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

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

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.

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...

Thanking bloemday for the lovely title! :)

My daughter, 4 days old.

As the title suggests, this is the base for the version I'm working on. While the finalized version should include many of the readings that were posted, in this one themetafictionist's reading serves as the lead (with RoboJ's whisper, my reading and aszarkowski's reading somewhere in the background).

The main reason that I'm posting this version is that I totally fell in love with themetafictionist's reading and thought it deserves a version of its own.

(A remastered version can be found in the results)

I've been working on a song for quite some time and kept on having all sort of problems and what-nots with it. Needed to clear my head for a couple of days. So I took this cool instrumental by Noah Richardson and had some fun with it. And it was very therapeutic indeed, I must say. :)

The lyrics were written (and recorded) pretty quickly, the guitar riffs were mostly improvised on the spot and the mix was done pretty hastily as well. The whole thing may be a bit messy, but all in all, I'm quite pleased with it. 

We Are Illumination

We're all fractions

Of an endless whole

Just tiny specks of light

But we are the world itself

When we unite

When we mash

We can bring a change

And make it all right

Can you hear

All the voices turn to one

So loud and clear

Lose your fear now

See that light

Feel the change

Join in the fight

We are magical

We are brighter than the sun

We are boundless

We are illumination

Elevation

One big nation

(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)

On the top of the hill there are three lovely houses,
Mine, Eddie's, and weird Mrs. Bing's.
Mine's the best, though - it's safe from intruders (or mice), as
you can't reach it unless you have wings.

(Thanking my beautiful wife, Orna, for helping me execute this REmix <33)

After playing Joab's music on a flight, a passenger commented on the music in his feedback form.

I've omitted the part of the form where he complained about all other aspects of the airline I work for ;)

Happy Belated Thanksgiving everyone! I don’t really have any major requests this week, but just want to check in with you nonetheless: 

Our friends at !t books/HarperCollins love our Tiny Films!  They’re really great people over there and they love what we made for the E-BOOK. Thanks everyone for a great job! But, lets keep refining the ones we have and creating new ones — these films tend to go far.  We always screen a bunch of them at our live shows — you never know where they’ll end up!

Also, don’t know if you noticed but our website is moving a lot faster these days!  Thanks to Brett and his crew for helping us move HITRECORD to a server and a new video encoder.  There are still bumps in the road so thanks for bringing them to our attention.  

And finally, I have an very exciting announcement to make… but not till next week.

Make sure to check out these weekly RE-RECs, there are some good ones.

Thanks Again!

<3

J

FCP by Dr. Gory

This week's Regularity is up and in full effect! 

Jelly Babies - I absolutely love megancarnes' score to Day Glo's reading and she already has made video request for instrumentalists to come and play.  MUSICIANS - let's play on this score! Also - We need more visuals of what this Jelly Land will look like in order to lock down the aesthetic of the short animated film.  Check out elayne's and sojushots' contribution and lets keep moving in their creative direction!

BAD ADVICE - Marke gives some great examples of how to turn cliche phrases that we assume are "good advice" (but really aren't) and remix them into what we consider is actually some good advice.  He also advises us to really be sure that the remixed result clearly references the original.

Finally - I give an update on all of or payments to contributing artists of 2011

Thanks and thanks again!

<3

J

FCP by Dr. Gory

Alright, here it is, V2 of We Are Illumination. Added some vocals as well just to beef it up a little. Let me know what you think!

My 1st Mix of this song.

Not exactly my best mix -

I was really looking for a high-frequency type sound to go along with the beat in the louder part but I had trouble with it and left it out.

I took a few liberties with the song in some places, I hop Joab doesn't mind :D

Send me stuff to mix! :D

For stike.

I just muted Wirrow's track and exported it as is. And it's a bit messy. Let me know if this is sufficient for whatever it is that you want to do with it or if you need me to try and tidy it up a bit.

3 harmonized voices. (Starts at 0:09).

If you choose to use this and would prefer to have the separate tracks, let me know and I'll upload them as stems. xx

Made a quick recording (and an equally quick mix). Couldn't resist it, really. I just love singing with Sarah. <3

I've just heard this song for the first time tonight, and boy is it a fun one! :D So, even though it's past my bedtime I couldn't resist doing a (VERY) quick vocals take (or 3). I went for a casual, unassuming, doesn't-really-give-a-damn attitude type of thing. It felt right for this... But this is only a sketch, really. (Since I recorded it late at night, when everybody's sleeping, it's also quite whispery...). If ppeppina and the peeps in charge of this production think that my voice (and this type of attitude) may be right for this I'll be happy to record a more refined take.

I should mention that the original plan was to upload the thing isolated, but then I've listened to it on top of ppeppina's track and decided that I like it that way, even if it doesn't really make much sense. Making sense is seriously over-rated, anyway! :D

(Ah! BUT! On headphones it does seem to make a tiny teeny wee bit of sense. So if ya have a pair laying around, please, do put 'em on!)

Guitars. (The electric guitar parts were recorded in bits and pieces over quite a few tracks. So... yeah. Apologies for the messiness.)

All instruments other than guitars.

Apologies for this being all over the place... Recorded it in bits and pieces, on quite a few channels. Tried to tidy it up a bit and group some of them, but it's still a handful.

Also removed the panning and volume automations (on most channels at least, not sure I actually remembered to do it on all...) to make it easier to remix this as one wants.

Additional layers.

The 2nd (and better) mix can be found here:  http://hitrecord.org/records/599575

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

From the soundtrack of PANOPTICON

VO's are really not my thing, but still... wanted to give this thing a shot...

Just a little experiment...

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