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Join us for this month’s Record Every Month Listening Party, starting at 4:30pm Newfoundland Standard Time. Find your local time here.
Listening Stream: RPM Challenge Radio
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| Name | Title | About | Link | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMUC | The Artifact (Demons In The Code) | https://alonetone.com/amuc/tracks/the-artifact-(demons-in-the-code) | The lyrics popped into my head a few months ago, so I figured I'd run with them. Tried a faster-paced electronic song, after listening to some of the Twitch DJ's do their thing. (The proggier elements smuggled their way into the mix, though.) | Electronic |
| Big Rips | Wake Up Call | a work in progress from a new album I'm working on. more 90s emo-y stuff with drums, guitars, bass | Rock | |
| Blind Colours | Signal Lost Beyond the Sun | https://soundcloud.com/user-291449380/signal-lost-beyond-the-sun | The idea of space exploration has haunted many a romantic dream. But we should also keep in mind that it might be a one-way ticket | Electronic, Rock |
| BogStomp | Fight Another Day | I came up with this while playing around with open G tuning. The theme: Not every battle is worth fighting, sometimes it's better to walk away | Rock | |
| Bogwash Sally | Ne0n Vltr4vi0let | A wild exper1ment | Noise | |
| Buku Panda | The Essence | https://soundcloud.com/bukupanda/the-essence-1/s-Xfnyt6QZs9F | Remix of a track I couldn’t submit in time a couple months ago (https://soundcloud.com/bukupanda/the-essence-incomplete/s-nbl21WgIXFq). Same vox as the first with added scratching at the end (a pitched sample of myself from another (non REM) track that got pitched down in the bpm conversion, which I dug. All production done on an older gen iPad mini (3). Vox recorded in Garageband with the iPad’s internal mic. The composition for the first half was done using various apps in Audiobus (including Yonac Magellan 2 for the piano and sci-fi hi-pitch sound) tracked out to and arranged in Samplebot. Second half was composed in Garageband. Scratches done in Samplr. The final mix and arrangement was done in Zenbeats. | Hip-hop |
| Dandy From Home | The Rush | https://youtu.be/o4Pa4zMt3tM | Made something a little slower this month, no singing about the devil this time haha. | Pop, Rock |
| David Cooper Orton | August Table Topper | https://alonetone.com/dco/tracks/august-table-topper | An ambient excursion with minimalist structural underpinning. Started with a livelooping experiment, transferred to the PC for extensive editing and recomposing/reconstruction. | Electronic |
| David Thorley | Man Leaps From Moving Plane | https://alonetone.com/dalwynth/tracks/man-leaps-from-moving-plane | I saw this headline and made up a story to go with it. (Caveats: 1. I wrote these lyrics before I saw the horrifying images of people clinging to the wheels of planes in Kabul this month and my song has nothing to do with that; 2. apologies if file quality is poor - I had to compress to bring below 10mb). | Folk, World, & Country, Rock |
| Diana Bailey | Con Artist | https://soundcloud.com/diana-bailey-music/con-artist | Folk, World, & Country, Pop | |
| Echogun | Nebula | https://echogun.bandcamp.com/track/nebula | Electronic | |
| Elling Lien | Unsure | |||
| Evil Suitcase | Your Dark Smile | I came up with the chorus early in the month, then waited in vain for inspiration to strike for the rest. But it never did, so I just came up with some random stuff and stapled it all together. | Rock | |
| Jai Mohan | i used to dream of you (demo) | Classical, Rock | ||
| Jai Mohan | weight of your world | this month, i remade a song i wrote last year for voice and ukulele. i changed the key to accommodate my changing voice (yay HRT!) and changed the ukulele to a harp, adding subtle piano and viola. the subject matter's kind of heavy− it's about being the "therapist friend," being used for emotional support in a one-sided relationship. | Pop | |
| Jeff Burchett | Most Like Oneself | https://jeffmakesnoise.bandcamp.com/album/most-like-oneself | I read a quote attributed to Thelonoious Monk to the effect that a genius is a person who's most like themself, so I tried to embrace creating music purely for myself this month. | Electronic |
| Joel Glenn Wixson | On Your Way | This song is about that complex moment in parenting when your kid's lives begin to require more space than can be found with you. It is about the pain and joy of seeing your child start off on their own adventure and realizing that it can't include you. It is the most wonderful and horrible thing I have ever experienced. It's about learning what love really requires. | Rock | |
| KR Seward | Ahg Eee Emm | https://krseward.bandcamp.com | Various oscillations, delay and stuff. | Electronic, Noise |
| Luna Ponderosa | The Other House | https://siralfrediv.bandcamp.com/track/the-other-house | Impromptu of guitar through a couple of boxes on each side, plus a dash of flavor from the back yard. | Blues |
| Magic Bullet | George's Tool | https://alonetone.com/magicbullet/tracks/george's-tool-(at-full-length) | For our seventh offering for the RPM Challenge, we wanted to do something a bit different to the usual 35 minute ear-bleeders we had been turning out, give Elling and co a break, as it were. Okay, there's still power tools involved (Skit wouldn't come out of the cupboard until I agreed, and come on, we are Magic Bullet),but there's a really catchy rhythm track too and we were both well pleased with the results. Our undying gratitude to George for letting us record his tool when he did our patio, that's him saying "How's that?" and "There ya go." We told him we'd make him famous, so take a bow, George, this is your big moment, your tool is now the stuff of legend... | Noise |
| Michael Sorenson | Conundrum | Looking back on the track, there are a few things with the beat itself I wanted to fix. A few parts seemed out of beat, but then again, the electric piano was the main source of frustration, since I fell out of beat with the Electronic Piano, and then proceeded to make a breakdown beat around it. Oh well. Hahaha for my third EDM track, I would say I'm getting better. | Electronic, Noise | |
| Michael Sorenson | Hop | Made a really breathy pluck. Honestly don't know if I like the pluck, but it's there, it's done. It's all good from my end. | Electronic | |
| Michael Sorenson | The Crux | https://soundcloud.com/maximike0/the-crux | Electronic | |
| Mikey Hogan and the Penguins | Antarctica | Climate change has forced most of humanity to live on Antarctica. But that's ok because Antarctica is coooooooool... | Rock | |
| Neil Nebula | 22 22 | https://soundcloud.com/neilnebulamusic/22-22a | Electronic | |
| Omama Othman | Right (t)here | https://alonetone.com/omama/tracks/right-(t)here | Electronic | |
| Salman Ahad | Keep Some Distance | I think this is a spiritual continuation of the Loki-inspired project I started, but not sure if this still counts because I didn't really carry over any melody lines but oh well! Hope you all enjoy! | Classical, Jazz | |
| Savory Flakes | Young Miss Henderson | That feeling you get when you remember a person that could have completely changed your world, though you would have to learn to hunt foxes? Yeah, really. Again, probably too much tinsel. Again, No Reverb. | Rock | |
| Schmex | Rhombus | https://alonetone.com/rosteiner/tracks/rhombus | Prog rock for power trio; guitar, bass, drums, keys (midi foot controllers). I chose the title, because it's a little tilted. I played all the instruments. And recorded it on a little Tascam DP-008EX. | Rock |
| Songs by Request | Don't Let Go - Demo | This is part of a concept album telling the story of a relationship that never quite comes together. This is midway through | Pop | |
| TeeKayEn | JFK Vs Frankenstein | https://soundcloud.com/t-k-n/jfk-vs-frankenstein | A John Carpenter inspired track. The imagined theme to my terrible screenplay | Electronic |
| The Wizards of Vomit | Space Reclaiming Icicle Plot Against Humanity | https://thewizardsofvomit.bandcamp.com/track/space-reclaiming-icicle-plot-against-humanity | This song is about an icicle that is slowly but steadily reclaiming space and time for itself and other icicles. | Noise, Rock |
| Twilight Sleep | Disparate Means (Excerpt) | https://youtu.be/QrZF74aEZzI | Electronic | |
| Walter Noons | It's All About Me | https://www.reverbnation.com/walternoons | A critique of persons refusing to be vaccinated against COVID | Pop |