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).

I certainly didn’t enjoy,

Jump Jingle Bells 2:23

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Getting pumped up for Christmas. This Manic Monday is exactly one year old. I made this in December 2006 for ExtralifeRadio. That was played only once during their christmas-special, but this year it goes into recycle mode and is played the whole month…
The R2D2 sample in the beginning is real, and taken from the album ‘christmas in the stars’. Very corny stuff!
Halfway there is not happening much in this tune. That is because it was made as a musical bed for Scotts voice to welcome everybody, thank me for this music, thank me again etc…
I am currently working on a 2008-version of the elr-tune. That will be posted the minute it is ready.

Enjoy,

Extralife-Xmas 2:12

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-inspired by Marco’s photo-composition-challenge-
This week I ripped a picture of the net and gave myself one hour to come up with a composition for it. Bonita’s dream was also a challenge like this but this time it took me exactly 1.04 minutes… and that makes this the most crappy and lazy manic Monday ever… A new depth has been reached.
My deepest apologies.

Steak with fries: 1:04

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At last boys and girls. I am so relieved to have this tune in a finished state. Those of you who have read the blog in the last couple of weeks know what I’m talking about. Also the idea to do a zombie tune was really hard.
A monster-tune is easy to do. Just add a church-organ, grunting, bats flapping, girls scream and there you go: a monster-mash!
But a Zombie-tune is something else. Your average zombie has a very limited vocabulary; ‘braaaaiiighnnss!’ And most zombie flicks I watched were musically -to say it gently-: disappointing.
For this tune I didn’t have much reference to get inspiration (apart from Len’s Zombie art). In the end I went for a Philicorda organ, a Ukelele, and a marimba. Together that makes this a very sunny ‘march of the zombies’. Thanks Len for the inspiration and idea.

Enjoy!

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A few of you Schnauzer/ELR fans have been bugging me with this for quit a while now. Finaly they have arrived! You have to do nothing. No joining up, no sms-payment, no e-mail scam, no annoying pop-ups whatsoever, just rightclick and choose ‘save as’ and upload to your phone.
Oh, a youtube vid of your phone ringing with one of these tunes would be nice

*** edit: afterspencer has put these on his iPhone (about 1 day after the launchdate btw). View here ***

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Notice the actress: Meryl Sheep!