"write a song about a failing circuit board, from the perspective of the last functioning resistor"
-Nightmother
"Make a song about protecting me"
-lotus (paid)
guest drummer: bread
"My request is a little bit different from normal, but something I hope fits your style. I'd like this song to be made nearly entirely of 'found sound' from your area- anything from creaking doors to engines to halogen lights to wind. The theme is up to you, but to get you started I might suggest day/night cycles. Lyrics as necessary"
-PTTG (paid)
"Somthing about a hat that dosn't fit. The hat is sad :("
-Ty
"Do a song from the perspective of a tapeworm. The tapeworm doesn't want to hurt you, but he must in order to survive."
-j3sus (paid)
Guest guitarist: bread
"I'm looking for something you might imagine hearing while spelunking the core of some kind of Asimovian planetary computer, or perhaps I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream's computer.
That said, and despite the name, it isn't necessarily about a malevolent evil machine, though. Just an enormous, powerful, and inhuman one. It wouldn't torture you, but neural vivisection isn't out of the question."
-PTTG (paid)
"Trenchfoot has become the base of all jokes for a good while now, being tossed around, shoved in bags and punched by otakus. One day he decides he has had enough, and will wreak havoc upon the world..."
-EuricaeriS
"nivi, make a song about the monotony of filing paperwork"
-Ariana
"I WOULD ADORE YOU IF YOU MADE SOME SORT OF SONG BASED ON MY THEME IN A TECHNO-Y WAY. PLS."
-ASH
"A dramatic, optimistic look at a nuclear war while still being mournful. Has three harmonies/layers or some other thing."
-PTTG (paid)
"A SONG about how much you hate your fans, remember? No copouts now, it has to be an amount more than none. And yes, this is indeed a lyrical writing exercise NO PRESSURE but yeah seriously take your time idc"
-confusion (paid)
"nivi, write a song about how hard it is to get a piece of tape from a roll of clear tape when you need it"
-ILM
"CHEESEBURGER!"
-ATG (paid)
"make a song about a small clockwork animal who is rejected by all the other animals, but is taken in and cared for by an aspiring artist."
-isaac
"You are a worm. You live in a hole. The hole is life, it is your home. You cannot move, you cannot turn, you cannot blink your eyes, you have no eyes. The hole nurtures you, it cares about you. There are other with you, all in the hole, in the crevice between innumerable tons, underneath a crushing pressure. Everything outside the hole is death. Life outside the hole exists and it kills, oxygen and sunlight burn like fire. They kill you. Yet in the hole, you live. The hole provides, and you love. There is no escape."
-gotryfag
The result of too much correspondence to quote here from confusion (paid)
sax samples by
uauauatrumpet samples by
kaponjaGuest vocalist: Anne Dawson
"Write a song about the irrational love i have for a person who makes songs for strangers over the internet."
-Epute
"I'll pay you a quid to make a song about about how awesome I am, but it have to be done in an hour and you have to mention the illuminati, godzilla, mothra and trolls(not internet, norweigian) and the x-file"
-Joe Bloggs (paid)
"You are about to eat some pancakes, a stack of three with butter, syrup and bacon in between each pancake. THE BEST THING YOU HAVE EATEN IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!"
-Pancakes
"Make one called "There's more to pigeons than meets the eye""
-ManWithNoNameInc
other things
Older tracks can be found in the
archive.
FLAC versions of these tracks are available
here.
Remixers can find vocal stems on my
ccmixter page.
Some backing tracks are available from
here.
Music freely distributed under a
Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license (terms waivable by request -
contact me and it'll all be cool) by Iain Dawson - credit with a link here. If you're using it for an awesome project of some kind, it'd be super great if you told me.