I recorded some real drums and percussion with mikeregannoise behind the mixing board. I did my standard unison vocal harmonies to help fill it out a bit as well. Also, I recorded "ahh" vocals and sampled them to use as an instrument. Those were then played on a midi controller for some little breathy harmony bits. The stems of everything are here for anybody to use as they see fit. :)

Creative Toolbox Paint, Paint.net, Picmonkey.com

Source Art/Photo

Creative Toolbox Paint, Paint.net, Picmonkey.com

Source Photo/Art

Creative Toolbox Paint, Paint.net, Picmonkey.com

Source Photo and art

AND NOW, FOR SOME EXCITING NEWS! Levi's® is coming on board through the end of the year to support the hitRECord community and help us share our art more broadly than ever before. Check out this video for more. I'm super-stoked about it!

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Levi's® has quite a history of supporting innovative art and artists. I'm honored that hitRECord and our community are joining the long list of artists that Levi's has collaborated with, which include Shephard Fairey, The Andy Warhol Foundation, Damien Hirst, and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem.

2012 is shaping up to be a pretty busy year for hitRECord. Later in the year we're doing a mini tour of our Live Shows with the support of Levi's. They are also going to be distributing our more polished videos far and wide on the Interwebs. And not only that, we'll all be collaborating to create a limited edition piece of art together.

And as a result of this collaboration, we'll be able to pay our contributing artists way more than we've ever been able to before!

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Thanks Again!

<3

J

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Levi's®: www.levi.com

FCP by Dr. Gory

EDIT// I thought this could fit the theme of outsiders! :)

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I have always loved sojushots' amazing illustration "let down your hair", and now it inspired me to write this song. It's a bit darker than the original story of rapunzel, just like the illustration. The same story, different ending! :))

I would love love love loove it if someone would add some accordian or strings to this song, you know, to build it up bigger, and then maybe in the final verses also some drums..... it would be awesome...... ;)

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Here are the lyrics:

A man came across this old tower one day It was straight like from a book he once read He lifted his head up and saw this young lady And here's what the lady said:

CHORUS "Moi je m'appelle mademoiselle Noir Et comme vous pouvez le voir Je ne souris, ni ris, ni vis Et c'est tout ce qu'elle a dit"*

The man was so scared he could only run away He ran to the town and then said: "I just saw a lady with the longest dark hair And I think she's a living dead!"

The people, so scared, took their guns and their swords They ran to the tower and then They saw the pale lady and felt a great fear When they heard how she said it again:

CHORUS 

The people, they knew what this all was about She was clearly a demon from hell They decided to set her long hair on fire In the end it would burn her as well

But the lady was no demon she was a lonely soul Just like in that book they once read Still waiting for her prince while her hair was on fire The one last time she said:

CHORUS 

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(*"Me, my name is miss Black And like you can see I don't smile or laugh or live" And that's all she said.)

Enjoy <3

//CHORDS were requested:

verse:

C#m, B, E
C#m, B, G#

chorus:

C#m, G#m/B, Amaj7
C#m, B/D#, A, B
E, G#, A
A, B
C#, G#, C#, G#
C#, G#, C# 

A song I used my keyboards vocoder and synth sounds, with a sampled drum beat. :)

I really love "crashing" by wirrow, and it inspired me to make this tiny song... (I know my pronunciation sucks but I trust you still understand :D) Enjoy<3

Lyrics:

This is it, we're on the edge of everything

We ran so fast we didn't see it coming

We kept on making lies, it was easy to believe in them

Now it's the time to pretend we didn't se it coming

This is it, we're on the edge of all we know

We didn't look back when we could, and now we can't

We kept on making promises, and we kept on breaking them

Now we're gonna pretend we didn't see it coming

Ladies and Gentlemen, we're crashing. Please enjoy the ride.

Not the final mix, but pretty damn close.  Exciting.  If i missed your howl, now is the time to point it out.  Mix done tomorrow.

Additional footage: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/355959

Photographs courtesy of Edward Shallow.

Dial tone: http://soundbible.com/1070-Dial-Tone.html

Beat only.  Added some compression