Just a demo I created to Hugo Moroux's prompt to create a song in a style that is uncomfortable for me in some way. I've always loved industrial and EBM music, but generally create quite different styles and felt this kind of music is beyond me. It was a great excuse to get my feet wet in a genre I've always secretly wanted to make!

Violence (Song Challenge - EBM/Industrial)

I produced this track as part of a Wave Collective Song Challenge (hosted monthly by Hugo Moroux, Ben Levin, and Justice Cow). Listen to the full EP here: https://soundcloud.com/randiedemo/sets/wave-collective-2023-ep

CREDITS: 
Heartblood - Producer, vox, lyrics, synth, piano, tin whistle
Randie Strouse - Post production, heavy guitar
Hushed Hands - Mixing/mastering, synth, backing vox, initial concept
WitchKing99 - Guitar Tapping, Lyric Concept
Alex Artifical - Beats
Lazerbolt1 - Field Recording
Schkullie - Foley Rhythm 
Teelahead - Synth
Jesse St. Claire - Screams
Jonsible - Lyric Inspiration
Afro23 - Lyric Inspiration

LYRICS: 

We are water
Water is blood

Water is for profit
Water is for sale
To the highest bidder
In the coffin drive the nail

We are water
Water is blood
Life sustaining
This vital flood

Your blood is for profit
Your blood is for sale
To the highest bidder
In your coffin we drive the nail

Your blood is for profit 
Your blood is for sale
Our blood is for profit 
Our blood is for sale 
Our blood is for sale
Our blood is for sale

Cover Art: Mika Allan Book

Water Is Blood (Prod. By Heartblood)[Virtues We Write in Water Track 3]

This month's challenge was to use only one instrument. So I went with my old casio CK-500. Sampled the drums, a little bit of the radio, and a creepy tape from Chick Fillet that I forgot was in there. I didn't use the synthesizer because I feel like I'm already is pushing what is acceptable by finding a way to make jungle DnB with a dubstep break.

The growl is made from radio static.

CK500

A tragic reworking of the traditional hymn. My contribution to the June #WaveCollective song challenge hosted by @HugoMoroux in which we were tasked with creating a song with only one instrument. 

LYRICS

1 Amazing grace (how sweet the sound)
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
was blind, but now I see.

2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed!

3 Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come:
'tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.

4 The Lord has promised good to me,
his word my hope secures;
he will my shield and portion be
as long as life endures.

5 Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
and mortal life shall cease:
I shall possess, within the veil,
a life of joy and peace.

6 The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
the sun forbear to shine;
but God, who called me here below,
will be forever mine.

Amazing Grace (Song Challenge)

For the wavecollective/sweeties cuties challenge July 2023!

Please Don't Make Me Cry (Lianne La Havas Cover)

I thought about choosing something something from when I started getting into good music in high school like Portishead or Coheed or something that shows of the roots of what I do now like Tera Melos or ... early Coheed. BUt then I was like nah f*** it, do what you were listening to when you were 12. Also, I have never ever in my entire life done a cover that wasn't some kind of reimagining so this was cool, taught me a lot about mixing. And boy do I love Jerry Fin's work.

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist (Alexx Artificial cover ft. Michael Alexander Galvez) v7

A song challenge entry inspired by the four seasons.

For this one, my wife wrote a four part poem - one stanza for each season - and narrated it. I wrote(some pretty different) sections for each to accompany her.

Årstiderne (Featuring Mrs. Kwich)

My entry in Hugo Moroux/Ben Levin song challenge for December. This month was to make a pop song heavy.

I started by removing the vocal with AI and transcribing it with a synth to get the notes and rhythm. This makes reharmonization much easier, although this time I spent most of the song in either the original chord or it's relative minor. ALTHOUGH I did move everything up a half step into C major so I wouldn't so incredibly confused reading music with that many sharps. After that I  took it measure by measure making each one into something I thought was cool, with the overall goal of turning it into a mid-tempo cyberpunk darksynth banger... this didn't work, I had to push the tempo back up or it was too long. I even had to cut a chorus off, original song was actually kind of long and I don't have the attention span for it lol

Also that’s bass not an eight string

I Wanna Stay At That House Boi (Cyberpunk Edgerunners REMIX)

My proof that acoustic guitars don't work in space. Inspired by Aliens vs Predator (2000) for PC and every space scene in every movie and also Voyager for one bar. 

Recorded with a tascam sitting on a pillow on my couch. Samples are the  BBC Symphony Orchestra which was definitely acoustic when it was sampled. Drums are ableton packs of acoustic kits so HMU if you wanna drum on this.

Acoustic Challenge space vibe 120bpm bad ending R2

Ben Levin, Jessica Kion, and Hugo Moroux song challenges will be posted on this SoundCloud. You can hear more of my music on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.

HEARTBLOOD is the solo music project of Berlin-based singer/songwriter Christine Roseann. 

Originally from California, the Filipino-American pianist has lived in Germany for almost a decade. She is currently working on her debut album collecting raw, cathartic instrumental and vocal tracks composed when she was a troubled teenager. Dusting off these exiled fragments and holding them under a light, she faces the trauma of memory with honesty and tenderness.

I mostly upload different mixes so It’s easier to listen on different systems as I learn.

Comment with advice, it really helps me out.

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