Back in 2007 as a kind of a joke, a friend of mine asked if I could make a song about his puppy. A rickety piano, a theremin and some shuffling about-sounds made a pretty funny tune back then.
A few months ago he called in again telling his dog was suffering from cancer. Not willing to go through months of chemo trying to make her life a tiny but longer, (her suffering would also be prolonged), he decided to threat her with painkillers and when the moment was there to put her to sleep. How cruel that may sound, I think that was the best thing he could do for his dog. Yesterday he called in telling that it was all over.
We couldn’t know that in 3 years time this song would fit perfectly with an occasion like this. This may sound corny, but it’s true: laughter and tears are very close together.
Bonita, you were a great dog, and I still smile when I think about the stupid things you did.
What is Christmas without a SuperNES, a Stylophone, a Wurlitzer and an all girls 60s choir? Nothing, I tell you!
Since I’m breaking a few laws with this one I am not telling who are the singers nanana.
Also it is unclear where the sampling stops and where the true schnauzer-sauce is starting. I’m just telling you can leave out the ladies and still a full track is playing for your little bear-dance. (If I’m ever planning to release this legally I would have to, don’t you just love copyright law?)
This track is sort of a new years resolution. The resolution is: A whole lot more like this to come!
Anyhow, wishing you all a Happy Christmas!
(do with this track as you please. Blog about it, remix it, give it away to your worst enemies, or just do a little nerdy dance to it.)
Winter Wonderland – Schnauzer Radio Orchestra vs ??? – 3:05
Another piece done by the Schnauzer Electro Orchestra. At this stage I can’t tell what it’s for, but it’s coming to an iPod near you soon.I will be updating this post as more info is available.
Here’s my vision of 1960’s Kirk soaring through Hyperspace while a 2030’s dance party is being held in the holo-deck… (yes I mixed TOS with TNG in one sentence, I had to feed the inner geek).
Update: There isn’t a single Start Trek sample nor any ST-related stuff in this trek.. ehm track. The ST universe was taken as a way of inspiration for it.
Update 2: The music was made especially for a show called ‘Fourcast’ Click picture to read more.
Over at Yanko Design a posting is written about an MP3 Cassette player. Not only do you have to use your finger to rewind or fast forward the songs, they come in 45 min.- 60 min. and 90 minute versions. Exactly that last idea is a great one. Bring in the mix-tapes of yore. Find 20 songs you like and put them on a tape. It’s the most personal gift you can give or receive. The equivalent of my mixtape is found here.
Unfortunately the mp3-player is not in production … YET!
Here’s an idea. For the 1978 Sci-Fi film awards we’ll have William Shatner recite the lyrics to ‘Rocket Man’. We’ll have music so the listener can get a sense of where we are in the song.
Yes, that’s a good idea right? Wrong!
Peter Sellers did a similar thing for the Beatles in ‘Seller Sings the Beatles’, the only difference is this: Sellers was a comedian and he knew the result would be funny.
Listen to Peter Sellers’ version of a hard days night right here
They don’t come any more raw than this. I went into the studio completely blanc, pressed record and started playing the piano. No edits, so every timing mistake, false notes and lines I regret are still there. Looking at the final waveform I came up with a title : Loudness Wars.
Headphones required.
Since I live in the south of the Netherlands I’m suffering from a strange fever. Yes! Carnaval has begun.
(you can compare it a little to the New Orleans Mardi grass, or the Carnaval de Rio de Janeiro, only with somewhat different music). I won’t be celebrating much this year (4 days of drinking bear heavily and behaving like an idiot is too much for me these days), I’ll just have a quiet Sunday dressed in my Beethoven-suit behaving like I’m deaf for just one day.
This song was released by a local grocery store (jumbo) and it has terrorized unsuspecting shoppers for the last week.
It wasn’t released as a single, the only way to get it is through a free download.
My reaction to this is similar to people driving by an accident…. they simply HAVE to slow down and look.
go here to download
When Stockhausen heard music by Aphex Twin and Massive Attack, his response was: ‘Pretty good, but they should give up repetition’
This was an experiment with electronics, rhythm and repetition but each part had it’s own tempo. So this might sound random, it’s just not.
The music could be illustrating the following:
‘Finally young Gurp found his way into the secret Alien Laboratory. He gazed upon the strange materials when his eye fell on a small purple egg.’
Then again, I could be wrong
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Ah , Christmas approaching and we crank the spirit up a notch -or down, it’s just how you want to see it.
Not an easy time for some, even Schnauzer has his quieter moments…and I’m suffering from a cold as well.
That’s exactly the moment this sort music happens, Jingle Bells without any bells….
Ever since I heard a jumpstyle version of ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’ I had the idea of making a complete album with such tunes. You must understand that this ‘version’ was just a kickdrum and a synthlead. That was it, no other instruments and the crowd went wild. So I started thinking of songs nobody would touch with a ten foot pole like ‘Stairway to heaven’ or ‘My way’. The trick would be to freely give away every single song to avoid anybody making any money out of this music.
Here is a special Christmas jumpstyle version I did of ‘Jingle Bells’. I really deeply hate it, so this feels as one hour of work wasted (and 2 minutes of your time…sorry about that).
The Schnauzer Studios are trying desperately to pump out at least 1 tune each Monday.
Often they are in a raw state, but most of them will appear on a forthcoming album in some form.
