This is a step up from my earlier mix in terms of clarity, balance, and drive. I added an additional drum kit in the climax to push the beat, and various EQ, pan and mix tweaks. I have created stereo audio tracks for each of the parts and put them in a zip file which I will attach to this record. FYI, I figure I have 16-20 hours into this project. I look forward to hearing what you think.

i was trying to do something a little different. whether it has worked or not haha, is the question. this is my first Remix, so hopefully this doesnt sound REALLY bad. 

Hey guys, Im a producer, songwriter and remixer. I wrote this with total inspiration gathered from this site. You guys rock! If you are  a film maker I want to write music for your stuff. HitRecord is awesome! Thanks guys!

Okay, so I know...It's a dangerous thing to come up with your own Christmas song....but I just wanted to. I love Christmas, and I hope you like it! *Still needs tons of work. And, if you like, you can add whatever you want! (especially harmonies!!) I kinda thought it would be cute if a guy sang the 2nd verse and I would harmonize the chorus with them or vice versa...maybe not, just an idea. I'd be happy with whatever!! Merry Christmas!

For guitar chords: I believe it's standard tuning, no capo (possibly capo 1?) D, D Variation, G Chorus: D, B7 variation, G, D, B7 Variation, D

Lyrics:

Christmas time is here
The smell of snow is near
Celebrate cause it's Christmas
Christmas time is here
Hold your loved ones dear
Hold them close don't let them go

Chorus:
So grab your loved ones and hold them tight
For the wonders of a Christmas night
It's the magic in the air
Through the cold we bare

Christmas time is here
Feel the joy an cheer
Celebrate cause it's Christmas
Christmas time is here
Smell the snow it's near
Hold it close don't let it go
Chorus

Love, Katie

When I’m caught out in the rainstorm
When I’m weary and alone
Wrap me tightly, keep my bones warm
Give me shelter, take me home

When I’m drowning in the dark days
When I’m flooded with regret
And the sorrow sends me sideways
Give me shelter from the wet

When I’m sinking into puddles
Soaking nearly to the skin
Wallowing in all my muddles
Whisper to me, take me in

Neath the trees and under awnings
In the archways and the caves
Clouds reveal a new sun dawning
And a light that softly saves

Every puddle is a mirror
Every raindrop is a test
Each downpour can draw you nearer
Or still further from your best

When I’m caught out in a rainstorm
When I’m weary and alone
Wrap me tightly, keep my bones warm
Give me shelter, take me home

This is a strings take on Metaphorest's "Hibernate, Hermit" song with the music being mainly influenced by the song but not exactly a "strings version" of the same song. Metaphorest was very nice to re-sing it for the music. Many thanks to her. She did a great job and the original version is awesome. Do check it out first if you haven't yet.

thanks for listening!

Jazz trio sings Metaphorest's Wanderer. Excavated from 1946.

...just kidding about 1946, though.

I'm working on a video for Tom's poem...this may or may not be the VO used. It's a bit stereotypically Spanish. The flamenco...the guitar...the fact that it's in Spanish.

Anyways, thought it might end up being useful for someone else!

PD music from musopen.org

<3

skin me up with the words you spoke

like virgin steel to a veteran oak

like a goodnight kiss when you know it's broke

but you'd rather fall asleep

deception pass on a summer morn

with billows of fog like the dress you wore

when you and i and the good lord swore

and i kissed you on the teeth

oh, that's a long way to go without something to long for

and my, that's a long way to fly without someone to call for

puget sound, plenty late at night

when the moon is out and the water shines

it reminded me of your younger eyes

and your younger disposition

i know i'm nothing new to you

but i'll have you know a thing or two

i've got a tune that i've been humming through

and you've always like musicians

your lyrics found me in a very low-fidelity mood :) i imagine this song being played by a very sweaty band in some hole-in-the-wall bar packed wall to wall with happy drunks.

(which, i'm guessing, wasn't your original vision when you wrote those words down. whoops!)

lyrics (copied from http://www.hitrecord.org/records/363976 )

you just close your eyes and sleep

like the avereage human being

you used to be a dreamer

a cloudwalker

you used to be a prayer

a late night microwaver

funny dreams

from mix of Melatonin and caffeine

coffee with old marshmellows and

pecan praline icecream

you used to be okay

with recycled wind

and my mental decay

talking inbetween the lines

reading all your old newspapers from 1999

but you're no dreamer to me

and i'm no dreamer to you

just dreaming about driving and crashing cars

when you used to dream about me, too

you're not the dreamer i thought i knew..

Ah, so basically the same thing... except more consistent with timing because I noticed that I would speed up, then slow down, then speed up again throughout most of my first one. Hope you find this one better. Even at the slightest?

And thank you for all the recommends on my first one... my face is red as a tomato as we speak. I blush easily. Hm, I think I'll start telling people I'm a chameleon. 

Anyways thanks thanks THANKS again! :)

I found Jooshua's guitar track and it sounded like a simple/sweet love song. So, that is just what I made it out to be. I wanted to try something different, and I played some real drums and piano for once, hopefully that trend will continue. The lyrics are overly simple, perhaps somebody else may want to write up something better, but they work for what the song is.

And finally, and most importantly, the awesome Robo J was kind enough to add some kicking bass to the tune. Well, there you have it. Hope the mix sounds ok. I tried some new things.

So Cchellez challenged me to write a cheery song about a dreary subject - and, well, I cheated a bit and recorded a song that I've had floating about for a long while. Hope this still qualifies as a challenge met! :)

I'd love to hear this remixed so if anybody wants separate tracks lemme know!

Ps. The guitar is tuned to drop d and the chords are umm..D and A and some ones I made up that are like the top three strings on the 5th, 7th and 2nd fret :P

Exhumed a body from my bedroom yesterday
He shook the dust off then here’s what he had to say
Don’t waste a second - live loud everyday

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He's my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

He writes me haikus, telling me to go outside
Let go the recluse, even though I’d rather hide
Step out the front door, life’s on your side

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

My friendly skeleton
He shows me how it’s done
I know one day I’ll be one
Til then I’m gonna have some fun

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

I pack his bones up neatly in the old suitcase
I’ve gotten sick of his hollow judgmental face
I’m happy fleeting floating in space

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

My friendly skeleton
He shows me how it’s done
I know one day I’ll be one
Til then I’m gonna have some fun

So I fiiiiinally got a chance to add some harmonies to Lizzie's awesome song - my recording set up isnt ideal and I didnt have much time and excuses excuses :) Hope you don't hate it Lizzie :)

My first official Accordion Record! Written 1/11/11

If you like this, please check out version 2 that I recently recorded. http://hitrecord.org/records/629281

A very, very different, girly take on noiseball's awesome song Teardown. Would love to incorporate more of the soundscape somehow but my skillz are limited. Hint hint :)

Something dark, atmospheric and synth-y for a film or something :)

I took this beautiful song, mixed it, and added strings and piano. I'm really happy with it :)

mixed via Ableton Live Lite 8.

This is the sound I hear in my brain whenever I see these wonderful shadow people collecting on the front pages of the hitRECord site. I hope I can score the music to their lives one day. 

tempo - 111bpm

features kara adams on additional vocals. song written by myself and kara as part of the 2009 rpm challenge [to record a whole album in 28 days - resulting album here: http://www.davidding.com/music/album/iamdoingthistohurtyou/] three friends of mine already did some remixes of it: http://www.davidding.com/music/epsingle/tearingdown/

REmix of Joe's original RECord, featuring myself with Dusty, Amy, Unusual Suspect, KittyPimms and Ginella.

this is the FIRST version for the collab. this isn't the "final" (technically, there is no final version, haha). But I will add more contributions as I get to them. I just downloaded Joe's original stems, so I will get to work mixing those along with new added vocals.

Many wonderful thanks to those to added their voices to the song. Did my best to mix everybody in there. Hope you enjoy

experimenting with cutting up bits of sound again

A song that I hate

Water floats around my head

Water floats around my head

Clouds move in and hide the sun

I close my eyes and take a breath

A lark is singing overhead

You say "Yes, we're sinking now,

But can you hear that wondrous sound?"

Ooh

We're sinking now

We're sinking down

We're sinking now

We're sinking down

I close my eyes for one last breath

A lark is singing overhead

You say "Yes, we're sinking now,

But can you hear that wondrous sound?"

everything flows sweetly when you slow down

unwind all your tapes and dance to ghost sounds

i'm in another world, and you're breaking up

but i'll call you soon.. if i make it back

Played on a LIGHT blue ACOUSTIC ukulele. Sorry I changed it up a bit, Dusty. I like the song, though. Someone drum to this, or something. Also I am back from the deadddd! My absence mainly had to do with my having 3 things: 1) a big part in a big play, 2) a job, and 3) an iphone ... yeah.

Guitar/Bass/Vocal: Wirrow
Drums/Synths/Programming/Mixing: Robo_J

everything is on fire all the time.

~Beardo

I first joined hitRECord about, say, 7 hours ago and pretty much the first thing I heard was this drums and bells loop by gweninterrupted. I just had to do something with it!

So, 7 hours later, here's my first proper RECord (is that right?), a summery love song I suppose. Hope you'll enjoy it and I just want to say I already love it here, so see you around! 

i took my man out swimming
i took him for a ride
i took him for a dive and
i took his hand in mine

this valley full of wishes
i hollowed out for love
this time i might forget him -
he doesn't look like you.

This is a song I wrote as an intro for a short film a friend of mine is doing.  I hope you all like it, it was a lot of fun to make

simple song i did. you can add to it if you'd like.

thanks to Lizzie for starting this, Todd for editing all these voices together, and to everybody who sang.  <3

So I'd been trying for ages to come up with some lyrics to go with amferraro's Careless Young...and couldn't manage it, til he posted a poem 'To a Singer' which set me off! This is a very simple addition - the music is so beautiful on its own I didn't want to overdo it.  I much prefer Anthony's own song for this poem but thought I'd post this anyway in case it could be of use/interest! :)

..... or is it?  Huge thanks to everyone that contributed!

and she said slow down racecar driver are you trying to kill us both

bluegrass hangin in my mirror and we're heading for the coast

cool breeze from a summer night ocean waves gonna slow down time i betcha

worries will float away for a while

sunrise on a salty plane of blue as we make a toast

here's to you and i and may we never ever boast

seagulls fly away in pairs, gold rays gonna bleach my hair

and let your memories savor this for a while

red skin on the sunset blvd. makes it our last night

who knows what the future holds but who cares tonight

lets go back for another dip, spice it up like a slasa chip

and let our worries float away for a while

and she said slow down racecar driver are you trying to kill us both

bluegrass hangin in my mirror and we're heading for the coast

This is me singing along with Megan's beautiful piano cover of wirrow's 'the atom song'

kind of a war song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

So this is my first Uke song I've ever written. Hopefully you like it.

Update: I'm rreallly not sure if this is a Public Domain melody...can anyone help me out!?

A Maori lullaby written in 1907 by Princess Te Rangi Pai. I have long been fascinated by the Maori culture and language, and this is one of my favourite songs...so beautiful.

It was published in 1907, which, from my understanding means it is in the Public Domain...if it's not, humblest apologies and I will take this to the Deletion Collab without further ado.

Anyway, this is Monday Night Lullaby...goodnight! <3

Ps I really hope I haven't massacred the pronounciation!

E tangi ana koe 

[You are weeping]

Hine e hine 

[Little girl, darling girl]

E ngenge ana koe 

[You are weary]

Hine e hine

[Little girl, darling girl]

Kati tö pouri rä 

[Be sad no longer]

Noho i te aroha 

[There is love for you]

Te ngäkau o te Matua 

[In the heart of the father]

Hine e hine

[Little Girl, darling Girl]

Translation of lyrics found here: http://folksong.org.nz/hine/index.html

I couldn't resist adding vocals to pammy's beautiful Italian translation of Metaphorest's beautiful song. I just sang along mostly, but up the octave.

This is an old Appalachian spiritual from the 19th century that's in the public domain. It sometimes goes by the name Down to the River, but the first written versions used valley instead of river, so that's what I did here. It was sung by slaves working the field and first appeared in a book of slave songs in 1867. suzyrene brought it to my attention on tumblr.

I love this song and added some oooohs over the verses. I think this is a great song to build on, and I would love to hear other voices on it +harmonies. It just begging for a whole chorus of people. I tried coming up with a harmony after I composed the ooooh harmony, but it wasn't working, so I figured I'd throw it out to you guys.

The lyrics - roughly - are below. I didn't deviate hugely, but they're not 100% accurate.

As I went down in the valley to pray

Studyin' about that good old way

And who shall wear the starry crown

Good Lord, show me the way

Oh fathers let's go down

Let's go down come on down

Oh fathers let's go down

Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray

Studyin' about that good old way

And who shall wear the robe and crown

Good Lord, show me the way

Oh mothers let's go down

Come on down don't you wanna go down

Come on mothers and let's go down

Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray

Studyin' about that good old way

And who shall wear the starry crown

Good Lord, show me the way

Oh brothers let's go down

Let's go down come on down

Come on brothers and let's go down

Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray

Studyin' about that good old way

And who shall wear the robe and crown

Good Lord, show me the way

Come on sinners and let's go down

Let's go down oh, come on down

Come on sinners and let's go down

Down in the valley to pray

As I went down in the valley to pray

Studyin' about that good old way

And who shall wear the starry crown

Good Lord, show me the way

first track on album 'spilt milk', but copyright shmoppyrights. right? rights.

and someone asked for the lyrics:  

drag your feet, keep your life strapped to your shoulders.

if you don't carve your age into your belt, you wont get any older

it's a mixed up masquerade, a penniless arcade

every face a frown, oh what a crazy town

hang your head, they'll steal the toes right off of your feet

you're lucky to count all ten, when you're living on the street

its a story thats been told, a body thats been sold

'round and around and around. oh what a crazy town

(see) joy around here comes in a little pink balloon

and if you got out of here yesterday it wouldn't be too soon

it's a cardboard palisade, a pocket change brigade

every way is down. oh what a crazy town

a not-so-tiny tune for wirrow.

thanks to megan's beautiful piano additions and rob's absolutely spot-on mixing, this song has finally come to life after about a month of hard work. this is by far the hardest i've ever worked on a song, and i hope you all enjoy it.

i truly love this community, and i love the friends i have made from it. this song encapsulates how i feel about life, hitRECord, just...everything.

so anyway - thanks, everybody.

The rhyming creation myth by wirrow and Metaphorest.  I tweaked the words just a little, and my draft of the text is resourced below.  And here I recorded a reading of it.  There's already been lots of great readings of this poem, and I hope there are more to come.  I think it might be cool to mix a grand multitude of voices together to tell this story.

The next thing that probably ought to happen is for visual artists to start drawing specific parts.  Pick a stanza you like, or even just one line and turn it into any sort of image.  Maybe pretty soon we could have a bit of a storybook slideshow going, which is usually an important step in big animation projects.

words and music by Jacquelyn Wells

i can't believe i totally missed this wonderful poem from tori...

LYRICS:

let's play pretend
until the end, 
whenever that will be.

we'll dress in gowns 
and dance around 
and jump into the sea.

we'll float and fly 
straight through the sky 
in our hot air balloon,

and then we'll race 
to outer space 
and steal ourselves the moon.

let's make believe 
and never leave 
our own fantasy land.

we'll sing love songs 
forever long, 
now wouldn't that be grand?

and even though 
inside we'll know 
nothing is as it seems,

as long as we're 
together here, 
who needs reality?

sang my lyrics over wirrow/gwen's amazing song. um... i hope this isn't terrible. <3 be sure to check out metaphorest's song for these lyrics (resourced) - it's the cheerful version. this is the melancholy version...

A simple little song I made from fractaldust's lovely lyrics.

you kids like dubstep?

i

am uncomfortable

with the way you say my name

cause i

do not belong to you

though you call me something strange

i

can't seem to stay awake

and i don't know what that means

for i

am an astronaut

i have nothing under me

you

are really starting to

climb inside my head

we

are like a negative

hung to dry above my bed

keep

me on this canyon floor

i don't want to venture out

your name

it sounds so strange to me

it's an unfamiliar sound

I hope this adds a little to this beautiful tiny story.

This song of Ryan Patrick's is funny and sad at the same time! I had to do a rendition. haha. Merry Christmas!

A song I wrote for Winter

So my little brother asked me to arrange a piano duet of Greensleeves for us to play for the family on Christmas (I know, how cuuuuuuute). It's nothing particularly innovative, but here ya go.

It's rough, but I think it has potential.  ;)  Feedback, requests, et cetera always welcomed.

Music: Caseypletcher Lyrics/Vocals: Ashes2Ashes

Lyrics:

Like autumn leaves I'm falling

Tumbling to the ground for you

Lost a hold of where I've once been

Captured by a gust of you

Swept away by you

Made to dance in your breeze

Left to flutter aimlessly

Like autumn leaves I'm falling

I'm falling for you

Helplessly I'm falling

I'm pulled away by you

Like autumn leaves I'm falling

I'm falling

I'm falling

I'm falling

ghosts of you are

singing softly

through the walls and

under floorboards.

goodnight sweet princes and princesses,

may flights of angels with umbrellas shield your sacred heads from rain

as you flow sweetly on your way.

our lives will never be the same..

slight offbeat addition..

Metaphorest's 'Cosied Up for Christmas' cosied up with Robo_J's 'Beat 714'

at 108bpm

A simple track of me humming Silent Night.

Just a simple version of me singing silent night.

Christmas and apocalypse is here. 

It's a Christmas Song! Kind of...Thanks to Kat and Shugs for the music, and Reverie for the first verse :) 

La Letra:

[Outside there is a blizzard, the nighttime's droning on

The wind will soon be blowing in an icy, chilly dawn

There's no cold to be felt, although, despite the frozen storm…

Because I’m sitting with you. And you keep me warm.] - Reverie's bit

Been waiting for your plane to come, been waiting half a year

It didn’t feel like Christmas until you came home my dear…

So I'm calling in a snow day- I’m not leaving this hotel

You’re my favorite part of winter, you remind me of the bells.

So let’s drink from the bottle and we’ll whine about our schools

We’ll eat a billion Red Hots and pretend we’re really cool

We’ll fog up all the windows drawing portraits on the glass

And sleeping’s not an option til the bells strike up for Christmas mass...

And I think you know I love you even though it goes unsaid

I see you once a year but you are always in my head

And I’m too scared to ask if you’re in love with me as well

So I treasure every moment up until we hear the bells…

Toyed with calling this "Wibbley-Wobbley Chimey-Wimey", but I'm not sure everyone would get it.

Stems on demand. I'd need to re-record it if this is going anywhere, this is pretty rough.

So, I wrote these sappy lyrics about Christmas a week or so back, and I figured I would try and turn them into a song...so tadah! Christmas power pop! Used MeganCarnes' wonderful "Float Away" instrumental.

Dedicated to you all: thank you for your constant love and encouragement. I wish you all Happy Holidays and all the best for the year to come! Let's make it a cracker <3