I played in Catch on 20th March - here are all the original versions! 

The only track that is unrepresented is a work-in-progress called "Anyone but you". Stay tuned and I'll upload it when I've sorted it out.

Playlist from Made Of Squares 20th March 2012

Crazy Songs

Songs that are nice to listen to. Many featuring singers other than me. 

Nice Songs

michaelforrestmusic.com

Thanks to the artists in this playlist, who granted permission for me to play their songs on my Twitch channel while streaming.

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Twitch Playlist

This is the playlist used on http://goodtohear.co.uk/music/mf

GTHMF

Song Style

This is a song about dependence on technology. Imagine it is being sung to you by a laptop.

Song Of Technology

Anger Belly

Why You Want A Record Deal?

A Put Anotha Bread In Me Bread Bin

We Ran, We Ran (Don't Give Up This Time) - Barbara D'Agostino + Michael Forrest

Nude (Wu Wei Remix Feat. My Heart Is An Idiot) - Radiohead

isoTope-Ailauq(Stereo Serum remix)

isoTope- Ailauq (free DL)

I find myself all day stuck at a computer screen
It always makes me feel like I am living in a dream
A world inside the world, a manufactured fantasy
I wish I could escape it but I can't seem to get free

So many places now that I don't ever need to go
Now everything I think I need I can find here at home
No reason to go out I'll spend all of my time alone
A mouse a keyboard and a laptop and a telephone

Fuck the computer screen

I go out to a venue got to go and get some air
To get away from all the pixels and electric glare
Is inspiration on the stage and is there any flair?
No all there is is someone standing with a laptop there
I don't know what you're doing with it, it's a mystery
Behind the shining barrier where only you can see
You're standing up there staring mesmerised by LCD
I'm standing down here thinking this is not what it could be

How To Live Forever

Computer Screen

Download on Bandcamp

The Best One's Coming

I'm changing the chorus of this to "I've got anything but love for you" like it was before I balked at making it dark.

Anything But Love

Second single from How To Live Forever, also available on Spotify, Apple Music, etc... etc...

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.forrest.music/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mf_music

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All discoveries will be made with enough time
And all we believe can be seen from the outside
And all we love in music is a formula subverted
But I've been thinking too long it's time to go outside 

I just wanna go click hummm

Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected

Oh we find ourselves ever alone ever alone
And trust between two people must be grown must be grown
With all the worries of the world in our hands
Maybe we don't need to we don't need to understand

We only need to go click hummm

Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected

Here we are now all together
Don't be shy now to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected
Here we are now all together
Try to find how to get connected

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Written and recorded by Michael Forrest 
Vocals recorded with Ian Preston
Additional production and mastering by Sefi Carmel

Get Connected

#Boom chill, deep, bass, low trippy style...
http://www.nicoluminous.com/

Free WAV Download

The Quickness

There's fire, fire on the floor, there's fire, fire on the floor
If we stay in here we'll all be warm
Keep moving or it'll kill us all
There's fire, fire on the floor, there's fire, fire on the floor
Keep the music on or we'll be bored
Keep moving or it'll kill us all

Fire On The Floor

150BPM QUAVER TRIPLETS ARE HOW I FEEL INSIDE!

Click 'Buy Track' to get a name-your-price download (where you can name your price as 0 if you're skint)

Believe It

Classic Glitch-a-delic Soul Whomp. Future Bassey Melty Trap. Sorta chill but it still bangs and goes hard at live shows. Bless! Thank you for tuning in.  Save it in your Spotify playlist here! 
 https://open.spotify.com/album/22JUKIy65UE4KuyoSRWMm4
  Download here at my bandcamp  https://nicoluminous.bandcamp.com/track/flying-colors

Buy on Itunes

Flying Colors

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ELuN5KD_c

Lyrics:
She washes away 
All of the pressure of the day
She can make me forget all the things I thought I’d come to hate
She polishes white my bloodshot eyes 
She makes me speak without compromise
She switches my head from day to night 

But she's just too much
She's just too much,
She's just too much

Together we aren't afraid of anything 
Together we can beat about anything
Together we find the truth about everything 
Why does she always leave in the morning?
Don't leave me in the morning. 

She lets me ask for what I really want, 
She opens the door so I can see 
What I didn't see before

She can make me feel so warm, 
inhibitions gone
she takes me through to the dawn, 
she says come on let's have fun, let's have fun
but she's just too much, 
she's just too much,
she's just too much

She's Just Too Much

Here's a blissed out version of Get Connected by Leafnode. Enjoy! DJs find me on Twitter @mf_music if you want a download.

Get Connected - Leafnode Remix

This is a live recording of this song (videoed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL6966C88C814BCEE0&feature=player_detailpage&v=vIz42t1kG5o#t=74s

Sliding Down Live Recording

MF Tuesdays #1

This is the first in a series of potentially indefinite length, where I will be uploading a new track every Tuesday.

This month I decided to become a 'glass half full' person. I suspect this will have a strange and marked impact on the music I create. Because this is certainly the most positive thing I've ever produced.

Name-your-price download available here: 
http://michaelforrest.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-bad-can-happen

#1. Nothing Bad Can Happen

MF Tuesdays #2 - New MF track every week

I keep seeing these Ryan Gosling films recently where he perseveres with a lady until she finally gives in and then subsequently falls in love. 

However, whenever I send even so much as a second text message to someone who seems reluctant to get to know me I start to feel like I'm being a crazy stalker psychopath. So here's a feel good horror song from the perspective of a crazy stalker psychopath.

Think of it as being in the tradition of Nick Cave and his murder ballads. Or like some kind of dubstep Dexter.

Should I have done it all in the first person? I'm not sure... I hope the Daily Mail don't call the police on me.  

The artwork is a painting by Marcus Alexander - mdjalexander on Twitter.

The intro is courtesy of Natalie's brain.

This track will always remind me of the time I didn't take the opportunity to talk to David Shrigley in real life.

#2. Make You Mine

Bonus track written by Dave Wiles. You'll probably prefer this to my massively overproduced Tuesdays offering :-s

Paul O'Grady

Watch this with the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2f77wRFN0

This is an entry to Ableton's Beat The Clock competition and as such was composed in 24 hours using samples they provided by Junior Boys, Nosaj Thing and M83. I built the song on the little vocal loop they provided.


This is also MF Tuesdays #6

#6. Every Little Step

MF Tuesdays #7

How to make people hunt for the unfollow button: Part 7.

I'm feeling a bit wonky. If you listen to this then you'll see. 

It is very warm over here in London.

#7. It's Too Hot Today

MF Tuesdays #18 - new track every week
This... is a cover of the Pavement song Cut Your Hair. It's kinduva raw splurge... I played drums, guitar, synth and sang. And then tried to make it all sound okay. 