I just finished the official Comics Coast to Coast tune. CCtC is a weekly podcast by Brian Dunaway (missiondeep), Tom Racine (booksmart) and Justin Thompson (mythtickle) about … ehm… comics. That’s right, the three panel thingy’s you see in the paper and on the web.

Creating this tune required me to listen to a few episodes, and in one of them Brian used a party-whistle. I immediately sent my wife to the store to get me some, because I knew that, that was exactly the right angle for this thing. The rest is just whistling the theme over and over again, playing the kazoo, noseflute, programming drums, playing the organ, and loads of other stuff you don’t want to know. And there you go.

The tune was first aired: TBA.

Comics Coast to Coast – 1:17

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Before we kick off the Christmas Mayhem that will be raving all over the Schnauzer Studios, I present you ‘Kuchen’ a track that started in Switzerland 2 months ago and was ‘finished’ just this morning.

The minute I thought :’the cowbell could use some fattening up’, my DAW crashed hard and set me back about 5 hours. Apparently Ableton-Live has something against more cowbell. I’m going to look into this. Perhaps Pro-tools let you add an infinite amount of cowbell. This calls out for an independent test-panel.
but first, enjoy a brand new ‘schnauzer’…

Kuchen 3:38

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A rough mix of a nearly finished song… ‘Faraway’, a vox continental feature and a bit rougher than a ‘normal’ schnauzer-tune.If I look back at this song, it’s allmost ridiculous how much time allready went into this one. Allmost a year later from picking the samples from vinyl, it finally came together. Oh, and the vox was a big help also
This one has WAY too much bass in it, but hey: it’s not finished yet!

With this song, the Schnauzer Radio Orchestra added 2 members:
drums: Tim Wood, Bass: Ton vd Kolk.

Enjoy.

Faraway