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Bubblegum Octopus

Some of the songs I've submitted for Battleofthebits.org!
Songs tagged OHC were prompted, composed, rendered, and uploaded within an hour

All song formats will be listed in their descriptions (^^

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Songs

Underground

Nintendocore

Alises Jostes debijas albums ar 12 pašas sacerētām dziesmām tika ieskaņots 2010. gada karstajā vasarā lauku mājās, nedaudz piepalīdzot dziedātājas brālim. Neapstrādāto ierakstu vēlāk noslīpēja skaņu režisors Krišjānis Geidāns Rīgā un māsterētājs Bjorns Hansels Stokholmā. 2011. gada martā albumu izdeva mūzikas apgāds „I Love You Records”.

A Thousand Questions

Probably my favorite song on this album.
The "main loop" is from a rehearsal recording of my math-rock type band, Ultra Death Men, sped up and cut up.
The song is about a lot of things, as always, but was most heavily inspired by my first trip to San Diego. It was a pretty strange, negative, and intense part of my life, but the experiences I had there had profound effects on my outlook.
The first line of the lyrics references one night Bradlea and I were driving through the desert and the entire dusk sky was literally a full rainbow.
The reiteration of that part of the song the second time is about how I'd wake up every morning to a collection of four cats sleeping on me and they'd all scramble away from me when they realized I was awake, as if to hide the fact that they'd been sleeping on me.

Loud Noise In My Room

I'M FILLED WITH FEELINGS
FEELINGS OF HAPPINESS
IT WAS ENCROACHING, NOW THE MIST FEELS WELCOMING
A SMILE ON MY FACE, PASTED THERE QUITE RANDOMLY
OBSCURING NIGHTMARES REPLACE THEM WITH DREAMS

i look up, and they're smiling down at me
angels in lab coats with bone and teeth jewelry
i tell them nonsense in exchange for stories
ones i will hear, before i go to sleep...

ooh~
this mist is joyous joyous!!
ooh~
this mist fills up my brain!!
ooh~
this mist cleans out our bad thoughts!!
ooh~
SUBLIMATE ME

IT TAKES MY HAND RUNNING AWAY FROM SHIT LIFE AND RELATED FEELINGS LIKE SADNESS
PARTING WAYS WITH MY SURROUNDINGS BEDIM THE OFFENSIVE
FLY AWAY WITH ME

all of time stops and i am breathing heaven
my life nods off before it goes to sleep
tame my thoughts, they let me focus feelings
sad dudes are nothing but the past

ooh~
this mist is joyous joyous!!
ooh~
this mist fills up my brain!!
ooh~
this mist cleans out our bad thoughts!!
ooh~
SUBLIMATE ME

Tough

Bubblegum Octopus - Joyous Mist!!

Bubblegum Octopus - Crisp Air That Touches My Face on This Day Fills Me With A Great Sense of Hope

Seventh track on Bad Happy.

A bit of an "anthem" for those of you who have a propensity to compromise yourself and overlook unfair mistreatment by your friends and other loved ones for the sake of keeping the relationships intact... I'm quite prone to this.

Even after years of being hurt by people I know who have cheated on me, belittled my accomplishments and talent, ditched me, ignored my calls and emails, forgot to do important things they said they would for, broken promises, violated my trust, and whatever else, for the sake of nothing but themselves, I've still generally stayed un-confrontational about betrayal, essentially making it okay to betray me.
I wanted to approach this topic in a constructive manner, as often I do, but not be too subtle about the message.

If you're in a position where you are compromising your own happiness to keep your life less dramatic and your friends groups without schism; relationships without quarrel: don't keep doing it. Try to find common ground.
If they remain obstinate, they aren't worth your time.

/Life lesson

Betrayal is okay.

Bubblegum Octopus - Why World, Why?

Don't forget to Heart Runaway on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/2av1t/AURORA+-+Running+With+The+Wolves
Order on iTunes: http://po.st/AURORAWolvesSCiT
Order on Google Play: http://po.st/AURORAWolvesSCG
Listen on Spotify: http://po.st/AURORAWolvesSCSp
Follow AURORA on Spotify: http://po.st/AURORASpotify
Visit AURORA's website: http://po.st/AURORAWeb
Facebook: http://po.st/AURORAFaceB
Twitter: http://po.st/AURORATwitter

"The song is about having the animal instinct inside you come to life. Running with them, joining them - the instinct taking over, giving you freedom and making you forget about your human self and all things we humans keep around us in the modern society.

I think humans need to let go a bit more, shake their bodies more often, like the animals do.. It's a beautiful thing really.

Sometimes when you look at the world, and you see what we've done to it, the way many of us hurt the world we live in, innocent animals, even our own kind! And that kind of makes you want to follow the wolves instead. At least for one night."

Aurora Aksnes is a 18 year old girl from Bergen, Norway. She strives to write music that can inspire people, through idiosyncratic tales of struggle, love, and all that lies in between.

AURORA - Running With The Wolves

Oh Wonder
https://soundcloud.com/ohwondermusic
https://twitter.com/ohwondermusic
https://www.facebook.com/ohwondermusic
https://www.youtube.com/user/OhWonder

Picture by Nate Bittinger
https://flic.kr/p/juVnir

Sheepy on Spotify
http://bit.ly/MrSuicideSheepSpotify

Download

Oh Wonder - Drive

I simply cannot recognize this face looking straight back at me
though it seems so familiar as if I had seen it a million times before

and the vicious cycle never ends
it spins around until it bends
and then it starts all over again

and the words you constantly repeat
I cannot help but wonder what do they really mean
the have lost all the power in me and I simply do not believe

up and down my twisted spine reaching deep for my hidden scars
and it hurts so bad

but it has to in order to heal


Mirrors

07. Peace God

06. Mind With No Ceiling

05. The Blind Master

04. Mona Lisa

02. Third Eye

OHB track for a battle based around using the mixolydian mode. It got gold!

Battle of the Bits (OHB)

Mixed Up In The Jungle

Wildchip submission for Summer Chip VI

Uses the Kirby's Dreamland 3 instruments and stays within SNES chip restrictions, but is not a true chiptune

This one is probably my favorite that I've done for BotB. Had to reupload on soundcloud so it could actually be included in this playlist

Lake Gusts

MIDI format submission for Summer Chip VI.
Won Bronze for the format

Battle of the Bits (Majors)

Cicada Launch (extended)

MIDI format submission. Received Gold for the format and Bronze for the voting category "Heart Magic"

MIDI format submissions must be played back on Winamp.

The Snow We Didn't Expect

Remix format song. All sound sources came from samples provided by the community. Remix tracks may only contain sounds from samplepacks, but may be manipulated infinitely.

Received a Bronze overall and Gold in the voting categories "Motor City Madness" and "Shit-In-Pants"

The Dowgnggy

produced by @EmmitFenn
co-produced by @finneasmusic

<3 on HypeM: http://hypem.com/track/2pwsj

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bitches broken hearts

Download here:
https://christmasasaurus.bandcamp.com/album/christmasasaurus-vol-7

No More Toymakers To The King

In 2011 I played an event in Detroit called Ultra Mega Awesome Extreme. At the show a fan, rather overwhelmed by my presence, asked me if I'd be playing You're A Bad Cat Man. Due to the nature of the show, I had already made the setlist and couldn't deviate from it, but I said I'd try to work it in.
In the midst of playing the set, I completely forgot about trying to play the song.

The following year, I was asked to participate again, so I made sure to put it in the setlist and play it. However, the song is so old that it says nothing of where I am musically, so I reworked the entire song. This is what I did for that show... and then I recorded new vocals for some reason.

You're A Bad Cat Man (You're A Bad 2012 Man mix)

Track 4 from Perfect Life & Other Stuff, available on June 17th!
This album is a collaboration with my 17 year old self.
Pre-order digital or check lyrics here
http://bubblegumoctopus.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-life-other-stuff

The Group

In early 2011, I toured with Yatagarasu in support of my then new album, Bad Happy. About 11 days or so into the tour, we played Panama City. After the show, we went to the house we were staying for the night and I began to incessantly rap an annoying phrase at my tourmate.
What does that have to do with the song? Not a whole lot, but shortly after bothering the hell out of Chris with my song, I went to check my email and promote the next night's show via Facebook and noticed I was tagged in a rather busy thread on the Monomate wall (or maybe it was a post on my wall that was busy... who knows). Pete had remixed the speedy and chaotic track, Metallic Sheep Nap, into a sultry, down-tempo pop groove. At the end of the year, the track appeared on the Monomate double album "NE/PO" as part of the Positive Emotions side. (Ironically, the song is one of extremely negative thoughts and was recorded in the midst of a panic attack, but I like the idea of taking negativity, balling it up, and reshaping it into something positive.)

I decided I would respond with a remix of my own of a Monomate track, but it had to be the right track at the right moment.

Later on in life, Pete noted that we should collaborate on some kind of dance music album. That may or may not happen some day, but that idea would certainly be the thought that lead me to jokingly start to do a remix of this song as an electroclash thing. What happened beyond the corny electroclash beat and vaguely appropriate-for-the-style bass line was just the natural reaction of my brain being ridiculous. It can hard for me to stick with a particular genre unless I'm being paid to do it.

I actually cut this song up to do something more artistically interesting with it, the thought being that he was taking a negative and making something positive out of it, and I'd be doing the same, in that I know the album this song comes from carries the same kind of fan-popularity based self-stigmas that my first recordings do for me... but instead, I quite possibly went in the total opposite direction, throwing the concept of taste under the bus, but I dare say I'm happy with this track.
Anyone who has spent any time in my car knows I legitimately love some pretty over the top and ridiculously cheesy dance music.

It's my understanding that his music may be posted somewhere on youtube, so you might be able to find the original if you poke around. ;)

Fail Hill Zone: Act One ~Running Fast Mix~ (remix of Monomate)

Composed in 2011, while riding the bus to visit, my then friend, current girlfriend, whom I've lovingly been referring to as Aircraft since my T9 screwed up her name in 2006.

Many of the sounds in the song, even melodic sounds, are heavily manipulated recordings of things such as bus ambiance, or poorly and clandestinely recorded human voice.

This will be released as a part of the album Placate Dreaming.

Lyrics:

Every face you see is hollow
Everyone who looks back at you
Just a husk with no real feelings
Just a place holder to make life full
No one here could care about you
No one here could ever hurt you
All alone when you're surrounded
All alone forever, but without peace

Everything is fake
Every face is painted on an empty skull
Everything is fake
Every mind is empty (stop, no control)
Every piece of cake
Every breath of air is just imaginary
Gulp down dreamt up drinks
Talk to your non-player family

How can I talk to anyone
Knowing that they will not not hear me
Shout into a blackened cavern
Reverberant discordance, bounce back to me
Shaking bewildered unnerving
Wondering why I complained before about being lonely
Overwhelm, placatory dreaming
Curious if there is anyone like me!

Everything is fake
Every friend you have is just a damn illusion
Everything is fake
No one here is real, it's just us
Humans: simply dolls
Crafted out of pieces of organic matter
Gods are scientists
Simply programmers making large computations


Every Fucking Face

Bubblegum Octopus - Birthday2

REJECT IRONY
EMBRACE DISCOMFORT
LOVING BLISS AT LIGHTSPEED

SPAZZPOP FOREVER
(2005 - FOREVER)

MESSAGE ME FOR COMMISSIONS

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