The song art says it all -- a mortal trying to break out of
his/her mundane sphere of influences to transcend
limitations. Some bloodletting is inevitable. Sweet music
lifts us to higher planes and multiple dimensions. Forged
in a maelstrom of chaos and ghostly beats and rasps, we
move toward a place of harmony.

A wonderful collection of sweat and inspiration, Tobin.

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i tried using the translation tool in sherlock but I still couldn't fathom what
Schletty was banging on about :-)

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these online signatures are a load of bollocks!

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Pie, I have a poet's license. As such, there is no need for you to understand
what the heck I am talking about.

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Sonority by Schletty: http://www.schletty.com/indwellings

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both the music and the song art. Do you make these pictures yourself? I guess, this one shows mother earth giving birth to one more of us who live on and from what she gives... Not knowing if it will bring good or bad.

Its a great collage of music you've made for us. You've made some good ones through time. Strange how they all seem to fit so well together in this blend.

Congratulations with your award of MJer ot the week. I would have believed you to be the first to get this award. Absolutely deserved.

You bring a lot to this site with your positive constructive reviews and the interest you show in keeping this a living place on the web. I allways appreciate your comments on my music.

Thanks, Tobin.

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...keen on these sampler things. I think the voting should be
disabled on samplers. It's tempting to give the songwriting a
real bomb because as arrangements they usually fail.

But as a testimony of your output here at MacJams... I salute
it.

Be cool,
Pie

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Exactly. I hope SAMPLERS gets a separate category that automatically disables
voting. Just a place to distill archived songs in a pleasing compilation medley
for quick review. In fact, I wish anyone could submit songs with the ratings
function disabled, or the free downloading function (in case they want to sell the
track somewhere else). Hopefully, those changes will come in time. Thanks for
listening, tho, and your complimentary comments.

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Tobin, disabling voting and the downloading as options would be great.
i'm not sure they can do this easily - especialy with some of us having
quicktime pro :-)

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Great collection, Tobin. They blend from one to another very
nicely. I'm glad you got them to finally make this category
for music samplers.

A general "Bravo!" to your body of work.

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Wow. That worked really well together. I still don't fully
understand the concept of the sampler but what ever it is
they work well.

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of goodies here.

Thanks for sharing parts these very creativeTobin
masterpieces!



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I love the saxophone solos, you really get the best out of
who you are working with. There are some songs I didn't
recognize, so thank you for doing this. I am off to check
them out. The post 9/11 songs are so riveting, so good. You
really know how to write songs. I missed some of my
favorites though: Waitress (version 2) and If I Could Live Long
Enough.... But I like listening to whole songs better.

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Putting together a sampler (as several macjams artists have done) seems like a good way to review one's work over a given period of time. I think setting up a new category for it makes good sense. If you work in more than one genre and put together a sampler - where to place it is a problem. But beyond that, the development of samplers represents an evolution of musical conception on the macjams site. It seems likely that more productions like this will be assembled in the future, so to set up a new category for it now recognizes and anticipates that development.

Some of those transitions, Tobin, are so smooth one doesn't realize there's been a shift made between songs.

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You have such an eclectic and diverse range of music you
produce... it's a great way to introduce the uneducated to the
works of Tobin Meuller.

Bravo

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nice job

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The transitions in this sampler are outstanding!! This is a great buffet
of your songs. (By the way, it's kind of weird and cool at the same time
to hear me at age 17 and 11 in your sampler...!) It's great to hear
some of your songs I haven't listened to in a while. Now I want to go
back through your songs and revisit them.

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Thats quite a playlist there Tobin. A really good span of styles and all
of them executed and recorded very nicely... I'm especially impressed
with how many jazz recordings you've done, I know theres a lot of
work in recording instruments separately (multiple takes often
enough), but I havn't even ventured into to recording groups like that
yet. And although a lot of your music isn't my particular style, it
sounds like theres a number of I could learn for you. Great work... I'll
start listening to them separately now...

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