Hella Gems | Original Music Blog » Mike http://www.hellagems.com/blog New songs, and thoughts on creativity Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:27:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Testing… Testing… http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2012/01/24/testing-testing/ http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2012/01/24/testing-testing/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:27:50 +0000 Mike http://www.hellagems.com/blog/?p=2281 Just made a quick beat to test out uploading. I heard it was broken.

Quick Beat.wav

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Bollocks. I’ve gone chav instead of Souf London. I hope you enjoy this. Believe it.

MW – Killing ‘em Straight

Yours in Anglophilia,
Mike

]]> http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2011/09/11/killing-em-straight/feed/ 0 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2011/08/29/the-phantom-of-the-opera/ http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2011/08/29/the-phantom-of-the-opera/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:14:03 +0000 Mike http://www.hellagems.com/blog/?p=2236 Mike: erf came to visit. We recorded this. There’s something much “better” in the pipe.
erf: I wouldn’t say that it is necessarily “better”. I mean, this is a subjective measure, isn’t it?
Mike: …
erf: Fine. We did this very quickly, wanting to record a second thing before the conclusion of our first in-person collaboration, which spanned the course of two days. Do you remember how we stumbled upon this song in the first place?
Mike: You were playing the organ patch on my Roland EP-5 and you happened to do a chromatic walk down just like in this song. Then we found a midi version of the song here.
erf: Yes! The Angelfire site. That really takes me back. I decided we should download this midi and record an “interesting” vocal cover. I think everyone should do this with a midi file from this site. Somewhere along the way the straight cover was abandoned in favor of…
Mike: … PHANTOM DANCE PARTY OF THE OPERA – IS INNNNNNNNNN YOUR MIIIIIINNNND

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

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Amen, Brother Wilhelm

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5 minute beat 22

5 minute beat 23

5 minute beat 24

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5 minute beat 18

5 minute beat 19

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5 minute beat 21

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5 minute beat 17

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5 minute beat 16

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5 minute beat 15

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5 minute beat 14

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