Move To Trash

SmokeyVW

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album: Rising From The Ashes
track 1: 9:08 My Song
track 2: 3:05 MacPherson Strut
track 3: 5:55 They're Nocturnal
track 4: 4:25 I Know You're Here
track 5: 5:59 5 of 12
track 6: 3:40 Lighter Than Air
track 7: 5:07 Stairway
track 8: 5:50 I Want
track 9: 5:04 Voices
track 10: 5:15 Move To Trash
track 11: 4:21 Good To The Next Drop
track 12: 5:48 We'll Get To Phoenix Someday Soon
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Song Description

As we dance, we constantly discover new opportunities.

The important thing is to dance.

What we dance to is secondary at best.

http://dance.stanford.edu/syllabi/partnering.htm

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Hits: 1099
Comments: 16
Fans: 1
Plays: 107
Downloads: 46
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Uploaded: Jan 28, 2007 - 10:29:53 AM
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2008 - 11:37:03 AM Last Played: Apr 21, 2009 - 12:00:35 PM

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bud	bud said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)
	Couldn't agree with you more Nice update of the Kraftwerk vibe - like the tonalities and complexity of the sequences - then the break into free piano is awesome - wish i could play like that. Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)
	. thanks Bud check out that link - not sure if the author meant to, but it's highly symbolic Check out my latest song called One For Me

	said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)
	Nice I can feel the rhythm...... I LIKE2 DANCE.

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)
	. thanks Skean Check out my latest song called One For Me

JRD	JRD said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)
	Piano solos! The piano lead in the middle and at the end caught me by surprise, pleasantly so. There's a human in that electro-band! I'm not huge into club music, but this one got my toes tapping and avoided the unpleasant and ostentatious sound "blats" that so many composers and DJs sprinkle throughout dance music. Nice piece of work. Check out my latest song called Zero To Sixty

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SmokeyVW said 1029 days ago (January 28th, 2007)

a little playful sabotage
thanks for noticing that piano - yup, i did actually play that odd little riff, although i needed to snap the timing afterwards. no notes were rearranged or pitches shifted (which is not always the case). all the rest of this song is made of seriously mutated GB loops (which i consider a valid artform BTW).

i like exploring the vast musical landscape - check out some of my other tunes if you have a chance.

and i really enjoyed your comment about "a human in that electro-band" -- somedays i feel like a wooden shoe in the machinery. somedays i am.

Check out my latest song called One For Me

announcer	announcer said 1029 days ago (January 29th, 2007)
	Sweet I like the textures and the odd key choices. Good stuff with a persistant quality that works for this. Nice full mix. Check out my latest song called It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1028 days ago (January 29th, 2007)
	. glad you dropped by to listen! thanks for the tips on using the multiband compression AU. Check out my latest song called One For Me

	said 1027 days ago (January 30th, 2007)
	Hey! Let's move this to the Fan Picks area instead! The 80's live! Love the eeirie tones. Yes...definitely danceable! Fire up the strobe! Be well! ODE TO SPRING: http://www.macjams.com/song/28558

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1027 days ago (January 30th, 2007)
	. thanks for listening!!! Check out my latest song called One For Me

Macaudion	Macaudion said 1027 days ago (January 30th, 2007)
	And we dance... Quite a facinting piece, Smokeyvw - Mostly, I'm intrigued as to how you actually about composed it... Nice work! Thanks! Macca Check out my latest song called 123 iGetU

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1027 days ago (January 30th, 2007)
	. this song was done gradually a few minutes at a time, scattered over a few weeks. it's an accretion of whims. i kept thinking i should move it to the trashcan, but kepting fiddling with it. that piano thing was added way near the end for spice. then i got some tips about using the multiband compressor, did a final mix, and viola! thanks Check out my latest song called One For Me

	said 1026 days ago (January 31st, 2007)
	I found My foot tappin then my fingers rappin and the next thing I knoew I was dancin like no one was watchin then my wife busted in And i sat down real fast. Fun song like it alot

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 1026 days ago (January 31st, 2007)
	. LOL - thanks Check out my latest song called One For Me

TobinMueller	TobinMueller said 977 days ago (March 22nd, 2007)
	Ravin' Nice frenetic ostinato keyboard work. The percussion track has a nice steady beat, but reminds me of exercise tape stuff and I imagined it if a real drummer were playing along with your cool keys and thought a lot more would have been added with a hipper cooler drum track. It has a great Ecstasy vibe. Check out my latest song called Forge A New Life (MJRF)

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SmokeyVW said 972 days ago (March 26th, 2007)

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well, i must admit i have ADD when it comes to percussion. sometimes i really get into it and start crafting every snare hit, but usually i treat drums at a higher level and just mix (edited) loops to get the effect i want. i am no drummer.

i must also admit that when i wrote this song i was in a large funk. not the musical style funk, but the "dejected mood" kind. i was in the "everything is worthless" kind of funk. that's where the title ultimately originated.

but, always enjoying a pun, if you start with the idea of throwing out garbage on a Mac is done via "Move To Trash" - i began to work on the idea that we can always revert to our more basic emotional rhythmic visceral animal selves - the idea of simply moving (dancing) to trash (whatever junk is available) became set in my mind.

so, over a few weeks, i darkly assembled some stuff that i felt (at the time) was intellectually barren but fun to wiggle to. and i kept layering it. maybe it's a way to find inner energy even when you've got none left. maybe it was a mockery of some sort? of myself? of music?

i usually do some googling on my subject matter, so this time it was dancing. the result is that link up above. i saw light in that. maybe there really is some meaning after all. maybe i was emerging from my funk too. so i fixed up this song a little, and it was done.

thanks for inviting me in, and letting me lie on your couch for a few minutes.

Check out my latest song called One For Me

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Name: Bill

Eclectic, at best. I learned some music theory at school, and read a ton about it since. I've listened to lots of music over the years. I once played guitar in an actual garage band and actually got paid to play! Once. Although live performance is an... [see more]

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Genre Info

Electronic dance music is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. Such music was originally borne of and popularized via regional nightclub scene

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