Update 2/15/20 - Another year down... another lesson in humility,  always next year!  

https://hofa-contest.com/song/3738/

Welcome to what looks to be my the last competition for 2019.   HOFA is hosting its annual Christmas mixing competition.   When I got the invite a few days ago I took a listen and was like.....ugggghhhh!!!  An "a cappella" which puts me in my weakest spot for a starting position.  

The human voice when on a piece of music, ends up being one of the most important/relatable parts of the piece.  A great vocal performance can prop up a band... but it very seldom works the other way around.  

It's been one of the more challenging things for me to mix properly.  Here is the 2019 HOFA competition and the only thing on it, VOICES!!.  Challenge accepted HOFA and here is where I ended up brothers and sisters.  

The competition closes out in January so still plenty of time to get into the competition if you want to have some fun....working the faders.  I mean common what else could be more fun?....(blushes)  Really people, such dirty minds!!  haha

https://hofa-contest.com/

Happy Holidays brothers and sisters

Special thanks to Bill from November Sound( https://soundcloud.com/november-love-680008043 ) for being an advisor on the project... Big thank you for this and all your support in 2019. 

On a slight comedic note to one of our own:  Sunnidayz always mentions not being a techie...  If you get here sister.... I fought my production rig for 3 hours this morning to print the final mix and master...  Had everything set last night... wanted to sleep on it before finalizing.  This morning bam..kerchunk..bzzzt....with every session crash... I was reminded of those things you mention, about it getting in the way!  Three hours of fighting for 20 minutes worth of work!!

Let There Be Snow

Competition - Let There Be Snow - HOFA 2019  Mixing competition

You can find this track on the Album : Energy Confinement Fusion

https://gommusic2.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2po0ZJqnfk&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR300FBU1e5GhybyrASJjL6Dvv4Ta_Q9SdzS6hPbyEXpw2OlZ2femSDPT6s

Walk Across The Border  collab  Henry Koek & Christophe Meulien / GOM

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Aves Nocturnas

noxpox - soft wake up call for the morning

hey folks!

enjoy this long-forgotten track

FM mode

a song written, recorded and produced by bitStone

bitzone (electronics, bass, drums, mix)
stone catcherye (guitars, vocals, lyrics)

from their upcoming album, "Switch"

Broken Side

don't you like the broken side of me
you tried to climb my face but it's too steep

I'm in your head, don't forget
can't lie about what you said
I left upset in debt when
you bled, I bled to death when

I could care less for humans
oh, to be dumb as cement
I've been a failure since then
it's called commitment

don't you like the broken side of me
you tried to climb my face but it's too steep

and I'm a desert inside
I'm a mountain with no sides

I'm in your head, as witness
serotonin's my best friend
sings to me while I'm sleeping
she calls it sleep, I call it rest

I'm surging all my mind when
they'll all know I've been living
I've been expecting more than
it's called commitment

don't you like the broken side of me
you tried to climb my face but it's too steep

and I'm a desert inside
I'm a mountain with no sides

I'm the sky...

don't you like the broken side of me
you tried to climb my face but it's too steep

and I'm a blizzard inside
I'm a planet with no life

Switch

Broken Side

HEAT

gene jumper. Sawmill Blues # 1.( Original)

Sawmill Blues

Sawmill Blues # 1. Gene Jumper ( Original)

Second addition to my series of brainstorming sketches. This was just a quick jam I put together tonight. I thought it sounded fun, so I was inspired to start this series so I could share it.

Recorded on a Moog Sub 25 with some added effects from Logic.

Sketch 2 - Diving Head First Into The Digital Ocean

Orgasm In Blues

Shifting sax and floaty flute played by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
For a solo, live, acoustic version see: https://youtu.be/IPTSFz0ap1c

It’s a time of the sighs and the lies on the radio
Dumbing down
It’s a sign of the times and the crimes of the bully boys
Lost in all that noise, with their dangerous toys
Shifting sands, shifting sands, camouflage guilty hands
Do the straw man, law man, flag man, bogey man
Fooling fools
Salesmen, pale men, stale mediocrities
Riding the wave of faith, nothing’s safe

Strive all your life, take the long road to understand
Knowledge base
You can search and research, learn the lessons from the history
They believe the mouth instead
The mouth in the empty head

Shifting Sands (a C÷M track)

n o x p o x
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If you want to remix my stuff feel free to contact me per email ☻

An artist must be open to the muse. The greater the artist, the more he is open to “cosmic currents.” He has to behave as he does. If he has “the courage to be an artist,” he is committed to behave as the mood possesses him. . . .

The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.

Pair with Patti Smith’s account of Burroughs’s advice to the young and his cameo in the love letters of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky.

noxpox - soft wake up call for the morning

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