Ok, here’s another tune that almost got lost on my hard drive.

In a true garage blues fashion, there’s only guitar & drums in AUBURN NEVER KNOWS. And what they do is rock on, baby!

The occasionally appearing, seemingly appropriate noise is octaver, trying to figure out which way go to next. Love that sound!

Sad makeup on a clown is like a loose finger on top of a birthday cake. Scary and quite unnecessary.

The effect on that face is major and minor (maybe diminished) chord both trying to gain dominance. The eternal struggle between orienting the toilet paper roll over or under.

ROYAL DANCE OF THE ORANGUTAN is light background music for a circus or a carnival. You know, a fellow with a moustache like a mountain bandit playing calliope, frightening German tourists.

Also apes and people with cotton candy heads.

I’ve been wanting to make some proper finnish music for a long time. There really were three options of how to approach the situation:

– Very minimalistic (and maybe animalistic) stuff for a kantele and a pair of rocks
– Acoustic folksy stuff in the saddest possible key
– Humppa

As I chose to go along with the latter, I now present thee GOBI DESERT HUMPPA.

The desert in question might not be the most finnish thing ever, but hey, I’ve had worse song titles.

“Start to live. Live to empathize. The moment lives!”

– Else, Dakar 1996

And yes, there’s NO NEED TO COUNT the stairs when the lights are on.

Todays feature presentation is a tune in which a fictional band called THE GONDOLAS PLAYS POP.

It’s a fun tune, meant to cause good mood and it has a ton of guitars.

I don’t remember the exact number of guitar tracks used, but it was a lot.

No, more than that. It was a lot!

83 AND 5 is a not-so-musical monstrosity. It’s supposed to be very oh so very scary.

Best served with headphones, yourself being the one that’s chilled & shaken.

Abba is highly logical.

Rondo is ABA, ABACA or ABACABA.

“Abacab” isn’t really ABACAB, nor ACCAABBAAC. It’s actually ABABCABD.

WHEN YOUR MIND GOES CRASH BANG WOOSH is AABCCBACCBA.

Abracadabra is a powerful word, not to be confused with “Debra Kadabra”. It’s also an album by everybody.

“Pioneers Over C” is ABCDEABCDFGABCDEH, a really nasty bugger.

“Space Shanty” is ABCDEFGHIJKCLMB. Yeah, those fellows sure didn’t like repeats.

Humans repeatedly think the darnest things.

I first started dealing with computer music in the early 90s, on my dads Macintosh. At the time, Mac started to surpass Atari ST as THE music producing machine.

Those were the days of General MIDI.

GM is a “standardized specification for music synthesizers that respond to MIDI messages”. (Thanks wikipedia). Those sounds tried to simulate real (acoustic) instruments, from agogo to xylophone. At the time, they were great. The whole orchestra at your fingertips!

Today – of course – that stuff is as relevant as bloodletting or fax machines.

Anywaay, I wanted to take a little trip to the past. The result is INCARNATION IN A CARNATION, which utilizes only GM sounds. And it’s kinda metal. Kinda.

Unnecessary fact of the day: I played the tune for a friend. After listening about 1½ seconds he said: “Doom.” (Meaning the computer game, not the metal genre, or the final judgment.)

That’s exactly what I was going for.

I wish I’d have more to say about NAMED AFTER YOU than this:

I really like the tune!

As a composition, It’s not particulary clever. Just an ever repeating drum & bass thingy + some strings. The sounds are ok. The wholesome feels both modern and retro. Typical for me I guess.

It’s just that… Somehow the tune sounds better than it’s supposed to… All the little pieces fit together flawlessly, forming a moody tune that’s just… solid and really nice and good and fun!

And I like it!

For a person that doesn’t particulary like 80s music, I seem to deal with that kind of sounds surprisingly often.

Not that I particulary dislike that stuff… It’s just that, it’s the same exploding snare drum, flamboyant synthesizers and cold & dead atmosphere all over again… You know… Knight Riders theme song is fine, Street Hawk is meh and that’s about as much I can take in one sitting.

Anywaaay, only slightly cold or dead, drum-exploding tune that probably has a mullet: PEGHEAD IS BACK.