I played a tune on my electric guitar and painted some loops and samples around the tune to make a backing track that sounded good or okay enough at least. There are some nice tunes in my guitar and some of them come forth here, I think. But all in all the track is too long.. 6 minutes seemed okay in the seventies, though!

Strange Thoughts

A lead guitar plays nice melodies over a simple backing track (drums, bass, keyboards). Vocals are so last millennium, this is the modern nice music were the guitar speaks to those who know how to listen. Play it once, why not play it again?! Four times you listen to this and then you want to listen to it again. As they used to say back in the day: turn on, tune in, drop out!

The Really Nice Guitar Speaks

Based on loops and a big sound with a simple but still complex set of patterns that sounds soothing and relaxing till the break wakes you up and still takes you back to the land of calm. A journey through soundscapes meant to take time and still these 8 minutes pass quickly enough.

The Ninth Visit to the Nice Soundscapes

A relaxing pop song to make you feel nice and be cool. There are loops and samplings and something else, all put together to make you feel a bit relaxed through this short journey of nice and melodic guitars and other stuff. Hope you enjoy this.

Silent Lament

A little pop song made on my dead mother's birthday, memories of emotional times passed, instrumental because no words could describe my mother, sometimes music lessens the pain inside and I hope this may help other who miss loved ones.

For those we loved and lost

This is the result of me doing a live performance in my own room/studio, just playing my electric guitar over a backing track made with bass and keyboards and no drums or drum machines. This is music you play when you want to stress down and relax a bit. I think it is quite beautiful some places, but obviously the track is way too long for almost everybody these days. Back in the seventies it would have been considered 'normal'. Music meant to be nice, be nice everyone, okay?!

Time is an illusion

Time Is An Illusion

 
This music is one guitar played and recorded live over a basic track where one or two keyboards and a  bass play the 2 chords Em - B forever. NO DRUMS!

"Time is an illusion" was played in my father's funeral 22 May 2024. It is a slow, meandering and quite melancholic track that fit the event  surprisingly well. My father was a good, solid man and I miss him quite a lot. My mother died ten years ago, so I am an orphan now. Very strange to be the grown-up, suddenly I belong in the  eldest generation of the family. BUT TIME IS AN ILLUSION. Yes.



Time is an illusion - radio edit

Time Is An Illusion - radio edit

Some 6 minutess of an electric guitar swooping over a very easy and calm backing track (drums, bass, some keyboards). Recorded live on a Smartphone by my assistant (or wife) whithout telling me that she was recording. This music came into being when I played it in September this year (2022), I just play something and it so happens that sometimes sheer luck may cause a piece of good music to be recorded. Not here, though.

Almost no time left

Almost No Time Left

The Pop Version with the striking voice, a local hit and all made backwards, recorded the girlish vocals first and then made an arrangement fit around the voice.  Pop music as popish as it gets. A song written years ago but somehow love never gets old fashioned, right? Right, I said. Not Fred. Nice music!!

Oh I Love You

Kind of simple melodies from my guitars sometimes heavily treated by effects, backed by drums and bass mostly from samples or loops. You may like it, you may not. (This could be the same main guitar tune as heard on Strange Thoughts, in a very different version - but I am not sure, it could be another improvisation starting on the same theme...)

Thoughts of what may have been (For Roger McQuinn)

5 minutes 40 seconds of music with a Roland doing the rythm, a couple of electric rythm guitars, a lead guitar and the vocals are one main and two background harmony vocals. This track was written by a very depressed, frustrated and angry young man - but that was yesterday, I am so much younger now.

Breakdown

Bass and Roland rythmbox made in 1984 backing a freaked out Fender Stratocaster that howls infernal digital sound effects made in 1984. This you have not heard before.

The Fenderblender

Fenderblender

This track  was meant to be titled ‘Ambient House”,  but as the pop worked, the work popped…I am so grateful for all the plays, likes and comments this track has gained and I would like to thank you all, individually, but my health  is not good and I must focus my waning energy on important tasks like breathing and keep myself from becoming another extinct life form like the dodo bird. Some of you have time, some of us have almost no time. No one gets out of here alive, you know.

Pop Ambient House Work

My lyrics and a long prompt got 30 seconds from Udio, adding 4 more sections and pruning them down to what I was looking for. My first collaboration with an AI is quite professional sounding stuff that I could not have played or sung this well. I think this is a song that I made since I wrote the lyrics and the long prompt and made many desicions all the way from the start to the finished song. This will probably become the most used way to make nice shiny tracks for mass consumption next year, but I think that handmade music will be made because it is nice to do and the machine is a ...machine. ... maybe... but there is still time to dream!

Hideaway the AI way

Hideaway - The - Ai - Way

A pop/rock heavy ballad about life always repeating and how wonderful that is, lots of good vocals and guitar melodies. The lyrics are copyright Badtripp Inc and were written originally with 4 verses, this version has 2 verses. The lyrics are like this:

Come with me we'll be so free
Do it again do it again
Stroke my skin lay down with me
Do it again do it again
Hold me tight and kill my fright
Do it again do it again
Kiss me today and kiss me tonight
Do it again do it again

Annie oh Annie Teardrop
Annie oh Annie Teardrop

Come to me and then go away
Do it again do it again
Leave me and come back to stay
Do it again do it again
I make you laugh and then you cry
Do it again do it again
Tell the truth and tell a lie
Do it again do it again

Annie oh Annie teardrop
Annie oh Annie Teardrop

I have recorded and made public here my attempt to create a good and somewhat heavy rock song: "Do it again (Annie Teardrop)". That version is  me playing all instruments - 3 guitars, 1 bass and Roland from the 1980ies doing what sounds like drums. I even sing the whole song (sorry)with 4 verses (too many). But then I found a collaborator amongst the artificial intelligences (this too is made with help from Udio) that took my detailed promt and ran with it, the song "Annie Teardrop does it again" is the result of several dozen 30 seconds long bits that I had to artfully pick out the best pieces from, those most like what I had in mind. Lo and behold:  the machine plays lead guitar very much like I would have done myself (well that was a mighty statement).I think this is a very good track. I hear music AIs have been sued by the big corporations that own the rights to most classic rock/pop/soul and so on - all music made. But I think this song is more like my own version to be found here somewhere, than any band I know - I know many, not all, though. Does this song sound like Nickelback? No! Someone else? MY lyrics and MY prompt and MY choices makes this MY song, or does it? Hmmmmm

Annie Teardrop does it again

Annie Teardrop did it again

Another version of a tune I played on my guitar once and dressed up in contradicting soundscapes - I must have tried a dozen arrangements and not one of these functions well as music. I use both house drums and traditional rock drums, for instance, so it should sound a bit 'fresh', but is just sounds half dead. 

A new clear dawn

I play some guitars, bass, a bit of of keyboard and some rythm tracks and this is more or less basically improvised. Possibly backwards.

A nuclear dawn

Just an old rythmbox (from Roland) laying down a beat that a quick, tidy bassriff fits over, and then these two guys plays guitars - this was actually a 'band' called Tonedeath, where this young and going up guitarplayer flings off more notes in a second than most do in a minute - Kyrre Trohjell at the age of 18/19 and this old geezer who steered Badtripp into the abyss, Geir Arne Moi, at that time 32/33 years old. We did not plan songs, we just played them as they came. "Motorbass" is Moi mostly on bass and Trohjell doing the lead guitar. Recorded on a Teac 1980-cassette based 4-track 'studio'. Copyright Tonedeath 1991.

Motorbass - MASTERED (thunder 100%)

The first 45 seconds here should likely have been cut away, but I feel it is just those seconds that lay down the foundation for understanding the rest of the track's soundscape. A Roland rythm machine from the early 1980ies with no programming kick out a beat that a heavily distorted lead guitar plays around before another guitar comes on to play rythm without distortion. As the track progress these two guitars change roles or both play lead. Some nice melodies here and I like this track, few agree with me though.

Lost in the old then

Traditional rock track with verses and choruses and a verse with lead guitar, but this track goes on way too long and should have been cut into a song half as long, but I do not have the master tapes or the 4-track cassette mixer/recorder any more since this song was written and performed by one person exactly 30 years ago, in 1992. Do not expect quality at any given place here. There is a Roland machine doing its thing, and one bass and 3 guitars and one vocal on top of the Roland. I played and did my best at singing, I even wrote the song... The sound of one man trying his best doing things he barely knows how to do...

Do It Again (Annie Teardrop) MASTERED

I am playing my guitar while the app ChordPulse plays drums, bass and some keyboards in the background. Someone recorded this while I was playing, unknown to me. Yes, one might wonder why. Still, this is more than 6 minutes of me jamming in the traditional E - D - C - B chord circle.

A longer search for more melodies

This is actually filmed live and the live sound from the mixer goes straight into ..a smart phone. Here, as you might notice, is only the soundtrack. It me - G.A.Moi - playing guitar over bass and drums and some keyboards. Very nice music, this is well played improv over themes that also are well known. So it is.

Idiot  I Said

Just playing with samples and here I made a short piece of sample-based 'music' that many people actually say they like to listen to. Well, 'many' should be understood in the context of a not perfect musician with great misgivings to my tracks and whether they are songs people should be spared for - what you don't hear you cannot get traumatized by--! Give the track a spin and see what you think.

Toadrip

If my memory serves me well, this is a track with gentle melodies and sometimes it seems that the track gets a bit lost, stops up and look confused. Or maybe that's the way I look while making this stuff. I don't think you'll love this track, but it is kind of easy to like... if you got a Kind Mind!

Kind Mind

Driven by samples and live mixed by me who barely understand the concept of sampling, although I am trained in live mixing. I usually play everythig myself (my band members back in the 1980ies have kind of disappeared as I moved around a bit, but all counted more than 12 musicians have at one time or another played in Badtripp. I do guitars and bass, some singing, produce the thing and even add keyboards some few places. Many people would say that I really should not make music this way, or any way. But you know, I just have to make music. Learn to live with my weird habits!

TimeMosquitos

I played some electric guitar into my DAW one day and set about to find stuff that could be used as backing track for my superquick slow motion guitar. That's about as irrational way as possible to make a track... so I won't tell you any details from that once in a lifetime ordeal. The result may well be almost ...music, but I don't know. This could be a hit in Kirgizistan.

Spaced Out And In

I am not dead yet. Surprised everybody myself included, so maybe I will make some more music - who knows? But don't expect me to answer queries or keep in touch with my friend Haz too much, I may not be dead yet, but that doesn't mean I am very well! What a badtripp the last year has been. I made music, played guitar and enjoyed making instrumentals with loads of myself playing a bit strange lead guitar, and even made music with loops and samples, made 2 tracks with an AI collab and those tracks are based on my own lyrics and my own versions are also to be found here somewhere. Now, thank you all for listening to my music, that's good although it's not my plan to make something that pleases everybody. Au contraire!

Badtripp Inc

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