Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Having a Break
I'm studying computer programming at the moment and just playing piano... the ebb and flow of creativity moves away from me...
Apologies to those who have tried to contact me regarding the mixing - the account linked to my mp3.com.au has been dead since I moved a few months ago and most of my stuff is still in boxes for those of you that I have to post things out to. I appreciate your patience and sincerely apologise for the stuff around...
Friday, April 25, 2008
GodMusique Available for Download!
Back from holidays and it's back to business!
GodMusique is a collection of electronica pieces I did around 2004, mostly while I was at Uni. The collection is more of an experiemtn with learning how to program synth patches than a serious attempt to write a dance album
I'm no avid electronica fan but the overall sound is heavily trance influenced. Most of the keys are improvised but the parts were stripped back again and again to get what is there now.
I don't have track names for any of them so I'd be open to any suggestions!
All of the tracks are available for download.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Holidays!
Going to Bribie Island until the 25th of April. Don't miss me too much :P
See you when I get back!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Jimmy Cooper Australia - Myspace!
Yes, well who can help themselves these days?
Check out the very flash (quite literally- put your glasses on) site at www.myspace.com/jimmycooperaustralia
...it's a little bit cheese but I've got to start somewhere! Feel free to add me!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
"Don't Wake the Dead" (Crooked County Remix) Available!
www.mp3.com.au/Forms/MediaView.aspx?MediaId=118246
"This isn't so much an attempt at writing a hit single as it is finding a middle ground to get some momentum happening.
Jimmy has been telling us since last year he's working on some tunes and when we finally heard Don't Wake the Dead on mp3.com.au we thought it would be cool to do something with him and we have been looking for a producer.
We tried a few arrangements but the simplicity in structure is one of he things that makes Don't Wake the Dead work so we we didn't stray too far. We sat down at the start and tried to make the lyrics an extension of what was already their and overall we think it's worked pretty well."
Lyrics by Spittin' Image
Produced by Jimmy Cooper & Spittin' Image
It's a pleasure to be working with these guys and I'm looking forward to more!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
"Don't Wake the Dead" Remix Available Soon!
Currently working with Grant & Rick Cavanagh from Spittin' Image (www.mp3.com.au/Forms/ArtistProfile.aspx?ProfileId=260022) on a rap remix of Don't Wake the Dead and it's so far so good! I've listened to most of their material and I am very excited to be working with Spittin' Image.
We're in the process of finalising the arrangement, we expect the piece to be finished very soon and available on their site.
You wouldn't believe the irony but I virtually lived across the road from these guys just over 20 years ago - before we even started school! As it turns out, it's been one person of seperation between us for just over the last decade, too!
Hopefully this is an indication of musical fate!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Beginning
This is going to be everything I've ever done that's worth doing.
History:
I first started playing piano towards the end of 1991 and picked up guitar the next year. The High School I was at let me borrow half the music department across the 91/92 Xmas holidays and that's when I first started jamming and writing with Logic and a Yamaha keyboard as a sequencer.
By that point I had listened to lot of music but never really paid attention - not much more than Michael Jackson, Billy Joel & whatever country records my father made us endure stuck - music just wasn't a part of my life growing up. Even now I far prefer to write than listen.
The first song I ever learnt was Brian Adams' Everything I Do on the piano and the discovery of Metallica changed my life forever.
I worked backwards from the Black Album to Kill 'Em All, learning almost every song on guitar, and by the time Load came out I'd moved onto Pantera, learning most of their material up till The Great Southern Trendkill. Pantera were the first band I ever saw.
By this point I was steadily jamming with friends while writing my own material until around 1999 when, after my first time in the studio, I started getting into audio production. Every project seemed to fizzle just after a few gigs but I kept powering on.
I completed my first self-produced Industrial Metal CD in 2001 titled Surgery7:Darkness which only did one half-baked live show in Brisbane (but sold just short of 200 CDs with 14,000 plays on mp3.com!). Heavily influenced by Manson/NIN, the title track was featured on A.S.I.N.G.E.D., an Australian Dark Wave Music compilation CD.
That episode kept me away from the guitar for almost 5 years, only after attending the Univeristy of Western Sydney for B.Mus did I start playing again (I didn't even make it through the first year) I began teaching guitar around the same time and ended up with about 35 students per week but left after about 2 years to start jamming again.
Had an awesome Green Day cover show happening called Blood Sex & Booze. The singer piked at the last minute so that fell over too. Moved onto originals but the momentum was lost by then!
Moral of the story - DO IT YOUR BLOODY SELF!!! (or get your alter ego to step in)
So Here I Am:
Began getting the drums together some time around August 2007. The first demo completed was Don't Wake the Dead on the 25th November 2007.
I've decided not to redo Darkness - i'm just not that angry anymore.
I will redo "Circle of Love" as this was not actually a part of "Surgery7:DARKNESS"
2001 - Surgery7:DARKNESS
1/ Intro - 1:47
2/ Put You Away - 2:35
3/ Tell Little Johnny - 3:52
4/ Once Again - 5:41
5/ Dear God - 3:59
6/ Darkness - 4:19
7/ Beginning to End - 4:10
8/ Home - 3:03
9/ Four Guys & a Gasmask - 2:28
10/ Circle of Love - 5:20 orginal demo
2008 - Bedroom Demos
1/ Don't Wake the Dead - 1:56
2/ Comin' Down - 2:33
3/ Summer White - 2:20
4/ Victim of a One Night Stand - 2:32
5/ Had it Made - 4:04
6/ Come to This - 3:47
7/ Release Me - 4:00
8/ When the Night Falls - 2:32
9/ All This Sound - 2:55
10/ Two Lovers in the Present Staring at the Past and the Future - 4:16 (orchestral filmscore)
11/ Some Feeling - 4:48
12/ Asleep in the Night - 4:01
13/ 2my2@22 - 2:41
14/ Thief - 2:42
15/ Mind in Disease - 4:03
16/ Undefined - 3:44
17/ Ronin - 4:30
18/ Dreamer's Dream - 2:51
19/ Circle of Love - 4:43 (my personal favorite)
20/ Servant or Slave - 3:35
21/ untitled (ex Mother) - 3:06
22/ Corporate Mouthpiece - 2:58
23/ Looking for Hell - 3:16
24/ Bring On 2012 - 2:59
25/ Holiday - 3:05
26/ The Open Sea - 2:47
27/ Hard to Trust - 3:30 approx
28/ I Never Left - 3:00 approx
29/ Circle of Love - 5:04 redone
30/ Butterfly - 1:41
31/ Only Tonight - 3:19
32/ Better Day - 2:59
33/ Here I Am - 4:42
34/ Things Happen - 2:46
35/ Feel Like a God (Again) - 3:45 approx
36/ Forevermore - 3:00 approx (instrumental)
37/ untitled (ex Insufficient Funds) - 3:30 approx
38/ untitled _ex It's In Mind) - 3:00 approx
39/ The Last Page - 2:00 (Davies/Cooper)
40/ untitled (ex Mutiny) - 3:30 approx
41/ untitled (ex Spine) - 5:54 approx
42/ untitled (ex Them) - 4:20
43/ untitled (ex Velvet) - 3:45 approx
44/ Why? - 3:30 approx (Instrumental)
If I had to throw them under one banner I suppose some form of Alternative/Rock/Brit-Pop/Industrial/Metal would loosely describe it.
You can't imagine how long I've been waiting to do this...
