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Fuzzy

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2011

  • Ontario CA
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My location is the Fuzzy Sound Labs secret underground bunker, somewhere the woods of Southern Ontario, Canada, near Peterborough. We have a staff of several hundred hard-working technicians and support personnel here in our vast subterranean complex.

There will be a fair amount of strange noise and experimental-type stuff.

A few surreal spoken word stories, as well.

I am often open to collaborations, so hit me up if you're so inclined and feel like getting weird.

Here are two great quotations that express my attitude toward FAWM and 50/90;

"Musical structure? Frankly, I don't see what you need all those sandbags for, just to keep your river in place."- Captain Beefheart

"Earlier eras of pop music were characterized not by the search for perfection but by bizarre enthusiasms, small budgets, erratic technique, crummy equipment and wild abandon." - Brian Eno

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Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater by @fuzzy #dumb-bass-loop #story-time #experimental
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The Crusade Against The Cathars In 12th Century France by @fuzzy #melodica #headphones #fetch-the-comfy-chair
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Corporate Executions by @fuzzy #experimental #noise #bass-guitar-terror
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My House Is Full Of Bones by @fuzzy #noise #bass-guitar-terror #headphones
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The Great Weasel Apocalypse by @fuzzy #electric-ukulele #noise #bass-guitar-terror

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Not sure if you're going to see this 24 days after FAWM, but thanks for listening to my music!
Even with FAWM being over I would still be interested in a collaboration on "noise is for e v e r y o n e" if you're up for it. I listened to some of your music and I think it would combine quite well with this track. Let me know!
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Thanks for your comment on Denoted. I am always glad that my weird experimental guitar songs find their way to ears like yours. ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽธ
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So much fun. The fez is the perfect finishing touch.
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The name rings a bell, although I don't think I've heard his music. Oh, he was a founder member of FM? Cool!
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Iโ€™m hanging around for the next couple of weeks as I still have a bunch of music to listen to including more of your songs.
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Thanks again for your insightful comments on 1971 Census and Call The Police. I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment on so many of my tracks.
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thanks for your comments on my country song and estrellas piano tune. i have outlived my usefulness to her. all her ideas are her own. sometimes i try to edit her work, and she becomes furious. as for country music, some of the best singers and lyricists have come out of that tradition, but the music is almost always generic. i havent been able to overcome the generics of that style, but my lyrics are pretty good and my singing, although derivative, is functional. the music itself though is a bind. this song is typical in that i just wrote the lyrics , picked up the guitar, started strumming and sang them. no composition and the form was already there in the lyric. worst of all, no originality. i like to hand my country lyrics off to those who are better in that style, but this time my collaborator failed to deliver anything, so i dashed this off at the last minute, or i should say, the last ten minutes. i like it, though. so thanks for listening and liking it too.
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Hi Fuzzy! Thank you so much for all your kind comments on my songs! I treasure this!
I mentioned you in my bio cause of your attitude to your music projects - there shines a lot of anarchism through it ๐Ÿ˜€ you show a kind of disrespect in a good and positiv way! I really like that! it opens doors of inspiration and childish behavior which is - to me - the base of making music. also your comments always empowering me to do my own weird music thing!
I would be very glad if we make a collab in 50/90! maybe something with drums (you?) and bass (me?) and some funny lyrics / vocals? maybe a mixture of English and German? maybe something about bears or/and water (I have in mind to make some songs about water this summer and this could lead into my first real album? this FAWM was the first one with results I wanna do something with ...) - only ideas - no pressure!
... and thanks for a new word - "belting out" sounds pretty good to me ๐Ÿ˜€
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Thanks for your thoughtful comments on Wear Bright Gear. I think itโ€™s my favourite track of FAWM this year and will be the title of my 2923 FAWM album. Now Iโ€™ll have to do is pick some tracks to leave out. Or maybe I call it a โ€œdouble albumโ€ with all 21 tracks. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Your comparison of FAWM and 50/90 makes sense to me. I expect I'll have a similar reaction to yours. FAWM was amazing and terrifying, and the terror forced the perfectionist in me to drop everything on the floor (for real -- I'll be filing for an extension on my taxes) and just write, which was great. There now exist seven songs that wouldn't otherwise. But one can only live in terror for so long. I'll be interested to see if I can write when I'm *not* in perpetual deadline mode.
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I agree with you to an extent. Tribes people and hoodoo/voodoo practitioners have a better library of history then civilized people do. Thus they have a better understanding of the present meaning they can do things to manipulate curcumstances to do their bidding. Which in my humble opinion is what it's all about so long as one doesn't impinge on another's right to do the same. Being a civilized consumer of "things" is far from understanding the present. And that's what civilized people are: mind numbed consumers. Except for me of course; God loves me.
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Collaborating during 50/90 would be great. This is my first FAWM, and I've yet to experience my first 50/90, so I don't know what to expect, and how it'll interact with my everyday life. Can't wait to find out.
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Thanks so much for agreeing to try a collaboration. I'm sorry I dropped the ball on that. Next FAWM (when I vow I'll know more about my DAW)!
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Please. You're being biased. If you were a math teacher you would say "You know what's substandard? People who don't appreciate 56*789<1/3 squared - 565^5รท666/ร—+++5466"
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Nah Just history and history teachers are substandard.
CALM DOWN I'M KIDDING.
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Fuzzy, thanks for the comment on my song "A peaceful world in Mario World"... the flute is my friend @chrisrauh playing the shakuhachi, he's an amazing player!
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Rather than teachers I'd say the whole of education is substandard. It's just enough information to keep the civilized circuit perennially flowing.
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thanks Fuzzy. Just getting caught up on listening!
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Are you serious? You were a history teacher? LOL....you must hate me now. Since elementary I did bad in history because i never cared if IE Christopher Columbus found America. I always felt it was irrelevent to modern living even at a very young age. Now, if we were to discuss the history on witchcraft, occultism etc. you would have my undivided attention. I'd be like Frank Langella's character in the Ninth Gate.
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Love what you've done with the space, that eerie lonesome whistle really grabs at me.
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> a #Stoner-Doom collab with @mikehex this summer during 50/90.

Sign me right up!
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Glad you liked Jobs For Early School Leavers. I had a lot of fun with the video. Not a real guitar nor a sample, itโ€™s a synth patch that I modified in Korg Gadget in the iMonoPoly Gadget.
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Thanks for the heads up @fuzzy, I don't think that comment showed up in my feed. Really great track
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Thanks again for listening and your kind thoughts on Buckle Up For Safety! Glad you enjoyed it.

Itโ€™s funny that you mention crash test dummies. There was a commercial I downloaded but didnโ€™t use had exactly that kind of imagery of crash the dummies flailing around after a crash and measuring the impact of not wearing a seatbelt, a lap belt only, or lap and shoulder.

The thing that stands out to me is just how far weโ€™ve come from in automobile safetyโ€œif you donโ€™t have seatbelts, get them installed. If you have seatbelts, use themโ€. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
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Sadly, not a real cowbell. It's one from a Kontakt library of various sizes of cowbell. But I was tapping it out on my keyboard...
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@candle
I'm glad we cleared that up, @caterwauler, @sirius, @iwilleatyou, & @fuzzy.

Thoโ€ฆ somehow I'm still completely confused โ“

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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@ttg105
:)
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Oooh ok! Thanks for clarifying, everything makes sense now.
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@fuzzy
Well, @caterwauler, as far as I know, @iwilleatyou and @candle aren't the same person. I was told that they are actually conjoined twins.
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And ignore Joanne. She's the female version of Patrick Bateman
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Almost haha
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Did you know @iwilleatyou and @candle are the same person?
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Fah! That doesnt disturb me. I dated a girl who was into hoodoo shit and she had jars of peoples nails and hair. I stress..JARS - not just one. AND- she would use bones along with cat feces for whatever the hell spells she was doing. As you can imagine, the sex was pretty damn good haha.
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Thanks for your continued support and kind words on my tracks.

Re: Russian Roulette Noise Extravaganza, itโ€™s not exactly generative. My hardware synth has a random patch generator which allows you to randomize all parameters or just some. That includes waveforms for the three oscillators, envelope and LFO settings, modulations, onboard FX etc.
After I found a randomized patch I liked that was not too abrasive, strange, or silent, I then improvised a loop with each patch building layers. This track had nine synth loops and three sample tracks. I then manually triggered each loop and recorded the combined output. Hoe that better explains my process. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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@ttg105
:)
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@candle
Somehow that doesn't surprise me ๐Ÿ˜†

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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@candle
I've got two of them sitting in my glass slide with my other "Guitar Cutlery" - as well as a box (or three) of platic cutlery left over from BBQs pastโ€ฆ So yeah, I might be sitting on a gold mine ๐Ÿ˜†

Thanks for the comment & listening to that one all the way to the end!

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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@candle
I know I'm confused, @iwilleatyou & @sirius. But then, I think that is my natural state of mind, wouldn't you agree @fuzzy?

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Ok, that explains a lot! I suppose I have the same sensibility as a kindergarten kid, haha.
It sounds like your stories are waking dreams of sorts -- hence the surreal touch in them. I love that!
Thanks for your replies! ๐Ÿ™‚
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Weirdos unite!!!
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If you've not seen the show, it's worth tracking down. Utterly brilliant. Its theme music is by Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy, who also writes the music for the "A Song for Europe" episode, which is... Something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxf6ECuRcWM
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Hey, Professor Fuzzy! You have blanket permission to do anything to any and all of my stuff, past, present and the present yet to come.
And congrats too on your win!
Personally I feel like I haven't done any heavy lifting at all this time round (imposter syndrome?) coz all I've done is shove a load of reverb into the mix and pressed record while wiggling my fingers on a tootlestick or two.
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Hey, (a genuine) thank you for listening to '"Thank You So Much For That (Useless) Advice" and I'm SO glad that it resonated and made you laugh! Really appreciate the feedback ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Thank you for your kind feedback on Indolence.
Not sure about the "cello sounds", but if they are "floating", yeah, it's probably the violining guitars. (After collaborating for several years, @kenficara and I have become quite good at blending our sounds in such a way that we can no longer tell who played what, even though our instruments are supposed to be quite different).
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Thanks for the feedback. My mixes are the only time in my life where people tell me that I need to be a bit louder. Seeing as I keep hearing it from different people, I should.
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Thanks for your words on my latest song! It is so much fun to create this percussion / marimba background โ€ฆ i am discovering those sounds like a child!
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Hahaha! Yup. That was me. It lives still exists as a full band studio recording on Spotify and such as "The Wings of an Eagle."
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No worries! Thanks for doing the list.
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@fuzzy
Now now, @sirius and @iwilleatyou, there's no need to fight; there are enough collabs for everyone.
Maybe we can get something going for 50/90.
Then again, as @sirius said, the world might not be ready for that.
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Have you heard frozenlonesome? He takes those Public Service Films you were keen on a few years back, puts the actors on mind bending drugs and records the results.
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@candle
Congrats on the win, my friend!

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Hola! Over in the Century Club thread, could you move me from 300 to 400, por favor? Gracias!
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@toms
Henry H. Crapo was a post Civil War governor of Michigan and before that came to Flint to make money from lumber. The sons and daughters of these "prominent" families all intermarried, and they tend to include the maternal side as a middle name. Crapo had a daughter named Rebecca Folger Crapo Durant, who was Billy Durant's mom. "Crapo" is an Anglicization of a French name I think.
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@candle
Oh good! I thought I had forgotten to send you something LOL.

Well, I'm an English Minor (& Philosophy Major - that's why I work at a pool ๐Ÿ˜† ). I also love History, so yeah, etymology is one of my secret pleasures ๐Ÿ˜€

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Hahaha that Norman invasion pic of you plus melodica made me really laugh! I went to school with a kid called Norman, I always imagined he had a load of brothers all called Norman.
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Definitely to 50/90!
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@candle
๐Ÿ˜€ I'm not surprised that your a word nerd like me ๐Ÿ˜† Thanks for the great comment on the collab I did with Daniel. And hey, I haven't forgotten about our Brian Eno track, I just haven't done anything that I feel would work for it. But I still have it spinning on my back-burner. Hopefully I'll have something for you soon.

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Re " Unneccessarily snarky reaction' - Just for the record, it's not a melodica (wish I owned one) it's a casio reed organ preset run through an amp simulator,
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@eli666
Thanks for the comment on Nuclear death๐Ÿซก
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@ttg105
:)
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Goodness gracious, what you said about Trout Mask Replica! That is indeed praise from Sir Hubert! I've always resisted the urge to have a tattoo, but now I've finally got something worth being tattoed with. ๐Ÿ˜€
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Thanks for your kind comments on 'Hard Times for Pagans'!
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@hmorg
Thanks for the comment on "Arrival of Unholy Force"! I do like how the song turned out even though I would've done several riffs in a different way if I was better at playing.
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@candle
LOL, yeah Slackbot can be a reall @$$hole when he wants to. Ironically, that's sort of part of his charmโ€ฆ I'm glad you enjoyed the track, none-the-less ๐Ÿ˜€

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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You wrote on another thread "I get it; my process is kinda weird.
I can literally work with anything." That tugs on my attention.
If you have time and energy, I'd be interesting in collaborating on . . . "anything."
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As always, no pressure.
Out and about for a couple of hours, but I'll zip 'em up and toss 'em your direction later today. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
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Do you want the stems? Or are you cool with the mp3? ๐Ÿ˜‰
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I've been waiting for a while now for "The Dream Piddler" to appear on your song list... ๐Ÿ˜†
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Thanks for the email. I'm okay; I just needed time out to process stuff. It turned out to be far more intense than I'd expected. Then an old metalhead friend from SF came to stay for a few days and that turned out to be just what I needed. Back at it now, though. Lots of catch-up listening to do!
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@geoffs
Thanks for checking out my two demos 2.17 and 2.15 and glad you dig them. I usually just write like crazy in February, then take a step back and listen to them in April with new ears... so, maybe I'll end up liking them too ๐Ÿ˜€
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@sirius
Thank you for your kind words!
So sorry you miss your cat, here is a big purr to comfort you: *purrrrrrrr* =^.^=
11 songs, you're almost there! Congrats!
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Remember a couple days ago I dropped a comment something like โ€œlove your stuff, donโ€™t know what to do with itโ€, @nahlej381 wanted to test that theory out and dropped the fuzziest non-fuzzy that ever was. I straight up thought he pulled you into a collab.

Love ya, but I had to reach for the sweater shaver for my part.
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@ttg105
:)
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@geoffs
Thanks for checking out my 2.17.23 Demo. I see that Captain Beefheart quote, so no surprise you'd dig the new structureless structure of my piece (I feel like it should end off with the beginning riff, but no repeats here!). Thanks for listening!
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@toms
Oh it's like a whole new set of possibilities has been discovered. I promise I WILL catch up with your prodigious output this weekend!!!! Thank you so much for the listens and the kind comments!
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Thanks @fuzzy fir your enthusiastic comments on Litter Defence Volunteers. Glad you enjoyed it.
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@cblack
Hey, glad you enjoyed it!
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@toms
A disney movie about late stage capitalism would be amazing.
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@ttg105
:)
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Thanks ๐Ÿค—
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Thank you for taking on Erroneous Worm! Can't decide who's winning that battle you're envisioning. Only thing I know is that the worm is wrong. :-)
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Hey thanks for your comment on โ€˜Crystal Gazingโ€™ I didnโ€™t make the Joy Division link but Iโ€™m a big fan so thank you for that! Happy you liked it
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You are a genius!
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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ‘
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@toms
https://dreamtonics.com/synthesizerv/
The basic version is free, and is what I am playing with. One voice sort of cut down but still pretty cool. ๐Ÿ˜€
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Many thanks. Currently out and about but will send some stems later today. ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Dear Mr Fuzzy.
I haz a tune that is refusing to go where I want it. Can I put in a box with air holes and have your team apply some corrective treatments please?
Yours in perpetuity,
DD. x
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@yam655
I love what you did with "I hit that bong." It reminds me of a roommate situation where one person's like, "I know you like drugs, let me sing you a song about that," while the other person's drugs finally kick in.
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Hello, Fuzzy! Happy my Killer Sheep won your approval. A bit surprised the "I once knew" story came from @timfatchen this time and not from you. Surly you've come across lots of murderous sheep in your days..!
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@djtjb
Excellent... I promise I WON'T be like Slugworth from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory snooping around in the restricted floors of the complex for trade secrets. Though the pull of seeing "the world's largest dedicated reverb chamber" may just be too great.
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@ttg105
:)
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@djtjb
I vehemently reject your offer of free and demand to pay $10k! Anything less would be highway robbery for the "Making Music The Fuzzy Sound Labs Way" seminar experience.
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@djtjb
Thank you for the comments and the win congratulations. But more importantly thank you for the tip on mixing the bass near the edges. I used it in "if I kept it ooh" and was absolutely stunned by the results. I've always mixed my bass dead center in mono and wow that tip made it sound so much more alive. I think I'm addicted lol.
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@candle
Thank you (as always) for all your great comments. I finally got around to a #breadtag track https://write.fawm.org/songs/16613

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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@ttg105
:)
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Thanks for the comment on Moths. I had a lot of fun making it and I'm glad I could spread the laughter ๐Ÿ˜€
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Thank you for the kind comments on my song Final Height! I worked very hard on that one and am really glad you enjoyed it <3
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Thanks for your kind comment on โ€˜breathโ€™! ๐Ÿฅฐ
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@ttg105
:)
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Thanks for the nice words on chilldotwave! Maybe the whole "hour-long jams being totally up my alley" thing has me biased, but I could totally hear that being part of a long jam session too. - Jordan
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@artie
Likewise, your title game is strong! I used to hate naming songs, so Iโ€™d just call everything โ€œUntitled 1, 2, 3โ€ฆโ€ Eventually I figured if Iโ€™m already giving that few f*%ks I might as well make it funny.
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Thanks so much for your kind words and encouragement on "Carl Perkins and the Meaning of Life!" This is a great community -- write a song outside your comfort zone and people don't punish you for it!
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Thank You !
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@ttg105
:)
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@artie
I love the two quotes at the end of your bio -- what a great reminder. Two artists I admire immensely.
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"Now I wanna hear a punk song with kazoo as the main instrument." Well, you write it, I'll bring the kazoo ...
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thanks for your comments on the anonymous man. while we were blocking the streets so the wto delegates couldnt get to the convention center we sang, to the tune of yellow submarine "we all live in a fascist limosine"
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Yeah they do hurt (but actually that there is my happy face!)
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@ttg105
:)
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Here's a pic of me getting that very first tattoo (before they added all the others of course!) And yes, I realize that is not on my arm as the song says; gimme a break cause I have tiny arms!

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Thanks for your kind comments for a fawmling like me!
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Almost a GOD!!!! (You not me lol)
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I will be back. You have the best song titles.
Just checked out baby with the bathwater
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@arkka
Thanks for the awesome comments!
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I need to catch up with my Fuzzy listening! ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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Yes, sorry about that! I *can* send you the tracks along with the others tomorrow if you want to have a go at reaching Otto Binder and CC Beck levels.
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@cts
Thanks, bud!
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@juhol
Glad that you liked the track! There is never enough zeuhl.
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Haha yeah, it's so funny, I wrote a version of this country song last night and wasn't happy, I was like, it's too complicated, I'm losing the plot, and there's too many damn chords! And then I realized there was really only two extra, like once in the song, but still, too many! So got rid of them and now it's better I think.
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@ttg105
:)
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I'm finding out a lot about people's preferred approaches to societal planning!
Thanks for the listen to the Exponential Pet Problem
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Fuzzy!!!! How's it goin', man?! Hey, who knows if I'll do anything for this FAWM?! For whatever reason, I've been kinda unenthusiastic/unmotivated about songwriting the past few years. Dunno why. Just haven't felt the "spark", ya know? However, there were some lyrics you sent me last year for a blues-type song that I had some ideas for. I had a Leadbelly-like 12-string guitar thing going for it, if I recall. I might get to that this month ... eventually? Haha! Anyway, great to hear from you, and if I get some more free time, I'll check out some of your (most likely out of this world bizarre!) tracks. Cheers, mate! :-)
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Thanks for the comments. I would love to collaborate with you at some juncture if such things were appealing to you? It may have taken me some 12 years to get over my shyness to ask, and please say no, but *I* would no doubt very much enjoy that!
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thank you for your coments and well wishes. im keeping my third eye out, especially when going around corners.
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@owl
Fuzzy! Thanks for the comments, hope your FAWM has been great so far.
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You're welcome and such a fab twisted remix that is. I'm just gonna let the mystery lay there in plain sight.
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@candle
Make sense. You'd have to kill me if I did find out, right? ๐Ÿ˜€

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Thanks for your comment on "Contemplation". I feel honored if I really have inspired you in any way. Also, vocals are live. I did, however, move them a little bit here and there, but mostly left it as it is.
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I loved it! And was laughing hysterically by the third arse-trumpet. ๐Ÿ˜†
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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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@yam655
Thanks for the congratulations! I'm aiming for 15 hours or 300 songs this year.
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Thanks for the welcome Fuzzy! I love your bio. Happy FAWMing!
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It would make my day if you remix it to Winds of Constipation! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
Do you want the stems (clean flute and reverb separate) or can you work with the posted file? ๐Ÿ˜Š
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Thanks! Glad you dug it. I don't know why it cut off early but I reloaded the song with the proper 15 seconds of feedback that was intended.
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Iโ€™m going to assume they were all collected from animals who died only of natural causes ๐Ÿ˜
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@yam655
You are explicitly permitted to do whatever you want with any of my pieces, so long as you properly attribute me. I use CC-BY for my work, so you can make derivatives and make gobs of money and all I ask is for attribution. (Details of that in my bio.)

I had no idea that headset had such problems when I started recording the pickle jar song. I started recording, noticed it sounded noisy and just rolled with it. (I'm tempted to say it was just because I'm lazy and didn't want to bother switching to a different mic/headset right away.) Still, I was pleased I managed to pull out something so thematically appropriate to the noise. It certainly wasn't the sort of song I was expecting initially.
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Hi @fuzzy - I'm a bass player, so that deep sound always gets me. But I'm so blown away by the bass sounds in GarageBand that I just love using their stuff. You are the second to mention Krautrock/Kraftwerk, so I think I might have to rerecord putting on a bad German accent ;)
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Love your use of words describing my most recent song! Very inspiring and descriptive! :)
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@toms
Thank you, Fuzzy, I was hoping you would listen to it and may have been trying to channel my inner Fuzzy when making it at least a bit. :)
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Yes, and compostable forks, no less! ;) I've heard tinfoil works but I can't spare it on these little monsters. Sweet gum balls gathered off the sidewalk work too and look nicer than forks, but the gleaning takes time. #stra-cat-egy
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@candle
If you want to add some dirty bass to Slipstream, be my guest. Otherwise, I'll re-visit it post-FAWM. Thanks for the comment. Maybe I'm too critical of my own work LOL.

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Greetings from northern Ontario - North Bay, to be exact. Thanks for taking a ride on my Roller Coaster and for saying lovely things about it.
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Yes, you spotted the pot of a giant fiddle leaf fig tree in my bedroom. It moves around, so ends up in different spots. And the forks in the bottom to discourage cats... ;) Thanks for the lovely comment!
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Thanks for the welcome! :)
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@candle
I have to say, I like that you're promoting the work of some of your faithful staff in that picture above.

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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LMFAO doin whipits lol seems like a brand name that should be trusted

Thx for that
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Thx for the link too his take on legal weed was way better than mine lol dude had me rollin
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Dude, thanks so much for your kind words. Youโ€™ve become one helluva friend.
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How in the heck was I not following you yet? Well, problem solved.
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My workaround for tags is that once a tag exists, I can search for other instances of it. So if I add #slothcore here, I instantly have a way to see all instances of it by clicking on it. It's a bit clunky, and it won't help you to discover tags serendipitously, but it works.
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What a fantastique pic on your soundboard!! Great!
Thanks for the feedback to my opener! "Mastering" - well I am a beginner, too. I am glad you enjoyed listening. Bass playing can be pure fun!
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@toms
I am honored, Fuzzy. ๐Ÿ˜„
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Happy FAWM Fuzzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ๐Ÿ˜€
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Great to meet you! Happy FAWMing!
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Thanks for the welcome!
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@beacon
Looking forward to lots of weirdness from you this February!
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Hi Fuzzy
Happy FAWMing!
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Hi Fuzzy - my slothcore will most likely be an acoustic slow tune with some wrinkles... Want to hear what you do!
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Heyyy! Welcome back. Can't wait to hear your new stuff!
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@sollis
Hi, thanks for the welcome! Nice to see a Brian Eno quote on your profile. It reminded me to get the Oblique Strategies cards ready for the month ahead!
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Thanks Fuzzy! I've got that one on hold at the library! His backstory is so inspiring. I enjoy watching the interviews with him on YouTube, too.
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Thanks for the welcome, Fuzzy! I've lived near this city all my life, but only moved in a few years ago. Hopefully some of the brilliance of those born and raised here has rubbed off on me by now.
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Hi Fuzzy! Have a good FAWM!
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Happy FAWMing Fuzzy!
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@amusia
Hello, Fuzzy! Looking forward to your hearing your usual weirdness.
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@cts
My man! Thanks for stopping by! Happy FAWMing. Let the creativity spring forth!!!
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Happy FAWM, Fuzzy!
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Thanks for the tips and the welcome!
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@toms
Thank you! Around here birthdays are week-long things! :)
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@erbaer
The water drumming is fantastic. Thanks and happy FAWM!
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@ttg105
Thanks for stopping by - looking forward to this one!
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Thank you for the welcome and kind words. I'm looking forward to your output as well!
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Thank you, I put both of you down in my archive of the notes now. Should have done that in the first place, but at that time FAWM seemed like a one-and-done thing, who could have guessed.
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@fuzzy do you remember who wrote the lyrics / post? I felt bad that I could only remember your contribution.

Having that thing unfinished has been bothering me ever sense. I let the concept get too big and I took all the fun out of it unfortunately. It doesn't help that my "second act" played out like a Hollywood blockbuster, devoid of anything deeper than chase sequences and explosions.
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@robs
Ola Fuzzy, I wish you to have much distorted fun!
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Thanks for the welcome. Glad to be here among fellow creatives. Hopefully some of the energy will rub off on me.
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This sounds awesome. Looking forward to your music.
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Happy FAWMing!
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saw your comment about clickbait and name-checking eddie vedder in one of your song titles. i had a friend who wrote a song called pearl jam stole my hair..and it was he most popular song on the album.
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Hi Fuzzy, good to know you're around doing that thing you are going to do, which I know is utterly creative! Enjoy!
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Thanks Fuzzy! Less than a week to February...
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@gubna
I look forward to being inspired by something you've done as I have been for the past few years. we definitely need to collab!
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@toms
Good to see you too, Fuzzy!
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Stay warm out there, my furry friend.
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@max
FAWMseason greetings. Enjoy the best month in the year.
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@atam94
Hey, welcome back to FAWM! The Brian Eno quote in your bio resonates with me. Although I have gotten better equipment over the years, that isn't what has made my music better. It's the time I've put into this craft. Anyway, I'm looking forward to everything you do, including the experimental noise stuff!
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@sph
Hi there, hope the secret underground bunker releases its plethora of sounds to the FAWM world again.
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Let's do this, indeed. *revs bass*
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@candle
<KNOCKS ON BUNKER DOOR> Is anyone there? I thought I heard Brian Eno playing the spoonsโ€ฆ might have been my imagination. Still, happy FAWMing my friend! Hope we can collab on something this February.

See You In The Shadowsโ€ฆ
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Hey Mr. F, yes definitely I will send some noise your way and am looking forward to your sound assemblies!
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indeed, Deez and I were preparing an album of mine that he'd be a major contributor to. We hoped to share the finished work in February. Some tracks were earmarked, some demo ideas where roughed out. We'd decided we'd drive each other insane if it was a true collab, because we knew each other's way of working too well. :) I hope to realize our intended project over time > either here during Feb or at the latest by the end of 5090. But it's hard to listen to and work on those tracks, so I'll do what I can when I can towards it as time passes. Let me know if there's something you think I can help a little with in any other project created in his memory.
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๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜
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Hi Fuzzy. :)
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@mosley
FUZZY!!! Always so stoked to head your FAWM music! This year is gonna be awesome I can feel it
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I am amazed that your massive technical department has managed to set its own standard for mind blowing sounds for this long without tampering with a single bass guitar.
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The fuzz master general!!!! Shall we cross sonic streams this merry month of mayhem?! Iโ€™ll bring myrrh and toast!
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@gm7
Great to see you here..it will be fun!
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looking forward to another month of the strange and wonderful world of fuzzy music.
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Look forward to your new stuff!
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Dr Fuzz, welcome back! X
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So good to see you here again! I'm very much looking forward to your musical madness!! :)
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I'm really pleased you managed to use Crazy Ivan, it's a bit uncontrollable as I'm sure you know. I had a load of similar plugins to send you and was really disappointed they wouldn't work on your setup. The noises you would have made!
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Damn this pink tinge, it doesn't do anything for you either, I'm similarly afflicted. I'm interested to hear you have a bass guitar and even more so to hear you're getting feedback from it. Feedback... ah that word fills me with excitement.
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Welcome back Fuzzy :) Iโ€™m loving these quotes btw
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@yam655
I won't have the time to work specifically on collabs for FAWM, but by 50/90 I should have a much nicer space to record. That said, I'd love to have you do something with one of my songs this year! ๐Ÿ˜€ I hope you have a fantastic FAWM!
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I'm hearing the murmurs from the bunker have got the suits holding onto their ties. It's going to be a wild '23!
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It's true! I have tiny, beady little eyes and I can barely see the website. I hate the pastel colorizing so imma change my pic to a mad-faced opossum right now!
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Hey Fuzzy, hope to hear more weirdness from you (and maybe if I'm crazy enough you'll get a message requesting some narration for a possible sequel to a certain super collab...)
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Fuzzy!! Have a blast old pal!
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Exclusive, just for you... ๐Ÿ˜‰
https://www.dragondreams.org.uk/forfuzzy/Dragondreams_AlienEmbassyS2E1.mp3

Trailer music for season 2...
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Hey Fuzzy. Re: spaceship... stay tuned... ๐Ÿ˜‰
More collabs this time round?
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Fuzzy! Happy FAWM! I'm so looking forward to your songs this year! ๐Ÿš€
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Hi Fuzzy! Wishing you an exiting and funny FAWM! Looking forward for many weird tracks :-)
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Hi fuzzy looking forward to your usual sonic shenanigans, have a great FAWM
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Looking forward to hearing your new sonic experiments! Have a great FAWM!
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I hope all is well in the Sound Labs Bunker. Looking forwards to hearing what you come up with this year and as always I am here for the weirdo melodica.
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