how to work this thing.

It's pretty cool and makes some pretty weird noises, so naturally, I love it.

In addition, this was another swipe at using Simon Janvier's Thor FM Synth Refill.  The sounds he came up with are pretty intense, so if you're a Reason user, go grab it.

Lyrics:

Can you hear a thousand tiny footsteps coming near,

coming for you?

Can you feel their breath on your neck?

They smell you.

They're just around the corner waiting for you.

Coming for you.

You were a fool to think you could escape.