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Name	Title	About	Genre	Link
am/fm dreams	Crows	A live one take version of "Crows", a song we wrote for our 2012 RPM album Red Milk	Blues, Rock
AMUC	at REM 0	Supposedly, it was going to be a simple ambient piece, but it took on a life of its own.	Electronic	https://alonetone.com/amuc/tracks/at-rem-0
Big Rips	Everything Has Sucked Lately	This is the second track from the record I plan to put out in September. Trying to evoke the bands you'd see at the Fireside Bowl in 1997, but it kinda came out as its own thing. Hope y'all dig it	Rock	https://bigrips.bandcamp.com/track/everything-has-sucked-lately
Blind Colours	Wired Dreams of Diode Stars	This is a melody of waiting and longing. You only realize how precious the green grass and the blue sky are when you're in a tiny capsule in the endless vacuum of space. Or in a traffic jam	Classical, Electronic	https://soundcloud.com/user-291449380/wired-dreams-of-diode-stars
Blind Colours	Transcendental Vision	This is a remix of View, Mesmerizing by Luna Ponderosa. The original reminded us of Syd Barrett's music, so we decided to remix it in the psychedelic style of early Pink Floyd. All the sounds used were taken from the original track	Electronic
Chalices	Insane (iPhone Demo)	Didn't have a finished song for this month; figured I might as well post an unfinished one, recorded on my iPhone instead of with a real microphone and probably there are so many things wrong with it	Blues, Pop	https://chalices.bandcamp.com/track/insane-iphone-demo
Chri5-HT	Reiterate	An instrumental track that could have been left off µ-Ziq's Lunatic Harness. Made in my bedroom using analog synths, a drum machine, a couple guitar pedals, and Ableton Live 11. Sending good vibes and much love from the West of Ireland!^_^! ☮ <3 ☯ & 尊	Electronic	https://chri5-ht.bandcamp.com/track/reiterate
Chris Sexton	Cyberfunk 2021	I was experimenting with adding synth bass to a rock/funk guitar riff.	Rock, Funk / Soul	https://soundcloud.com/chris-sext0n
Crimson Rainer	Bring it on	Aggressive Battle Music, Metal Instrumental	Rock	https://soundcloud.com/crimsonrainer/bring-it-on-mp3-aggressive-battle-music
Dandy From Home	The Devil	Made a bunch of songs over the July 4th weekend, this is one of them.	Folk, World, & Country	https://dandyfromhome.bandcamp.com/album/first-weekend-of-july
David Cooper Orton	Sun and Rain	Ambient instrumental, just as the mood took me on the day.	Electronic	https://alonetone.com/dco/tracks/sun-and-rain
David Thorley	Slender Threads	A spot of jazz for July! (More a sketch than a finished track - time was short this month).	Jazz	https://alonetone.com/dalwynth/tracks/slender-threads---31:07:2021,-09
Diana Bailey	Say too	I wrote this song to make fun of Boomers #notallboomers	Pop	https://soundcloud.com/diana-bailey-music/say-too
Echogun	Stargazing	Wowzers, look at all those stars!	Electronic	https://echogun.bandcamp.com/track/stargazing
Elling Lien	Designation	I've been trying to post a clip every day to instagram and it's almost killing me, but at 80 days I think I hit a stride with a couple of effects chains, plugins and combinations of styles. It's so hard to like your own stuff! Contains a rap vocal from Lin Gin's "Once Again".	Electronic
Evil Suitcase	West Virginia	Sometimes you have a partial song that insists on being completed before you can work on anything else, like it or not. Sort of like an artistic roadblock.This was one of those. Not necessarily what I wanted to work on, but was forced to.	Rock
Feet Long Mouse	Feet Long Mouse	A song my band "feet long mouse" have been working on. We played this song a lot faster, but slowed the mixed down so it would be more audible.	Noise, Rock
Griza	Neurons Misfiring	Today I mourn the loss of a man who is still alive	Field Recording
Jai Mohan	love me when i'm lonely	A queerplatonic love song.	Classical, Pop
Jai Mohan	ash		Classical
Jeff Burchett	Beauty And Simplicity In Applied Theories Of Percussive Mechanics	This track is an exploration on a sequence on the Moog Matriarch, accompanied by Moog DFAM, Mother-32, Subharmonicon, and Werkstatt-01 in a semi-generative fashion. Recorded to cassette on a Tascam 424 mk II.	Electronic	https://jeffmakesnoise.bandcamp.com/track/beauty-and-simplicity-in-applied-theories-of-percussive-mechanics
Jeremy Wills	Taste in Music	Another one from the new EP!	Electronic, Spoken Word
Joel Glenn Wixson	Believing	This song was inspired by people I have had the privilege to know who dream of a different life.	Blues, Rock
Linn Friberg	Finally Free		Electronic
Luna Ponderosa	Luxury	Straightforward rock song. Bass, guitar (& EBow),uke, sleighbells, drum samples. Conversations with folks in dreams. As a facet of this EP's character of looking backward, it's a bit of a venting but ultimately being at peace with the people you can't make peace with.	Rock	https://siralfrediv.bandcamp.com/track/luxury
Magic Bullet	The Lucca Maneuver	So, we'd hit the RPM Challenge (and more specifically, the 'every month' variety thereof) with four consecutive months of 35 minute power tool wipeouts, we figured it was time for a change. Well, I did, Skit wanted to do power tools again. But then I said something about not wanting to fuel the constant criticism that experimental stuff is all 'vacuum cleaner music', and a big smile came over Skit's face, and he called me a genius and said he could kiss me. I didn't let him coz he had biscuit on his teeth and coffee breath and my wife gets jealous. So here ya go, Magic Bullet, no power tools, bang goes our street cred. Instead, a duet for two vacuum cleaners, by way of an ironic statement directed at those who would criticise our chosen discipline, a sonic sword to defeat them using the very weapon with which they cast their aspersions upon us. Oh, and it'll make yer ears bleed... ;-> Further Info: http://www.mickmagic.net/MB%202021-07-30.htm	Noise	https://alonetone.com/magicbullet/tracks/the-lucca-maneuver
Mikey Hogan	Feel Happy	Short song expanded from an older Song A Day Project. I'm singing from someone else's perspective here. Experimented a bit by recording the solo with a mini amp and close micing my uke in stereo.	Folk, World, & Country, Rock	https://alonetone.com/MikeyHogan/tracks/feel-happy
Omama Othman	Defended	This track is about feeling safe in your own body and having your own back.	Electronic	https://alonetone.com/omama/tracks/defended
Salman Ahad	Articulate Yourself	Initially made as a sample of the Landforms orchestral library for Elling and the Spitfire Soft Piano for Big Rips, but now I think I'm going to be using this as a suite of tracks for a podcast miniseries!	Classical
Savory Flakes	Collecting Coffins	A song with lots of tinsel and underlying struggle. Using all the old guitars except for the Casiotone 202, bless the drummer for emailing some tracks (Mike Kolesar). For once, NO REVERB AT ALL.	Rock	https://savoryflakes.bandcamp.com/track/collecting-coffins
Schmex	There Yet?	It's steel string and classical guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, cajon and African talking drum. All played by me and recorded on a Tascam DP-008 EX. It's what I heard when I imagined riding in a VW bus with the windows down, and my feet propped on the dashboard.	Folk, World, & Country, Classical	https://alonetone.com/rosteiner/tracks/there-yet%3F
Songs By Request (David Dineen-Porter)	Asteroids	song about an asteroid wiping out a town	Electronic, Pop	https://soundcloud.com/user-566351058-306778477/asteroids-vocaloid
TeeKayEn	Cute and Dangerous	This month I made a start on multiple tracks that I abandoned. Once things started they really cracked along.	Electronic	https://soundcloud.com/t-k-n/cute-and-dangerous
The Wizards of Vomit	Potato's Journey along the Y-Axis		Rock, Blues	https://soundcloud.com/user-480855336/potatos-journey-along-the-y-axis/s-FNr5wc3oJJ1
Twilight Sleep	Woody Harrelson Floating In The Water (excerpt)		Electronic	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU6M-hmmRig
Walter Noons	Old Regrets	A Dylan inspired Blues-Rock tune.	Blues	https://www.reverbnation.com/walternoons