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post #1 of 32
11/19/10 at 2:50am
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I have collaborated with many different musicians. Sometimes working with other people is a lot of fun. Playing with yourself is good too especially if it helps make you better at what you do.

I have some tracks to post. Right now I'm hosting songs on Soundcloud.

Here's the link: MUSIC

Give us some feedback if you like, yeah.
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post #2 of 32
11/19/10 at 1:00pm
dope stuff. reeally liked the experimental tunes, espcially the church one. the drum sounds on it are really wicked

big ups
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post #3 of 32
11/19/10 at 3:42pm
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That's what's up! Thank you much sir.
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post #4 of 32
11/19/10 at 9:31pm
I want to destroy 16 bit 2-D robot foes while "Rolling Spades" and "Runner's Song" play.
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post #5 of 32
11/22/10 at 1:32pm
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I want to destroy 16 bit 2-D robot foes while "Rolling Spades" and "Runner's Song" play.
Siiiiiiiiiick. I'm happy to hear that my video game music can help out in real life applications. Go get 'em.

New track up today:

PSALM 69 [DEFLYNNED]

It's MINISTRY meets TRON Legacy with some very unkind noise thrown in for emphasis.
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post #6 of 32
11/27/10 at 8:57pm
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[edit]

I have made 3 new remixes of PSALM 69 by MINISTRY. They contain samples of music from the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and The Social Network soundtracks. There are also some soundbytes thrown in there from the FLYNNLIVES TRON Legacy viral campaign.

PSALM 69 [SP VS. EX #И] (V.1)

PSALM 69 [SP VS. EX #И] (V.2)

PSALM 69 [SP VS. EX #И] (V.3)
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post #7 of 32
12/12/10 at 6:11pm
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I've uploaded 3 older tracks for public streaming and free download:

Brade Snake Code
B. Gone
Underdwellers

The main track I'm working on now is still in production and you can hear the newest demo HERE
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post #8 of 32
1/2/11 at 2:39am
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Now I have completed and submitted my end of 2010 project.

To recap: FIX is a documentary. FIX needed music. I made music for FIX and now my job is done.

Hear my contribution to crap on iTunes HERE.

Now on to my next job; remixing Moon River and splicing it with Wendy Carlos samples.
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post #9 of 32
2/14/11 at 5:01pm
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So I composed and arranged a song while delirious due to illness. Hooray!

 

Here is the brand new, fresh from the fourth and final revision / draft:

 

STRICKEN WITH FEVER

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post #10 of 32
2/16/11 at 4:17pm

This is some serious "walking out to throw down against the Final Boss" music if ever there was any. The awesome klaxon-style riff only amps up the B-Movie quality. It conjures images of dimly lit corridors and otherworldly terrors. Love the plonky bass.

 

Might I suggest linking to all future songs with the above font size? It's a perfect mood-setter.

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post #11 of 32
3/10/11 at 11:50am

Agreed. Stricken with Fever is totally cutting dicks. That is a good thing, by the way.

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post #12 of 32
3/13/11 at 10:29am
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Fuck yeah fellas. Got a new one here inspired by the fine sounds of Full Moon Features and such.

 

I'm thinkin' Cutting Dicks And Otherworldly Terrors needs to be an album title. Here's the news:

 

SILVER CROSSES IN THE KEEP

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post #13 of 32
3/13/11 at 11:05am
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The following is an experiment that may turn out very badly:

 

I will work my ass off to compose a song while I watch Un Chien Andalou on mute. When the film ends, so will I.

 

[edit]

 

Well that sucked. With 15 minutes of scrambling and some cheat time to polish off, I managed to create an unlistenable mess.

 

Hear my abomination here:

 

UN CHIEN AND-A-LOSER


Edited by andrewhawkins - 3/13/11 at 12:06pm
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post #14 of 32
3/13/11 at 11:28am

Reads like a really unsatisfying art student suicide note.

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post #15 of 32
3/13/11 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post

Reads like a really unsatisfying art student suicide note.



I'll have to talk to some people with experience on how to spice it up next time.  Time to go watch The Rules of Attraction again!

 

Better sentence structure could definitely help avoid suicidal impressions. The last thing I wanna do is talk about the stopping point of my life.

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post #16 of 32
3/26/11 at 10:53pm
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NEW MUSIC:

 

GLYPH MORGANA

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post #17 of 32
4/10/11 at 4:53pm
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So I edited some vintage footage to make a music video for GLYPH MORGANA

 

Here it is:

 

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post #18 of 32
6/19/11 at 10:06am
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I've been listening to a lot of instrumentals lately while reading. Also I've had the pleasure of hearing Alejandro Jodorowsky's scores for El Topo and The Holy Mountain. Other notables that've hit me lately are Chu Ishikawa, Drew Neumann, Fabio Frizzi, Coil, Herb Alpert, Lars Von Trier, John Carpenter, Nigel Godrich, Trent Reznor, Aphex Twin, Lalo Schifrin and Krzysztof Penderecki. Fun!

 

All that said, here's my new work:

 

TURD CURRY

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post #19 of 32
7/17/11 at 3:54am
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I'm happy enough with this goofy little Sunday afternoon experiment that I'm willing to share it:

 

EPIC WHAT

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post #20 of 32
8/25/11 at 4:34pm
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VIDEO GAME MUSIC HERE:

 

THEME FÜR VIKTOR

 

 

The above title should now be the one that sticks. So far listeners have said, "That's legit!", "It sounds like old SEGA Boss Battle music!" and "Sick dude!!!"

 

So there you go. Easy money.


Edited by andrewhawkins - 8/28/11 at 3:54am
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post #21 of 32
8/28/11 at 2:08pm

"Theme" is awesome, mate! Really love it. Especially the sort of chilled "break" section. Has a very nice military marching band kind of quality; a skeleton / alien soldier army, of course.

 

While I can see where you're coming from about the Social Network / SEGA comments, this still felt like its own beast. Its own beautiful, dark, groovy beast.

 

I can totally hear "Epic What" playing over the menu screen of some fantastic SNES era side-scroller as well. I'm picturing me customizing my weapons and frantically flipping through the instruction manual to make sure I know any "special moves" before the level starts or the next wave of baddies comes rushing onscreen. This would actually be a great track to listen to while playing the version of the Colonial Marines game in my mind. In the dark. At about half 2 in the morning.

 

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post #22 of 32
8/29/11 at 8:16am
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Has a very nice military marching band kind of quality; a skeleton / alien soldier army, of course.

 

...this still felt like its own beast. Its own beautiful, dark, groovy beast.

 

Kick-ass feedback! Glad to hear it.

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post #23 of 32
8/29/11 at 11:20am

Thanks, buddy! Twas my pleasure.

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post #24 of 32
9/4/11 at 3:53am
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The newest is an experiment in dark ambient sounds w/ garbled vox:

 

psiKOtherapy

 


It's been called "Darkly Intriguing" by a London artist called The Clocktoys.

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post #25 of 32
9/15/11 at 12:52pm

Every bit as haunting and atmospheric as I'd expect from you, man!

 

If you don't score a bleak sci-fi movie (preferably one set against a Dystopian backdrop), it will be a crying shame.

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post #26 of 32
9/21/11 at 7:20am

Andrew, I am so sorry it has taken this long for me to start listening to your stuff. Working backwards from PsiKOtherapy - which is a wonderful mood piece. It's pure dread and paranoia.

 

I'll be commenting on the rest soon.

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post #27 of 32
9/22/11 at 1:00pm
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Every bit as haunting and atmospheric as I'd expect from you, man!

 

If you don't score a bleak sci-fi movie (preferably one set against a Dystopian backdrop), it will be a crying shame.


If there's ever a need for me to make movie sounds, I'm all about it.

 

 

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Originally Posted by Micah Robinson View Post

Andrew, I am so sorry it has taken this long for me to start listening to your stuff. Working backwards from PsiKOtherapy - which is a wonderful mood piece. It's pure dread and paranoia.

 

I'll be commenting on the rest soon.


Thank you Micah for being interested in hearing this stuff. I always enjoy hearing feedback from musicians I like listening too.

 

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post #28 of 32
10/2/11 at 9:02am
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A Bass, a Korg and a Drummer walk into a bar. This comes out:

 

B.O.T.S. [Blood of the Sun]

 

 

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post #29 of 32
10/5/11 at 7:52am
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A Bass, a Korg and a Drummer walk into a bar. This comes out:

 

B.O.T.S. [Blood of the Sun]

 

 


Really enjoyed this one! It has a very Killing Joke-ish vibe with the quasi-primal drumming and chorused, distorted bass. Almost screams for some Jaz Coleman, end-of-the-world vocal ranting over the track or something similar to take it up to that ultimate level. 

 

But definitely worth lots of replays. Well done!

 

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post #30 of 32
10/9/11 at 4:35am
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Originally Posted by Micah Robinson View Post

Really enjoyed this one! It has a very Killing Joke-ish vibe with the quasi-primal drumming and chorused, distorted bass. Almost screams for some Jaz Coleman, end-of-the-world vocal ranting over the track or something similar to take it up to that ultimate level. 

 

But definitely worth lots of replays. Well done!

 


Thank you Micah. I actually recorded vocals for this track that got deleted by my recording engineer. I didn't know about it until after the fact. Once I saw the track was missing while I was mixing, I just said, "Fuck it." and produced an instrumental. Your feedback helps me accept that it worked out regardless. Fuck yeah!

 

So, I never listened to Killing Joke before reading your feedback. I listened to a mix of their work from the albums: Killing Joke (1980), Revelations, Fire Dances and Pandemonium, and liked what I heard. Do you have any recommendations or suggestions?

 

Also, here's that engineer from the recording session:

 

engineer.jpg

 

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post #31 of 32
10/11/11 at 11:53am

Hah....suggestions for Killing Joke? Man...that's hard. They just have a real expansive and diverse discography. The self-titled 2003 album with Dave Grohl on drums is just wonderful. Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions is also pretty essential. Aside from those....I kinda like the mega 80s-sounding prog-pop of Outside the Gate. Lots of Killing Joke fans hate it or regard it as a Jaz Coleman solo record, but it's an odd, beautiful bird to me.

 

Between those and what you currently listened to....you'd be up to speed. Spotify is your friend. 

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post #32 of 32
11/28/11 at 9:29pm
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This was my Thanksgiving fun:

 

Varmitosis

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