Kevin Maclead

Wagon Wheel  - but on a Calliope with electronic percussion.

Wagon Wheel - Calliope With Perc

The year is... I have no idea. Timeless. Could be now, could be in the 1950s. Super cool jazz for your hardcore detectives! Also useful for beat poets! Also useful for ennui or boredom! Well, interesting sorts of boredom.


110 BPM

Spy Glass

Vaguely exotic sounding, yet still comfortably tonal, this piece certainly falls between some cracks. Gamelan is listed as an instrument... but that's sort of like listing an orchestra as an instrument... which I sometimes do. The other thing in here is that helicon. Imagine you take a french horn (which is like 5 meters of tubes) and make it even bigger! I guess it is also the name of a mountain in Greece? I did not use the mountain in this piece.

Mystic Force - Alternate Mix 132

80bpm
Synths, Percussion, Guitar.

So this one sounds like what is sounds like. The high quality download has a few bonus mixes. The Tin Mix is excellent for small speakers. The Phased Mix is like... sort of groovy, man. The 90 mix is a bit faster. And the House Mix is super dance party fun times!

Danger Storm

The Lift
133 BPM
Synths, Percussion

A little trance-y and a dance-y, this piece takes a while to develop (like most EDM things these days). The full width of the piece is realized around 1:40. Not so much a drop and a gentle trip down a hill, really - but still satisfying! That note at the end? Surprisingly difficult to do that... I know you're thinking - Hey! That just sounds like noise! Well, yes and no. But it is worth it!

The Lift

Sort of inspired by the 1930s, and sort of inspired by all-out weird. Definitely recommend taking a listen to this piece. Make sure you get to the 1 minute mark... fun times trumpet playing await! I personally enjoy how the clarinet play tries to follow the trumpet player - doesn't work out so well.

The Show Must Be Go

What do you get when you cross some 8-bit music technology with Dixieland music? Well... you get stuff that sounds like this. The uncompressed download comes with a pile of extra stuff, like versions at 220, 230, 240, and a whopping 275 beats per minute! That's really fast. It also has loops that don't go through the modulation so you can repeat them as long as you'd like!

Pixelland


This epic 41-minute relaxing juggernaut is a continually changing yet always pleasant piece. How pleasant? Very, very pleasant. You can just put this one on and drift away to the imagined utopian land of your choosing! Suitable for day-spa background music, dental office calming music, very long form landscape or train videos, governmental intake and processing videos. The uncompressed download does not contain separate files, just the one big 650 meg wav file.

Garden Music


This was a quick improvisation that turned out pretty listenable! Original title was "Sofa King Beautiful", but I figured "Fresh Air" worked better. Since this is a piece for solo keyboard, I included four alternate keyboards in the uncompressed download. They all have subtly different feels. Electric Piano, Grand Piano, Spinet Piano (out of tune), and a piano where you tap the strings rather than hit it with the hammers.

Fresh Air

We've all been there. It is a little sad, a little hopeful... like when you finally set your rescue owl back into the world. You're sad to see her go, but you hope for the best. You've done all you can inside... her wings work pretty well now, and she can snatch the mice from your living room floor even when you put in a bunch of fake plants in the way to give the prey cover. Nothing to do now but hope Blossom can rule the night as you hoped she one day would. Also... time to buy a bunch of mousetraps.

Heavy Heart

Run of the mill ska!? No such thing! Well, this is as close to that reality as you can get.  It is high energy, dance-inducing, happy fun times for everyone who was born after... like... 
the Industrial Revolution... So, there may be some trees and fungi that don't find this fun; but, I can't really care about their concepts of fun too much. I assume they don't like winters, 
but they just all sort of stand around all the time.

Blue Ska

Five! Five full minutes of battle fighting action bits with a bit of an Egyptian flair! For some reason I associate English horn with desert nomads. There must have been some cultural reference in my youth to that effect. Super crazy awesome brass is super crazy awesome... wait for it... you'll be glad you did!

Curse Of The Scarab - Full With Tail

75bpm
EP, Piano, Synths, Percussion

Well, this is interesting... Smooth sine bass contrasted with a lovely excited drum machine and then... the magic! Genre bending magic! You're a cool kid right? This is for you. You're welcome. Think 'trap' meets 'R&B' meets 'shoegaze' meets some other genre that is SO COOL there isn't even a name for it yet. Download comes with a not-quite-so-slow version that is not quite so slow.

Slow Jam

Starts small, gets big... then smaller, then REALLY big... then small again. Kind of like a turtle. Actually, it is entirely possible that I just kept seeing different turtles. I mean, they all sort of look like turtles; I wasn't tagging them or marking them with chalk or anything. Chalk will probably just wash off in the pond anyway. Oh! Kind of like a puffer fish! Like a musical puffer fish! Perfect.

Ryno's Theme

Wikipedia describes the Thunderbird as "a supernatural bird of power and strength". It will also ask you to disambiguate it from the automobile made by Ford from 1955 to 2005. I'm sure it was a nice car. I've never owned one. But there were a lot of them! The late 70's Thunderbirds are particularly horrifying... They had those headlight covers that flipped up... because that was a good idea at some point. But this piece! Oh! This piece! Atmosphere like you wouldn't believe! The flute is just so earthy! The organic drones are also beautiful. The whole thing is beautiful. Kind of like you went to an alien day spa in another dimension where days last for years, but you still never get all wrinkly when you're in the bubbly warm waters. mmmm... bubbly warm waters... with the slight possibility of a serial killer.

Kevin Maclead

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