Anders Enger Jensen
CM-32L Song
updated
Using the Roland SC-55 as a target since this is the de-facto standard all GM and SMF were made to cater for. This is "Level 6 - PI University".
Link to files:
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Using the Roland SC-55 as a target since this is the de-facto standard all GM and SMF were made to cater for. This is "Level 5 - Downtown".
Link to files:
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So I figured I should just throw it out here for fun, since I think we did a pretty good job of making a catchy summer tune. The lyrics is as you can see in Norwegian, so it makes more sense for us Scandinavians, but I think you can get the vibe from it anyway. It's a bit cheesy and it's a corporate song about buying what you need for your summer holiday and save money on a store I would compare to Target/Best Buy in the US and Costco/Lidl in the UK.
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"I'd love to hear a A. E. Jensen version of 'Jump for my love' by the Pointer Sisters!"
After a long time of mulling and thinking about it, I figured.. why not? So here it is.. a beefed up version of The Pointer Sisters' Jump (For My Love). Now you can do like Hugh Grant in Love Actually and look silly down the stairs.
I initially started to make it more or less identical, but felt that it was a bit tame. I added some more bouncy sounds and parts as well as a bit of extra layers here and there. The idea was to only use sounds from reFX' Nexus4, but I found out I needed some more beef from my outboard gear. So there is a huge mix of basically everything in here.
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Original song credits:
June Pointer – lead vocals, backing vocals
Ruth Pointer – backing vocals
Anita Pointer – backing vocals
Producer - Richard Perry
Associate producers - Gary Skardina & Stephen Mitchell
Writers - Stephen Mitchell, Marti Sharron & Gary Skardina
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Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/Fbg4P
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I've had a long drought and little to no time composing due to work and family that needed my attention, but during the Holidays, I did manage to get something down. Had no real goal for what to make, so I just started somewhere and this is where it took me. Happy synth pop with some light house vibes and lots of retro. And synth brass, because who doesn't love synth brass? ;)
Remember to wear a helmet when going down the slope! Safety first!
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Listen on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/sets/winter-in-aspen
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I've been toying about doing a little beefing up, so I took the original and ran it through Vocalremovers.org and started doing my own interpretation. Less 80s gear and more 90s this time. Tried for ages to recreate that PWM-esque signature sound, but have no idea what Wes and the crew used, could be a Waldorf Pulse of some kind or maybe one of the E-mu synths. If you know, let us know in the comments.
Radio edit available here:
Written and composed by: Terje Tylden
Vocals and guitars: Terje Tylden
All keyboards, bass and drums: Anders Enger Jensen
Arranged, mixed and mastered by: Anders Enger Jensen
Video filmed and edited by: Anders Enger Jensen
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Lyrics:
Come closer day is getting dark and I know what to do
tonight it’s me and you
Write the story yourself
Composer make a change we need it more than anyone
it’s major now the headache’s gone
We need a shift nothing else
I will grab you and hold you tight
you feel good and I feel right
Can’t slow down, Can’t slow down oooo/ oh no
Can’t slow down, I can’t slow down
Sun’s rising, shining in my face and on the bedroom wall
Let’s do nothing at all and get some breakfast in bed
Life is strange but beautiful
loving you is so natural
I just can’t slow down
Can’t slow down, Can’t slow down oooo/ oh no
Can’t slow down, I can’t slow down
(We lose control, we lose ourselves
I’m here with you, I’m with no-one else)
Life is strange but beautiful
loving you is so natural
Can’t slow down
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EP is available here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tylden/cant-slow-down-2
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/cant-slow-down-ep
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/sets/cant-slow-down-ep
Check out his other songs here: https://linktr.ee/tylden
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Kim (and her team) already did a bang up job with the original, so it was daunting to even start doing something with this song, but I hopefully added some extra flair and oompf while paying respect to the original craftmanship.
It's actually a significant use of reFX Nexus4 and their FM, 80s and 90s expansion packs, but also a lot of Yamaha TX816 (Full DX Glory!), Ensoniq, Roland, Korg and Alesis synths all the way. I used the original album version (or maybe the Shep Pettibone US Radio Edit, hard to tell after all this time as the original files I downloaded were changed) as stems for the vocals, using Vocalremovers.org to separate the files. A little touch up and polishing to remove as much as the artefacts from this process and fattening up the choruses were done, but obviously having the original master recordings would have been best.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/kim-wilde-you-came-80s-power-pop-mix
Listen on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/kim-wilde-you-came-80s-power (Instrumental only due to copyright issues)
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I asked my friends Håvard and Terje if they wanted to add some proper guitars instead of the MIDI guitars I laid down initially, and this is the result. Pull down the roof on your convertible and start cruisin'! ;)
Composed, arranged, mixed and mastered by: Anders Enger Jensen
Rhythm guitars: Håvard Caspersen
Guitar solo: Terje Tylden.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
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Listen on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/sets/open-roads-ep
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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Using those snippets he provided as well as what I believe is a recording from one of the singles back in the 80s with the a cappella vocals from the original, I set out to reconstruct my own take on this song, with some beefy synth bass, drums and keys to boot. The hardest task was to time-align the original song with the isolated vocals which also drifted from each other (I'm assuming tape/turntable drift somewhere in the loop back then) and then trying to mesh that with my more four on the floor grid approach (Sorry, Rick! ;)). I did end up doing a slight tempo variation throughout the song though to match the feel of the original session we all know and love.
I used a lot of layers to fatten things up, so there's a lot of Yamaha electric bass from Motif-Rack, Parker from reFX Nexus4, four layers of synth brass from Oberheim Matrix1000 (I don't own an OB-Xa/OB-8), Yamaha XS7, Ensoniq SD-1 and Roland JD-800. I've used some synth guitars and other sounds for the background guitar parts, but ended up using the original guitar solo from Eddie - it was impossible for me to translate it into something useable on my synths.
Hopefully I've managed to show this song some honor.
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This is for those who wonder, taken from Alex' video on the Yamaha TX81Z sound module and how he made a "90s Banger" on it. I've also used some TX sounds and enhanced the palette with all sorts of 80s and 90s relevant gear. Hope you like it! ;)
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LYRICS
Verse 1:
Now this is the verse rap section
Cover your ears for your own protection
‘Cause I’m gonna lay it down
Drop my lyrics all over the town
I got prose up in your face
Teaming up with that Lately Bass
We’ll be here for a little while
With rhyming couplets in a 90s style
Verse 2:
‘Cause this is the way it should be
Got funky sounds from the 81Z
I got class, I’m a rapping hero
My FM sounds are truly through-zero
I got MIDI to play the notes
Sing back the melodies that I wrote
My tunes play across the nations
Slicker than CC information
Chorus 1:
Now I’m saying I got nothing left that I can lose!
And I’m showing that there’s nothing I should prove to you! Oh-oh! (2x)
Verse 3:
I’m back with more rhyming verse
The second time will probably be worse
But I’ll give it my best shot
More crappy lyrics is all I got
But I’ll bring some synth puns with ’em
References to algorithms
‘Cause I’ll be your smooth operator
You’re carrier, I’m modulator
Verse 4:
Feedback, push the envelope
I’ll spit more rhymes as you losers choke
I got skills like learning the theory
Which is why my sounds ain’t dreary
I’ve got groove, it’s so surprising
With Stereoping, avoid menu diving
So I’m gonna smell you later
And leave you with the sounds of the tone generator!
Chorus 2:
Now I’m saying I got nothing left that I can lose!
And I’m showing that there’s nothing I should prove to you! Oh-oh! (2x)
Bridge:
(Vocal adlibs)
Chorus 3:
Now I’m saying I got nothing left that I can lose!
And I’m showing that there’s nothing I should prove to you! Oh-oh! (3x)
[NB! This video is not endorsed or sponsored by Luxmuzik, I'm just simply showing how it's done. All display upgrades in my studio are bought by myself.]
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Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Agnus Dei with blessed rains above.
Open waves, the children saved white doves.
Chorus:
And if I can’t reach, you’ll lift me, my love.
And if I can’t breathe, you will be my lungs.
Verse 2:
Domine, thine image made echo.
Empty space, ideas create that we know.
Chorus:
And if I can’t reach, you’ll lift me, my love.
And if I can’t breathe, you will be my lungs.
And if I can’t breathe, you will be my lungs.
Alex' original video: youtu.be/Xb9TngsSTG8
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/agnus-dei-feat-alex-ball-remake
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/track/agnus-dei-feat-alex-ball-remake
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It's also a spoof of the meme with the picture of a Head Cleaner cassette and the text saying this was the worst band ever... clearly the demagnitizer cassettes with electronics were worse as they would pop your speakers if you had the sound on when playing them, but I couldn't make a 3:20 song with that noise so, pink it is.
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Watch his great documentary here: youtu.be/v7hqDRmx3yI
This was the one I dreaded the most, as Alex asked if I could do something "modern"... alas, when have I ever done "modern" stuff? LOL! It's also one of the less inspiring synths from KORG, at least from a preset point of view, so I had a hard time figuring what to do. Because of the "style" knob, I realised the best way was to try and do a little from most of the categories it has, as a sort of old time demo you'd find on old arranger keyboards and synths. Trying to keep to the one minute rule, I went a little over and could only fit "Trance, Electronica, Drum & Bass/Breaks and Retro" with a little vocoder thrown in for good measure. Obviously I could have looked for other custom sound banks that may be better at showing the true nature of the engines underneath – however, being a little lazy, short on time and also being adamant that the best way to show a synth is to see what can be done with factory sounds. And hopefully this shows a little of what this tiny monster can do with a little extra tweaking. ;)
#KORG #AlexBall #Documentary #Retro #microKORG #Synthesizer #2000s
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Watch his great documentary here: youtu.be/v7hqDRmx3yI
Espen Kraft has of course done a number on this already, but I wanted to do something more appropriate of the time it was released so, hopefully it has a little more of that 90s vibe going on. For us Norwegians, the "Pharoah's Jig" wave loop is fairly recognisable , because it was used on Ole Edvard Antonsen's Tour de Force album from the same period and his version of Honky Tonk Women (go check it out and you'l see what I mean).
This module has so many vast possibilities so covering all of it in about a minute's time, is impossible, yet I hope it shows a little of what it can do. If you can't get the real deal, KORG does have the Legacy Collection at a fair price which will give you what you need to get started.
#KORG #Wavestation #WavestationAD #Retro #Sampler #Synthesizer #AlexBall #80s #documentary
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Check out his great documentary here: youtu.be/v7hqDRmx3yI
Since it doesn't have any other sounds, I spruced it up with some MS-10 (bass), Volca Beats and TR-Rack (drums and MIDI grand piano). Everything processed using, guess what - the Behringer X32R for some lush reverb! Hah! I betcha didn't think that could sound so sweet. ;)
#KORG #AlexBall #Documentary #Retro #80s #Vocoder #DVP-1
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Watch Alex’ great documentary here: youtu.be/v7hqDRmx3yI
#KORG #Retro #AlexBall #documentary
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This was originally intended as song dedicated to my late mom, but we never got around to make lyrics and it just fizzled out. It became an instrumental track after all, still dedicated to the loss of those dear to me.
Used a lot of Roland MKS as usual and some Yamaha. Even a good deal of Ensoniq gear too as well as Nexus4 for the intro arpeggios in the background.
Bandcamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/track/echoes-of-you
(No leads version: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/track/echoes-of-you-no-leads)
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/echoes-of-you
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Had a crazy idea of showing the project playing in realtime from Digital Performer on this one, but alas.. my 2013 mac doesn't really like capturing smooth video no matter what I adjust, enable/disable or reduce payload when playing so the video turned out jerky as hell and unusable. But I just don't have the energy nor the time to shoot multiple camera angles of playing parts so it's just a bunch of stock content footage.
Started using Nexus3 pads and bass, but then the rest of my MKS, TX and various KORGs joined in. :)
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/without-you
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/track/without-you
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Took me a few weeks to figure out how to best approach it. First I thought I should keep it at one minute in length, but it grew to at least two. So it's a thing between a #Shorts and a full 3 + min song.
Just the basic Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Ensoniq and Alesis gear. Drums from R-8M, HR-16, Quadrasynth and Sequential Tom. Various melodic synths, mainly Yamaha TX816, Motif series and a few Roland MKS, JD and others. Enjoy! :)
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00:06 Introduction
00:49 Background
01:42 Demo song version A
03:45 Demo song version B
05:48 Answer
06:07 Sound comparison demo start
13:20 Reflections on the differences
14:37 Pros and cons
16:11 Thank you and outro
I've made a demo song using sounds from both synths so you can listen and compare, as well as playing a few sounds side by side. I have also compared with some of the sounds from the #JD990 just for good measure.
Here is a link to the full wave files so you can listen to the demo song from both synths and compare how they sound. I've also included my Excel sheet with notes and my opinions on each sound as well as the pros and cons score. Hopefully you'll find this helpful if you wonder if this is one you should buy or not:
dropbox.com/sh/t6x3l7stfqnogi2/AABxpxOAzI1K2C3bh6m5bO3ja?dl=0
This video is NOT sponsored by Roland - I bought this for my own money. I'm just doing this for fun and maybe a little bit of edutainment.
Thank you to all my patreons for supporting as well as all you dedicated fans!
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Songs available here: dropbox.com/sh/nnlelviz8th9wap/AAAvDr4FLgLf-3DV6mobWSE0a?dl=0
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I got the idea of making an album with only slow, spaced out songs and put them on vinyl and cassettes. Some four years later, I finally got my crap together and finalised enough songs to actually fill this album, so here you are. 11 songs in more or less the same vibe, however some turned out to be a little more upbeat than the first ones, but hopefully this is a good thing. Vinyl and MC is coming later this year.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
View on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWtrQe3WXMYY7Lk9EguMfkmPlkkQXhuo6
Buy on BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
Listen on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/54DjQ
All other streaming services coming soon.
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Patreon: patreon.com/eoxstudios
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I guess I’ll have to do a comparison video as soon as things settle down. Stay tuned. :)
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Everyone keeps asking me if I can play all my synths at once, and how that sounds. So here I am, doing just that. It's actually "only" the 55 out of 66 hardware synths, modules, samplers and drum machines I have at the moment. Some are out on loan, some are duplicates and already hooked up, and the drum machines doesn't really lend itself to this.. but you should be happy with 55 massive synths at the same time.
Remember to adjust your headset volume - this is LOUD!
Download the sound here: bit.ly/3J30Ndh
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Many of you will remember Tex Murphy and his quest to solve the apparently not so regular death of Carl Linsky. The game from Access Software used RealSound™ which were samples that were played through the PC speaker and was pretty awesome for us back then - albeit being very crappy 8-bit and low resolution. Nonetheless, the music used (which I'm sure one of you will tell us in the comments where it originated from) was captivating and very late 80s. So after many years of wanting to remake it, I got around to do it, 32 years later!
Børge-Are graciously came over and recorded some great sax and let me film him playing too. Hopefully this made the song and video even better.
As always, thanks to all the Patreons and you fans out there. Enjoy the remix and check out the original game on Steam - it's quite fun. store.steampowered.com/app/302330/Tex_Murphy_Mean_Streets
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/mean-streets-remix
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/track/mean-streets-remix
Stock content: www.videoblocks.com
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Since there are no multitracks available with the original vocal recordings, I just used www.vocalremovers.org since it's free, and it did a decent job of separating the voices from the backing track. Some phasing and flanging occurs, but I hope the delay and reverb plus the blending in the mix covers most of that anyway.
The song is in 163 BPM, so there's little time to relax, but it also gives a good drive. Using a lot of everything here, #Roland MKS modules, #Yamaha TX and Motifs, #Kurzweil 1000PX and HX, #Alesis QSR, #Ensoniq SD-1, TS-10, #Sequential TOM and various other hardware synths. Some ReFX Nexus2 with various expansion packs here and there, and some SID/Chiptunes thrown in for good measure. It's after all... about the Commodore, right?
I tried to find the original composers and songwriters, but couldn't find any. If you happen to know who made this song, please let me know in the comments.
Bandcamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/keeping-up-with-commodore
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/keeping-up-with-commodore
Thanks to The Obsolete Geek for using his parody. Check out his video on the SX-64 here: youtu.be/zmMasWCbefA
Other videos used:
Are you keeping up with the Commodore (youtu.be/95cGh9EeMIY)
100 Commodore 64 games in 10 minutes (youtu.be/eY2gK1MPgh8)
Commodore 64 Commercials (youtu.be/nd_yiMhu1DM)
William Shatner for Commodore VIC-20 (youtu.be/-V-bPLmtAFg)
Stock Content: www.videoblocks.com
Also thanks to Kristian Tjessem for letting me use the picture of his C64 and monitor.
And last, but not least, thanks to my patreons and you fans out there! Are you keeping up with your Commodores?
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The basic structure and recording took us about half a day to finish, and a few days' work of fine tuning the recorded vocals, adjusting the backing, adding some nice guitars from Håvard Caspersen. And the results hopefully speaks for itself. Enjoy! :)
Link to version without text: youtu.be/Dr-X11W8UOo
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/masquerade
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/masquerade
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Lyrics: Gina Evjen, Kristine Frøberg
Vocals: Kristine Frøberg
Music: Anders Enger Jensen, Kristine Frøberg
Guitars: Håvard Caspersen
Arrangement, recording, mixing, mastering: Anders Enger Jensen
Verse 1:
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.
Verse 2:
Hold your breath, it’s still too early.
Don’t disclose yourself.
Mystic stranger sweet seduce my open ears.
Bridge:
Let go off your mask.
Let them see your face.
Silver silent lovers’ language reveals itself.
Verse 3:
Use reflections of your feelings.
Build the letters’ sense.
See how easy verbal pictures coming through to you.
Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
Verse 4:
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.
Counter Point:
Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disquise.
Collect my purple poems too,
and drape them all around you!
Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disguise.
Collect my purple poems too,
bedazzle all of you!
Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
(Guitar solo)
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
Thanks to all the great Patreons and all you fans out there! :)
Original version: youtu.be/qA6M9yEB8yU
Kristine and I sat down in the studio a while back, and was waiting for Gina to send us some new lyrics. While we waited, I played a little snipped I had made last year and with some very old lyrics we made back in 2006, this song came to life.
The basic structure and recording took us about half a day to finish, and a few days' work of fine tuning the recorded vocals, adjusting the backing, adding some nice guitars from Håvard Caspersen. And the results hopefully speaks for itself. Enjoy! :)
BandCamp: eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/masquerade
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/masquerade
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Lyrics: Gina Evjen, Kristine Frøberg
Vocals: Kristine Frøberg
Music: Anders Enger Jensen, Kristine Frøberg
Guitars: Håvard Caspersen
Arrangement, recording, mixing, mastering: Anders Enger Jensen
Verse 1:
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.
Verse 2:
Hold your breath, it’s still too early.
Don’t disclose yourself.
Mystic stranger sweet seduce my open ears.
Bridge:
Let go off your mask.
Let them see your face.
Silver silent lovers’ language reveals itself.
Verse 3:
Use reflections of your feelings.
Build the letters’ sense.
See how easy verbal pictures coming through to you.
Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
Verse 4:
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.
Counter Point:
Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disquise.
Collect my purple poems too,
and drape them all around you!
Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disguise.
Collect my purple poems too,
bedazzle all of you!
Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
(Guitar solo)
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!
Thanks to all the great Patreons and all you fans out there! :)
Link to the display used in this video: tinyurl.com/3xa5d6r7
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Using a lot of Yamaha and Roland outboards as well as Nexus2, Vengeance, Phalanx and some other stuff. I treated the vocals as best I can since he likes to record gritty and stuttery distortion vocals. I also had to fatten them up a little for the chorus using pitch shift, phase alignment and some chorus. Lots of Valhalla reverb as well as my trusty Strymon BigSky.
The song you hear is the result. Now, it's been out on Distrokid and all the usual channels since then, but I never got around to make a proper video about it. Ideally I envisioned a big production using actual school kids and people, and more fancy graphics etc. But then stuff happened, things got delayed and everything else that happened since then.. until now. So here it is, for better or for worse.
And yeah, help us stop bullying! ;)
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Written and composed by Alex Paulee Bow
Vocals, guitars and some synth parts: Alex Paulee Bow
Arranged, mixed and mastered by Anders Enger Jensen
Cover art: Reno
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Lyrics:
It’s 5 past 9 in the holding pen
The local class bully making rounds again
[You’re fat, you’re ugly, spotty, you are such a geek, you’re thin, you’re speccy, coward what’s the matter, freak?]
He patters down the line of the soul defenceless.
Dishing out the shame on a cold life sentence,
Some of them may carry it for years and years,
Some of them may end up in a tarn of tears
And the bully has probably, bullies of his own... his vengeance is keen, as his parents demean him at home...
Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted, till the hatred internalised
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!
People laughed at me for the longest time
I thought it was my fault for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
All the time I’ve lost, it’s such a shame.
Cast off the shackles of shame, baby!
Cast off the shackles of shame.
Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted!
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!
Link to the display used in this video: tinyurl.com/mmd23j94
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Link to the Luxdisplay: ebay.co.uk/usr/luxdisplays?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
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Link to the display in the video: ebay.us/2edn49
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Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However, in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.
Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.
Thanks to Frederic Bezies for letting me use his recorded gameplay.
You can watch The 8-Bit Guy's videos here: youtube.com/user/adric22/videos
And you can find the game here: the8bitguy.com
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158