Mp3 Jam @ S.M.Studios...

Merry Xmas World!!!

2010-12-13T15:49:00.001-08:00

I F**n Love You!!!

jsm: and dont you ever forget, i f**n love you. it might not always come across, but i do, and so it is...
love, light, learn, live all.
jsm

Another Spiritual Awakening maybe?

2007-10-09T14:40:00.000-07:00

amazing grace - crickey, i had to do it eventually eh! and bearing in mind i dont even know the words, that will explain why its the first couple of verses only. the original idea was just the close background humming on top of a repeatative bass drum thumpin away, and that subsequently inspired the spiritual approach, and thus this posting. you know, stick an extra verse or two in, a couple of choir singers, and of-course the jingle bells, and tell me theres not a good christmas carol hiding in there somewhere...

(( lol on listening back, i realise that my political podcast i was listening to was busy playing away in the background, and i never even noticed. well, thats 1 way to get an audience i suppose. ))

i feel free - not much here really, but definatelly a good idea. what i luv about this is the very simple, and very personal approach of the jam. only prob is my voice drops out at this level, and so making a song out of this might resort to being cover material for publishing purposes only i thinks. or maybe a tv ad eh!... (( dodgey note alert lol :))

Give a Little Jam

2007-10-04T07:41:00.000-07:00

Give a Little -blahdiblahdiblahblah laah. Yep, another b****y jam that I have to store away in my 'Yeah in your Dreams' folder, and these are just the ones you get to hear. I probably bin about 50 to 80% of the jam material, and then about 25 to 50% of that gets heard online. So as you can imagine, theres a lot of REAL rubbish tucked away, never mind the best of the bunch that gets to see the light of the Internet. Oh Sorry, the jam file? - cant be bothered now, just listen to it. Im bored, bye!

Cheeky Cheeky

2007-09-21T06:58:00.000-07:00

whoooaaaaahhh there!!!!!!!

insinuation alert insinuation alert

warning! warning! (aaaw, its not that baaad!!!)

UPDATED: (24th Sep)

Just made a couple more files for the Cheeky Cheeky Jam, as I was temporarilly inspired again! Anyway, these two files contain some heavily compressed sustained Strat Guitar, just to give the idea a note to hang onto. And me for that matter. So here they are and hope you like em...

1) cheeky cheeky strat jam 1 (damper mix)

2) cheeky cheeky strat jam 2 (dryer mix) END

Cheeky Cheeky (the original jam file)

Again, while creating some percussion loops again, i heard this one, and started thinking about the snoop doggy dog song, the one where the beat is beat-boxing, fairly recent i think. Anyway, always liked it, so went into rippir mode and chucked this together, allthough theres really not much here yet.

Now If i do develop this it will be based more around its chorus's as apposed to verser as such. It would also suite a rapper singer duo as apposed to a milky bar me kid ;) also think it would suit a very minimal kind of approach, you know, the kind that when you buy the CD and listen to it a few times, you soon realise you have been blatently ripped off.

Please also excuse the change half way thru from dry to wet vocal sfx aswell as the ad-splash. wasnt quite sure what way to go and still aint, so i just left the two together. i imagine the vocals being better up front and dry, but listening to this i get the impression the fx vocals are better suited to the percussion. i might play around with this in jam mode for a while longer before commiting i thinks... till next time

Simple, Naughty, Nice, & Funky

2007-09-21T05:20:00.000-07:00

Bass Drum keeps on Thumpin

Now, for some time I had always been trying to come up with the foundations of creating another 'beat keeps on hammering a rythm in my brain' kind of vibey type track...

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And it wasnt untill last weekend, while creating some more Percussion Loops to add to my Huge 'Wav-Central' Libruary, when one particular loop, consisting only of a thumping bass drum, and i do mean thumpin, suddenly caught my attention...

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And as always happens when making percussion loops, i was immediatelly side-tracked to capturing another idea to a jam file for future ref. (ah, so thats how i work i hear you say) So

loop repeating indefinatelly, i plug rhe mike in and low and behold, the vocal hook i have been after for years comes out of no-where...

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Listen to bass drum keeps on thumpin the singer
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Right, not a lot here eh! and allready something maybe? well after chucking this together, i was immediatelly happy with the lyrical slant AND the drum loop. But what drum loop!!!
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Anyway, with no ideas at all, i just plugged in the Strat and made sure it was dryish and distorted. And bear in mind im not a great player, it is no more a tool to me as is my SL1200! After much jammin i limmit the file to this...

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Listen to bass drum keeps on thumpin the guitar

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Now i really like this. Why? well i didnt for one minute think that with such an Organic background, and a cheezy poppy vocal hook, that a Strat would suite the idea, i just wanted to Jam. I am now convinced, that if i maticilously practice some riffs, i might actually sound good tooo, aswell as get a bloody good backing! And it still retains that cheez factor, but sounds just a little bit cooler, hmmmm.Right, finally a studio touch, using the compressor on HEAVY and QUICK to gain and drop the vocals with respect to the background and presto. An idea i developed while doing a remix a while back, but never found a home for it. Be warned tho, this is all a jam, and i have just compressed and not de-essed it at all, so it might be a little un-comfortable on the ears at hi vol...

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Listen to bass drum keeps on thumpin the guitar sfxd

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Right, I have heard enough. I have capture the jam file for later date ref in case i decide to work on it some more, one of many i can tell you. Just one bass drum, one vocal hook, and a rough guitar riff, and allready the foundations are set. This is good, well, good enough to work on, after all, it still is only a Jam!!! (more to come)

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dont even bother

2007-09-03T07:21:00.000-07:00

if you said you loved me -- absolute rubbish. dont know why i posted it. should be sued for wasted web-space use. doesnt deserve the posting either. in fact if im not careful, i might just accidentally press the *&yh^$ds bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! crackle pop!

All down to You

2007-08-12T04:54:00.000-07:00

All down to You Jam
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Song gets face-lift, and a jam tooo!!!

Yep! this nice little poppy commercial number i dod sooo looong ago, was recently jammed to, and also happens to be Charlee's favourite song by me. One where she actually tolerates my singing, ah bless...

Now the jam version here is just a variation of the break-down part of the song, and still hasnt been included on the original song file , as this had been deliberatelly restricted to 90seconds for Legal and Copyright reasons. I'm a goody two shoes you see!

But anyway, for now, heres the jam i did, and see if you can spot my Shaggy influences in there (see if you CANT lol) and hope you like it peeps...

I must update the original file to include the updates, bearing in mind, it will be restricted due to Copyright reasons, and hopefully once I get off by B*** i will get this little gem out there...

Listen to the original promo clip - - - - - - ...HERE... -or- ...HERE...
Listen to the Jam i chucked together - - - ...HERE...

Copyright © S.M.Studios 1997, UK Laws apply.
Samples © EMI Records. The four and only Seekers.
(( and what they say goes :) if they say lol ))

Plugged Up and Played Down

2007-07-17T03:05:00.000-07:00

1) All it Takes
2) Dig it Up
3) So nice
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All it takes - well, its in the opening 15secs that i hear an excellent tune to work around, aswell as in parts throughout this jam. To be honest if i spent a little time on this i know theres a quirk little number in there. But its another one of those ideas that hindsight has taught me to jam with, as apposed to sitting down and literally writing lyrics. this is an inspired vocal take, and not written as such, well not yet anyway...
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Dig it Up - wow, now i really like this, BUT its definatelly not a song as such and so dont expect to get jiggy with it. I just love it when i am inspired in a direction, that i can quite honestly say i dont deserve the credit for. And when you ask, well who does deserve the credit, now thats exactly what i would like to know??? this reminds me of 'You Shine' - who helped me write this?

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So nice - hahaha, this is just typical me im afraid. You see, i grew up in South Africa, and the music was shite, well except for Bob Marley of-course, GoD! - And this kind of jam is now something i can do with my eyes shut, and the weird thing is i still luve this genere as much as i did 10years or so ago now. Its sooo nice once in a while to let the heart do the talking, and not the head. - RIP BM - i luv you big time m8...

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On a Spiritual Mission

2007-06-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

(jsm jammin in his more spiritual moments)

(thnx to Chard for input)

flowin

typical meee eh, take a guitar riff i recorded a while back, with the usual background noise and chatter that instantly becomes part of the rythm the minute you loop it, and then freestyle for the next minute or so. this would actually be better if it were done as a jam in a band, but deliberatelly recording it in an old fashioned way.

lonelly rivers

now allthough im actually slapping a plugged up fender strat, theres definatelly potential for a good rythm in there somewhere, and the lyrics i like tooo but for their simplicity. probably be termed as an old blues type of track, allthough i wouldnt dare say so myself. i mean, just listen to the guitar riff!

let me in

and with my eyes wide shut, could very easily turn this into a brilliant and great religous song. which is strange really when you consider my claims to being spiritual, and not religous as such. maybe that alone goes to show that if god exists, he really does care about every-one eh!

(psst, listen to the dodgey opening note lol - ouch!)

Hip-Hop Be-Bop Hey B-Boy Dont-Stop !!!

2007-05-06T17:31:00.000-07:00

Hip-Hop Be-Bop (vocal)

Hip-Hop Be-Bop (instr)

A progressively cutting edge feel, but desperately trying to capture the very 'Old Skool' Flava. A funky drum-loop over-driven and sfx'd with background sound-scaping, leaving lots of space for the MC to Big-Up the B-Boys and B-Girls...

Now this little baby is derived from a percussion loop i made a looong time ago, and always
knew Iwould use it one day. It looks like that one day is fast approaching tooo

Anyway, after some heavy processing and editing, the idea developed into an Old Skool Hip Hop
flava, and i really do mean old skool like kool kurt, whiz kid, you get the drift.
And the basis of the vocals were definately influenced by the roof is on fire vibe, but using
man parish phrasing.

It was also a pure co-incidence, that when recording the vocal, i subsequently over-drove the
gain, and after some fx prep, realised that only added to the authenticity of the vocal
hooks. In other words they sound a little dated. (vocals n sfx still to be added)

Another really weird thing here, is allthough the backing is extremely cutting edge and
'Cool' as they say, i definately DIDNT want the vocals to be cool, but merely to sound like
the Old Skool Days vibe. Sort of done on the fly, with no pre-empting.

And on adding the vocal and crowd sfx quite literally just by allowing the files on auto-loop, I now think this is the way to go. Very spontanious, very loose, with as little arranging as possible. This idea certainly seems to be leaning towards a less formulaic approach.

Njoy!

!! Make U Sweat !!

2007-05-04T18:05:00.001-07:00

Make u Sweat another jam
Make you SweaT (original)!

Now this will end up as a song in its own right eventually, but for now heres the jam. The simple bassy guitar riff here is what carries the tune, and although it was originally played on the cheap cheap kiddy guitar and recorded in using the AKG3000, i think its simplicity might be the making of it. Inspired by Prince's sweat number. I think i will end up applying a break beat type rythm as well.

when Chill comes to Town

2007-05-04T18:04:00.000-07:00

Is It Really Happening
Very laid back elec guitar, with chemikally induced vocals. Trippy Trippy Trippy...

Now although I dont use substances of any sort, apart from Alcohol, I cant say the same for my buddies. And Uncle KiKi's gonna kick my ass when he hears these, but I wanted him to know what he sounds like (lol)

Mexico
Hmmm, apart from my slak guitar playin here, and the thin vocals :) I like the vibe. Keiron said the guitar sounded mexican, and so he took it from there...

When Chard comes to Town

2007-05-04T18:03:00.002-07:00

Feels so Right
Feels so right, is the result of some duo jammin, and bouncing some original vocal ideas that chard came up with, and i just jammed with. Probably got the makings of a nice little tune now...

Lotta Ruff Stuff
No singing, a simple live compressed drum loop, me on the bass guitar, chard on the lead, lots of sore finger, and a bloddy good jam. Its nothing less than a pleasure when chard comes to town.

Darling u know

2007-05-04T18:03:00.001-07:00

Darling you know

Hell, stick a can or two of larger in me, plug me up, and I think I'm Eric Clapton. A nice little jam to a house beat, firstly with the Tanglewood, then with the strat...

The nice little thing I learnt with this jam is playing with the reverb tail off an acoustic, and making sure you get the best out of it using compression to rise it as it fades. Also helps to act as a filler when theres only one of you :)

Out of Touch! - Klinnikal Electronica

2007-05-04T18:02:00.000-07:00

Out of touch [updated 27sep 2007 - FULL LENGTH mp3]

Pure Organic Cold klinnikal hard edged Audio for the dissaffected and the dissinfected. Computer Generated purcussion drowned in distant sounds of pain, death and destruction. F**k! where did all that come from???

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The percussion here consists of the same drum-loop taken from my Wav-Central Library, and then stuck through some various fx in Cool Edit. The haunting fx in the background is taken from one of my Sound-Scaping files that can be found in the Audio4Media section. These were then jammed live using Cool Edits basic dynamics presets preview window would you believe...

Hands of Time

2007-05-04T18:01:00.000-07:00

Hands of Time

Now this is actually an early derivative of 'around the world' which was originally posted here, but has since become a song and can be found in the latest menu. This early jam stands on its own two feet as a nice little number.
Simple house beat, with tecknoey blips, and the lyrics ranting on about the lack of time give this a very old early teckno, retro feel to it...

Scotts-Pistols... the Sex-Pistols wannabes...

2007-05-04T17:59:00.002-07:00

...Scott's Pistols...
Well, its me and my cute older Nephew Scott again, and this time we just ran a one of the percussion loops from my sister site @ Wav-Central, Scott plugged in the Strat, and I the dodgey lyricals. Amazing what a bit of aggression can achieve eh!

And this is probably the first time my nephew realised that if he picked up a guitar and tried, he might actually be able to learn to play. You know, i have seen this sooo many times now, that just giving a youngster the tools to be creative, can sometimes open a whole new world to them, and you can see the glow of excitement appear on their faces when the penny drops.

A Flower Power Love Number

2007-05-04T17:59:00.001-07:00

...i try acoustic...

Just a nice little Acoustic Jam from a Man who loves his Woman and feels all her hurt and happiness but just wants it all to go away... (( Well! that explains why I'm still single then ))

And after setting up and recording a John Lennon'y backing jam for this, I now think I preffer the Acoustic un-plugged and might be knocking all that hard work on the head for this on. Well, you dont know till you try eh!

A Cheeky Chappy Vibe.

2007-05-04T17:58:00.000-07:00

movin take 1.mp3

Its a happy vibey cheeky chappy male mc watchin all the girlies. Its free-styleee so dont expect any perfection here!
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This reminds me very much of 'a little bit of sheela, by the sun....' and I did like the live feel to that so maybe thats what I need here. And bearing in mind that its all done on the fly, perhaps thats the way to develop this idea.

Move - A So Solid Kinda Groove!!!

2007-05-04T17:54:00.000-07:00

...MOVE...

Definately a So Solid Crew kind of track with balls of attitude for the lads, and lots of sexual expression for the ladies. More of a gangsta ragga tip to it.

This really also needs a crew behind it with more than one vocal part as it lends nicely to that kind of vibe-change. A bit like 21 seconds, but without the violent under-tones. So a 21seconds band but with a more commercially accesible production.