Your Mix 5

words and music: Matthias Hanich
demo for The Groovy Cellar

What You Get / Demo - Matthias Hanich

Posting In honor of my good friend Mike Kavanaugh, He wrote such beautiful songs from the heart. You will be missed but never forgotten. Such a privilege to know and work with you my friend. 
Mike Kavanaugh: Vocals and Rhythm guitar
Greg Hurley: Slide guitar, Bass, Drums and backing vocals, mix and mastering
Mike Kavanaugh : "An original of mine - collaborating with producer Greg Hurley for a full band version of this tune previously recorded solo."
Mike passed away peacefully on Sunday July 18th 2021. He is safely home in Heaven where there is no more pain only eternal happiness.

Lyrics
Stay with me  tonight
Won’t you hold me tight

Need to feel you Love
Fit me like a glove 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight

Hold me in your arms
Don’t give me no Harm 

Take away my Breath 
With your tenderess

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 
  
But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight  

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 

Love before all time 
Let’s say you’ll be mine   

Tell me that you’ll stay 
Till my diying day 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight 

But don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone
don’t leave me alone…tonight

Don't Leave Me Alone / Mike Kavanaugh

A bit of a muck around, put an old keyboard through a Boss Delay pedal to see how it sounds and built it up from there.  Enjoy

How It All Goes

Somewhere Sometime Somehow (demo)

Copyright 2025 michaelbenortiz
Music & Lyrics: Mike Ortiz
Produced: Malaina Ortiz

Good Things (pre-production)

"June" (demo)

Copyright 2024 Ablue Direction Music
Music & Lyrics: Mike Ortiz
Produced: Malaina Ortiz

"Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow" (demo)

Good Things

Someday In Myself (Demo - FULL BAND)

My Way To You (demo FULL band) - 12_25_24, 11.11 AM

Why is it so hard to confess, why'd you find it acceptable to mess with my head?

confess

Lyrics: Michael Benjamin Ortiz
Music: Scott Donald

This song originated many years ago as a collaboration between myself and Mike Ortiz, just days before heading to Euphonix in LA to finish mixing an EP with our band STiFF. On our last day, with a bit of extra time, our engineer Todd Langner suggested we record a rough acoustic version of a riff I'd been playing around with during our session.

I grabbed my old beater Fender acoustic and set up at the bottom of a stairwell with microphones positioned at different levels and recorded the guitar parts in two takes—one for the main riff and structure, and another for an overdubbed melody line. While I went to grab lunch down the street, Mike worked on the lyrics. When I returned 30 minutes later, all the vocal tracks had been recorded. Remarkably, just an hour prior, this song was nothing more than a loose idea with some riffs and no lyrics or structure. It all came together spontaneously during the session.

Fast forward to January 1, 2025. I revisited the original recording, split it into stem tracks, and ran it through my DAW for cleanup. I then uploaded the instrumental to Suno, using their cover song option. After typing in the lyrics, Suno generated a version of the song, placing the lyrics in sync with the music and maintaining the original structure with minimal input from me. Two extension runs later, the track you’re listening to was complete.

What’s particularly fascinating is how Suno’s AI seemed to collaborate seamlessly. Listening to the result, I can’t help but wonder if this is what we might have achieved had we worked with a producer during the original recording.

Whether or Not

Whether or not - STiFF

After (Slumber Party Demo)

Пожалуйста, только не домой

Vocals - Malaina Ortiz
Guitar - Noah Chhan 
Recording/Production - Frank Lookinland

What It Is - Amy Winehouse Cover

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos

Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter from San Francisco, CA.
ASSASSIN - 1984
ABANDON BLUE - 1990
STIFF! - 1993
Michael ORTIZ - 2000
IWANNABEWELL - 2006/2013
LAST EXIT - 2015
M5 - 2019
THE REJECTED SF - 2020
Mike ORTIZ - 2023

Someday In Myself (Demo - FULL BAND)

Mike ORTIZ - San Francisco

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