Actually it is my adaptation of the Dub Syndicate original.
All credits go to them.
RESPECT!


Let the spirit rise (Rspct) (Dub Syndicate remix)

Inspired by and dedicated to 400 Afghans that have been demonstrating in Brussels some time ago. At the same time this song is a tribute to everybody who has been bullied, harassed, beaten, arrested, tortured and even worse by the fukkaz in uniform. 

The track is a mini-soundtrack of what happened to the Afghans in Brussels.
Demanding rights; Cops arriving; Marching towards mass; Intimidation (sticks, horses, water cannons); Tear gas, hitting; Confusion, panic; Crying women and children; United again, renewed hope; Harder confrontation; Arrest, pain, disappointment, detention.

Beware of the bullies

For this track I've sampled some extracts from a tv interview of John Hughes, a confessed serial killer. 
What is the value of such an interview? Nothing really, except jacking up the viewing figures for the tv station!


Usually fear

Apes are social creatures.
They organize their society better than we do.
Because they keep it simple.
No complication, no exaggeration. NO WARS!
Let's go back to our roots.
Let's go back to the apes!

Back to the apes

We need freedom of speech, freedom of expression.
No lunatics with guns will change this.
This track is dedicated to all the people that have been killed in useless actions by useless people. Because that is what terrorists are. 

Je suis

Still we don't seem to realize how important it is to change to renewable sources of energy. 

At the solarpanel ranch

Recorded, mixed and produced by DW at 'The Watermill Soundz'
This track originated from crankyfox's "Je suis".
The (altered) drumloop is the only part that has been left over from that track.
All the other parts have been played and recorded with analogue equipment. 
Main vocals and bass by DW. Background vocals, whistling and guitars by crankyfox.
All the rest of the sounds by DW.
pearl&SWINE is the name of our project so later on we will establish an account under that name.

Charlie XIV (Le roi de l'ombre) by pearl&SWINE - COLLAB with DW

I'm very happy to present this dirty funk rocker.
Wou Wou played half of the tracks and Cranky Fox played the other half.
Produced and mixed by Cranky Fox
Photo made by Cranky Fox: these metal structures have been made by a very good friend of mine with whom I played in bands for years. These two have been used in a videoclip that we made ourselves in the year 1986 or around. He never wanted to throw them and they are still in his garden. :-)

Back To Nature - COLLAB with Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Recorded, mixed and produced by DW at 'The Watermill Soundz'.
Second track from my project pearl&SWINE with DW.
DW: Drums, vocals, bass and e-bow
Cranky Fox:  Guitars, vocals, bass.
Image made by Cranky Fox


Tearbomb by pearl&SWINE - COLLAB with DW

Couldn't resist making a dub version this time.
Full title should be: "The Berlin to Goa Deep Dive Dub version".
Respect to Wou for his supercool project.


Out/// In (Deep Dive Dub version) - COLLAB with Froxie and Wou-Wou and the Wormling

Cranky Fox: Bass, Drum programming, Flanged guitars, Synths, Treated things
B.I.P.R.P. : Vocals, Lead guitars
Written, mixed and produced by Cranky Fox
Lyrics written by B.I.P.R.P.
Image chosen by B.I.P.R.P. - Adapted by Cranky Fox

Hey girl
I've got a supergun and I can kill everyone (2x)
Oh man, you're fantastic.
How cool is your gun!
Would you like to drink a beer and have a story with me?
Super gun, I can kill everyone
Super gun, I can kill

I've got a supergun and I can kill everyone (2x)
Oh man, you're fantastic
How cool is your gun!
Would you like to drink a beer and have a story with me
How cool

http://www.soundcloud.com/butipreferrominapower 


Interstellar Gun - COLLAB with B.I.P.R.P.

"Wake up" was supposed to be my first track to post this year. With a clear message: our world is going to pieces!!!

Cranky Fox: Drums, Bass, Rhythm guitars, Synths, Loops, Backing Vocals
Gordon M: Lead Vocals, Wake up guitars (The 'Frippy' ones)
Written, Mixed and Produced by Cranky Fox
Lyrics written by Gordon M
Artwork by Cranky Fox
The news samples have been taken from a political comment on youtube by Paul Joseph Watson

Mother Nature's Wayward Child
Always someone else to blame
Finding Fault! Finger Pointing!
Got to stop the game, 4 minute warning

Open your eyes......it's wake up time, wake up time
The game is over, playing's over, for all of us

Hopes washed up on foreign shores, wars where no-one knows the cause
Twenty Fifteen's Nineteen Eighty Four
And this is real

Tanks & guns for words & flowers
The way is lost in tear gas showers
Pictures flicker, ideals shatter......ideals shatter
The Revolution won't be televised

Wayward Child.....It's wake up time
Wake up World, no time to waste

Wake up World
Mother Nature's Wayward Child
We're out of time

https://soundcloud.com/gordon_m 


Wake Up - COLLAB with Gordon M

Wou-Wou & The Wormling started up a great project a year ago: "The Audio Bin". Recycling audio that people don't use anymore or never have used before. Then crafting a new track with these 'left-overs'.
To celebrate the fact that it was a year ago that he started with this project, Wou-Wou released an album on Bandcamp and he asked me to do a remix for it.
Which I accepted with great pleasure. This is the result.
I'm very happy that I got the opportunity to recycle  :) 
For the fans: I threw in parts of a sketch from 'The Fast Show'
I'm very grateful that all artists involved gave their permission to do the remix. It has been fun to do! Thank you @a-white-kid, @butipreferrominapower, @couch-king-presents, @jonathan_beckenstein, @pretzelsmalone and @stormthepalace.
The full album can be found here: http://theaudiobin.bandcamp.com/album/the-audio-bin

Hey Geeza (Audio Bin Remix)

Taken from the EP "DEM NO GOOD" by Froxie
For sale on bandcamp : froxie.bandcamp.com/releases

Delivered by Froxie and Cranky Fox
Mixed by Froxie
Mastered by Jack Daniels.
Artwork by Stefan Custers.






Dem no good

Froxie & Cranky Fox: "Never At Ease"

This is a 'thank you' to my good friend Ramses who made the drawings for my SC account. Exchanging of art you could say. 
At the same hand it is an unusual collab too. The first part is 100 % Cranky Fox and the second part is 100 % A Saner World. I love their approach and asked them to complete my track with some scorching guitar wall.
'From triphop to rock 'n roll' They did a bloody great job I must say!! 

Written, mixed and produced by Cranky Fox
Co-written by A Saner World

Ramses (has seen the cranky fox next to the moonlit pyramid) - COLLAB with A Saner World

A new ANTI WAR song to start 2017 with. Written from the perspective of mothers that see their children become extremist and go to war.
This track actually has been written about 5 years ago! But like most of my work it has been lying around. About 2 years ago I asked Pete Midipunk to play some live drums on it and it became much better.
But I felt that it really needed vocals so I wrote lyrics for it. A few months ago I asked Johns (Soundboard Tinkerers) if he felt like doing the vocals and he said yes!! And what the hell!!! He sounds like bloody Johnny Rotten! What a voice! 
So now I want to release it, set it free and share it with the world.

Written, mixed and produced by Cranky Fox.
Co-produced by Soundboard Tinkerers.
Lyrics written by Cranky Fox and Soundboard Tinkerers

Cranky Fox: all instruments
Soundboard Tinkerers: vocals
Midipunk: drums

https://soundcloud.com/soundboard-tinkerers
https://soundcloud.com/midipunk

Untitled forever

there they stand head tall
No farewells, no goodbyes
Proudly waving their black flags
With the white tags

Mothers buckle over and weep
knowing little can be done
[She has just lost one more son]
She can't touch his found purpose
He had such promise -
untitled forever

God's with the soldier
Soldier for god
nothing less
standing head high
share a hand together -
forever

[Paradise and 34 virgins]
but they sting like bullets
and rip like bombs
in pieces in pain
and going gone
the desert takes whats left

as Mother treads in grief
on the hills of planted stones
yeah unmarked stones
- Untitled forever

Untitled Forever - COLLAB with Soundboard Tinkerers & Midipunk

My contribution to one of Wou Wou & The Wormling's projects.
"Music by chance" is a collection of tracks that use a number of homemade chance methods during the writing process. 
So, actually he sent me only 4 very short midi files which were all variations on the same theme.
This is what came out. Hope you enjoy the track.
Written, mixed and produced by Cranky Fox

Music By Chance

This track is the first of two from a MAXI to be released soon.
Title of the MAXI is: DARK side / BRIGHT side.
If I have to describe it (but it is quite difficult this time) I would call it Punky & Funky Lounge Dub :)
The two really organic tunes belong together, although they have been written in different periods of time.
Somehow I kept them separate from other tracks that were made in the same period of time. And now, much later, I felt how they were connected and I sent them to Mr Sax, Joerxworx.
When I asked Jörg which one he liked he was very firm: "BOTH!"
That's how the idea of a MAXI emerged and this is the first track.

Michael Norris is a guy from New Zealand who has created 'SoundMagic Spectral',  a suite of freeware Audio Unit plug-ins that I used when writing these two tracks.
It's clear that such a noble deed belongs on the BRIGHT side of the MAXI. And why I called this track "Michael Norris (for president)". 

Soon I will release the second part "Putain (de nuit)" which is also a punky & funky lounge dub track but with a very dark subject. 
Obviously that song will appear on the DARK side of the MAXI that will be released on bandcamp as well in the future.

After sending him the mixes, Jörg described our collabs as "outer space swing" with many influences like jazz, swing, punk, psychedelic and a touch of bigband. YUMMY!

Written mixed and produced by Cranky Fox
Sax miracles by Joerxworx.
Check his SC account for much more tasty stuff. 
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Artwork by Cranky Fox

And here you can find more information on the freeware that I used.
http://www.michaelnorris.info/software/soundmagic-spectral

Michael Norris (For President) - COLLAB with Joerxworx

This track dates already from October 30 2015!
After 'Back to nature' it's the second full blown collab with my soulmate Wou-Wou. 
I have been trying to find other SC friends to write lyrics for this track and sing them but after 5 attempts or so I've given up. Can't wait forever.
So we have decided to publish it as it is and treat it as an open collab. Remember Couch King's "Buttermilk biscuit" that has been reworked a zillion times in so many genres. Real fun and extremely creative!!! We hope to see MANY versions coming :) Surprise us!  
For this version Wou-Wou sent me 8 stems and I've added another 11.
Find links to pages of his below:
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouopencollab
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling

Mousey's Roar - COLLAB with Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Please check also my side project: 
https://soundcloud.com/froxie-dub

Yowza!
My main influences are punk, rap, dub, world and electronica.
I'm not a programmer. I record the majority of my tracks live.
Here and there I use loops/samples when they suit the need.
Several people that have heard my tracks describe them as mini soundtracks.
Agitated bodysmack movies that is!
I love collabs! They are a wonderful way to work together with a bunch of wonderful people. 
People that have been following me know that I've changed my avatar on Christmas day 2015. The image has been drawn by a good friend of mine. Thanks a million Ramses. You're a great artist.
In return I am working on a track that will be called after him and that will be dedicated to him.
Exchange of art, you could say. 
I'm not a person who reposts tracks a lot. I 'like' what I like and put them in playlists now and then. But to be honest: I miss loads of good stuff just because there is too much. 






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