What is Christmas without a SuperNES, a Stylophone, a Wurlitzer and an all girls 60s choir? Nothing, I tell you!
For those of you who missed this last year, I had 2 spare days so I produced: Winter Wonderland Schnauzer Style, 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

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If anyone can explain to me what a Zabada is… I have no idea why this turned out like this, but for some reason I needed a robot wizzard spelling out zabada throughout the song.

Anyways, enjoy this next Schnauzer Radio Orchestra preview.

Zabada – SRO – 0:57

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R.I.P ExtraLifeRadio, Hello Current Geek Weekly!

ELR was all about nerdy stuff  like videogames, books, crappy movies, and more. Most of those segments have got their own show nowadays like Filmsack for crappy movies, The Instance for Warcraft, Appslappy for iPhone apps, and now there is Current Geek Weekly, covering the rest.

O.K. I didn’t post this to sum up all the podcast I listen to,  I posted this because I did the tune. Click below to listen to the show.

Current Geek Weekly – first show

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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.

Bonita’s dream – 1:43

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

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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.

The Future is Now – 2:32

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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!

Read more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/02/18/finger-power-works-the-tape/

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

Shatner sings ‘Rocketman’

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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.

Enjoy,

Loudness Wars – 8:29

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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.
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