So, here is the fourth song of four written and recorded while on Christmas break, appropriately coming out on my birthday. The four new songs join 6 more recorded since April to become an "album" I am calling "Sun". Sun…

This is a very dreamy surreal spooky song... a bit of a departure from some of the more upbeat funky tunes... Enjoy, and check out the other two new ones from this week, "Snatched from our hands" and "Can we…

This is the second of four songs I intend to finish before returning to the real world on the 5th. The first was "Can we go out?", which featured samples from an old Mattel talking doll commercial. This is called…

So... I have a week off and intend to take advantage of the time and finish and publish 3 or 4 songs. The first is this one: "Can we go out?"...

...stay tuned... more to come this week!

This is all really an exercise for myself... but the exercise is social. As I make music, and put it out there, should I pause between songs? If I have a particularly prolific month, should I release a new song…

So... MechaniCrash started as an entry into something called "The RPM Challenge". This is a thing where a couple of audiophile/musicians were having a discussion about the recording realities of modern mass music. They observed that in the 60's, studios…

This track brings up my struggle on sampling. There are two prominent samples in it. One is a drum beat from an Amy Winehouse song (You know I'm no good), and vocals from a track on comedian Maria Bamford's album"unwanted…

PARAMETERS
I often prescribe parameters to my creative activities. I am reminded of a story about Dr. Seuss, who supposedly wrote "Green eggs and ham" on a wager with his publisher, the bet being that he couldn't write a successful…

...just added a new song to the FREE MUSIC page. "The Doctor" was recorded over the last 3 weeks. It has a thick distorted bass solo, and a lot of fun samples from  couple of Firesign Theatre albums. Check it…

So... the point of this exercise is to get people to hear music I'd be making anyway... so, I give it away for free. Someone suggested to me that perhaps I am diminishing the value, or more accurately the desirability…

Well... I was mixing down some songs, and came across a song file called "Black Ice". I was in the middle of something so I couldn't listen to it at that moment. I had absolutely no recollection of such a…

So... this is a site about my "fake-band", MechaniCrash. It's "fake" because its not really a band... its just me, and I play in a real band elsewhere. It is an experiment in the premise that "90% of life is…