So, this is what I have been up to lately.
These are semi-finished versions of stuff that is going to be going on the album I am making with Emma Luker.
This post is mostly for the purpose of cross-posting over on the Luker and Southern site.
Steve.
(Removed).
The Difference Between Heaven Hell is an EP of anti-muzak. It is designed to be annoying.
All the songs and pieces are in various phases of completion. Trial versions can be downloaded here for your informations. Nearly all are between 1 and 2 minutes long.
I would be happy for you to use any of these in your flash animation.
Let me know how you get on. If you dislike this style – and let’s face it, why wouldn’t you – I’ll be posting some more short pieces in a different style soon. E-mail on sjmckenzie101 AT gmail dot com and we’ll talk…
Mono Zukuri Dot Com Domain Parking Theme
My Masterpiece – MENSA AGM Caterers Theme Music
Better Than the Rest – Love Bunni Phone ‘On Hold’ Music
Turning Blue – High School Jealousy Theme
Toast Restaurant Foyer Welcome Theme
“Kylie but not Minogue” Anti-Disco Floor Clearer for dead DJs
God of Thunder – Thor’s Electronic Doorbell Theme
German Gratitude and Sincerity – Frankfurt International Airport Lounge Music
All yours, Mindy…
Steve.
INTERESTING MUSIC (by Steve McKenzie and Lee Pfitzner):
This is fine music, if I do say so. Punk and post-punk afficianodas might not like it as much as other stuff I do but as far as I’m concerned it’s the equal of all my other gear. It was made between 2006 and 2008 in Adelaide and Honiara. If I ever end up settling in one place, I might like to form a band doing this sort of thing. There’s more to follow in this vein, too.
BORING BACK STORY / SITE NEWS:
Back about eighteen months ago I had the zany notion that it would be possible, somehow, to market and plug all my various different musical products under one name: Unbeknownst. (I chose the name partly because I liked the idea of forming a band by stealth over the internet). I made a website – now stangnant – called Unbeknownst Recordings where I intended to put up all my different styles of music. I got the domain name, bought a space upgrade so I could host mp3s, and I was cooking with professional-smelling gas. Temporarily…
Looking back, I now realise this was a bogus idea, borne in a tropical heat haze and fuelled by whiskey and soda. I record with Lee only very rarely and haven’t added anything new to that site in over six months…except that all the mp3s for this site have to be hosted over there. But this site is where the action is. So, it’s really starting to look like this has all ended up the wrong way round…
To cut to the chase, I’ve imported the old Unbeknownst mp3s post over here. That domain and upgrade will expire in May. All the old files will remain, but beyond that, I’ll do all my hosting over here…
Great Southern Steve.
Mp3 Link – The Weather is Far Away
I have this thing about cumulus mammatus clouds. They look so close to the ground, but also kind of otherworldly, like something is about to reach down out of the sky and strart grabbing people. They seemed a perfect cover image for a pop song I wrote in 2005 about the day the sky fell down, The Shortest Day.
At the same time I was writing a new wave tune for a guy called ‘Chicago Greg’ on the Punk Planet Message Board who has a thing for the weather. He’s one of those guys who is always looking up the wind conditions in some obscure Russian peninsula, even though he has no intention of gong there. The colder it is somewhere else, the better he likes it, it seems, although he often complains about Chicago’s bitter winters. The first track is for him.
The Weather is Far Away is a 4-song EP I made between 2005 and 2007, fleshed out with an instrumental and another song, both about bush-walking. The drums on tracks 2 and 3 are by Joy Division‘s legendary drummer, Steven Morris, from their first album Warsaw. When I put this up in Myspace, New Order befriended me, which I thought was very sweet of them.
Basic Mp3 files of all tracks are free to download here. Wave files are available if you want to use any of the music for commercial purposes (contact me).
The album art is right here for use in Nero or whatever – bear in mind that none of the Myspace sites it mentions exist any more.
Everyone's been awful nice...