Wasteful Hours

A mesmerizing hybrid of two disparate genres, ambient/drone and hip-hop.

Peter Hall on drone horns feat. Genji Siraisi on drums via his Drum Nugs sound archive, and Larry Dunn on keyboards with Ronnie Laws on sax, via a sample from "Just Love".

DroneBone

Performed live on a CASIO!!!  No preset sounds though; the synths were programmed by me.  Check out the big key change in the middle, woot.

Robot Troll

Space Jazz Export 2

Rap about a surgeon rapper, who documents his clinical trials and surgeries with a music video.

Made with Hammerhead and an unregistered copy of Cool Edit in 1999 or 2000.  Had to keep overlaying already done tracks to build it up.

As I put my scalpel to your chest/
I'll tell you which surgeon is the best/
It's me the mighty yes yes/
Cuz I put shame to all the rest/
have mastery of this equipment like nobody's business/
while I drop rhymes on you like Common or Mos Def.

Now my dope rhyme goes like the following/
If you haven't heard of me/
you've been swallowing/
too much gin/
you're always intoxicated/
haven't heard of the surgeon that's replicated
31 of us for all the women?

That's right, I'm a ladies man/
heart transplant for Gillian Anderson/
No pimpin' hoes for me/
cuz I've got all the celebrities
on my patient list
not one complaint as long as I've practiced
Odds of success?
1:0 - undefined number?
Not for this surgeon hero

Now remember/
I'm a surgeon, not a rapper/
I have no sense of Iambic Pentameter/
So if I tend to get off beat
Keep in mind, I'm freestyling this feat
A feat of skill in anatomy and rhyme
Surgery and hip-hop at the same time.


Surgeon Rap

Hammerhead Trip-Hop

The Mystery of Toads

Wootwooters

Remix of 4mat's version of the Twinbee soundtrack.

Twinbee replay

Boom bap hip-hop with an EWF sample.  Needs some adjustments on some of the off-beat highhats and such (the samples loop perfectly, and hey, the snare is supposed to be a little late - it's hip-hop! :) - but I played the drums onto the track live, so I need to shove some of the strikes onto the beat.  And it needs a few MCs to take the verses.

Would you mind

Recorded straight to cassette while performing live, no overdubs.
Contains a sample from the 60s British sci-fi show The Prisoner.
KORG microKORG
Roland SP-606
recorder

The Island

Recorded straight to cassette while performing live, no overdubs.
KORG microKORG
Roland SP-606
Digital Keyboards Synergy

Brazilian Butterfly

A track I whipped together using mostly beautiful 80s sounds from the Casio CZ-1 synth of the era.  The 808 drums were sampled and played back on a Roland SP-606.  The bass is a KORG microKORG.  

Except for overdubbing, this was played live, including the drums, though I did loop those after playing about 8 measures.

Please listen with real speakers or headphones.

Instruments:
Casio CZ-1
KORG microKORG
Roland SP-606 with Roland TR-808 samples

Zoop

A rockin' tune inviting you to eat the cheese.
Played live, with only overdubs, including the drums.

Instruments:
Casio CZ-1
Roland SP-606 with Linn drum machine samples
Digital Keyboards Inc. SYNERGY

Eat The Cheese

Ride the waves of the space storm!

Instruments used:
Yamaha FB-01
KORG microKORG

A surprise at the end awaits you!

Space Storm

A deep house track with nice synth noodling.
Played completely live except for multi-tracking and PO-12 programming.
Accidentally left the Rhodes' level up as I recorded the other parts but hopefully not too much hiss due to this mistake.

Instruments used:
Rhodes Seventy-Three electric piano from 1975
Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator PO-12
Roland SP-606 with TR-808 and Linn Drum samples
KORG microKORG

Rhodes Of York

Freestyle cypher on OpenMic for aNONradio.net.  Looped some Spearhead for the beats.  Performed live before an Internet audience, interacting in the aNONradio chat room in COM on the SDF Public Access UNIX System.

aNONradio OpenMic Cypher Freestyle

Possibly the intro, or menu music for Celestia.

Celestia_intro

Music for a long level.  Loops perfectly.  Might adjust volume levels when melody comes in to make sound a bit cleaner, otherwise done, right? :)

Celestia_in_game

Really the intro!  Wow!  The other "intro" will be pleasant menu music.

Celestia_ultra_intro

An instrumental rough-edit cover of "Toy Soldiers" by Martika, her #1 hit from the summer of 1989, and also as seen on the TV show The Goldbergs (which, like everything in that show, actually takes place in only 1989 with sometimes things from the early 80s incongruously thrown in there.)

I plan to still add both slightly reverbed and vocoded vocals, and fix all of the misplaced drums.  I will leave an instrumental version available, though, because I like it.

Instruments used (all are real 80s or earlier):
Digital Keyboards Inc. (DKI) SYNERGY
Casio CZ-1
Roland SP-606 with Linn Drum samples (sampler not 80s but samples are)
Fender Rhodes Seventy-Three electric piano

Enjoy, and sing along!!!

Toy Soldiers (instrumental) [rough edit]

A cover of UltraSyd's "Modern Computer Music".  Tracked in Opcode StudioVision PPC on a 1997 Macintosh G3 with OS 9.2 and an Opcode Studio 4 MIDI interface.  Synths were all the RadioShack rebranded Casio that was used for my song "Robot Troll".

No overdubbing needed, as I used multiple MIDI channels on the synth and the internal mixer.

The high pitched bubbly patch that does a cool feedback was programmed by me, and all other voices were stock factory patches on the synth.

Synth used:
RadioShack Optimus Concertmate 990 from the mid 90s. (Optimus rebranded Casio)
Opcode Studio 4 MIDI interface
Power Mac G3 from 1997 with Opcode StudioVision PPC

Modern Computer Music (UltraSyd cover) [short version]

New full version!

A cover of UltraSyd's "Modern Computer Music". Tracked in Opcode StudioVision PPC on a 1997 Macintosh G3 with OS 9.2 and an Opcode Studio 4 MIDI interface. Synths were all the RadioShack rebranded Casio that was used for my song "Robot Troll".

No overdubbing needed, as I used multiple MIDI channels on the synth and the internal mixer.

The high pitched bubbly patch that does a cool feedback was programmed by me, and all other voices were stock factory patches on the synth.

Synth used:
RadioShack Optimus Concertmate 990 from the mid 90s. (Optimus rebranded Casio)
Opcode Studio 4 MIDI interface
Power Mac G3 from 1997 with Opcode StudioVision PPC

Modern Computer Music (UltraSyd cover)

Music for Celestia game; repeats a theme from intro, adding continuity.  Tried to make a techno tune, but it ended up almost Industrial/Gothic/EBM.  Sort of.  Haha cool!

Celestia_level_music

Tune about calculus I made in 2006.  Uses a George Benson sample.  Lyrics from a previous student of Mrs. Syda at Yuba College in California.

Calculus Rap

A nice synth piece in C#m tracked in MIDI for hardware synths.  Tracked in StudioVision PPC on a Power Macintosh G3 running OS 9.2, hooked up to an OpCode Studio 4 MIDI interface.  Synths used were the Yamaha FB-01 FM synth from the 80s, KORG microKORG from the 00s, and a Radio Shack Optimus branded Casio from the 90s.

I found some awesome patches for the FB-01 online, and used SysEx 480 available at the Patchman Music website to send SysEx to the FB-01 via the Mac G3.  Digging through the patches, the FM synth brass patch called FLODTS inspired me to write this song.

Flodts

Inspired by aNONradio's tob of the Dubious Goals Committee from the SDF Public Access Unix System.  He likes to drink tea, slurping it on the Internet stream.  He also likes to play his Lekato and Pocket Operator!

Instruments used:
Rhodes Mark I Seventy-Three electric piano from 1975
Lekato Loop Station looper for the Rhodes
Casio CZ-1 from the real 1980s
Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator PO-12

Tea of the Orient

Inspired by this Apple ][ of sysop Dj on RMAC, a Diversidial D-Dial station based in TX.
Call up at telnet://rmac.d-dial.com !
Runs on real Apple ][ computers!

P*ter Funk

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