Name: The Free Software Song (electronic remix) by HazyTizen
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Description: Ate some magic gimp peppers, made a Richard Stallman cover song using free software.

All Hail Free Software! All Hail The Hacker Ethic! 

Strange Days

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Rachel Flowers - all instruments
Rachel and the Rachettes - vocals

Montana - Frank Zappa (cover)

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Peaches en Regalia by Frank Zappa, covered by Rachel Flowers

Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa (cover)

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Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part 1 - King Crimson (cover)

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Rachel is playing all the parts here including the flute - that's real flute not a synth, by the way. Distortion was added using the Cakewalk effects.

Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part 2 - King Crimson (cover)

Here is Rachel's cover of Proclamation by Gentle Giant. As always, Rachel is playing all the instruments and performing all the vocals - organs and pianos are played on her Nord Electro 4D and Nord Piano 2 HA88 keyboards, drums were played live on her Yamaha M06, bass was played on her custom Flowers short scale jazz style bass, and guitar was played on her Ibanez GIO guitar. Enjoy!

Proclamation - Gentle Giant (cover)

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This is my cover of Teen Town by Weather Report composed by Jaco Pastorius, from the album Heavy Weather. I didn't use any click track. The drums were all played live, starting with the basic rhythm track, then I added the drum hits. I later made the two drum tracks separately in mono, so I could control the reverb for the drum hits. The synth sounds were a combination of the Nord piano 2 88 and Yamaha m06. The Rhodes piano was done on the Korg SV 88, and I played real fretless bass. For the doubling unison spots, I recorded them separately without hearing the other bass track, so it would make it easier to concentrate on the pitches. I sang the soprano saxophone parts also through a Lewitt MTP540 microphone. The conga drums were done on the Yamaha m06. ~ Rachel Flowers

Teen Town - Weather Report (cover)

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This is my cover of the great Wayne Shorter composition, Elegant People from the album Black Market by Weather Report. The saxophone is played on my Roli Seaboard Grand from a program called SWAM Sample Modeling. The strings are East West Hollywood Strings, Diamond Edition. The rest of the orchestra is the Vienna Symphonic Library. The percussion is from Garritan Jazz and Big Band. The piano is my Nord 88, the new Silver Grand sample. I played real fretless bass. The drums are from Session Drummer 3 - Legends Kit 2.

I listened to a lot of different versions and was interested in orchestrating the piece. This is what I came up with.

Elegant People - Weather Report (cover)

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Here's a wild Mahavishnu tune I covered in one day!

I memorized most of the solos, too. This is very close to the record!

All of the guitar parts were played on the Marble Head using the Vox
amp with the Lewitt mic. Then for the drums and violin tracks, I
played on the Yanaha m06. I also used one of the clavinets off of the Korg SV-1, and the Rhodes from the Nord 2 HA-88. I played on the fretted bass using the bass pod, and the synth parts were done on the Little Phatty. The gongs were from the Garritan Instant Orchestra "Earth Metal Percussion."

I put a whole bunch of wild effects on some of the instruments. For
another instance of the gong track, I added a flange effect. (I first
put a mono preset in both tracks.) Then for the synth solo, and violin
tracks, I added a distortion effect off of the Cakewalk Ampsim (I
think I used "British Crunch" on the synth solo, and "Fuzz 1" for the
violin tracks.)

Anyway, I had a lot of fun doing this one.

Birds Of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra (cover)

I had a lot of fun covering this piece! The guitars were played on the Marblehead using the guitar pod. The bass was played on the Fender Jazz bass using the bass pod. The drums were from Session Drummer, the Evil Joe kit. The cellos and double basses were from East West Hollywood Strings, Diamond.

Red - King Crimson (cover)

Ate some magic gimp peppers, made a Richard Stallman cover song using free software.

The Free Software Song (electronic remix)

HazyTizen

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