I used a variety of tools for this, as is my habit.

* little comsumer market Concertmate keyboard  used to play the raw MIDI script for the baseline and synth parts.  I have an Alesis, but for MIDI scripting, it doesn't really matter a whole lot.

* Buzz Modular Synth (donation-ware, BTW)  with Matilde Tracker 1.5 used for splicing the sample-rythems together, and some of the Tum-Tiss we all love so much. 

* Disco Discovery Pro VST synth  -   used on Baseline and Arp tracks.

* MAGIX Music maker 12 Deluxe used for final arrangement,  MIDI script Tweaking,  VST rendering,  and mix-down.

     This was origionally going to be a cover of "Inna Gadda Deveda" By Iron Butterfly, but The more fun I had working the samples, the less I liked the heavy melody,  so I  Jettisoned all the hromonic tracks, and composed a new little light tune. 

   I am a Sample and splice freak. Even when I was little, and all I had was a little cassete recorder, I used to do the "Pause button- thing"   to make strings of varied sound (pretty much the same effect featured here).  Anyway,  ever since I added the "PUNCH!" sound to my library,  I've been looking for an excuse t use it.   

There's somthing aboaut the voicing the actors used in those old movies.  There's a rythem, and extreem inflection that catches my ear.  I love it when I get an old movie snippit in my library.  If I didn't  keep myself in check,   ALL my stuff  would Sample 40s -60's Radio, TV, & Movies.

So, This is my first Sound cloud  Submission,  Hope you enjoy!


Sample Salad

I went all nuts making this Rhythm track, but now, It just sits there, mocking me, because now I have no Idea what kind of tune it wants.  I you have  a 120BPM tune that is lonely, Then you are welcome to use this.  Just let me know, so I can see what this belligerent beat is good for.  :P

Violent

I'm never sure what to put in the Genre field when I upload... It's not like I start making something, thinking  "I think I'll do a techno song" .  I usually use what I think best performs a given thought,  and let the music choose it's course.

Then later, I'll force things around if the music seems aimless. :P 
Tried to play around with the comments to add lyrics...well that sucks. lol
LYRICS:
I'm moving
forward
through
my mind,
and I'm moving
onward
in
my heart.

It's easier
to love someone
from a distance,
from a distance.
from a distance...

If I could 
find some
distance...
(from myself),
I'd look
in
to
my eyes,
and see.

It's better, to
know thyself
from a distance,
from a distance.
from a distance.


Happy in my box (from a distance)

THIS, is how a white-boy who don't even rap gonna tell you how to flo.
(since you asked,)
We happy now, T.?


Toyon Can't Spit

I can't be stopped from making sample salad.  This is the more calm  iteration of my 'sample salad' line of thought using many of the original samples, because I still love them after all this time.
It features my first fully custom drum synth, "The Sneez-O-Synth" (C++ Buzz machine), which is so touchy, yet unwieldy(general pain in the ass) I doubt I'll ever use it again.

You Cant Stop Me (no, gabriel)

This one's all about the Buzz.  I really like working with it. No other D.A.W. feels like buzz.  It's been my goto app when I want something quirky, but in a very specific way.  It's also, thanks to the Doof machines, where I get most of my quick little "breep" and  "bwoop" percussive effects I use so much of in my rhythm tracks.


Oranges Revenge1

Cover of Random Canyon , by The Holy Modal Rounders(Peter Stampel).  I've never tried to cover a bluegrass/Folk song as electronica before, so we'[ll see.
(Just started this today, so it's still pretty rough)

Lyrics:

Take me back to Random Canyon
Where the gryphon's always riffin'
And the unicorn is horny in the spring
Where the crystal coyote calls 
Over sleepy garden walls
And the wireless wombat wanders on the wings
And the wireless wombat wanders on the wings

Near the mislocated mesa
With my counterfeit contessa
Who is secretary for the local Grange
And the psychedelic sage
Puts the cattle in a rage
And the changing range is getting pretty strange
And the changing range is getting pretty strange

There I'll spend each golden year
Watching all the cattle veer
No sight I've ever seen provokes more charm
Though the dragons fly by night
They very seldom bite
But if you mess with one he'll do you harm
But if you mess with one he'll do you harm

I believe I'll never leave
And I know I'll never grieve
When I go back to the canyon that I love
Other canyons aren't as deep
Their walls inclined to seep
You can take your other canyons and go shove
You can take your other canyons and go shove

I'm a Random Canyon fan
I'll mess with any man
Who denies that Random Canyon is the best
You will find no canyon greater
Either side of the equator
Random Canyon is the glory of the West
Random Canyon is the glory of the West 


Random canyon man@200BPM

This is me putting the Little Big Planet2 (beta) Sequencer through it's paces.
It has it's problems (the most embarrassing being a tendency to bend sustained notes flat) , but all in all, I'd say I'd give it a green flag.

I tend to to use Cannon as a bench mark with new gear, since I love it, and know it like an old friend. In the case of sequencers, it almost always takes a weird, turn with maniac arpeggio runs, and synth mayhem,  so this version isn't all that out of character for me.

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