Hasta La Vista

When I record my music, I usually post it to Riffcaster, a website connected to the recording software RiffWorks. A great, easy and free way to distribute your music. Riffcaster has a great community of fellow musicians, and everyone is eager to present their stuff.

I love going through the stuff that the users post, listen to all the great songs that probably will never be released, just because we are amateurs with no connections.

Every once in a while, I come across a track that I think is out of the ordinary. This song, Hasta La Vista, from a user who calls himself Phil HomeStudio, is such a track. I heard it on there and felt that it would maybe be something that my blog followers would enjoy. I love the laid back feel of it. Great vocals and great musicianship all over. Thanks to Phil for letting me post this.

So here it is, in all it’s glory. Enjoy. :)

In the future, it is very likely that I will post more music from RiffCaster. Now, go and check it out for yourself.

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Metal Madness – new mix

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As I was not happy with the original mix of Metal Madness, I decided to remix, adjust and tweak it somewhat, to get a little more energy and “oomph” in the sound. I think I have accomplished a much more appealing song this way. I hope you agree with me.

As I stated first time I posted it here, it’s a little tribute to the “true” metalheads out there – the bands like Manowar who takes it all dead serious. …or do they? I gotta say, I admire them for their dedication to their music and the style, and their willingness to wear skimpy leather speedos on stage. Death to false metal!

As always, please help me spread my music. I put a lot of work in these and would love for as many people as possible to hear it. If you like the music, or just feel like passing it on to someone who might, please send them a link, post this on Facebook, stumble it (use the button on the top of the page) and anything else you can think of.

South Of Heaven – Country Style!

“South Of Heaven cover”

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Using RiffWorks you are able to do online collaborations, where musicians from all over the world meet up online and collaborate on music productions. What a great idea.

However, recently they have been working on the servers, upgrading systems and all kinds of other things. This affects the users in the way that we can not always access things online.

I wanted to collaborate on a “South Of Heaven” RiffLink (that’s what the collabs are called), but because of the online trouble it would not let me do it.

So I decided to do one myself, all by myself.

Not sure why it ended up as a country track. I came across the “train” drum rythms, and I guess making it country became a challenge. :)

I hope you’ll have as much fun listening to it as I had creating it.

For those of you who do NOT know the original, here it is:

 

Enjoy!

Trailer Trash Rocker

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And here it is, Ladies and Gents! This is my first FULL song, finished and good to go, vocals and all. I am pretty happy with the result, though I am sure listening to is more times and nerding more with it will make me make a few changes here and there. I know, I am not the greatest singer, but at least I think I am in key most of the time. :) Anyways, Enjoy!

Of course, this WAS my first vocal attempt, mixing could be better, but overall I think this is a neat little song.

James Took My Porn

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An upbeat little punk-rock-metal track, trying some drum beats out. Hope you like.

Gone Is The Flag

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My first attempt of creating a "real" full length song using RiffWorks. I think it came out kinda nice. Thanks to Freddie for lending me his axe while mine was being sharpened at the butcher's. :)

Acid Bass

 

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Okay, so here is my first posting. Let me tell you just a little bit about how it came to be.

I have started writing, producing and recording music in a program called RiffWorks. It’s a great, intuitive program that really gets the musician in you going without you having to be too much of a technician at the same time. It promotes music instead of killing it with technical mumbo-jumbo. I like it. A lot.

First time I was going to try it out, my beloved guitar was in  the shop. All I had was my bass and my effects board. So I decided to do this little snippet, just to try things out. I like the result so much I decided to keep it. LOVE the bass solo sound. So angry, and so spacy. Enjoy.