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Light poppy electronic piece. Some drums and blings and beeps, with delay effect. And a soft pad melody.

Electronic atmosphere piece. Improvised and if I can remember correctly, played on the computer keyboard. Did I mention I like large pad sounds? And filtered drums?

Inspired by painting the windows of my house during the recent holidays, I wrote a new song. It is mostly in 7/4, but there is a middle section in 4/4. I use Ableton 6, which does not support changing time signatures, so I had to make sure that the third sections started correctly. I think it worked out fine.I'm currently inventing all kinds of songs in my head, using non-standard time signatures. I have to practice, though, to ensure I play them correct.

Yet another instrumental guitar piece with some synthesizer thrown in for texture and background.

I still love this song, but I lost its original Cubase file. The lead voice is actually a bass sound, but pitched two or three octaves higher. I was lucky to have it recorded and burned to CD, as that is the only thing that is left. Oh well, plenty of other songs to go. The Cubase problem was the fact that I created songs which held different arrangements and in some cleanup session I forgot to save the arrangement for Spacy into a new song. To me, it actually improves the song. Oh and the wide pads too. I love synthetic strings and pad sounds. They can add a layer of richness to many songs.

First draft of a re-recording of "Weg" (Away), which was originally recorded in 2000. With better microphone and guitar, now using Ableton Live. But I'm not fully pleased with the drums and the guitar solo right now. A friend once told me that it had something of a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

Jazzy popsong, about, well, Religion. It was musically originally inspired by "Here In My Head" by Tori Amos, but the arrangement is totally unrelated to Tori Amos music. The lyrics are thematic but also somehow vague, to indicate general directions but with some freedom to give your own meaning to the song. It combines two themes. One about religion and one about loss and death. The two paths are combined and related. This is the first listenable demo from 2000.

No Name was an attempt to create a song that combined different time types. It has three parts, one in 7/8, one in regular 4/4 and the end in 5/8. It is stylistically like the old Marillion songs, but without the Rothery solo and the Fish poetry. It might work out fine with guitars and real drums as a progrock tune, I believe. But for now (and for the time being), this is keyboard only.

Just some fancy base line and some drums and synth sounds. It's instrumental. The overblown flute in the end is a little too harsh, but the JV80 it was created on is at my parents place at the moment...I actually created many of this kind of tracks, using just the MIDI from an old Cubase and then a MIDI cable to the JV80. This ran fine on an old Pentium PC, without any noticeable latency. Long before audio and virtual effects or instruments came widely available. 

My Escape is a song about dreaming, reality, virtuality and escapism. Or about liking what you can not have. Or about leaving from where you are and trying to grasp something that isn't there.