my friends' blogs
- Mindmovie — New Song added - House Of Love
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Although This side is now soooo painfully slow that it is no longer a real funny thing to upload something - here is a new song. Welcome to any visitor who wants to leave a comment about the music. This title features Sara England on vocals - she as well as myself have discovered what it means when you a re trying to build a "house of love" with the wrong person. That's what this song is about.
read more... - nick Saya — Mariah Carey Remix Please Vote for Me
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- i did a quick little hip hop remix that is in a contest please vote go to link http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/1776 to vote click the button that says "vote for me" next to the picture of the mona lisa not on the widget below YOU CAN VOTE ONCE PER DAY PER EMAIL. please pass this on to as many people as you can!! THANKS Nick read more...
- Jan vander Gaag — Producer Conference's September 20 + 21
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- Hi all. Just to let you know that we have planned 2 new Producer Conferences in Amsterdam and Brussels! 20 September - Producer Conference in Brussels 21 September - Producer Conference in Amsterdam http://www.theproducersconference.com/ Look forward to see you ALL! Ciao - Jan read more...
- Mats Paulsen — New upload: Sunrise
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- Today I uploaded a new track that I call Sunrise. The name is my wifes idea, I named it Sunset before that, but Sunrise fits better. read more...
- Mindmovie — Planet Passion IV
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- A collaboration with Andres Rexach a guitar magician from Spain. Check his profile on myspace this man is a guitar and sitar monster. read more...
- Subliminal — Pigs In Hell
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- After the rather easy June, July proved to be a more difficult piece to turn into something half-decent. And ofcourse I failed yet again. But what can one do, except hope for more luck the next time around. Anyway, 10 down and still 2 to go. I was hoping to finish the writing before september, which would mean that I would have been working on it for a year (well, more or less anyway), but the way things are going now I have serious doubts about making such a deadline. Not that it really matters. read more...
- Blue Planet — collaboration with Uncle Steve (Canada) an Lo Kivikas (Sweden)
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- starting some months ago with Uncle Stevies wonderful lyrics of "Spirit Warriors", we finished our first collaboration together with Lo Kivikas. If you like, have a listening of this new song on her MI7 site. read more...
- Mats Paulsen — New upload: Changing
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- Today I've uploaded another new track: Changing. Feel free to listen to it and enjoy. read more...
- Subliminal — Barbie Stew
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- What can you do with source material like this or this? Well, maybe you could do something like this. read more...
- Simon — Moving on with Trains!
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Hi there!
As you know, I enjoy composing for my “Quest of the Heroes”-project immensely, but lately I’ve tried to compose pieces not connected to a specific story. Its absolutely great to compose more “freely” and let the music lead the way in different directions. Due to my lack of patience, I improvise a lot to get the pieces finished. I rush through my compositions leaving them with apparent flaws... But, I’m still fond of them and I will probably revisit and rework them some day!
And now, I've uploaded a new song again, made with no restrictions of a story but with inspiration from… …trains.
So this time, its a piece about trains. Trains? Why? Well... Why not!
As a kid I was fascinated by trains (along with Star Wars and dinosaurs, of course). I played with them, and I read about them. Now, thirty or so years later, I finally have the possibility to make music. So why not make a piece for trains? So this is my homeage to all the trains in the world!
I've got tons of ideas and I'm thinking about, someday in the future, expand the music into a longer and more worked-through piece, a kind of "Train Symphony". So this is a kind of a little test, like a demo for more music to see if the music holds up. Most parts are improvised but I'm really fond of the piece, especially the "happy moment" beginning at about 2:47 and when the main hammering motif returns at about 4:06. I think my arrangements improves as I keep on composing, learning more and more about my humble equipment (no, I don't even use midi yet), trying to get the most out of it. I've learned more how to cut pieces together in Cubase, to edit, fade in, fade out, cut, paste... And by putting small pieces together into a longer piece my computer holds up a lot better and I can use more sounds and instruments in my music.
I had such fun doing this piece anyway, the music coming straight from my heart. At first I thought about using military march drums, clashing cymbals and metallic sounds but I didn't find any good of these sounds in my keyboard, so I used hammering piano and a lot of pounding drums instead to drive the piece forward. And I'm quite happy how that turned out, the main "hammering" motif is distinctly "trainy" and instantly recognized. Like trains could go on forever, I could do variations on this "train music" forever. The piece uploaded is finished with a little coda, just for fun.
By the way, the "Nightmare Suite" is thrown out in favor of the trains, but can still be heard at www.myspace.con/quest oftheheroes
Regards
/Simon
read more... - Lo Kivikas — "Spirit Warriors"
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New song uploaded! Have a listen to the collaboration of our common work. Three people living and working in three countries in different musical stuff...Thanks for your ears!
read more... - Mats Paulsen — New upload: Space walk
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- This tune I created a while ago, but I didn't finish it until today. Some days ago I got a nice word about it, after that I decided to finish it. read more...
- Nemuriyume — Album available on iTunes US & Japan
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- In case you want to get one. read more...
- Nemuriyume — Album up on Last.fm
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- Give it a listen read more...
- Mindmovie — two new songs online
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- Mekon Peppers and A New Kind Of Man are the working titles and both unfinished looking for some collaboration if this kicks you please contact me. read more...
- siflaar — back again?
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Last update about 2 months ago.. hmmm whell there was a reason for it.
I moved to our new home and that costs a lot of time, not to mention that moving an internet connection was horrible.
I have some internet connection now, but hopefully next week my new provider will connect me with fiberglass.In the meantime, my studio is still a mess (some other things got a higher priority). So my gear is now situated in a boombox ;o)
hopefully just a few weeks to rebuild the studio and to start working again.BTW. Great news ... We (as in KSK Productions) composed the music and wrote the lyrics for a school musical here in Holland. And last week the musical was performed.. great to see what kids are doing with your creations. I loved it.
read more... - My Mi7 Collabs — "DREAMS ARE BURIED HERE" OPUS!
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Yes, boys & girls, the epic in the making, "Dreams Are Buried Here" is finally HERE Click the link to hear the whole piece online. A collaboration with the very wonderful AERONAUT and MINDMOVIE.
It was a fantastic project to be a part of and I am proud of the result. Check out these boys profiles above, to listen to more fab sounds.
MyMi7Collabs read more... - Subliminal — Monsoons
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- Well, that went rather quick, at least for me. Normally it takes me ages to come up with a half-decent result, but now it only took me four evenings…;-) Anyway, as you may already have guessed, I have finished another song. It's the remix of CG's June and it's called Deserts And Monsoons. Credit where credit is due, so here goes… Vocals: CG. Guitars: VG II. Drums: probably Tomas Haake. The rest: Yours Truly. 9 down, 3 to go. read more...
- Jan vander Gaag — Free Ableton workshop at the Winston Club Amsterdam
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Hi all.
25.07 we do a free Ableton LIVE 7 workshop at the Winston Club Amsterdam. Start is 7.00 PM and the workshop is performed by Pitchblack and Tom COSM before their show - read more about the spectacular event on:
http://www.ableton.com/pages/2008/pitchblack_tomcosm_workshop
read more... - Subliminal — This is a happy song.
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- After trying a zillion different last things to add to the song and deciding on only drums from Trifonic's Broken for the chorus, and after freezing instruments, muting tracks, bypassing fx and exporting the song more times than was good for my mental health, I finally can offer you my remix of CG's May, called Hide The Fuse From The Fire. Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth it. read more...
