The Cacophonous World of Professor Whimsey

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Interview

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Here's a little mini interview with me about the preceding track in iOS Music And You.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Thursday, Two PM

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Sounds to Confuse Your Dog #2

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Sounds To Confuse Your Dog #2 by Victor Lams
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Dead Trek Relatives

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As threatened, here is my latest track. The theme was provided by a friend as the track was commissioned to be a site theme song (more on th...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ye Olde Faire Knights

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Just learning my way around a new library (Garritan's World Instruments), I did this in half an hour this morning. Because, you never kn...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Don't Be Afraid

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I'm still on my archive.org old 1950s educational film short kick. Here's a new song inspired by one of the films, along with the fi...
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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Repetitive Robot Music

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This isn't a real song, just me messing around for an hour or so with some synths and a new channelstrip plugin (TeamDNR's Mixcontro...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Pater Noster (Latin for Kids!)

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There's never been an easier way to learn the "Pater Noster"! I'm not sure what I was thinking when I had this idea, becau...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

I'd Hit That

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Here is a delightful instrumental / percussion amuse-bouche to whet your palate. Nothing too profound here, just playing around with variou...
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Testing, testing. One, two. One, two.

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Just migrating the ol' podcast. New music will be arriving shortly!
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

What's this? A webcomic?

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Sorry about the lack of new music these past two months. I've been focusing on learning how to draw comics, and you can see my first sel...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Off the Grid

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No synths this time (a first for me)! Used only the instruments pictured above (plus my voice and our kitchen wok-lid as a gong, not picture...
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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Popcicle Man

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If you're offended by this, you're not wrong. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Popcicle_Man.mp3
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Monday, February 09, 2009

General Dynamics

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I realized this past weekend that I hadn't done a two-minute rock opera yet about a mechanical engineer who steals a tank. So I fixed th...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Egg Farm

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Here's my attempt to do an old-school-style baby-maker (extended slow jam) in an age of embryonic stem-cell research. I think it's o...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Conditor Alme Siderum

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It's a traditional evening prayer chant for Advent in Latin ("Creator of the stars of night"), done here as kind of a downtemp...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Celestine

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Fun with some new loops, mercifully short. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Celestine.mp3
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

God Blessed The States

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I'm going to post some odds and ends from this year, things I haven't posted yet. Starting with this one from February's KVR con...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Spreading The Wealth Around

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A little anti-redistributionalist Calypso for you! I play the ukulele on it. Enjoy! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Spreading_...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Compromised

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This song was written to award the top pledger for the quarterly Catholic and Enjoying It Tin Cup Rattle pledge drive, Irenaeus. The idea w...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

I Want A Pen

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Playing around with some new effects today, needed a vocal line, so got our six-year-old son in front of the microphone and said "Come ...
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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Comments Closed

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Nothing is more depressing than reading an inciteful blog or forum post, having the perfect reply, and then being denied because either the ...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

Shill

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It's new music! Inspired by current events! It's longer than 2 minutes! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Shill.mp3 Shil...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Pop Corn

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Dr. Apostrophe X and The Kornhole Krew present: "Pop Corn" http://www.victorlams.com/kvr-vst/0808-DrAX-Pop_Co rn.mp3 It's ...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

New Album Out Today!?

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Well, I thought it would take a few more weeks, but apparently three days is all it takes for Amazon MP3 and Lala to post your new album on ...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Requiem for an SMS

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Here's another from our poking-around-on-my-harddrive file, a requiem for the Sega Master System. NOTE: This song is now available on th...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

2005 Funk Jam

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Going through the hard-drive looking for some stuff to clean up for a possible future release, and found this experiment (probably messing a...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Car Wreck (Hang Up And Drive)

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Song #75 on our 100-song odyssey is a collaboration with the eminent 1-2-Many , who is a fixture on the KVRaudio.com website , particularly ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Barry White vs. The Chipmunks

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Since I guess we're on the retro tip, here's another old song; this song is possibly from late 1998 or early 1999? I can't remem...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Fake Cop!

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Here's an oldie, from 2001 (right after the "Robot Love" era). It's about all those people who pretend to be cops... that...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

In The Eye

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...in which our singer recounts his final moments inside the eye of a tornado (it's a Midwestern United States thing, you wouldn't u...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

In The Eye (Instrumental Version)

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I'll be posting the version of this new tune with vocals in a day or two. In the meantime, enjoy it in all its pristine, unbesmirched, M...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

M.A.R.V.I.N.

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Song #70 on our 100-song journey is from early, 2003, when I found myself laid-off. It's named in honor of Michigan's Automated Resp...
Monday, February 18, 2008

The Canadian Human Rights Commission

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UPDATE (02/19): I've tweaked the mix a little to make the vocals stand out a little more (maybe too much -- yes, I've heard of EQ, b...
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Friday, February 08, 2008

Huh?

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One of the rare pleasures of working on music so randomly over the years is that once in a while, while searching for something else, you ha...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

I Shot The Freak

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Yeah, I shot the freak. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-_I_Shot_The_Freak.mp3
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Kennedy Vs. The Final Boss

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http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-_Kennedy_vs_The_Final_Boss.mp3
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Always Ever Only Just

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Always Ever Only Just December 28, 2007 Always Ever Only Just the things we say Seem to make it better each and every day Wouldn't it be...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes)

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Here's an experiment in found audio (the recitation is from Archive.org, and the ambient cafe sounds are from Freesound.org). Computer M...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Oh, No! Giardiasis!

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A few years back, the Center for Disease Control approached my free-jazz quintet, "No Boundaries", about doing a little project fo...
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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Fat Camp Lap Dance!

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I've begun to re-enter the monthly contests at KVRAudio.com . Here is last month's submission. I have to apologize in advance for th...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Everybody Poops (Phreakbox's Big Poop Remix)

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Here's another new one for you. It's a Phreakbox dance remix of the Sock Monkeys ' instant classic "Everybody Poops"....
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Quiet Time

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After a long break, it's time for Song #60, and it's a new one. With the coming of Spring my musical mojo is starting to thaw and I ...
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Saturday, January 06, 2007

W3 3 K1NG5

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In honor of the Feast of the Epiphany comes another track from the ill-fated Christmas project. Like most of my interpretations of classic h...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Let The King of Glory Come (Demo)

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This is another demo I did for the Christmas Project That Never Came To Be. I don't know who wrote this song (I think it's in the Ga...
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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (Demo)

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About four years ago I was asked to start work on producing some tracks for a Christmas CD. While the project never really came about (some ...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

I Love Sandwiches!

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It's been almost three months since I've written any music and they always say that the first tune back isn't, well, it isn'...
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Monday, October 02, 2006

Michigan: The Land Shaped Like a Hand

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I'm back! And I bring a new tune. This tune is actually a collaboration with the excellent Rockstar_not who, in addition to coming up w...
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Sunday, September 10, 2006

...and we lost.

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I did this song in August of 2004. It's difficult to say what it's really all about (if you have any guesses, let me know!). As near...
Friday, August 25, 2006

How To Tie Your Shoes

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This song, written for the August, 2006, kvraudio.com contest, is a statement on our culture's obsession with teaching everything didac...
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Monday, August 14, 2006

Hail Holy Queen

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Greetings! We're back with another song for you, this one in honor of and to get you in the mood for tomorrow's Feast of the Assumpt...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

It's 2 Damn Muggy (In Here)

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Well, that was a fine break. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Now we are back and in honor of the truly unbearable weather outside ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

(My Brain's) Inside the Computer

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It's song number 50! This song I did a couple of weeks ago for the July, 2006, KVRAudio contest. The subject of the contest is "Ge...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

Midnight

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Here's an evocative little tune I put together - judging from the file details - in September, 2003. Not much to say about this one, exc...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Ionospheric Express

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I recently uncovered a hidden trove of audio I did in Spring, 2003. Many of the tracks are unfinished (some tunes I look forward to getting ...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Rain Dogs for Supper

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Our second "Buried Folderol Week" concludes with a short tune from (I'm guessing) 1997. This is the result of another one of t...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Straight Shots

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I guess it's time for another Buried Folderol Week here on the old Cacophonous World (you in the back! stop groaning!). This distinctive...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

My Weblog (Demo)

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My weblog recently celebrated it's fifth anniversary (though it's kind of weak now). Around the time I started the weblog (2001), I ...
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Monday, June 19, 2006

Spiritual Combat!

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Let's take a trip back to the early 1990s when everyone was techno-ing up a storm. I did this track a couple of weeks back for a KVRAudi...
Friday, June 16, 2006

Cold Duck Time (Interior Monologue)

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I know "Weird Jazz Week" was last week, but I just remembered this song and wanted to slip it in. I did it in September, 2004, for...
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Monday, June 12, 2006

Coloring Monsters

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It's song 42! Time for something extra special: the first song to feature our son who provided not only the ferocious roar but (obviousl...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

Meanderin' Orange

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I did this tune in early 2003 when I got my first "ROMpler" (a virtual instrument which plays instruments which have been sampled ...
Monday, June 05, 2006

(Life Is) Salty

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Time to let the Professor pick the theme . I, Professor Whimsey, henceforth and without further skiddoo decree this week to be "Weird J...
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Captain Sisko's Badasss Song

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Our second "Buried Folderol Week" concludes on the same note it began: that of incredibly rare favorites (of mine, anyway) made wi...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Pirate Movie Song

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To kick off our second Buried Folderol Week (which features songs which use samples that are, shall we say, hopefully covered under the fair...
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Friday, May 26, 2006

Do You Have A Friend?

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Another song written and performed by our neice, but this one was done five years ago. Enjoy! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/KK_-_Do_You_Ha...
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Monday, May 22, 2006

KK's Song

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This song was written and performed by our neice, KK, for her mom this past Mother's Day. All I did on this pretty much is work up a spa...
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Friday, May 19, 2006

Kyoto Subway

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Does Kyoto have a subway? If it does, does it sound anything like this? I don't know the answer to either question; I've never been ...
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Monday, May 15, 2006

The Time For Bed Truck

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Every evening here, in Summer, as the days grow longer and there is the need of such a thing, the Time For Bed Truck makes its rounds around...
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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Knock Me Up

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"Unmitigated Disaster Week" concludes (a day late, naturally) with this deservedly forgotten gem from August, 2004. A former co-wo...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Naked Human Shields

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Yes, I realize it's Tuesday and I'm a day late posting the first song of this week. But, sometimes, when you try to do art, things g...
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Friday, May 05, 2006

Sing Me

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The first part of 2003 really sucked and I guess this song was in response to that. This may be one of the songs I go back and re-record at ...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Mr. Do

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I declare this week to be SYNTHPOP WEEK! First up, a fine track from November (I think?), 2003. This really isn't based on the theme to ...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Randy Racooney Themesong

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While searching my hard-drive in search of this Friday's tune, I came across this buried gem. There's really not much to say about t...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Bossa No. 6

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Based on cryptic download stats, this song remains popular after it's conception in November, 2005, as a KVRAudio contest entry (the th...
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Friday, April 21, 2006

The Apostles Creed

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Another song for the Easter Season (I suppose). This is a Catechism Rock song. I really must do more of those. http://www.victorlams.com/au...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

Can't Nobody

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Happy Easter! In honor of the day, here's some Synthpop/Gospel for everyone, straight from 2003. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

A Robot Overcompensates

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I think this track would fall into the realm of self-parody if I hadn't spent so much time on it. If this tune were on the WB it would g...
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Friday, April 07, 2006

Tuesday Morning at the Robotics Factory

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Retro Robot Song Week (well, the first one of them, anyway) wraps up this week with "Tuesday Morning at the Robotics Factory", one...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Shelly

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There's just one week left for me to complete my submission to the 2006 Pieces Of Flair Robot-Song-Off so while I work hard on that, I...
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Friday, March 31, 2006

Shaker Funk

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This Friday's tune, wrapping up our eleventh week here in the Cacophonous World, is "Shaker Funk". This tune has been describe...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

Pixel

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One of the more common themes in my music, when I'm doing what I like to think I do best, that is, is the elevation of the common or the...
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Friday, March 24, 2006

Sins of Omission

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Before you get too excited about this, an instrumental track from Decemeber, 2005, I should explain that it was mostly done as a demo track....
Monday, March 20, 2006

Underground Places

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This track, from 2001, is about Missionaries (of a sort). It's some of the finer songwriting I've done (though some disagree) and wa...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

Ghost Monkey Cop (Who Also Plays The Marimba)

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Cop shows and cartoons about animals who solve crimes and are in bands were big in the 1960s. Also big were shows about ghosts and witches. ...
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Monday, March 13, 2006

Hooray for Kobe-San!

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January 1, 2001: Food Network shows a 24-hour marathon of the Japanese culinary battle show, "Iron Chef". Aspiring songwriter Vict...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Idi Amin Is Dead

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We wrap up an unusually weird week with an unusually weird song. I did this track, judging from the last modified date on the file, August 1...
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Monday, March 06, 2006

Hive Girl

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Professor Whimsey's Logbook: June 12, 1927 The most amazing discovery: upon finally arriving and entering into the Love Hive I was trea...
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Friday, March 03, 2006

2AM Commute

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This is probably one of my more "commercial-sounding" tracks, which should tell you something about the overall commericial appeal...
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Monday, February 27, 2006

(Get Down With) The Theme from The Love Hive

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New music today! This is the first of a new series of songs about the Love Hive. What is the Love Hive and why should you care? Over the ne...
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Saturday, February 25, 2006

60 Ton Whale

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There is not really that much which can be said about this tune other than it was inspired by true events. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/V...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Flying House of Loreto

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Walked into work today to the shocking and sad news that one of my coworkers had died over the weekend. For some reason this song seems the ...
Friday, February 17, 2006

Smoke Stays In Your Lungs

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Our first Buried Folderol Week concludes with this rare gem from 1996. When asked in college what my ideal job was, I would often reply (and...
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Monday, February 13, 2006

Mellowday

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We kick off our first ever Buried Folderol Week with a trip all the way back to 1995 (or 1996 - I'm not sure of the exact date but it wa...
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Friday, February 10, 2006

P.U.R.G.A.T.O.R.Y.

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This song first appeared on Catechism Rock! last year, and you can read the entire saga of how it came to be by clicking on that link. One ...
Monday, February 06, 2006

Have You Dug His Scene?

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For this Monday's song, we take a strong left turn into uncharted territory (for me anyway): the remix. "Have You Dug His Scene?...
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Friday, February 03, 2006

gothictootsiePOP

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For the second tune of the week we turn the pages all the way back to September, 2003, and a cheerful little Goth tune. I forget exactly wha...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Tech Support

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This, one of my longer songs, is a sort of homage to Parliament/Funkadelic keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell. This is also about a c...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Deadly Friend

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This song, ostensibly combining the 1980s style of Hall and Oates with Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl", which was originally compo...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

AisFor

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For the first tune of this week, we have a completely brand-new tune that I just now put the finishing touches on. It's a dreamy electro...
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