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Somewhere between rock and pop. It starts quite (= "stil") and grows during the song. It becomes rougher when the drums kick in. The lyrics suggest but don't explain what really happens/happened.

Playing with the Operator synth in Live. Very simple song, with a voice-like melody and a drumloop. Pils = beer.

Filtered drums and wide soft pads. It also includes some noisy creepy pads. This could be used in a soundtrack or so.

Second hospital beats. Now with a filtered simple drum pattern and a "oh" melody, straight from the eighties and the Art of Noise hits. This one is also quite poppy and has a happy sound.

First Hospital Beats. If I remember correctly, it was created while I was accompagnying my son when he was in hospital for a week. I brought my laptop and a headphone. There is a sweet flute-like melody and syncopated rhythmic patterns. It is quite poppy, but not fully elaborated into a song.

I often improvise on metal riffs, but seldomly record them. When I borrowed a Korg AX3000G from my brother Peter, I noticed it had some emulations of Mesa Boogie amplifiers, which are often used in current metal recordings. This is an improvised example. Rather slow and with little variation. It uses drum loops.

Riff based rock instrumental. Only guitars and a drum loop. It is a good start of a song, without any words.

Old cassette recording of an instrumental, recording a long time ago, using a Roland JV80 and an old MIDI file. Quite long, but I'm still thinking about modernising the arrangment. The initial layering of melodies is still good, IMHO.Had an improvised 5/4 second part, with some over-the-top sax.

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.