6) VASIMR Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (6:02):
7) Interplanetary Caterpillar (4:07):
8) Adrift (3:58):
9) Exiting the Heliosphere Parts 1 and 2 (4:28):
Data:
The album was recorded in February of 2012 for the RPM Challenge. The license for Milkshake Daddy: Stranded on the Shores of Space is Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0).. The album was mixed while I was suffering from two ear infections, and acute mastoiditis, which I don’t recommend. The album is dedicated to Carl Sagan, RIP.
Stranded on the Shores of Space features 9 songs and over 39 minutes of songs about space travel and various objects in our solar system. I recorded it after watching all episodes of the TV show Cosmos.
(BTW, the original name of the album was “A Prism Refracting Light”, and the purpose of music is to provide a sound track for Neil Degrasse Tyson’s inevitable wooing of Amy Mainzer, and their creation of a race of magic space babies.)
Instruments used: A bass, a Gibson Les Paul Studio, a microKORG, a Kaossilator, a Roland BOSS drum machine, the blue KORG Electribe, sound-drop toys from Japan, and the iPad apps: Drums!, FunkBox, SoundPrism, iMS-20, moxMatrix, and AniMoog.
Genre: Rock
Volume: Loud
Instruments: BOSS DR-880, microKORG, Gibson SG, POD XT, Japanese novelty key chains, computerized vocals.
Inspiration/Notes: Las Vegas Grind compilations, B movies, Front 242, NASA, JAXA.
2) Return 2 Earth (3:38):
Genre: Ambient
Volume: Low
Instruments: microKORG, the blue KORG Electribe, arcade noise
Inspiration/Notes: Armed Police Batrider videogame, NASA, JAXA.
3) Atmosphere (2:18):
Genre: Ambient
Volume: Medium
Notes: Was a song featuring thrash guitar and troll vocals. I removed those.
Instruments: microKORG, arcade noise
Inspiration/Notes: Just the microKorg.
4) The Interview (5:20):
Genre: Rock
Volume: Medium
Instruments: microKORG, Gibson SG, POD XT, arcade noise, computerized vocals
Inspiration/Notes: British TV and Lit. Louis Carrol. NASA & JAXA.
5) Meeting Mr. Sprinkles (3:46):
Genre: Electronica
Volume: Loud
Instruments: Human beat box, microKORG, Gibson SG, POD XT
Inspiration/Notes: My sister’s cat. Funkadelic.
6) My Camera (1:57):
Genre: Reggae
Volume: Low, but lots of bass
Instruments: microKORG, Polaroid Camera, Sony Camcorder
Inspiration/Notes: my photography hobby, NASA, JAXA.
7) Someday we’ll look back and SCREAM (2:15):
Genre: Ambient
Volume: Loud, lots of bass
Instruments: Human beat box, KORG Kaossilator, microKORG.
Inspiration/Notes: this one is just totally random.
8) Scorpaeniform Paradox (4:35):
Genre: Ambient
Volume, Low, but lots of bass at the end
Instruments: My goldfish tank, KORG Kaossilator, the blue KORG Electribe
Inspiration/Notes: Sea Robins, my Sea Robin costume, my goldfish Portia de Rossi and Rojo Calente, British TV like the Clangers, Inuyasha.
9) BOSS FIGHT (5:29):
Genre: Noise
Volume: Loud
Instruments: Japanese novelty key chains, the blue KORG Electribe, microKORG
Inspiration/Notes: Sea Robins, my Sea Robin costume, Neon Genesis Evangeleon, Kaiju, Rodan, 90′s gabber, Inuyasha.
10) The Sea Robin Parade (3:27):
Genre: Ambient
Volume: Low (maybe medium at the end)
Instruments: Actual ocean waves, KORG Kaossilator, microKORG, Seagull acoustic, computerized vocals
Inspiration/Notes: Sea Robins, my Sea Robin costume, British TV.
Triglide Cosplay Facsimile is a concept album about a satellite that develops artificial intelligence and decides that it wants to explore earth’s oceans instead of space. On earth it meets Mr. Sprinkles, the Cat, who directs him to Sakanayokai the fish demon whom it does battle with to free the Sea Robins off the Jersey Shore. Yes really. Crazy right? Music has fallen behind visual art in terms of weirdness, and it’s time to catch up.
I recorded the album during February 2009, during which time I was working 50 hours a week at my jobby job, drinking lots of black tea, eating about a loaf of bread a day (not kidding). I also lost 6 pounds. I used Guitar Band to record this (that’s my excuse for any quality issues, like low volume or clipping), with a little help from Audacity, a Shure 58 microphone and lots of cables.
I'm a robot rock n' roller
On the planet Mars
Got a sister Martian rover
And this world is ours
We have a dirty job
But there's nothing to it
We love the opportunity
And have the right spirit
I investigate the Crater
And my sister's on the Plain
Determining the structure
Of local terrain
NASA dropped us off
in 2000 and 4
Said We were down for the count
But we came back for more
The dirts so red
I never get the blues
It's a good life
It's a good life
I'm feeling all right
I found some hematite
It's good life
It's a awesome life
We got the magnets and
We got the cameras
Grinding tools and
Microscopic imagers
We move from place to place
Testing stones and soil
We've got solar panels
We don't run no oil
NASA set us up good and
For that we're glad
Been down with the job
Since we left the launch pad
Viva Mars Visa NaSa
You'll here us cheer
Six hundred Eighty Seven Days
in the Martian year
The dirts so red
I never get the blues
It's a good life
It's a good life
I'm feeling all right
I found some hematite
It's good life
It's a awesome life
Rock all day
Eat sun for food
It's a good life
It's a great life
Think I'm artificial
I'm more alive that you
It's a good life
It's a good life
Viva Mars! Viva Nasa!!!
Some Sojourner Attacks Lyrics:
I dig for rocks all day, but I'm not on the pipe!
There's no water on Mars, don't believe that hype!
I'm green on the red planet, cause I'm solar son!
Don't step to me boy, my Pathfinder weights a ton.
NASA left me for dead, and I don't care!
Keep your Java upgrades, I don't need no repairs!
Relaxing in my crater, watching the stars!
I'm the Sojourner Rover, Emperor of Mars!
