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[Music] Brap Allgood _ Hear Hear

Brap Allgood
Hear Hear

(Right-click and save as or grab them all at once now, including liner notes and artwork.)
1. Born to Shop
2. To Serve and to Protect
3. ItsAConspiracy
4. Feeding Frenzy
5. The Solution
6. Blue Lake
(All are 320kbps mp3′s.)

Liner notes:

1. Born to Shop – video
_ featuring Charlie Veitch
_ http://charlieveitch.org
_Arranged in the early Summer of 2009. I saw a link to a video by Charlie at http://davidicke.com and was thrilled with his antics, as well as those of his former partner (let’s call him The Mystery Man), who is also featured in these samples at bits. LITTLE DID I KNOW how far this ‘kid’ would go with this Love Police thingermajigger…literally around the world. I was *very* inspired by what I saw (and felt) even back then, though, when viewing his videos and this is the result. It’s a little weird in structure, but 5 listens should cure that, I’d think. Everything is where it is for a reason and the sounds were literally built around the vocals, which came together on their own; I simply allowed it to happen naturally. I really love what resulted and share it in the spirit it was born. Samples used by Charlie’s permission, thank you very much sir. Much love. I’d SO hug your ass…and you would remember it for years to come.

2. To Serve and to Protect – video
_ featuring Alex Jones
_ http://infowars.com
_ I was listening to Alex Jones one day, more than 2 years ago. He went off on this rant that literally disturbed me. I was shaken. So, enjoying some skills that I have learned in life, I turned my creative side on the situation and TSatP is the result. I was trying to ‘exercise Alex’s demons’ with this effort…though it also seemed to exorcise them, too. Heh. Whatever, once started, it was obvious this needed to be pursued and shared…we giggled to tears, here. And what *better* thing to do with what started out by bothering you? I tried to contact Alex and get express permission for these samples, but he’s just too busy. In two years, though, it has not seemed to bother him and so here’s a nice new mixdown of it. I was very new to mastering when I shared it originally. Thanks, Alex, should you see this. This song has taken on a life of its own in ways that cannot be bad. (UPDATE! _ Also, tee hee hee…I discovered since writing this that I last re-mastered and re-released versions of To Serve and to Protect on this exact day two years ago.  Check it!  That’s funny and cool, I think.  No plan about it…that I am aware of!)

3. ItsAConspiracy – video
_ featuring MC Paranoyd (aka Sonia)
_ http://youtube.com/user/thetruthergirls
_ My homegirl Sonia left me unable to NOT sample her after seeing a couple of her videos along these lines. She is SO creative. You are SO creative, Sonia. Some of your characters scare me, but MC Paranoyd was an awesome giggle…so much so, I just had to break out the sampler. Thankfully, she agreed to allow me my fun. It was created very spontaneously, with love.

4. Feeding Frenzy – video
_ featuring Jordan Maxwell
_ http://jordanmaxwell.com
_ I heard Jordan on the Alex Jones show and was very impressed by some of his words. This is the fruit of that inspiration. It took weeks and weeks to get JUST the vocals down, but if you can’t hear the love in this, I don’t know what to tell you. Again, newer, brighter mix here. It was long overdue for this track, which is one of my favorite ever crafted in more than 2 decades. I try to write things that I want to hear and just assume somebody else will, too. Certainly true on this song, for which I thank Jordan Maxwell for permission to sample. Thanks for linking the video, too, as it has had 1,000s of views for it. That’s cool.

5. The Solution – video – sequel here
_ featuring Maxwell Igan
_ http://thecrowhouse.com
_ Thanks to Max Igan for allowing me my madness in this production. It was a labor of weeks, though it may sound simple enough at first. Everything is in its place for a reason, as I am wont to do when capable. I have a ‘sequel’ of sorts to it in the works, but getting music to stick to the wonderful vocals has so far eluded me. For this reason, I present this here, now, for what it is already: a real thinker, both for minds and ears. Use that as much as you like. I do.

6. Blue Lake – video
_ This is a few years old at least now, but I propped it up and gave it a nice shine for your enjoyment. It is a favorite of friends and family both, so maybe you will enjoy it, too. It was created in a morning…maybe 3 hours. Then I spent weeks trying to mix it. It was during my ‘learn mixing better’ phase. I think it still holds up wonderfully, sounds better than ever, and closes this release succinctly. The samples are of reasonably unknown origin to me, found at http://sampleswap.org as I find a lot of the sounds I use there. Check it out, if you use samples. Speaking of samples…this one was composed around a clickety sound that is, honest to goodness, the sound of a drawer in a porn store. LONG story, but it is a good example of how I can hear music in almost anything…

As always, thanks for listening.

Released early August of 2010, under a Creative Commons license, found below. Tracks 2, 4 and 6 remastered from previous releases/versions you may have heard. It makes me happy and I hope you enjoy it, too. It is presented in the purest of spirits, with the best of intentions, slathered in love. Also, the artwork is left unattributed ONLY because I don’t know who created that wonderful little image, which was too perfect for my intentions here to let pass by. Like these tracks, I assume it was created to be used wisely and I hope that I have done so here. It’s all good, right?

http://brapallgood.com
http://brapallgood.com/freebraps.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/