No matter how fast you move, she is still far away... why?

Lets face it, we all love the music we make and share. This is my own latest fave :)

Fun fact, in childhood I was always impressed by those pianists walking blazing fast thru the keys. Here in the bridge (1:41-2:14)I "did it". Not on a piano keys. On Push 2. Also put into a scale. Quickly running up and down on 5x5 grid ... not really knowing what I'm doing :) Dreams come true, she is getting near! 

Lead synth is Arturia OP-Xa VST also played on Push 2 pads, no programming. Some Polybrute, few Pigments lines, and IK Syntronik. With lotsa FabFilter Pro-C, Pro-Q3, Timeless. Bassline is 3 Arturia MiniMoogs. Mastered with UAD, IK, and FabFilters. Cover art: a personal star and road to Lick Observatory, California, 20 miles from house. Thanks! 

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Analogue

Aster

Do you have a feeling you know this track? You probably heard it 13.7 billion years ago when our pretty Universe got created! 😉🌌🌠🌎

A lil bit of my blue Fender Stratocaster, OB-Xa, MiniMoog and other Arturia V synth plugs.

Cover art: NASA Earth "hairs" (dark matter filaments streaming thru the Earth) + Michelangelo (of course) + color flairs & glitches on Photoleap app (required).

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Impressions

Creation

Day Trippin....

We're on the blue line 
Aboard the 2a
Robotic voice says
Next stop

We're going forwards 
While facing backwards
I see reflections
Next stop

We pass the old guys
On the the benches 
Putting the world right
Next stop 
 
We're on the left side
Look out the right side
I see the cannons
Next stop 

We're on the blue line
Day trippin
Yeah 

Crowds of people
Frome many places
Hussle bussle 
Next stop

We'e in the old town
We're in the new town
A feild of new cars
Next stop

We're day tripping

We're on the blue line
Eleven this time 
Into the mountains
Next stop

It's green as grass here
7 euro's a glass here
We catch the last bus
Next Stop

We're on the blue line
Day trippin
Yeah (repeat)

Bus contoler 
Steam roller
Pick up the beach bums
Last stop

Day Tripping

Day Tripping.

This song was recorded in 1967 and released in 1971 by Danny O'Keefe.  Artist such as Elvis and Willie Nelson have recorded it along with many others.  I recently heard this tune and remembered how much I liked it and had to give it a go.  Thank you all for the listen and support

Good Time Charley  ( Cover)

Album My Strange Night Stories
nowyyorg 2024

Why Always Me ?

Enigma #156

“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”

Never Let Me Go

Education Revisited  (0658) ft. Donna AI

Listen at the convenience of YouTube:  https://youtu.be/kyWAQMV8TXI

Retouch Edit for the “Red Hot Moon” Ska Punk anthem by Tim Armstrong and Rancid. The original song is not changed at all, because it is “Indestructible”,  as its 2003 album name suggests. Original song was produced by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion). In the remix I did some gentle widening and respectful highlights for the song. Added very few beats and hats and lotsa subtle deep bass. 

Tempo is locked to much slower 150Bpm. So it should be perfect for the slow Pogo dance perhaps?!?! ... or for this awesome, romantic SKA dancing like in the original, at 1:43 ?!?!  : D 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zly9--6A4Hk

The take on mixing one of my favorite Rancid songs was to celebrate Red Moon celestial even in Oct, 2015. The Red Hot Moon is eclipsed by Mini Moog rework only. Three Moog synth lines added to expand the lower domain. All done in Live9 with MiniMoog by Arturia. More explicit words are scrambled in case you take kids to the “grave yard tonight” to observe the Red Hot Moon event : ) 

The artwork is actual phot of the Red Super Moon I did from our backyard, as it’s was viewed those days from “Cali, California….”   : ) Canon Rebel T4i, w/o editing. No idea where the blue-ish glare is coming from, probably from the Moog button highlight?!?  : ) 

My tribute to Tim Armstrong, guys! So to quote him here "Respect to New York, respect to London, but we're from California and our state is golden" :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zmIR1aAGYE
 
Made with love and a heart! I’m serious regarding author rights. Support the artist, buy the original on iTunes and/or my remix on Legitmix, so original artist gets paid!

Lyrics (and all rights) Rancid:  "Red Hot Moon"

Under a red hot moon, take a bus downtown to the Grave yard shift tonight

KC’s from Cali, California.
She's got a reputation that she didn't ask for.
She’s waiting for an escape now, escape is called the 164.
Now, KC, she won’t admit when she’s wrong,
now KC, she’s always run, run, run.
She’s a punk rocker, she don’t trust no one
on a south end bus all alone.

Under a red hot moon, take a bus downtown to the Grave yard shift tonight

KC was never caught up, like the rest of the rats in a fucking maze
“Check me out” she said, “I’m in a concrete jungle,
I’m an individual and you’re stuck in my waste”
Oh hell no, she knows what the truth is. Because she said so
She knows who her friends are so fuck you, don’t get no closer,
it’ll only make her run far away

Under a red hot moon, take a bus downtown to the Grave yard shift tonight

I know KC’s brother pretty well, lets say
we spent a lot of time hanging out
I always thought for he said that she’d be the one to get out of here
and make a life fore herself
but when we found her in the little league park,
in the dugout it was cold in the dark.
No one knew why she wouldn’t wake up,
I think she finally made it back home.

Under a red hot moon, take a bus downtown to the Grave yard shift tonight

[Rap verse by Rob Aston]
One time for your mind, two times for your soul three for the graveyard and the money I fold.
Dimmed out in the city where the sun burns slow, no hope it’s a pity I can’t say no.
It’s not my time to go, it’s not my time to die,
the last thing I wants for my mother to cry
It was love at first light, since the very first night,
things have never been the same since I took my first flight.
The way I live my life, I love; I live lavish, lost me from the start.
You lose, you’ll never have it! Untouched, unleashed, back up you don’t want it.
Stick him for his cash. It’s back, now he’s fronting.
Take two pass, I’ll take to blast.
Bust a mother fucker; I’m out on the flash. Pimped out, high as fuck.
I’m out of control. Let's bounce, rock, skate, Man I'm ready to roll.

Rancid

Rancid - Red Hot Moon (Retouch Hot Moog Edit by Sam PROCK)

See the new video: youtu.be/jDXeh4QGkPY

The Crystal Ripples SYNTH-phony is dedicated to Planet Earth survival awareness and to everyone making Ripples in the cold blob if ice humanity getting itself into. Thank you for warming up the Climate between Humans and saving Polar Ice-packs too.

This is my contribution to Climate Change collab playlist on Silent Zen group:  soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change

Musically here... I just play what I feel and like, like many. Translating _it_ into the best sound I could do at the moment, hoping to let out some of grooves and vibes boiling my head constantly. Might be messy, bumpy, puzzling, but this is what it is. By design. Crystal Ripples continues my "Impressionism in Music" series. I love to induce and provoke, rather than impose. All for creative listening experience, so we collab, co-create.... Thank you.

Fender Stratocaster finger picking and (slightly) distorted basslines and twangs. Tones are using Line 6 hardware Pod XT. Post Line6 and IK Multimedia Amplitube.  Korg Synths, including Gadget tool Brussels, which solemnly soloing at 0:50. All synths sounds transitions achieved by playing physical knobs on my Arturia controller. All 37 lines of guitars, perc, synth total are assembled in Ableton Live 9 and mastered with IK Multimedia.

Released by Sam Prock Dec. 15, 2016

Crystal Ripples ~ Check YouTube!

So many good years with this lady standing by me.  I don't know how or why she does it.  We are living in our latter years now and can reflect on the so many good things in our lives.  I am not very good at love songs, but I wrote this one a while back.  She has a birthday this week and I would like to share this on SC.  Happy Birthday my Lou Ann

I Will (original)

"If music be the food of love, play on ... and on" - William Shakespeare (Sam PROCK Remix)

SoundCloud Premier Partner. Published at Silent Zen label with Ditto. Making art with the sound is what I'm after. Curving genre boundaries is a must.

"It is something between discovering and witnessing" - Robert Moog

Hardware: Moog Subsequent 37CV, MiniMoog Model D '22, Buchla Easel 208C, APR 2600m, Córdoba Koa edition nylon guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha Bass, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, UAD Apollo Twin X, Presonus 1824C, Line6 PodXT, B-52 LS100 & B-52 4x12, Arturia Keystep, XKeys Air, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPhone. 

Software: Ableton Live 11, Moog, Arturia, UAD, FabFilter, IK, NI, Omnisphere. Mobile music fan: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, ZenBeats, Arturia, Moog, FabFilters.

"Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my life" - rephrasing Dave Gahan said alike of David Bowie. 

Influences: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise, Daft Punk, Telex, Trans-X, Yello, a-ha, Arcade Fire, Panic! At the Disco, She Wants Revenge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Offspring, Madness, Che Sudaka, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Strangles, Elastica, PJ Harvey, The Cars, Foreigner, Therapy?, Muse, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Telex, Zodiak, INXS, Hey Rosetta!, Cause and Effect, And One, Banco De Gaia, B-Tribe, Air, S.P.O.C.K.

Personas: Ottmar Liebert, Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Jean-Michel Jarre, Georgio Moroder, SuperMax, Boris Blank, Leonard Cohen, Curt Cobain, John Frusciante, Flea, Tim Artstrong, Johny Lydon, Dexter Holland, Falco, Midge Ure, M. Harket, Regina Spektor, D. Marouani, Nick Cave, V. Clarke, A. Wilder, Robert Moog,  Don Buchla, Moby, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vysotsky, G. Nannini, R. Fogli, Hank Marvin, Aeoliah, A. Vollenweider, M. Knopfler, A. Parsons.

"I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - "Daniil Kharms.

Styles: Funtronica (invented), Electronic, Deep, Alternative, Disco, Deep House, New Wave, Synthpop, Synthwave, Ska, Punk, Reggae, Cumbia, Indie, New Age, Chillout, GOA, Downtempo, Instrumental, Ethnic, Neo Classic, Psytrance, Psybient.

My mobile uploads account is @prockjet. More remixes @art-of-nonsense. Silent Zen is a support group I conduct @silent-zen.