2023

report your status

This is a largely improvisational track recorded sometime in the mid 1990s. All I had was a loose motif bassline with an echo harp type of sound I created myself. ...  I riffed on the  bassline, and then I improvised the rest of the track around that, layering with various sounds I also developed myself and no sequencer involved (hence the loose structure. Lol! 😅). 

I had no effects units, so I literally had to program reverb and delay effects into the sounds, not to mention I programmed velocity sensitivity on a couple of sounds. All I had at the time was a Casio CZ-101 and a Casio CZ-5000, and recorded it on a 16-track tape machine (I think it was a Tascam).  

This track really showcases how incredibly versatile the massively underrated Casio CZ series could be with a bit of judicious programming.  

Nonetheless, you can hear the throughline from what I was doing back then in many of my more recent tracks, which are largely composed in DAWs with Virtual Synths and Effects nowadays (with the occasional touch from my vintage hardware synths including a Yamaha CS1x).  

As I said, it was recorded sometime in the mid to late 1990s. The best copy I could find was dated October 1998, but I know I recorded it before then. ... The fidelity of the recording is low, due to the fact that I recorded it on tape to begin with, and over time, the tape has degraded a bit.

Dragon's Dream (improvisation circa mid to late 1990s)

See my other songs @GeoffreySmartpunk
This is the un-mastered version - check final one here: https://soundcloud.com/geoffrey-smartpunk/wicked-cat-in-the-basement-ft-nicked

Composed with Logic ProX.
Loops from @n1CKed BB contests.
Synth voice with EmVoice/Keela
Riff recorded with Fender Stratocaster SRV.

Lyrics:
Meow (x4)

There is a wicked sound in the basement
Meow, Meow
It creeps up slowly, never hesitant, 
Meow, Meow
It’s got tune that’s so wickedly sweet
Meow, Meow
Don’t go there, if you’re easily spooked
Meow, Meow
It might make you jump or make you fall
Meow, Meow
But if you’re brave, and you don’t scare easy
Meow, Meow
You might find yourself quite breezy
Meow, Meow
It gets louder, the closer you get
Meow, Meow
It’s just the wicked song, playing its game
Meow, Meow

Meow, Meow (x6)

SL May Challenge - Wicked Cat In The Basement (ft. NiCKed)(2023-05)

Performance/remix by Loper via iPhone/Groovepad app
Loops created by Tjam via Groovepad app
Image provided by istockphoto.com.

EMBRACING MY LIGHT BODY

Composed and Mastered with Logic Pro X. June 2023
Recordings: Telecaster Custom Guitar
Synth voice: EmVoice/Keela

Lyrics:
Hungry chickens pecking all day
Rockin' the yard in their own wild way

Hungry chickens pecking
Hungry chickens cackling
Hungry chickens laying
Hungry chickens rocking

They may not fly, but they're heavy and strong
Hungry chickens, rockin' all night long

Hungry chickens pecking
Hungry chickens cackling
Hungry chickens laying
Hungry chickens rocking

Hungry chickens rocking

Hungry chickens rocking

Hungry Chickens

From the Fog

INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, MUSIC, INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, LYRICS, but those are the last thing the vast majority of listeners are looking for these days!
>
Me, I'm awestruck by musicians who can't be pigeonholed, who don't conform to any borders, who don't think about which direction each new creation will take, they just go wherever that creativity takes them; pure, on the fly, innovation, imperfect but 100% authentic, as far away from manufactured, recipe book, regurgitation, as it is possible to get, totally unforced, inspirational and way, way, WAY outside the box! 
>
There ought to be a place for such creativity, there was at one time, but a mercenary music industry put an end to that, leaving us with a situation where those who deserve the most respect for their talents receive the least!
>
Will this ever change, will a yearning for TRUE underground, creativity unique to the individual, ever return, or has the spoon-feeding gone to far this time, is its grip so vicelike nothing can break it!
>
I make #INVISIBLE music, perhaps it feels that way to you too!
Criminally #Overlooked, Criminally #Underrated, Dismissed Without A Listen! Creative forces of the past were sometimes overlooked, underrated, misunderstood by the times they were living through, but have since been recognised, now have cult followings, but I have my doubts that any of us will ever be discovered, I have always felt that I, for one, was destined never to escape obscurity and oblivion; have always believed I was put on this Earth to live and die an insignificant loser, someone who never existed!

DAVID BOWIE: JEAN GENIUS

made in Reason.      
 all instruments are Objekt

Kert OB #ObjektChallenge

Time To Re-Avenge

Red Chief Sneaks A Return

Arizona Dream (Raw Version)

i shot the jukebox

This account is dedicated to my musical experiences and SonicLab Music challenges
Please check my main account @geoffrey-smartpunk

SL May Challenge - Wicked Cat In The Basement (ft. NiCKed)(2023-05)

GSP Experiences