Name: Living in a Cartoon by Melting Point Universe
Duration: 6 min 15 s
Description: Recorded 7-31-22, track 5, Dave-guitar, Steve-drums, Brian-bass, For those, like me, who feel like the world has gone crazy and surreal like a wacky cartoon.

Fantastic drumming with the heaviest guitar playing with bass to boot!!

Recorded 7-31-22, track 5, Dave-guitar, Steve-drums, Brian-bass, For those, like me, who feel like the world has gone crazy and surreal like a wacky cartoon.

Living in a Cartoon

Recorded 8-29-22, track 10, Dave-guitar, Steve-drums, MHB-bass. About an 11-minute ride through a twisting, evolving soundscape of improvised spontaneous psychedelic metal vibrations. Don't let the length scare you from taking the trip. Thank you.

Trip to the Exoplanet

Steve-drums, Dave-SG, 3rd track recorded on 4-2-23.  This is dedicated to my brother, Steven Smith, who always gives his all when he plays. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be playing. Steve has been my eternal partner in many different configurations for close to 35 years. He helps me to keep on jamming. Love ya bro. This track wants to wipe your mind and replace it with eternal sunshine. Take the trip and enjoy the ride.

Eternal Sunshine

Recorded 4/17/23, track 5, Dave-SG, Steve-drums, Brian-bass, here's a good rocker, Happy 4/20 enjoy

Got your 4/20

Recorded 4-23-23, track 3, MHB-bass, Steve-drums, Dave-SG, song title comes from the movie, Ed Wood, check it out.

Pull Da String

Your Mind - DEMO - Exclusively on Soundcloud

Introduction in English:

Last year, my wife and me bought a cottage on the Baltic Sea. It was to be something like our retirement home for the next thirty years. 
Unfortunately, this vision has so far been thwarted by our increasingly resentful neighbours. Consideration is a foreign word for them. They let their children play loud basketball as long as they want; they grill foul-smelling meat as long as they want and they party as long as they want. 
If you ask them nicely to be quiet, you will be dismissed with slogans like "We don't give a shit", "Move away if you don't like it" or "We'll do what we like".
In my helplessness and speechlessness over this dissocial stubbornness, I came across an old Beatles song called "Not a Second Time". Of course, it was composed by John Lennon in 1963 in a completely different context.
But its lyrics fit just as well with my desperate and so far largely unheard plea for more neighbourly consideration. - In particular, the lines: "You're giving me the same old line/ I'm wondering why/You hurt me then/ you're back again/No, no, no, not a second time“ sum up our current plight with these self-centred neighbours.
And as always with covers, my aim is not to get as close as possible to the original, but to transform it into a Karlit-O-Kay sound design.
The picture cover for the song is by German artist Markus Schuke.

Einleitung auf Deutsch:

Letztes Jahr kauften meine Frau und ich an der Ostsee ein Häuschen. Es sollte so etwas wie unser Alters- und Ruhesitz für die nächsten dreißig Jahre werden. 
Leider wurde diese Vision bisher von unseren zunehmend renitenten Nachbarn durchkreuzt. Rücksichtnahme ist für sie ein Fremdwort. Sie lassen ihre Kinder lautstark Basketball spielen, solange die wollen; sie grillen übelriechendes Fleisch, so lange sie wollen und sie machen Party, so lange sie wollen. 
Bittet man sie freundlich um Ruhe, wird man mit Sprüchen wie "Ist uns doch scheißegal", "Ziehen Sie doch weg, wenn es Ihnen nicht paßt" oder "Wir machen, was uns passt" abgefertigt.
In meiner Ohnmacht und Sprachlosigkeit ob dieser dissozialen Dickfelligkeit stieß ich auf einen alten Song der Beatles namens "Not a Second time". Der ist natürlich damals 1963 von John Lennon in einem ganz anderen Zusammenhang komponiert worden.
Seine Textzeilen passen aber ebenso gut zu meinem verzweifelten und bisher weitgehend unerhört gebliebenen Bitten um mehr nachbarschaftliche Rücksichtnahme. – Insbesondere die Zeilen „You're giving me the same old line/ I'm wondering why/You hurt me then/ you're back again/No, no, no, not a second time“ bringen unsere derzeitige Not mit diesen egozentrischen Nachbarn auf den Punkt, 
Und wie stets bei Covern geht es mir nicht darum, dem Original möglichst nahe zu kommen, sondern dieses in ein Karlit-O-Kay- Sounddesign zu transformieren.
Das Bild-Cover zu dem Song stammt von dem deutschen Künstler Markus Schuke.

Not a Second Time

Not A Second Time (Lennon/Mccartney)

track 7 from 9-9-23, basement birthday jam, Dave-birthday guitar, Bro Steve-birthday drums, MHB-big bass, our latest track on Steve's and my birthday, same day 14 years apart. Our new name under the MPU banner is Alien Lab Mutation.

Rejuvenation

recorded 9-24-23, track 4, Dave-guitar, Steve-drums, MHB-bass, enjoy

Third Eye Kaos

Instrumental till a vocalist comes forth.

The Trip

Melting Point Universe is a rock band fusing guitar and bass with electronic drums,samples,and other effects.Members are Captain David Smith:guitar,vocals,songwriting;Steve Smith:drum programs,samples and effects;and MHB bass and production on recordings.Lyrics and chord arrangements by Dave.Steve and MHB write their parts and we share song arrangments.It's a band with roots in the past but with ears to the future,covering a range of original tunes with vocals and instrumentals.Subject matters range from optimism,hope,alienation,renewal,with a dose of reality and perspectives. Also I've added older, original recordings with info about some of the people we played with over the early years. Added also, are early solo versions of later MELTING POINT songs. There are also other solo tunes that are my personal projects. It's all under the MPU banner and there's a variety of sounds. Check out the list and pick a tune at random and you may find something you like.

Living in a Cartoon

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