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Drum Song

tfish77

The Das Binky Recording Collective

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electronic robot metal

Liner Notes:

I didn't mean to cheat, but I did start this song last month...my excuse is that I was using this song as my testbed to teach myself how to use the awesome new Axiom Pro keyboard my wife gave me for Christmas. And how to use Ableton Live and Reason to record stuff. I'm still at the very bottom of my learning curve, but thanks to the gentle-but-firm guidance of Mr. Dasbinky (featured here on guitar) I've come much farther than I would have gotten on my own.

Expect more stuff in this vein, it's way too easy to write electro-pop songs with this keyboard.

It took me forever to get the vocals sounding the way I wanted (i.e. as if they were sung by a robot). I'm happy with how they came out - basically they're just another instrument in the mix.

Lyrics:

(These came to me on the street one night as I was listening to an early mix of the keyboard parts - as far as I know, they don't mean anything.)

i suppose you thought this was over
now you know that nothing ever ends
i suppose you thought we were finished
now you know i'm waiting to begin

time is all you have to spend so spend it
drop yourself in pieces on the floor
there's no end in sight, don't try to end it
life is all you get, there's nothing more

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marklberry 1 week ago

It's not cheating to prepare. Cool tune.
Cheers! MLB
G Slade 1 week ago

Looking forward to playing this tonight on the show....
for the love of clouds 4 weeks ago

Loving the harmony guitar lines at the end, reminds me a bit of Ratatat, mixing electro with rock and kinda a bit hip hop in the beat aswell, sweet!
drummerboy 1 month ago

Alright that's it!! I'm gonna get off this couch and start doin' the friggin ROBOT!! Like this one a lot. Nice work guys.
Beth Kille 1 month ago

Groovy! That's a dang cool vocal effect!
Matt Pierce 1 month ago

This is pretty, Lol, just kiddin!
I really like it tho, sorta hard to understand the vox.
But I didn't need to, to enjoy this!
Good job!
Hammersmith 1 month ago

This is very cool. I was entranced until just before the guitar came in. At that point I was looking for a variation. While the guitar playing adds some cool textures to the piece, I really wanted it to go somewhere different musically.
tfish77 1 month ago

Thanks, Tennis! My next song was 100% done in reason too. (except for the vox). The effect on here is Sugar Byte's Robotronic vocoder: http://www.sugar-bytes.de/content/products/Robotronic/index.php
Tennis 1 month ago

awesome vox effects. What are they? Great tune. Love the use of Reason.
Jeff Geissler 1 month ago

I love the guitar parts! Really makes the song!
Olawi Oriluu 1 month ago

Vocals are totally awesome! I also like the whistle-sample-melody in the back. Must be third or fourth time I listen to this during two days.
Yakobo 1 month ago

This has a great feel and the lyrics compliment it really well. It would be nice to be able to hear them a little bit more than this though, don't think I'd have got any of them were it not for them being posted up. Nice fade at the end to leave just the guitar.
Chasing Andromeda 1 month ago

Mr. Roboto was a big sissy compared to this. Very interesting piece...electronic robot metal is very fitting indeed.
Linzi 1 month ago

Bizarre, in a good way I like it, I'm kinda floating in space, or something!
Ooo, it's quite funky mash-up.
Greg Landgraf 1 month ago

This is going to be an earworm, in a good way. I didn't realize there were words until I clicked through to the page (now I can hear them), but I'm not actually bothered by that.
The Das Binky Recording Collective 1 month ago

Awesome. Very cool sonic landscape. Nice mashup of the random soundthings that I sent your way and then completely forgot about.

Like the vocal effect, but also would have liked to hear the words a little more.
Roel van Veldt 1 month ago

I love the lyrics, to me they are really meaningful. And the music is funny and well arranged!

Roel
tfish77 1 month ago

Thanks, everybody!
animalien 1 month ago

Rock it. Love it.
Debs 1 month ago

Neat! The buzzing got to me a bit at first but then just blended into the trippy-ness after a while. This is really easy to fall into!
Scott McBride 1 month ago

Robot metal is huge in Japan! Should be huge here too. I like the craziness.
tfish77 1 month ago

thanks for the feedback, guys! Sean - very impressive output! I'd say I only know about 5-10% of what the Axiom/Ableton combo is capable of, but it's a pretty cool 5-10%. oddbod, one day the robots will be our masters, so we might as well start singing like them now.
oddbod 1 month ago

who could fail to like something tagged as electronic robot metal
Sean_T_Wright 1 month ago

Yeah, another Axiom/Ableton user, like myself!!! Cool sounds, man!