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MY SONGS
Songs / tracks / albums I’ve composed in the course of my life.
House ditty 10-23-2024
2024, House. A ditty in the late 1980s / early 1990s style. Instruments used: Cubase 13, HALion7, sample CD (AMG Full Phat), various samples.
Rhodes & Prophet-5 Eno-Budd style
2022, Ambient. A Harold Budd & Brian Eno inspired piece. Instruments used: Rhodes, Prophet-5, Antelope preamp/comp/eq/chorus plugins, Eventide SP2016, H3000 plugins.
Peter & Paolo shoegaze jam
2018, Shoegaze. A shoegaze live jam with my friend Peter. I’m on bass, Peter’s on guitar. Gear used: Fender Jazzmaster, Strymon BigSky, LinnDrum, don’t remember the bass, maybe Fender or Yamaha.
Mid-’80s Synth Pop – Italo Disco with DrumTraks & DW-8000
2018, Italo Disco. A tune made with Sequential DrumTraks drum machine, and KORG DW-8000 synthesizer.
Sequencerless Acid/Electro House with Yamaha CS-5
2017, Acid Techno. All synth parts done with the Yamaha CS-5 only, plus one loop and one crash. As a “novelty” item, I didn’t use a sequencer for this, but played all parts in real time. FX used: Sonitus fx: Delay Overloud Breverb2
Roland Aira TR-8 & TB-3
2017, Techno. Roland TR-8 and Roland TB-3 Techno jam.
Roland W-30 sampling and sequencing – early ’90s Techno style
2017, Techno. Making an early ’90s style track on my ol’ faithful Roland W-30.
PHENOL jam – April 26, 2017
2017, Electronic. All synths: Kilpatrick Audio PHENOL; Drums: TAMA Swingstar; Synth Percussion: Star Instruments Synare 3; Bass: Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. Ray4
House improvisation – Feb 28, 2017
2017, House. A classic-sounding, hypnotic, spacey House tune. Gear used: Kurzweil K2500RS: pad, bass, saxophone; Roland JV-880 with SR-JV80-06 Dance board: pad, vox samples; Roland TR-909: drums.
House improvisation – Feb 27, 2017
2017, House. A slow tempo House ditty. Gear used: Roland JV-880 with SR-JV80-06 Dance expansion board: pads; Roland TR-909: drums; Yamaha DX100: synth fx, bass (Roland W-30: master keyboard only, no sound from it).
Perfect Life
2017, Synth Pop. I think this is one of the best songs I’ve made. I used Arturia MicroBrute, Novation UltraNova, and drum samples from Cakewalk Sonar.
Phenol Techno Ditty
2017, Techno. Three tracks of Kilpatrick Audio PHENOL, plus sequenced drums.
Il Fauno d’Argento
2016, Soundtrack. I think this is a very good track of mine. A hypnotic, soundtrack style electronic theme that draws inspiration from my childhood and youth spent in Italy of the 1970s and 1980s, with all the Italian movies and shows watched during those early, formative years. Gear used: Powertran Transcendent 2000, ARP Omni-2. Delay: Peavey model 1310.
Sea Of Knowledge
2016, Electronica. I made this tune on Roland JV-2080 synthesizer module and Squier VM PJ electric bass. Drums from Cakewalk Sonar X3.
Five Days Resolver
2016, Soundtrack. I think this is one of the best songs I’ve ever composed. This would be a good theme to accompany a movie scene that visualizes introspection, self-reflection, loneliness, sadness and/or other similar sentiments. Gear used: Synthesizers.com modular and ARP Omni-2. Eventide H3000-D/SE reverb and AMS DMX15-80S delay. Audio snippets from the movie “Estate Violenta” (1959)
Japanese Pebbles
2016, New Age. New Age theme with Roland JV-2080 (all sounds) and AMS DMX 15-80S (delay). Reverb: MidiVerb II patch 29. Loops, recording: Cakewalk Sonar X3 professional
Ether
2015, Dance. I made this piece entirely in the Cakewalk Sonar DAW (no longer in production) utilizing its built-in instrument plugins.
El Ritmo Plano
2015, Dance. A jokeful Latin-American-sounding cover of the wonderful ‘Flat Beat’ I did for an online forum. I made it in Propellerhead Reason using its built-in plugin instruments.
Memorymoog demo
2014, Synth Pop. Composed on the Moog Memorymoog. Drums: Linn LinnDrum.
Theme from Extraterrestrial Picnic
2014, Lounge. I composed this tune for the second cartoon I made on YouTube. Instruments used: Hammond XK-3c organ system with Leslie 122XB, and Ace Tone Rhythm Ace drum machine.
Mouse playing jazz organ
2014, Lounge. Composed for the first cartoon I made on YouTube. Hammond XK-3c organ system with Leslie 122XB.
Acid Session
2013, Techno. Gear used: Roland TB-303, TR-909.
Resistor
2013, Electronic. Early ’80s Italo Electro with SH-1000, ARP Omni-2, Juno-60 and TR-808
Plastic
2013, Pop. I made this using only one synth: the Roland D-10.
Early ’80s Electro Funk with Juno-60 & LinnDrum
2011, Electro Funk. Ditty in ’80s style using a Roland Juno-60 and a Linn LinnDrum. The Juno-60 was multi-tracked and does all the parts, which were done one by one, and panned left/right.
Four electronica songs EP
Disco Volante
2007, Electronica. I made this EP completely in Propellerhead Reason.
Flip
2007, Techno. I made this EP completely in Propellerhead Reason.
Get You Some
2007, Techno. I made this EP completely in Propellerhead Reason.
The Last Conversation
2007, Synth Pop. I made this EP completely in Propellerhead Reason.
Solar module X-19
2005, Electronica. I made this in Propellerhead Reason, using its built-in software instruments.
Electron Lake
2002, Electronica. I made this hypnotic piece with Roland JV-2080 and Yamaha EX5R. Speech recording from NASA.
How You Used To Love Me
1999, Dance. I remember submitting this to a Billboard music competition of the day. Didn’t win. Gear used: Kurzweil K2000, Aria PS-10 and a few more that I don’t remember.
Two Stukas
1999, Techno. Hypnotic piece that I made with Korg PolySix and DDM-110. Probably also sampled the synth in the W-30 for the pitch-bend part. I don’t remember which effects I used, probably Alesis, Sony, or Yamaha.
La Giraffa
1991, Ballad. Originally composed on a tiny Casio SA-20 keyboard during a summer trip to Spain and Portugal.
Mega Rave Date
1991, Techno. One of my early Techno songs where I used the Roland W-30 sampler, a key instrument of my youth. Typical example of the Italian/European Techno style of the early 1990s. Gear used: Roland W-30, Zero-G DataFile 1, Alesis MidiVerb II and a few more I can’t remember.
