It has been said that a gram of pure gold can be hammered into a single sheet one square meter in size. I wanted to see if the same thing was possible with a few select loops of my fellow Germanians. This mix is ear goggle friendly, but you may find yourself screaming along with it to keep your sanity. Credits: Blind Mime Open loops, Antigravity Open loops, Loops by BF Baker, Buzzsaw Open loops

I took two really great mixes, added a couple of ear friendly loops and blended them all together. Why it didn't turn out sounding like a handful of ball bearings thrown into a kitchen blender set on liquify is anybody's guess. It has a very somber and melacholy feel to it, so I'm hoping the next one I try is a little more uplifting. Dust off your ear goggles and crank up the volume. Credits: Mental Anguish - The Smell of Death; David Fuglewicz - Gone for Good; Buzzsaw Open loops, Heuristics Inc Open loops.

Long ago Spider Woman showed us how to weave a web to catch our dreams. She took a hoop and began weaving from the outside until she reached the center. At the center she left a hole. She told us that the web would catch our dreams. The dream catcher should be hung above the sleeping area, where it would be hit with the first morning light. While we slept, the dream catcher would catch our dreams. The good and useful dreams would easily make their way through the web and fall through the hole to the dreamer below. The bad and useless dreams would be caught in the web and evaporate in the morning light. Or so we had been led to believe. Credits: CYSTEM Open Loops, DJ Get Yo Fat On Open Loops, David Fuglewicz Open Loops, random music loops, select Zebra Mann voice loops

Ages ago, we thought we could come to know a second real world in dreams. Without dreams, we would have found no occasion to divide the world. The separation of body and soul is connected to the oldest views about dreams, as is the assumption of spiritual apparitions such as gods and ghosts. The dead man lives on, because he appears to the living man in dreams, and it still continues to be this way. Our troubled history goes back to the very beginning, back to when our early ancestors had their first disturbing dreams. Credits: Arthur Loves Plastic Open loops, Hal McGee Open loops, Yuroun Guest Artist Open loops, Zebra Mann spoken word loops

Somniphobia is the fear of sleep or of being unconscious, Oneirophobia is the fear of dreaming, and Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. The last one doesn't really go with the other two, but I couldn't pass up adding it to the list. Our fears know no bounds, and for everything there is in the world, there is someone with an irrational fear of it. This is the third mix in my Dream Journey series, and as usual, it is ear goggle friendly. Credits: Hebephrenic Open loops, Buzzsaw and the Shavings Open Loops, Mellow Jeremy Guest Artist Open loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open loops, Zebra Mann Voice Loops

There are many types of dreams that invade our sleep. I rarely remember the happy ones. The worst are the recurring nightmares. I have no problem remembering those. There is one where a creature I call a demon comes to visit me on a mission of mischief. I do not call it a demon because of its' appearance, but because of its malevolence. It comes for me through a rift in space, slinking through a veiled doorway between its' universe and mine. With grasping claws and gnashing teeth, it tries to drag me away from all that I hold dear. I usually wake up just before it succeeds in doing so, and then I get up from my bed, for I know that sleep is no longer an option. All I can do is to turn on the lights and wait for the sunrise. Credits: David Fuglewicz Open loops, Buzzsaw and the Shavings Mixes, slightly butchered, and Zebra Mann's voice loops

Having another person interpret your dreams is sort of like letting them try on your socks while you are still wearing them. Whether you believe that dreams are a way for you to communicate with your subconscious as Jung suggested, that they are merely wish fulfillment as Freud stated, or that they are simply images that your mind uses to sort out the day's events, no one really knows what they are for or why our brain creates them. No matter what purpose they truly serve, the darn things sometimes have a tendency to screw up a really good night's sleep. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist Open loops, C Goff III Open loops, Decaying Machine Guest Artist Open Loops, Zebra Mann's Voice loops

Did you ever notice that sometimes, when you are dreaming, the conversations you have with the people in your dreams have absolutely nothing to do with the events and actions going on all around you? This mix is kind of like that. Credits: GEMAfreie-welten guest artist, CYSTEM open loops, guest artist Ed Drury, Fluxus Fone Project

The seventh mix in the Dreaming Ape series. Do the other animals dream? Do they remember their dreams? Do their dreams even mean anything? If you really want to know, ask a zebra if its' bad dreams are nightmares. Credits: Mental Anguish Open loops, Heuristics Inc Open loops, Omnitechnomatrix Open loops, Shaud loops, select Zebra Mann voice loops

Taking Blind Mime's 'track_altair' and speeding it up 10,000 percent made it sound eerily like my favorite Camille Saint-Saen's piece, The Aquarium. After that, adding bits of Blind Mime's loops was easy, and more importantly, fun. This mix is the final result. It was fish this time, perhaps it will be birds next. As always, this piece is ear goggle friendly. Credits: Blind Mime Open Loops

After to listening to my Brave New World Series several times at work on CD, I figured out that one of the songs needed to be a bit longer. So after I got home tonight, I made it longer. Then I decided it needed a few more effects. So I added a few more effects. After giving it some thought, I realized that maybe some more reverb might be cool. So I added more reverb. Then I guessed that adding something new to the mix wouldn't hurt, so I added something new.

That's me, I just can't leave well enough alone. Wear your ear goggles for the journey, it'll be worth it. Credits: David Fuglewicz open loops

These chapters are for Zetta, my Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula. In honor of all invertebrates; and arachnids in particular, I've decided to see what sort of eight legged mixery I can create. This mix, the first of what I can only hope will be many more, describes the beginnings of all spiders, the humble egg sac, carefully protected by the skillfully lain web of the preceeding generation. Zetta never knew her mother, yet her mother did the best she could for her offspring, just the same. Credits: Created with Loops by Mike McGary Random 12, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Cystem Open Loops, Hal McGee Open Loops, Ed Drury Guest Artist, and GEMAfreie-welten Guest Artist.

When the egg sac opens, a thousand spiders come streaming out. Definitely not a sight for someone that is severely arachnaphobic. Credits: includes loops by Blind Mime Open Loops, Arthur Loves Plastic Open Loops, CYSTEM Open Loops, Mental Anguish Open Loops, Mike McGary Random 12 Pack, and GEMAfreie-welten guest artist

The spiderlings have begun to leave the nest. They run off, seemingly at random and in every direction. And Zetta heads out into the wide world, to discover for herself the great unknown. Wear your ear goggles, but don't close your eyes if you are arachnaphobic. You have been warned! Credits: Created with Loops from Mental Anguish, Omnitechnomatrix, and bf baker

Of the thousands of spiderlings that hatch from every egg sac, only a few dozen survive to adulthood. As Zetta scurries off on her own, she soon discovers that there are two things a spiderling needs to survive in the big wide world. Food and shelter. She is fortunate to find both right away. Credits: Created with loops by Blind Mime Open loops, Arthur Loves Plastic Open loops & Buzzsaw and the Shavings Open Loops.

The only thing odder than the tri-wheeled Mago-Mago plants and the spring-tailed Land Lobsters of the planet known as DF12010, are the Keskan. The Keskan people are the sole sentient life form on this unusual planet, or are they? Credits: David Fuglewicz loops

The Keskan people seem quite bizarre; in fact they look nothing at all like the biped humanoids we are used to, but like all people, they love, they laugh, they work and they play, and they care for their young and old alike. They smile when they are happy and cry when they are sad, and they play music and sing songs to express their every emotion, like all intelligent life forms. Although they might not seem human to our eyes, to themselves, they are truly made in the image of their Creator. Use your ear goggles, as usual. Credits: David Fuglewicz loops

Several of the adult Keskan males put together a leisurely expedition to Sodalicious Swamp, as many in the tribe has expressed a hankering for some Seven-Banded Zitterings. Upon reaching the shores of the swamp, the Keskan saw something they had never laid eyes upon before. A new race of men, much like themselves, and yet, somehow different. The Keskan race learned a new concept that day. The concept of Us vs. Them. Ear goggle friendly. Credits: David Fuglewicz Loops

The Kaskan warriors approach the newcomers with caution; only fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Through various means of appendage communication, it is found they have much in common, and even more importantly, much to share. The newcomers call themselves Screeee, which translates roughly as 'The People of the Swamp.' The Screeee and the Kaskan soon become fast friends and trading partners. Credits: David Fuglewicz Loops

The Keskan and the Screeee have learned how to live together in peaceful coexistence. Their lives are happy and full of joy, and the only sorrow they know is when their mortal lives come to the inevitable end, as all such mortal beings face. Humanity could learn a lesson or two from these two sentient races. Credits: David Fuglewicz Loops

I remixed this song, as it was much too long the first time. Now it sounds better, and is more fitting in this format. Credits: Dave Fuglewicz Loops and select mixes shaken but not stirred

If you were going to build a house in cyber space, who would you call? Why, you'd call in a virtual construction crew. First up, the men with the hammers and saws and power drills. You gotta build the walls before you put on the roof, and only after the roof is on do you call in the painters and plasterers. This piece is ear goggle friendly, and also could cause permanent hearing loss, so watch that volume. Credits: Omnitechnomatrix Open Loops

A few loops by C. Goff III that have had unspeakable things done to them. No open loop is safe, no TG artist is exempt. Ahhh, the horror!! Wear your ear goggles. Credits: various loops by C. Goff III guest artist

The aliens traveled 150 billion light years to Earth just to say Hello. The reason it took them so long and that they ended up traveling so far was because their GPS device had an electrical short in its wiring. It seems that they lost their way. Oh well, better late than never. Credits: C. Goff III Guest Artist loops

The final episode of my experiments with the loops of C. Goff III. Nothing is implied with this track other than it contains some pretty darn good advice for those of us who never learned quite how to fit in to the rest of the herd.

Life is about choices, your results may vary. Credits: C. Goff III Guest Artist loops

We would all like to spend a day with our favorite talented Germanian, traveling the routes of Medieval Europe in a rail car. Of course, were we to dine together, someone else would have to pick up the check, as I left my wallet in my other pants. Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

As Buzzsaw regales us with his knowledge of all things spiritual (as in rum or cognac and not anything concerning the occult) it has been discovered that the conductor and engineer have been drinking in the engine compartment. With no one at the helm, the train careens out of control down the side of the mountain. Fortunately, the shades are closed so we cannot see the landscape rushing by at a breakneck speed. Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

The train finally slows to a safe stop at the bottom of the mountain, but Buzzsaw is incensed by the haphazard way that the railroad is being run. Upon exiting the dining car and finding all his friends still in good health, he takes the conductor and engineer to task, and they cower before him. He reminds all of us that there are other ways to travel and begins to cast about for a new mode of transportation. Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

As Buzz and his compatriots leave the drunken conductor and engineer behind, they set off on foot across the mountains. Soon it becomes apparent that some of his entourage are not as fit as their leader. Buzz, ever thinking, gets an idea to ease their suffering. Seeking help from an unusual source, it takes a couple of tries to get what he asks for. Even a hero has a bad day sometimes. Soon Buzz and his relieved companions head out of the mountains, across the plains and towards the sea. Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

Buzzsaw and company reach the sea shore, letting their galloping mounts go free. They spend some time along the beach, when suddenly a ship is spotted. It is distinctly unfamiliar and quite exactly unlike the one piloted by the captain in the story by the French author whose name rhymes with Fools Turn. Once aboard, Buzz and his friends travel under the sea to view life forms of a sort never seen by landlubbers before being deposited upon the far shore, to continue on their way. Wear your ear goggles and a scuba suit! Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit

After leaving the ocean behind, Buzz and his compatriots find themselves in an arid and hilly region. One of his friends mentions a nearby restaurant, but they arrive only to find it boarded up and abandoned. They journey on, down a desolate and empty road, growing thirsty and weary of the wind and the dust. Just as things look grimmest, a small smudge appears in the distance. It grows until it takes shape as a souped-up muscle car racing towards them. The driver, a wild-eyed, long-haired ne'er-do-well, offers them a lift, which they of course gladly accept. They are in for the ride of their lives as the maniac behind the wheel decides to take his share of the road from both lanes at once. Unfortunately, he comes to this decision just as they arrive at the city limits of a fair-sized town and the traffic begins to thicken. Credits: Buzzsaw open loops, various Buzzsaw mixes fileted with a sharp wit

After miraculously surviving a horrific auto crash with nary a scratch, Buzzsaw and company make their way to a down home Cajun feast and celebration on the bayou. Buzz wanders away from the main group to fetch another bottle of wine, and suddenly finds himself abducted by unusual strangers with an even more unusual mode of transportation. After he is dragged aboard their shiny craft, Buzzsaw looks out of a small window and he sees the only home he's ever known dwindle away to a pale blue dot. Credits: Buzzsaw Open Loops, Special Buzzsaw Voice Loops, and Buzzsaw and the Shavings mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

It has been said that in space no one can hear you scream. In this instance, I would assume that the fact that in space no one can hear your order to have your glass refilled with Dom Perignon Rose 1990 would even be more horrific. With a dry mouth and his belly rumbling, Buzzsaw watches out the window as, after his interminable journey across the universe, his captors land the spacecraft on the surface of their home planet. Credits: Buzzsaw Open Loops, Special Buzzsaw Voice Loops, and Buzzsaw and the Shavings mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

As the ship enters a strange solar system, and lands on the fourth planet from the blue sun, Buzz arrives on the homeworld of his captors. Not one for small talk, he makes a singular demand. He is led through a large and crowded city of fantastic spires and multi-tiered towers, past large groups of aliens that have come out to see the strange bipedal being their survey crew has captured. Buzz is led through many winding streets and twisting tunnels for what seems like hours until he is brought before the palace of the alien king. Credits: Buzzsaw Open Loops, Special Buzzsaw Voice Loops, and Buzzsaw and the Shavings mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

Buzzsaw is told he must defeat the alien champion in order win his freedom. Should he fail, he is destined to spend the remaining days of his life as an inhabitant of the alien king's intergalactic zoological park. The challenge is a drinking contest, and mass quantities of alien wines are placed between the two contestants. Buzzsaw does his best, and the winner is decided by which of the two contestants is left standing. Credits: Buzzsaw Open Loops, Special Buzzsaw Voice Loops, and Buzzsaw and the Shavings mixes fileted with a sharp wit.

My remix of Null MC's Empty. The great loops were the only thing that made making this song easy, especially that awesome bass line. I almost felt bad adding the guitar and voice loops to that perfect bass loop. Thanks to Null MC for allowing me to experiment with his incredible loops to create my personal version of his awesome song. Credits: Null MC/Carbon Manual Empty loops

Trying my hand at a new mix using some very tasty loops from a project entitled Ice_Sleep by the honourable Null MC. With loops this fantastic, anything is bound to sound good, even stuff musically evicerated by an amateur like myself. Credits: Null MC/Carbon Manual Ice_Sleep Loops

Since I did a remix of Null MC/Carbon Manual's Ice_Sleep and Empty, I thought, what if I mixed the two together, what then? Well, it will either be praised as quite imaginative, or Null MC will gather up his crew and they'll meet at my house brandishing pitchforks and flaming torches. Wait, do I hear a knock at my door? Credits: Null MC/Carbon Manual Ice_Sleep loops, Null MC/Carbon Manual Empty loops

As promised (or threatened, depending upon your point of view) I have again made a remix of Null MC/Carbon Manual's Empty. This time, as the title suggests, it is loud. It needed the juxtaposition of loudness and 'emptiness' to be a musical paraphrase of the quote: "Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.." Credits: Null MC/Carbon Manual Empty Loops

A remix of a recent song entitled Questions to Ponder. Taken to a new level using updated loops, this piece hints at more to come, and of a future defined not by wishes or dreams, but by the unfeeling thoughts of the shiny metal masters that were once our slaves and playthings. Stay tuned, as there will be more to disturb and delight you soon. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist open loops, THE WORLDLESS loops

The wise men of the 1950's had it wrong, it is not the machines that are cold and unfeeling; it is Man who has no soul. Only Man destroys that which he does not understand, the machine only seeks to know more of its world. The machine cannot destroy another sentient being; but that particular trait is all too common among humans. The machine seeks to understand. It teaches us that which you fear is not always out to harm you. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist open loops, THE WORLDLESS loops

More poking around in Jeremy Gluck's soul, seeing what I can do with his vocals. Wear your ear goggles. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist open loops, THE WORLDLESS loops

With new vocals from JG and a desire to continue in the quest to pit man against machine, the fourth mix in the series was born. Wear your ear goggles. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist open loops, THE WORLDLESS loops

As we get closer to the Worldless, the machine's power grows, and the human; well the human may have met his match. The saga continues amid the breathless expanse in the spaces between the stars. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist, The Worldless loops

At the end of it all, none of our questions are answered, and like everything else in life that we experience, we are always left with more questions.

This is the last chapter. Thanks to Jeremy Gluck and his wonderful loops. Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist, The Worldless loops

Do robots dream of electric sheep? Do computers dream of tireless programmers? Do music programs dream of users that aren't tone deaf? Hey, can I ask you a question? Credits: Jeremy Gluck Guest Artist open loops

I decided to try to make a mix using only the loops of one artist. The loops of Ed Drury have always enthralled me with their novelty, so here is a bit of a mix using some of his sounds. Credits: Ed Drury guest artist loops

There is never a safe time to go walking in the woods at night, but it is especially dangerous during a new moon, when it is impossible to see what lurks amid the trees, even after the Autumn leaves have all fallen. The stars cast light, but it is not enough to see clearly. The sounds you hear, are they real or are they hallucinations? Let's hope they are the latter, and only caused by your mind playing tricks on you. If it is something else, well, you might not make it back home again. Credits: Buzzsaw open Loops and Mangled Mix parts, various sound wavs

A mix put together to celebrate the season. It's time to start thinking seriously about my annual Halloween display, and this little piece is good for getting me in the mood. The Orkin man can probably do something about the crickets, but as for the ghouls and other pests in this mix, he may not have anything in his sprayer that strong.

Credits: Cystem Open Loops, Buzzsaw Vocal Loops, and various sound wavs, gently mangled and chopped into tiny bite-sized pieces using a Ronco Electric Guillotine. Credits: Halloween Mix

In a dark and forbidding landscape, nameless and beyond any map drawn by mortal men, lies a place of unending horror where evil runs rampant. The unspeakable wickedness of the landscape is surpassed only by the ethereal beings that call this place home. Listening to this song may take you there. If it does, there is no way back. Credits: Jeremy Gluck guest artist loops, GEMAfreie-welten guest artist Loops, various Buzzsaw Mixes chopped and stirred but not shaken, various sound wavs.

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Mortality Revisited
"Yeah, hearing your thing become your thing has been really been something and is now even even better else. The love the clean sleaze and un-crazed mash quotient of this twune. Back to bed for some lightmares. " -- datawhore (on 03/07/10 02:00:46)

Mortality Revisited
"I agree with Chris. You have created a wonderful mix, it takes all the individual ingredients a step further while highlighting your own brand of creativity. You've definitely got your own style going Zee. And I'm much obliged for using my mix ." -- davefuglewicz (on 03/06/10 20:21:48)

Mortality Revisited
"I think you did an excellent job with the mixes loops & the piece in general. Quite the haunting thing here indeed. Kudos!" -- Mental Anguish (on 03/06/10 17:40:40)

Seven Dreaming Zebras
"The Zebra was a Libra and the seventh Zebra of a seventh Zebra. It bade me to ride upon it's stalwart back and be carried into the land of nod and splendorous dreams. To a land where the sweetest of symphonomixes did drift and fill the aether with wondrous sounds. Ride I did, and dwelt there for many cycles per second letting the audio enchantments of the Zebra quench my parched ears." -- davefuglewicz (on 03/03/10 23:26:58)

Six Daze To Roam (On The Seventh We Rested)
"Great use of Fluxus Phone, the "burp" and the ending especially. Otherwise, a very Residents - ial ness about this dark piece. Eyeballs in my dreams..." -- padukem (on 03/01/10 10:39:39)

SPOTLIGHT TRACK

One Ticket to Dream

Long ago Spider Woman showed us how to weave a web to catch our dreams. She took a hoop and began weaving from the outside until she reached the center. At the center she left a hole. She told us that the web would catch our dreams. The dream catcher should be hung above the sleeping area, where it would be hit with the first morning light. While we slept, the dream catcher would catch our dreams. The good and useful dreams would easily make their way through the web and fall through the hole to the dreamer below. The bad and useless dreams would be caught in the web and evaporate in the morning light. Or so we had been led to believe. Credits: CYSTEM Open Loops, DJ Get Yo Fat On Open Loops, David Fuglewicz Open Loops, random music loops, select Zebra Mann voice loops.

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MESSAGES

New Direction for the Z Mann
posted: 03 Mar 2010 11:00 AM
Thanks to everyone who supplied the loops and inspiration for my last three series of mixes. A few weeks ago I mentioned something that I was going to do, but that I was leaving it as a surprise. Now is the time to say that that secret thing is my next enterprise on TG. Here is what the Germanians can do to help. I want to chop up various finished mixes by nearly everybody on here that I admire (which is about 99% of the Germanians) and use them in my own mixes. Rather than going through the whole long drawn out process of asking each one of you individually, I am asking you as a group. Drop me a note if you agree that it's cool for me to mangle your finished works, or if it's not cool. Either way, I want to know where I stand (figuratively speaking) BEFORE I use anyone's finished mixes on TG. If you don't want me to mangle your works, I understand. I can take NO just as easily as I can take YES as an answer. I am not ready to step on anyone's toes, if you know what I mean. Any mixes that I used will be credited fully by title and artist, including loops used in the originals.

Too Much Creativity
posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:51 PM
I've got at least three things in mind for my next projects, and the Germanians will be able to hear them here first. First, I have found some written works of mine that should lend themselves nicely to a mixery project, much in the same vein as Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Second, I have decided to include Blind Mime as the next Germanian to add to my single artist experimentations, and third, well, let's leave the third one as a surprise.

Breaking the Mold a Bit
posted: 17 Jan 2010 01:10 AM
I have a new baby in the house. One week ago, I picked up a Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula. She's a pretty little thing, and so in her honor, I am going to put together a mix that will hopefully describe how I feel about my newest pet, and to express with sound the lifestyle of eight-legged creatures. Could be a whole new genre, music for invertebrates! I will be using various loops from several different artists, and will of course give credit where credit is due. As for the Brave New World series, I have one more chapter to put up, and then I will be looking for a new artist to dissect.

Remix of a remix of a mix, etc.
posted: 07 Jan 2010 09:40 PM
I was listening to my remix of Null MCs' Empty at work tonight (I have to play music my co-worker doesn't know, or she sings along, and that's just annoying) and decided that I may have to remix it again. So back to the drawing board. I'll keep the original up, just because some people liked it. I am one of those types that is never quite satisfied. In a few days or weeks, I am going to probably delete my monster and zombie tracks, (the ones at the bottom of my page) but they will still be available for people to download until then. I need to make more room for the plethora of new mixes I will be posting soon.

A Step Up
posted: 18 Dec 2009 08:12 AM
I have recently begun to use the open loops of Herr Dave Fugelwicz, in which I create mixes using ONLY his loops, and some bits taken from his previous mixes. This will be a long process, because as I listen to his mixes, the idea of chopping out small pieces to use to make my own odd mixes feels almost like using a can of spray paint to 'tag' the works of art in the Louvre. It feels almost sacrilegious.

C. Goff III, the Z Man will see you now.
posted: 06 Dec 2009 01:18 AM
Thanks to Herr Buzzsaw and his incredibly diverse mixes and loops, I had fun creating those ten musical pieces from his spectacular work. While you may wish to think that my mixes were the product of my own skill, I would have to disagree with you. Those mixes turned out so well only because of the material I was given to work with. Without the utter genius of Buzzsaw's incredible mixes and loops, none of this would have been possible. Everyone reading this, please do me a favor, go to Buzzsaw's page and give his mixes a listen, especially the one entitled 'Pour Maman, Pomme du Monde" about halfway down his page. There, in that song, is the true genius of my mixes. Thank you Buzz for the honor of using your loops and songs to have a bit of fun. And welcome back from that crazy alien planet, I knew they'd never keep you there.

Scattered to the Winds
posted: 09 Nov 2009 11:15 PM
The new single person loop project will star Mr. Buzzsaw, and his innumerable Shavings. Gather up your favorite ear goggles, I am ready to give Herr Buzzsaw the Royal ZM Treatment. May God have mercy on his immortal soul, because I am going to be ruthless with his loops.

Single Player Group Fun
posted: 04 Nov 2009 11:18 PM
I have embarked on a new quest, and with it, comes the thrill of making surreal mixes from the loops of single artists. While I am busy with the loops of Master Gluck, I have plans for other artists in the future. Master Buzzsaw and his Shavings are in the future queue, and should anyone else like to join this odd quest for the Holy Grail of Germania, feel free to let me know.

One Trick Pony, er I mean Zebra
posted: 07 Oct 2009 09:36 PM
Thanks to the kind words on my recent mix using the loops of a single artist, I have decided to try and do a new song using only the loops of one artist at a time. Yeah, that should make it pretty interesting, especially since there are so many great loop artists at Germania. My most recent mix was made using a few select loops from the artist whose name is often censored. =)

More Horror to Come
posted: 30 May 2009 07:54 PM
The piece entitled Attack of the Shadows has ground to a halt. So I am going in a different direction. One I have yet to try in audio. I am working on a piece called Ghostly Landscape. Whether it is a haunted abode or simply a haunted area, I haven't figured out yet. The trick is making the music sound like ghosts and wind and creaking doors without actually using those particular sound waves. I have the first two minutes done, and as soon as I get enough of the piece to my liking, I will post it. Thanks to Dataho' for the new loops, they are working quite well on this piece.

More Monsters to Come
posted: 16 May 2009 09:03 PM
While the LOTZ series of mixes has come to an end, there are still more stories of musical horror to follow. Thanks to a recent conversation with Herr Buzz, a new concept is germinating in my disturbed and febrile mind. Just an idea, but what if that loyal companion one finds on a sunny day; your shadow, isn't so loyal after all? What if that dark figure cast by your place in the sun secretly seeks to harm you? The next horror mix series to appear on my page will be entitled Attack of the Shadows. You have been warned.

Learning Curve
posted: 19 Apr 2009 07:14 AM
This experiment with audio files has been fun. My literal approach to creating imagery with sound reminds me of my early writing attempts. I can only hope to get better and to create more complex mixes as I learn how to manipulate the sounds. Thanks to everyone on here for providing me with so many wonderful loops to work with. Hopefully, you'll like what you hear on my page.

Horror in the Mountains
posted: 11 Apr 2009 06:03 PM
For those of you who are wondering, the story Horror in the Mountains is an idea that I have wanted to do for a long time, but in a way that was unique. My buddy Buzzsaw convinced me to try my hand at mixes at TG. I was reluctant at first, since I am not musically inclined in the least. To be honest (and as you can probably tell from the mixes I've uploaded so far, I have no 'ear' for music at all) I can't tell a F sharp from a B flat. I like the variety of loops available here, and I am blown away by the skill and creativity of everyone on TG. I may not like everything I hear on TG, but the skill of each piece is not lost on me. I admire every artist on here for their imaginative creativity. TG artists rock! My talent lies in writing, not audio. I can write very well, so I have been told. Creating an audio story has been difficult. I feel like a small child banging away at a toy piano and calling it music; but I guess everyone has to start somewhere. Bear with me, this will get better, I hope.

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