Opus. 1, and Sockpuppet, Juxtaposition and You can make money without doing evil

I'll try and start this as far back as I can remember. The most recent posts to this are the ones regarding Opus. 1. So I'll start there.

I had got quite a few Opus. 1 songs finished in the two days I dedicated to it. I, however, wanted to add more. So over the next few weeks after the day 1 and 2 in the last Opus. 1 blog post, I had recorded some more songs including: Be Lucky (you made me smile when nothing else could), Armed for Revolution and Psychology of War. They all turned out fairly well, as I recorded them on the same settings etc. However with a few of the last ones the volumes are a little too high. Nonetheless, they all sounds pretty good. I have 20 songs for it now, but I have gone back and forwards thinking what to do with it and I've decided to only add songs to Opus. 1 that are a) a good recording, b) are not well known, performed tracks and c) songs that are the best acoustic sounding. So for instance, I recorded a piano version of the 'In Cloud Cuckooland' song 'House of Mirrors'; however, I don't feel it would fit at all, or convey the mood I'd be going for. I had come up with a quick album cover for Opus. 1, purely to be able to fire some of the songs on youtube, previously mentioned in the old post. However since then - and if you see my last post, I finally made a cover for Opus. 1 I am quite happy with. The styles of ink drawing, graphic art, photography and collage, all cover the years and styles of art from 2000 onwards. I think it sums it all up rather well. This is again, like most things a work in progress. At the moment though, I'm very happy with it.

So now I will move on to Anonymous, which for a period of time had nothing going on. It had stopped for a period after recording the songs 'Turn on, Boot up, Jack in', 'Clean Slate Program' and 'Dot-com Bubble'. I didn't really know what else I wanted to do with it. I had started the song 'Sockpuppet', which sounded nothing like the end result. I won't go through all the different things I did to record and complete all the new songs, but I'll briefly go over them. I have completed three new songs and have recordings on the internet: 'Sockpuppet', 'Juxtaposition' and 'You can make money without doing evil'.

I began work on 'Sockpuppet' and cut up some sounds and beats to create the underlying beat. They I added the bass riff which was quite difficult to come up with due to the timing of the beat. I then added a guitar riff throughout it, but decided to only use it towards the middle to end of the song. I managed to record the vocals and wanted the melody to be slightly shouty and broken up. I then cut up the vocal and messed about with this. I had a finished version like this, but then I decided to put a rock beat in to break the song up and not make it sound like lots of the other songs I have. And I am very happy with the end result. Quite simple, but good.

Sockpuppet

A sockpuppet persona,
Under a masquerade of lies,
Her despicable disgrace,
Behind a little boy's eyes

Her final words, are of the vulnerable
Strikes a chord, with even the toughest heart,
"You’re the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over."
The sockpuppet took her life, before it could start

The victim was at an age
Where her life bloomed and blossomed,
The sockpuppet's evil game,
Left her wilting in a cupboard,

The sockpuppet, an alias called josh,
Raised the girl's spirits with gentle words,
Flipped the coin, darkened her esteem,
A joke, a hoax, an online maim,
(Available to download for free on bandcamp)

'Juxtaposition' came next. I was up late, until about 3am in the morning. I couldn't sleep, got up and went on the computer. Plugged my pendrive in with different sample beats on it. I took one noise and beat and repeated it, in a very simple way. Then I added another beat. Then another. And another. I layered it this way until I had about 15 different beats layered, and I took beats out and put some in as the song progressed. It sounded amazing. The next day, I added to it: put dubstep and other noises into a tune for the beats. I then put the lyrics I had written for it to the song, they worked out well on first take. Then added a guitar solo after the first chorus and one at the end. I edited the guitar solos to make stops and starts. And that it was it. Done. Quite simply done, but sounds great. I feel it is one of the best 'Anonymous' songs.

Juxtaposition

The line begins to blur
Don't know their arse from their elbow,
Reality sinks in,
It's all the more pityful

A second chance at life,
Even when your first has not transpired,
Juxtaposition, and you'll see, nothing has changed,

Ironic personalities,
Of people you'll never be
Obese ugly truths
Streamlined nonsense, awake to see

A second chance at life,
Even when your first has not transpired,
Juxtaposition, and you'll see, nothing has changed,
Failure to be, who you wanted to be,
To live either side of a coin, in a room, with a machine
(Listen to 'Juxtaposition' on youtube)

After this I began work on 'You can make money without doing evil'. This was a set of lyrics about google that didn't have a title. So I decided to use this title, which was a lyric I left out. So, I began by starting with a very simple beat and noise. I wanted something different from 'Juxtaposition'. So I added to this song, in a similar way to the previous song, but in a different way order. I added a simple bass line, simple guitar riff to beef up the bass. Then added a cool lead riff throughout the song. I then added vocals, cut them up, etc, and made it more interesting. Then I made three solos, which I think are all incredibly good. The first one on the song is made up of dubstep notes; the second is made up of noises and scratch and decks samples; and the third is a guitar solo, which at points I have edited and cut up, to make it jump. The end edited song sounds great, and very different from 'Juxtaposition'.

You can make money without doing evil

A connected web of information
Your tiny robots pick me apart,

A brain constructed of tiny boxes,
Update now, don't be evil,

Stop tracking everything I do,
Watching me on your internal cctv,

Your hundreds of servers pollute us,
The terrorists, what happens if they get you,

You know me better than I do,
You film my house from up in space,

Tell everyone around the world about me,
Have an e-mail, blog, ebook, on us,

We know what you want,
We know everything about you,

Hold your information for decades,
Stalk and track and watch and laugh at you,

A couple of lab rats,
Biting through cables,

Honeing information perfection
(Listen to 'You can make money without doing evil' on youtube)

So at this point, as I post this, I have got 20 songs on 'Anonymous'. I am wondering whether to finish the album now, or make a few more songs for it. I'm incredibly pleased with the collection of songs and how they sound. I have captured the internet in the way I would have liked. However I still haven't covered all the subject matter I would have liked at the moment, so I want to do that first. It's more than likely I'll add more to it. On bandcamp I have 14 of the 20 songs up for free download now. At home we only have an internet pendrive with a max of 400MB to use in a month, and the connection is poor, and hence why all 20 are not up. But I will get there. All will be available for free download. But there may be more to come. I also have some ideas for a new project. So we'll see what happens there. And that's it. Nothing more new to add. Yet.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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