Insane

This is a tune that tries to paint a picture of traffic in a modern city: the stop/go, walk/don't-walk madness, the sudden unexpected peace, shattered again just as suddenly. A mad, insane noise that we are somehow able to ignore, to push to the back of our consciousness, but is there all the same, keeping you off balance. So invasive is the onslaught of sounds and smells, that you only start to notice it when it's gone.

[ tags: piano noise traffic leadguitar ] [ genres: new age indie ] [ info: 4:17 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Fly Away

With "Fly Away", Unwholly delivers a strong, moody song, his folk violin and vocals soar above a compulsive trip-hop beat. Excellent production adds an edgy-ness and color to the simple song format.

[ tags: violin vocal beat mood idm edgy ] [ genres: trip hop folk ] [ info: 4:09 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

I Dream (Trance mix)

This track wonders what Asimov's R-Daneel dreams about

[ tags: robot trance dream vocals ] [ genres: electroacoustic downtempo ] [ info: 4:25 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Swn Y Môr (Sound of the Sea)

Sitting on the beach in Holyhead (on another island, but don't feel much like Ibiza, though), the Dublin ferry not in yet, no money to get a pint in the pub, just the sound of the sea...

[ tags: guitar sea ireland wales ] [ genres: electroacoustic groove ] [ info: 3:57 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Blue Tooth

This is the nearest I get to doing a blues song these days... Built around an ambient sound, it comments on glaciers and other cold things with a bite, and an excuse to cut loose with a durty guitar

[ tags: guitar blues beat hammond solo ] [ genres: blues indie ] [ info: 4:01 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Persephone

How many times has this story been told? Girl goes walking in the hills, lord of the underworld grabs her, and gets her to eat pomegranate seeds, her mammy cuts a deal so she can come above ground for the summer months, but she still has to spend Six Underground

[ tags: ] [ genres: groove electroacoustic ] [ info: 3:59 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Vanilla

OK, a song about my favorite Starbucks flavored coffee, why not? Another backing-track only, see markovich/A.M.P. homepage for lyrics; singers always needed!

[ tags: ambient space coffee ] [ genres: idm downtempo ] [ info: 4:06 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Raindrops

The defining track of the emerging musical genre of "drip-hop"... The idea, emotionally, is that its a sad song, but tries to have an optimistic up-lift in the middle: "this is a song of hope", as yer man once said. This is the backing track only - if you'd like to sing along, the lyrics are on the Markovich/A.M.P. homepage: record 'em and send them in!

[ tags: ambient storm driphop ] [ genres: idm downtempo ] [ info: 4:48 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

When The Sky Fell Down

A song about the cataclismic events that changes our lives...

[ tags: katrina tsunami 911 vocals ] [ genres: trip hop vocal ] [ info: 3:51 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Sunday Morning

A she/he/it's gone song

[ tags: beats birds bells vocals ] [ genres: ambient vocal ] [ info: 3:39 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Tullacanna

It's a piece about rural depopulation and emigration; it starts in the Irish countryside and ends up in a big city across the water...

[ tags: guitar strings newyork ireland emigration ] [ genres: classical soundtrack ] [ info: 7:00 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Keep on Dancing

Vocals: Margot du Bois Producer: Brodo This song was written in reaction to the recent London bombings, not a protest song - it contains no solutions or other such wisdom, it just tries to capture my mood and thoughts in the aftermath. If it makes people think, thats a bonus

[ tags: london bombs ] [ genres: downtempo vocal ] [ info: 4:12 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Icebox

This is the Markovich entry for the Creative Commons Magnatune Lisa DeBenedictis Remix Contest I only found out about the contest two days before the closing date, and had one day to write, arrange and produce the track and an hour the next day to master it, so its a bit rough around the edges... Based on the acappella vocal track of Lisa de Benedictis's "Below", I first jammed along with an electric bass, then added bongoes and guitar to get the core of the song up and running. After that, it was mainly a question creating the structure of the song. I felt the song should be going somewhere, that it should build-up to a stronger beat. It would have been nice to spend some more time, re-recording parts and mixing, but times-up! There seems to be about 200 entries to the contest, of which they are selecting 10 winners, and there is some amazingly good stuff there, so you won't see me on the podium, but I enjoyed the challenge.

[ tags: acoustic guitar groove ] [ genres: trip hop vocal ] [ info: 3:14 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Wasted Symphony

This tune/song is about stumbling out of a dance club in Temple Bar in Dublin (the Kitchen, if you know it), and trying to buy milk (why?) in an all night store; So you've got this dance beat still echoing around your skull, the store is lit with bright neon, and you are having trouble focusing on the goods; You've a great buzz from the pints and you're in a brilliant mood. Oh yeah, and it's a tribute to Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy and The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony

[ tags: synth guitar happy break ] [ genres: trance techno ] [ info: 3:43 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Who is Peter Tong?

The much shortened radio edit of "Peter Tong", featuring the excellant vocals of Jerry Allen, transforms this dance track into something much more accessible.... This song documents an event on the island of Ibiza last summer. After sitting around on the beach all afternoon, playing guitars and bongoes and sampling local and imported produce, we thought we'd get a taxi into town and catch Peter Tong's set (a famous DJ, and more famous now that he has a film named after him), and try and get him to play a demo of one of our songs. He wouldn't (of course). Anyway, that's the story behind this song: it starts out on the beach, the sun going down, taxi to a club (I don't think it was Space - prob. Pacha - but that makes for a better lyric), back to the beach in the wee small hours.

[ tags: synth ibiza beach peter tong vocals ] [ genres: dance groove ] [ info: 5:12 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]

Everything's Otay!

Another strange one from the mystical island of Ibiza. The track started life as a normal ballad, called "Something New", and we were like just strumming along on the beach one evening, thinking no bad thoughts at all, when this fella turns up, and starts singing his own words over it: "Otay, otay, don't you worry, everythings gonna be otay!", and it sort of worked, it added something that was missing to the song. Anyways, we got talking and decided to go to his “villa" where he had a small studio in his garden shed, and thats where this version got recorded, with him on production and fetching of chilled vodka duties. Now here's the funny thing, his name was Frankie Wilde, and he'd been on the island a good few years, doing some Dj'ing and stuff, then this movie comes out about him and whilst there are some similarities, its definitely made-up. I even think the Austrian in the movie is supposed to be me (don't ask...)

[ tags: synth ibiza frankie wilde ] [ genres: dance techno ] [ info: 3:15 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]