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Soldier Soldier

Mr Speaker — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:36:45 +0000

Soldier Soldier by Computadors
We’re back! Computadors bring you our reworking of the 1979 punk classic Soldier Soldier by Spizzenergi. We’ve gone and dub-step-erised it somewhat – then taken it to a crazy new level with the formidable and delightful vocal skills of Wiz from Bosom. Freakin’ fantastic cover art by Radiation Ross and mastering by Twerk. Rock!

Do you remember when rock was young?

Mr Speaker — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:54:18 +0000

I just realised that my cathartic “throw all my old stuff up on the web and call it done” might apply to more than just JavaScript code, so here’s a couple of tracks I never finished way back in the summer of ‘05. We were all so young and crazy then…

Miss New Orleans by Mr Speaker

Nipongo Five by Mr Speaker

Don’t Get It “Video”

Mr Speaker — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:12:28 +0000

Damn… It’s been a couple of days since I posted – so I thought I best get something in from the First Jelly at AR. It’s a “video” for the Computadors track Don’t Get it Remixed that I chucked together in Ableton Live – yes – Live! It has some incredibly rudimentary video editing functionality in it – but it does let you chop video to beats in your project: which is perdy cool. The “effects” all come out of Quartz Composer which I found on my mac. Big version below…

We’ve got some more Computerdors stuff comin’ soon too… don’t fret!

O! Computadors!

Mr Speaker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:17:44 +0000

Easter has come early ’round these parts – a brand new chocolate egg of audio treats for you – from me. Well actually, us this time: Mr Speaker has joined forces with the magical man of musical mgoodness – Tom Birchnell – to form Computadors.

Our first mission, which we chose to accept, was to remix kick-arse rock’n'rollers The Great Apes. Not just any tune, but the weirdly time-signed monster: Don’t Get It. Our version, Don’t Get It Remixed, is a confusing mash of dub, chip-tune, and hammond organ – with some filthy analog bass, and some chocolate Dr. Beat sprinkles for good measure.

As part of The Great Freepression that is sweeping the globe, you can listen to it and download it for just the cost of your bandwidth at Last.FM: Computadors VS Great Apes: Don’t Get It Remixed

Mastered by Twerk, Design by geeza

Track: Happy (Hardcore)

Mr Speaker — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:47:40 +0000

Yes, yes, yes… It’s been a LONG time since the last post in the Earwax category. It’s not that I haven’t been doing any tracks – It’s that I haven’t been finishing them. I’ve explained about my attention span before, I’m sure.

Anyway, here I present to you a glitchy, bell-y piece I’m pretty happy with – I’d been toying with the ideas in it for a while, and plopped it out on the long weekend (which seems like it was oh-so-long-ago now).

It’s called Happy (Hardcore). But it’s not particularly happy or hardcore. And certainly isn’t Happy Hardcore. Pffft. Whatever.

Download Happy (Hardcore) 192 kbps version – 8.3mb

Tracks: Fakin ‘n’ Jumping & Eye of the booty.

Mr Speaker — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:01:20 +0000

You know the saying “Beware the day that’s five days before the Ides of March”? Well today is the day that day. And in-keeping with the annual traditional that dates back to the time of the 486 (some say even earlier) I am releasing karaoke backing tracks that I have messed around with in a sound editor.

The tracks may be fairly unlistenable, but consider yourself fortunate that I had forgotten about the “Nones of March” annual tradition. That can be challenging at best.

Fakin’ n Jumpin – released under my spinnin’ moniker, DJ RevolvesIt. Well, not really. [~1.8Mb, mp3].

EyeOfTheBooty – I don’t know what happened here. I’m sorry. [~1.9Mb, mp3].

Let me know if you require more information on the Five-days-before-the-Ides-of-March-karaoke-cut-up’s origin. I warn you though, it’s a sizeable tale. Happy V Ides.

Track: The Young And The Wrestlers

Mr Speaker — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 04:04:06 +0000

A crazy breaks and broken mash of noise and things. Featuring BaikinMan on vocals, this track packs quite an “an-pun-chi”.

The Young And The Wrestlers [~3.0Mb, mp3].

Track: Non-breaking space

Mr Speaker — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 12:59:08 +0000

Another not so new track. Thought I’d whack it up. Non-breaking space was getting a swag of radio play on Sydney’s fbi radio, which was fun.

Clikity cricks and trickles with too much reverb but lovely beats. And you can never have too much reverb.

Non-breaking space [~2.8Mb, mp3].

Track: Nightsoil

Mr Speaker — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:31:00 +0000

New track from Mr. Speaker. Nightsoil is an awfully lovely synthy clicky thing. Do have a listen!

Nightsoil [~5.0Mb, mp3].

Track: Chocobarrie

Mr Speaker — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:20:43 +0000

Here’s a track I did ages ago. It’s just off the MrSpeaker.net site actually. A bit of messed up breaks and sounds for long wintery days.

Chocobarrie [3.6Mb, mp3].