Category Archives: EPs

4 and 6-track eps from the GSS home studio

The Weather is Still Far Away (2012 Remix)

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THE WEATHER IS FAR AWAY (2012 remix)

This track was on an EP of tracks I made for various folks on Punk Planet, circa 2006, right at the end of the life of that message board.

It also formed part of an old 4-track EP called ‘The Weather Is Far Away‘, which I distributed to the usual suspects. The songs were: The Weather Is Far Away, Cornalees,  The Shortest Day and A Walk On My Own. The old versions are all still on this site.

I have lately returned to these tunes and found a lot to like, so I am remixing them and adding in a few others in the same style – Cold Light of Day, Legend, and some new ones – to form a decent full length album.

This remix of the title track is the first on the line.

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Boundary Road Mixes

Posted in CD Stuff, clunky folk, country punk, EPs, GSS Home Studio, Luker and Southern news by

I am making a new CD.

It is going to called Boundary Road, on account of that is where I live now.

It is a counterpart to a CD I made in Adelaide / Honiara few years back, and gave copies to a few folks, which was called Live at Home. 

The style will be noisy folk, with banjo and mandolin and drums and yelling, a bit similar to some of the Luker and Southern stuff but without Emma Luker’s deft touch to stop the whole thing degenerating into anti-folk which is where the record is currently headed. Maybe one day Emma will play violin on a few tracks when I am back in Adelaide.

Here’s 2 sample tracks:

The Love in Your Heart

I already put up a demo of this last year. This one is better.

Sailsbury Highway

This continues the tradition of me getting Emma’s  favourite folk tunes and kicking the crap out of them. The lyrics are about me learning to drive somewhat later than most Australian men.

 

 

The Difference Between Heaven and Hell

Posted in anti-muzak, Collaborations, EPs, GSS Home Studio by

Attn: Melinda Fisher

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.


Unbeknownst: Sinking in Quicksand

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INTERESTING MUSIC (by Steve McKenzie and Lee Pfitzner):

Quicksand

Bring Out Your Dead

Down Below

Heavyhead

Snowflakes

Song From Years Ago

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.

The Weather is Far Away

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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 Weather is Far Away

A Walk on My Own

Cornalees

The Shortest Day

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.

Front Cover