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Here's a track I did that I might use in a new game idea. It's a bit rough. I want it to sound a bit hard and crunchy, also scifi and spacey, but also medieval. The Ocarina samples I have are great for the medieval sound. There are also some straight scifi sounding synth parts. This 100% FL Studio.

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Yesterday, I dug through a few hard drives looking for some digital photos. I found (most of) the photos, but I ended up finding something more interesting... pretty much every song I've recorded on my computer since 2001. Multitracks and all. My packrat tendencies have paid off, I suppose.

Since this is a gem site, perhaps I shall unearth a few of these with a mind on getting some original stuff up once the smoke of school clears (eight weeks until graduation, yes).

This song is a piano cover of Danzig's "Cantspeak". One project I never completed was an album of only Danzig covers called Dancezig, and in perusing various lyrics for that album I found the lyrics to 'Cantspeak' to be particularly moribund, even for Danzig. It certainly didn't fit the pounding beat of the song (though I certainly enjoy the original). Thus, I drew out every ounce of pathos and took Danzig to Emo Piano town.

In my Freezing of the track, some of the instruments dropped out. When I originally posted this song to my blog in 2007, a fellow Atlanta musician (Tricil) told me he enjoyed the dropouts. Plus, I don't have the original instrument pack installed anyway, so enjoy the random missing sections. It sort of works with the song.

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Goin' to try doing my own 5-minute beat.

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5 minute beat on the new MacBook Air

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