I contributed to a few of the music challenges that used to be set...the results were placed on a specially created Soundclick page. I can't seem to find these any longer.
However, soundclick is still up and running....and this August it celebrates its 25th year. All my music is there, as I continue to use it.
Can any of you rember these music challenges...Dreamsville St. Valentines Day Massacre, Dreamsville Summer and so on.
Please let me know if you actually took part.
Names I remeber are...Peter Brookes, John Izzard, Mick Wilson's Blue Nose, The Architect Sketch, Hairy Vike qne many more.
Cheers Quinault. I hope all is well.
John moved to Swansea Wales for University. He wrote me some time back. He needs to do more music with Eric and Bob
Is John Izzard still around. I drove past Honfleur about 3 hours ago and I think he lived there.
Hi. I was involved in The St Valentines Day Massacre and The Return of Birthday Bill. I actually found my Birthday Bill effort recently (not great!!) I've since had Strange Girl re-mixed since the St. VDM project.
I have to take my hat off to the people who organised these projects. The time and effort involved should not me underestimate. I did find the time frame a bit short on some of the projects as I find I'm taking more time of my tracks these days.
My St. VDM song................
https://soundcloud.com/peterbrookesmusic/strange-girl
oh no, that is a great shame. One or two pieces that I submitted are gone for ever then as I can't find them anywhere on my computer...believe me I've looked and looked. I remember recording a lovely ambient /dreamy piece called 'Waking From Hibernation'. Also a piece for Dreamsville Summer which was like my own take on a 'Live' version of Cream /Ten Years After at a festival. I think it was called, 'Alvin's Big Red Jam'. Damn. Thanks for getting back to me
I stupidly jumped in after a few projects sort of flailed [my observation, may not be grounded in the truth or reality]. I essentially challenged the board to submit a song on a theme by a due date. The response was overwhelming and very satisfying.
Radium Girl and Michael Punslinger did art for St VDM. Hairy Vike submitted art and many tunes. Shed Man, Worra, the Stasi, the Penguins, the Rebecca Ride, Planet Andy, Triple Dog Dare, Stuttering Monks, Astrobleme, Garden of Surreal Dreams and so much more.
I play Sunlit Harbour by Cinematique from Dreamsville Summer to remind me that we get summer. I also play Indian Summer by Major Snagg.
I have bought albums from The Eisenhowers.
Maybe the hardest was 777. Dreamsville Dances - Lucky 7's was 3 80-minute cds. I am trying to remember if I put Budapest (Discokingz Remix) by International Industries on the Best of Dreamsville collection or not.
The rules were simple. You submit something, we put it on. Coming up with a mix, artwork and places where the songs could be downloaded was tough. The themes were pretty simple: Unplugged, Spring, Summer, All Hallows Eve, Mutant Country, that sort of thing. I had a thing for numbers as well: 777, 888, 999, 101010. Those may have been the due dates.
The goal was pretty simple too. To get the artists some air play.
I passed the hat to Mike Honsinger with the Return of Birthday Bill. Eric Daum did the Oracle based on the poems of Carole Young. The last Project that I was remotely involved with was Songs of Solace, a 2-disc set.
If I could figure out how to do it, I would have The Birds and The Bees - Stuttering Monks - as my ring tone.
On the Q-Mix, I had a Seattle City Light manhole cover for the cd art.
Wadcorp designed a potential Bill Nelson album cover and I populated it with songs. The Twentieth Century Singles. I listened to it yesterday.
Hey, Snagg! I participated as The Architect Sketch, Core Ten and with Bob K as The Electric Angels. My understanding is that Soundclick deleted all compelation pages because they were unable to control copyright issues that might have arisen. Sadly, all that great work they we did together was lost.