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A cover of abingdon boys school's 'Jap', as requested by Nicholas Edwards.

"Would you be interested in synth-ing piano samples into... everything? I mean, replicate other instrumental sounds with synth-modified piano.
Someone goes up into a dusty old attic because they hear some odd noises. There's nothing there, just an old piano. Could it be that the piano made the noise? They take off the dust cover and sit down and start to play...
and they can't stop. They are forced by something they can't explain to play. The player grows weak from exhaustion, thin and tired, playing for hours and days and weeks and months. Eventually they succumb, and collapse... into dust."
-PTTG (paid)

"You are a fluffy, white and very pampered male cat named Florence. You spend your days lounging by the window sill, drinking in the warm rays of the sunlight, or eating the food your pet offers you in return for your fifteen years of noble companionship. You have spent the day relaxing and enjoying being worshiped by your pet when your pet's mate brings home a new puppy. This will cut the attention they give you in half. The song would be Florence's thoughts on the matter."
-Trapus (paid)
Updated 17/05/10

"write a song about a failing circuit board, from the perspective of the last functioning resistor"
-Nightmother
Updated 17/05/10

"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 uauaua
trumpet samples by kaponja
Guest vocalist: Anne Dawson

"Write a song about the irrational love i have for a person who makes songs for strangers over the internet."
-Epute

Older stuff, as well as karaoke versions of some tracks, can be found in the archive.

Remixers and curious people can find 24-bit stems, in FLAC format, here.

Music freely distributed under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license (terms waivable by request - contact me and I'll probably let you do whatever) 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.