Hella Gems | Original Music Blog http://www.hellagems.com/blog New songs, and thoughts on creativity Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:06:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Fishy Squares http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2010/02/22/fishy-squares/ http://www.hellagems.com/blog/2010/02/22/fishy-squares/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:06:52 +0000 Kelly G http://www.hellagems.com/blog/?p=1944 This is down with Triforce again and also Peach. Peach is a little different than triforce because it has a tone bank rather than just the square and triangle, but it’s still trying to be NES sounding. This is a more straight-forward tonal thing with cheep arpeggiated chords. Oh well.

peggios

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lumpy1.mp3

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My name’s Noam. I’ll be posting mostly acoustic sketches here and there. Excited to join y’all.

Ebaad kuntu

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MW – James Cameron’s Avatar Freestyle

Time to get this blog-party started again. I’m going to try and do as much music as I can at all times. Sometimes it will be a whack rap(?) about Avatar. Other times it might be a whack rap about something else. Maybe there won’t always be whack rapping. Hopefully someday there will be dope rapping. Maybe even dope rapping about the latest IMAX 3D blockbusters.

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Sorry I missed last week. I’ve been fighting off a rude cold and did not feel like anything at all.

However well executed, this song is about being both unrealistically optimistic about a relationship and overprotective of your own space. My own space? I don’t know. I don’t know.

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I guess it’s supposed to sound spacey.

spacedisco

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There just aren’t enough good Thanksgiving songs, are there?

This submission does not help that situation!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

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Karma Police

Here’s an instrumental cover of Karma Police made using Mario Paint Composer. Enjoy!

Also, I’m new posting, so if anyone has any pro-tips (like how to embed the audio dealy) then I’d love to hear it.

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