A slightly more refined/less chaotic mix. This one even kinda makes sense on speakers! I think.

I'm up for dancing when you sing
And I'm up for singing when you dance
I'm up for eating anything you make

I'm up for shaking when you stir
And I'm up for stirring when you shake
I'm up whenever you're awake

But I'm down, down, down
when you're leaving
I am down, down, down
when you're not around
I am down, down, down
when you don't make a sound
Oh baby
I'm basement low when you say no

Such a low
Watch me go

Down.

Written by sabine/Joab Nevo/Metaphorest  Performed by Joab Nevo & Metaphorest

From the soundtrack of PANOPTICON

This Prison

I saw your face

Through your own eyes

And felt disdain's reflection

Your sorrow's pace,

Pulse pumping lies,

Long lost in the translation.

My own unrest

Put to the test

Nerve endings eager allies.

Fates never guessed

Pains pierce my chest

Sad souls breach glassy blue skies.

This prison, this panopticon

Where everything you love is gone...

Your mirror like

A spider web

Re-connects the shattered bits.

With all your might

You fight the ebb

That sucks your mind off all wits.

A helpless guard

I am ashamed

Your edges should not hurt me.

Where do I start

Emotions maimed

I swear to not let you be.

This prison, this panopticon

Where everything you love is gone...

Weave yourself a memory

To cherish as you part from me

Don't paint it blue

Don't compose it in a minor key

If your bicycle won't take you straight to heaven

Dig it up and bathe in it

Be young and carefree

And if your bicycle won't take you straight to heaven

Dig it up and bathe in it

We'll soon meet in the skies

In our own paradise

Altered

There's a welcome party held under ground

For the salty girl from our sugar town

She's the chosen queen

Of our little scene

And she's back after the operation

All the girls and boys

Out there making noise

Came to show her a sweet time / Are in awe of the alteration

So very sugary now

We’re gonna make her feel secured (Can't shake off that sensation)

Protected, safe and re-assured (This feeling of sedation)

We've finally had her fully cured (Lack of orientation)

So sweet, from head to tit to feet (Can't shake off that sensation)

So holy, so right, so complete (She's lost in their translation)

So sweet, She's soon to have a fit (Succumb to desperation)

So very sugary now

She's the chosen queen

Of our little scene

And she's back after the operation

All the girls and boys

Out there making noise

Are in awe of the alteration

She's out on a limb

It's a broken dream

Caught in a chemical reaction

Now it all looks grim

And her lights are dim

Can't shake it off, shake shake it off OFF

This is the 1st mix of my first new song in over 7 months - featuring (the amazingly talented) Babbish (<3)

It's actually an old-new song. I started writing it in 1999, and it was the last song I worked on before my over-a-decade-long "hiatus". Ever since I got back to making music 15 months ago I planned to get back to this one and finally finish writing it and record it, but as long as I had new songs in me I preferred to focus on them. And now its time has come. And I am so thankful (and ecstatic! And honored!) that Babbish worked on it with me (AND gave it its title :)).

As much as I like this version and its sparseness, I don't see it as the final, "official" one. More elements should be added to it. And I believe the song can go in quite a few different directions (as WunderBoy's AWESOME 80's-dance REmix undoubdtedly proves! :D). So if anyone is inspired by it and feels like REmixing it - please, do! I'd love to see what you guys can come up with!

Me: Singing, guitars & bass

Babbish: Drums, flute & BV's

(*Listen with headphones if possible*)

(A better-sounding remastered version can be found in the results)

Drum loop taken from calahan's "When We Were Young" (aka gweninterrupted's "drum loop 14").

Let's move to California

Get a place in Hollywood

Go to bars that the stars

Are known to frequent

And get their autographs

(We'll get some money out of it)

We'll stay up late every night

And make believe

There are no obligations

We'll roam the town

And say we're celebrities

(And friends of Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

It won't take long

Til they know our names

Til we burst in flames

All over Tinseltown

We'll be cast

In all the big productions

Objects of attraction

Singing all the way to the bank

They won't be able

To call us idiots

Anymore

We'll be adored

We'll be wine

We'll be acid

We'll be all they're craving

Packaged neatly and massively sold

When Hugh fuckin' Laurie

Is my best mate

They will be sorry

(Oh man, will they be sorry!)

They always made us wait

And laughed at us behind our backs

And when we do lines

With Charlie Sheen

All those assholes will be green

(May their envy consume them!)

They will eat us

They will drink us

They will crave and need us

Like a drug they could never afford

They will eat us

They will wine and feed us

Nowherevillians arise

From the gutter to the skies!

When Hugh fuckin' Laurie

Is my best mate

(So get your lazy ass out of bed

Pack a bag

And let's do it!)

They will be sorry

(Oh man, will they be sorry!)

They always made us wait

And laughed at us behind our backs

And when we arrive

At our old school

All the haters

Will fuckin' drool!

And when we are down

And feeling blue

We can tell ourselves

We're no longer me and you

Finally managed to work some more on my REmix of WilliamG's 'So Sweet'. The previous version was a rough, super-hastily-made mix (that I rushed to release because I knew it would be quite some time until I was able to revisit it). This one, while not really being *drastically* different (or perfect... I don't do perfect), still sounds nicer, I think. The vocal tracks are more properly mixed, and the overall sound is a bit finer. At least to my ears... But I'll let you guys judge for yourselves. x

She's been swinging on a rainbow
On a rainbow
On her rainbow
All day

Night and day on her own rainbow
Her own rainbow
On her rainbow she'll stay

She's out
of space and time
Singing a rhyme
The sweetest ever written

Her body's shaking miles away
But she will
Not let her soul be beaten

She's been swinging on a rainbow
On a rainbow
On her rainbow
All day

Night and day on her own rainbow
Her own rainbow
On her rainbow she'll stay

Yes, she's been swinging on a rainbow
On a rainbow
On her rainbow
All day

She's just trying to make the pain go
Make the pain go
Make the pain go away

Hmm, well, it has been forever since I last posted one of my countless "just-gathering-dust-in-the-vault" 4-track recordings... So here's a random one.

This is an instrumental number that I recorded one wintery night, sometime in the mid 1990's. As always with these recordings, it's *very* low-fi, and pretty awkward sounding. But maybe it can inspire someone, somehow. Who knows.

My daughter, 4 days old.

My first new song in 10 years. The original plan was to record a basic, acoustic version, post it here, and see if anyone finds something in it and wants to develop it into something more. But then it grew and became a fully-arranged song.

While I do like the outcome, I'm not so sure this arrangement compliments the lyrics perfectly. I'd love to hear other takes on it. I am adding the stems, in the hope that anyone out there will be interested enough (or bored enough?) to do something with it.

Singalong Jack

Worked all through the day

Now he wants to play

Goes to town

Where he can drown his sorrows

And no one knows better than him

How to drown their sorrows

Gets into the queue

Knows what he has to do

To be quick

To get it done before they even notice

And no one knows better than him

How to not be noticed

He hides his gun

And chooses one

To hit and run

When done with his wine

The night is young

And yet unsung

And he is hung

So everything's fine fine fine

Morning comes violently

Bright and loud as ever

Morning arrives as he

Wakes up next to whoever

Another day of disarray

Of doing all

That needs to be done

So much to do now

Bloody hell

The day hasn't even begun

So…

He gets out of bed

Bins the sheets of red

Damn, No one knows

The amount of work one goes through

When playing all night every night

It is such a sorrow

He'll drown it tonight

And would deal with it tomorrow

Worked all through the day...

New song... (*Listen with headphones, if possible*)

let's just lie here
for a little while

let's turn off our minds

my skin, your skin
armourless
untamed
intertwined

let's disappear
in each other's isle

let's leave the devil behind

my sin, your sin
meaningless

our maims intertwined

This was the last picture I took on my trip to France a few months back. A random click out the car's window on the way to the airport. Not even sure why but I really like this one.

An old track, from my unreleased EP. (Recorded in the late 90's).

A 4track demo from ages ago. I liked it enough to include it, as it was, in my (abandoned) EP.

(A better-sounding remastered version can be found in the results)

FINALLY managed to record something new.

(A better-sounding remastered version can be found in the results)

When I first heard this instrumental by tooantuh, this weird little tune (accompanied by these weird little lyrics) popped into my head. I didn't plan to record it at first, but the thing got stuck in my head for 2 months. So I eventually gave up and recorded it. And then I didn't plan to share it. But now it seems that I am. So... yeah.

[*Listen with headphones, if possible*]

Her mother called her Ted
After the milkman
(It was her fault he's dead)
And she was never understood
Never in the mood
Never had the money 
For a private jet
(or drinks, or food)

Grr! There are so many musical projects that I've been meaning to work on (well, 4, if to be precise), but I currently don't have time for anything… So, against my better judgment, I've decided to post one (or two, we'll see) of my old, awkwardly recorded, ultra-unprofessional sounding 4-track demos in the meantime.

This is one of my earliest compositions. It was written and recorded 17 years ago. (Damn, that makes me feel SO FREAKIN' OLD! :O).

Just a little experiment...

Featuring aszarkowski, Ashes2Ashes & Day Glo (with Metaphorest on Mm-mmm's). Music by Robo_J.