cranked in the Lab - vol 8

Collaborative production with Artist Dave 

Bad News

She's The One

Ghosts In Venice

KR - Once king

90's Inspired Rock made in Metro Detroit.

And now the times are changing, shifting back, leading us to Crow.
When the only fear is fear itself, uni-bomb with lethal stealth, familiar and unknown.

Then the "do or die" reaches us in short supply.
It's not outrageous. Safe to say it's quite contagious.
Chained to fear and broken time, selling us one more line.
It's not outrageous, find another way.

Change the rube that won't comply, throwing hope into the great divide.
When your soul is hard to find, Technicolor is color blind, familiar but unknown.

Then the "do or die" reaches us in short supply.
It's not outrageous. Safe to say it's quite contagious.
Chained to fear and broken time, selling us one more line.
It's not outrageous, find another way.

Fight the program, fight the program
So outrageous and contagious.

Then the "do or die" reaches us in short supply.
It's not outrageous. Safe to say it's quite contagious.
Chained to fear and broken time, selling us one more line.
It's not outrageous, find another way.

Contagious

Cantucky - Robert Grigg & Combstead

Thanks to my friend Charlie for rocking this collaboration 
more of his music @ https://soundcloud.com/charliewillz
photo by Ashley_Minkus

Supper - Charlie Williams

Combstead (@markcombs-928282858) made this wonderfully whimsical and melodic track and asked me if I felt inspired to put any words to it. I said "yes, defo, if my dream fairies come through with them." And they did ... seems they couldn't wait... which was great ... except that it was at four o'clock this morning! 

Here's what came through:

WORDS:

I thought at first it was a dream, just a childhood fantasy that had grown and grown. 
But over the years, I realised .... it was real, it was my loved ones singing me home. 

When the day is dark, and the night is long...in the still, small hours I hear their song.
The road less travelled can be full of stones, but their song makes the journey seem not so long.
When I meet the devil, at the crossing, and I have to choose right, from wrong, 
I follow their attunement, and soon find, that where once I was weak, I am strong 

Now the sun is glowing red, and the shadows growing longer, their song is sounding out... even louder
Rising to a crescendo, as every sacrifice is cheered, every last injury and pain is honoured, 
Pulling me up the steep, craggy pathway of that last mountain I have to climb, 
Until I’m released from the valley of the shadow of death, ruled by Old Father Time. 

I thought at first it was a dream, just a childhood fantasy that had grown and grown. 
But over the years ...I've seen that it’s real, and that it’s my loved ones singing me home. 

© Lyrics and vocal, copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, August 2024 
© Music and cover art, copyright Mark Combstead, August 2024

Our Way Home

I Still Miss You Demo

First recorded in November 2022. 
From the album Salt.

It's a about living/being stuck in a small seaside town. For better or worse.

This new version was mixed and mastered by
Woods Studio Norway Mixing and Mastering 
www.soundcloud.com/woods_studio 

Lyrics

What I could have been.
Washed out by the salty sea.
Oh, it is just a dream.
A dream that's obsolete.

What a place to be.
A place where you can go and see.
The things that you could be.
All that you could dream.

Now you'll never know.
Anywhere's the way to go.
Oh, It's all for the show.
Now you'll never know.

Washed out by the sun.
This sun is just the current one.
The bun that traps the fly.
Now you wave goodbye.

Just wasted on the sand.
Wasted in a foreign land.
Wasted like you planned.
You wasted all your hands.

Time it ticks away.
Ticks away another day.
The days they will not stay.
The days they go away.

What I couldn't see.
Washed out by the salty sea.
Reminds me of the time.
I searched but couldn't find.

A scar that fades away.
Reminders of the former days.
The days that fade away.
The days they often change.

The salty sea imbibes.
More than you would care to mind.
You're full up to your eyes.
The salty sea revives. 


Salty Sea [2024 Remaster]

Lunchtime

Dono or Support

Certainty

Welcome to my kingdom Musical Paradise. This is a kingdom where everybody's talent is being showcased to the world. How this kingdom was found is when Offspring and the gang was storming through a forest. He heard some very colorful noises and decided to check it out. As he found the source of the noise, he heard a band playing some colorful tunes. Offspring grew curious about how was they doing it so he decided to ask one of the band members if he could play his keyboard. They all approved and Adollaspring asked him, "dude do you even know how to play a sound?" They all laughed at his joke while Offspring response was "no but I'm finna learn today!" With excitement in his tone, he stared pressing different keys hearing them make different sounds. So of course every inexperienced piano-est press every key on the keyboard sounding very terrible. The band member was gonna stop him until a shocking event happened. As Offspring kept on playing, Offspring original form was turning lighter and lighter and that's not all. He even started to play better, so better he even made a never unheard of sound. Everybody in the venue was admiring his sound. Hell, even Onslaught decided to chime in with him and play the drums. Adollaspring played the guitar, spawn was on saxophone and hollowspring was playing the villein. All of them played in sync creating the most magical song of all time. Everybody's soul was being turned to their aura, their spirits was flying across the sky, even the Walking Onslaughts form changed to a musical guardian. All of them stopped playing and saw the magic with everybody. The lead singer ask "Dude........ how... how did you do that?" Offspring response " I don't know, it was like the music was in my soul. Like..... I was in a musical paradise." As those words went out of his mouth, Two musical guardians appeared in his presence. Offspring said "who the hell are you guys?" guardian "we are the musical guardians, and what you just did was unlocked your hidden power via sound, and we want you to be our God. We'll even grant you your own kingdom." At first they was suspicious about it, then they talked more in dept about it and Offspring agreed to their offer. Years down the line, they made the most colorful sounding kingdom of all time. To this day, more and more selective people are joining the kingdom. Who knew music could be so powerful.


#OffspringMysterious #WalkingOnslaughts #MusicalParadise

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Welcome to the Lab 💀 
Creator sound designer
40 plus years in live sound reinforcement
getting by with some help from my friends.
some call me Brother, Mark, Big Moochies, Big Daddy, Fat Rat..... all love.

Cantucky - Robert Grigg & Combstead

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