My favorite song challenges 2023

For Hugo Moroux's September community song challenge. This song only uses three instruments (vocals, synth, and drums) but everything is modulated and FX'd to hell.

LYRICS
Body of water
prism of light 
bending which way, out of sight

your motion is crushing 
I'm eating for two
blank-slate, blind, and see through

still I do what I'm told  

bleeding me empty
and passively cruel
smiling like you know just what to do

Keeping it half true
in the real world
feeding debt and curling to a fetal ball

still I do what I'm told
sold in whispers and fools gold

Wal - Mart Shuffle (3 Track Song)

For Hugo Moroux's community song challenge. The theme was writing a song that is titled and inspired by the phrase "You Are Now Logged In"

I did all the instruments /programming/mixing
Frances helped me with the crowd chatter

LYRICS:
my body
tears away slowly
like a preacher in a hallway
dressed in rags and painless 
always 
in wonder
neon glowing on an e-cig
pulling under with your pained expression 

I 
want to live through your eyes 
  
molting
into soil that is burning
what is fear if it's not learning, to beat the
life out of pleasant strangers 

oh 
here it comes again
oh 
there I go again 
watching windows  
when I should be 
dead
(You are now logged in)

You Are Now Logged In (Hugo Moroux/Ben Levin Song Challenge Oct 2022)

For the November Hugo Moroux/Ben Levin song challenge. 

Sumika- 2nd Vocals
Ted- imperceptible meow 
DE- Everything else

Lyrics:
V1
Lazy eyes before us
Melting in the sun
Lining up like tourists
It's begun
By the way it won't bother me
Feeding from a hand
In sight but just out of reach
That's the plan

Chorus
And I
Don't wanna hear those words
(One night, we find, we're stuck in a slow burn)
Alive
But dimming at each  turn
(One night, we find, we're stuck in a slow burn)

Cleaning the slate in this
Dream that we're fakin' 
Slip through the wake and be
Free of your patience

V2
Lonely as a child
Hissing like a swan
You held me like a baby
It's all wrong 
By the way it's under me
Getting out of the way
keep me warm and empty
It's been paid

Slow Burn (Demo)feat Sumika (Moroux/Levin November Song Challenge)

(CW: public shootings)
Hello friends. I am posting this on behalf of Doc Whom (whom had to go to work)!
Doc did the instrumental and production. 
I did the vocals, the guitar solo, and finishing touches. 
This was all incredibly last minute, and Doc hasn't even heard this yet so I hope they enjoy it!
Warning, I absolutely BAKED the mastering because I'm a masochist/sadist, and I love how the first Sleigh Bells album sounds. 

The lyrics were written in like 30 minutes like 2 hours ago. My parts were all recorded quickly.
There was a shooting recently in the town I work, that also happens to be within the state where we both live. This song is written from the perspective of some of the extremely callous and jaded people I've come across in the aftermath.

Your Bleak American (Doc Whom feat Randie)

Another demo hastily completed. I plan on re-recording this in the future and fully fleshing it out. Was inspired by the room noise of the album Absolutely by Dijon. Also Doc Whom recorded noise for me, and I like it so much it's the entire outro of the track!

Blameless (Demo) And Whom Noise

The fine people who contributed: 

Sumika: Bass, Vocals (lead and backing), Lyrics (https://sumishikawa.bandcamp.com)
Jared Ray Hawking: Noise/Synthesizer
Mika Allan Book: Noise/Sound Design
Doctor Whom: Noise/Sound Design
Mreenal Mams: Sitar, Creative Guidance
Heartblood: Vocals, Tin Whistle
Alexx Artificial: Orchestral Sample 
2tJ (the whack mc): Spoken Word, Field Recording
Teelahead: Guitar/Sound Design/Violin
Witchking: Fishboxing
Randie: Production, Keyboard, Sound Design, Persistent Posting 
Emmer: Spoken Word
Emmer's friend Martijn: "mobbing" sound sample

Lyrics:
Force of nature, you give us life
You cleanse our souls, our bodies you bind
Your calmness brings peace to a raging mind
In abundance you quench our thirst
You are us, you are us
Majestic in healing and light, forever with nourishing strength and delight
You gracefully flow
Bring us back to life, easing our pain
Unrelentlessly never abstain
We want to rise, we want to rise

You Are Us/We Want To Rise (Prod. By Randie) [Virtues We Write In Water Track 2]

for the Moroux/Levin/Cow monthly song challenge. this month was to use one instrument track (with the option to do vocals over it). mine was just a guitar (through a bunch of  effects) and a vocal (also through a bunch of effects near the end).

My Little Friend (One instrument song challenge/demo/June Song Challenge for Hugo Moroux/sad cat)

Tom Waits cover for the Moroux/Levin/Cow song challenge 07/23

My friend Jacob Schutes graciously provided the bongo track back in 2019

The majority of the track recorded summer 2019, 1st chorus yells in 2020, 2nd chorus yells in 2021, 3rd chorus and outro choir in 2022. Final mix and bass recording done in July 2023.

Earth Died Screaming (Tom Waits cover for Moroux/Levin/Cow song challenge 07/23)

Mostly for Hugo Moroux/Ben Levin/Justice Cow song challenges. Lotsa rough ideas. 

for my main output go to randie.bandcamp.com

My favorite song challenges 2023

Randie (demos and song challenges)