Goofy Music for Spontaneous Human Combustion

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Track Listing

Along with the track listings themselves, you will find information about each track, and in most cases, a link to the original MIDI file corresponding to the title.

Side A / Disc 1

Hell Market Revisited

originally written by Colin, with added text by Mingo
Copyright © 1986,1997 by Gregory E. Keklak and Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

The original script is narrated and performed by computerized voices.

This track is present only on the "Special Edition" cassette releases.

Voyage Centrale

written by Mingo
Copyright © 1996 by Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

This piece orchestrates three source fragments:

a banjo-like loop
the French word "voyage", spoken by a female
the French word "centrale", spoken by a male

This piece was originally created by sampling the banjo-like music and recording a loop of it on tape, and then sampling the French words and layering them individually so the female voice (chorused and lowered in pitch in the original) would say "voyage", and the male voice (raised in pitch in the original) would say "centrale". The piece was and is still just these elements repeating over and over.

The source material in this piece has been used without the permission of the copyright holder(s) (if any), so this piece is for private use only.

Bag of Fun

written by Mingo
Copyright © 1996 by Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

Hell Market Remix

originally written by Colin, but "remixed" by Mingo
Copyright © 1986,1996 by Gregory E. Keklak and Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

This piece intermixes fragments of the original "drama", repeated in a rhythmic fashion and accompanied by a sampled and altered electronic rhythm.

This piece was originally created by combining all of the audio samples together directly, with a heavy echo effect added to the voices. Like "Voyage Centrale", it has been redone here and the end result is that it is much cleaner sounding. The original audio had been sampled at a much lower rate.

Necrophilia

written by Mingo
Copyright © 1984,1996 by Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

This selection is presented as an "instrumental", in the sense that the original lyrics are not present. Instead, many unidentified audio samples from television have been added throughout.

The source material in this piece has been used without the permission of the copyright holder(s) (if any), so this piece is for private use only. The MIDI file available here doesn't have that restriction since it doesn't include the audio samples.

Augen: Gefährlich

music written by Mingo, words assembled by Colin & Mingo
Copyright © 1996 by Gregory E. Keklak and Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

This piece contains words from a German nursery rhyme, a German language textbook, and other German language instruction material.

The Veal Song

music written by Mingo, lyrics written by Colin
Copyright © 1996 by Gregory E. Keklak and Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

Several audio clips are played between verses:

"I bet I can eat more donuts than you" spoken on "Late Night with David Letterman" ca. 1983
"phew" spoken by Mingo ca. 1983
roller coaster riders screaming

Germans

written by Mingo
Copyright © 1996 by Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

This piece incorporates audio clips from a television program or segment about German companies.

9 1/2 Weeks

The chorus is an electronically altered scripted conversation between Colin and Mingo. It was originally recorded while holding down the fast-forward button, and had been spoken so as to appear to be played forwards when the recording was played while holding down the rewind button.

The original recording was digitized and then electronically sped up and reversed to produce the "normal" sounding speech heard in this selection.

Voices

written by Mingo
Copyright © 1996 by Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

The computer voices appearing throught this piece were obtained from an AT&T web site which allowed the web client to submit text to be spoken by the various voices.

My Name

written by Colin & Mingo
Copyright © 1983,1997 by Gregory E. Keklak and Rudolph T. Maceyko
All Rights Reserved.

The music track is actually a small fragment of a piece of music digitized from an unknown radio program. It is being looped and pitch-shifted to achieve the basic rhythm. The second part, where a singer is apparently singing "yeah" is just the tail end of the same sample being played long enough to hear him start to sing something.

The other audio elements are excerpts from a longer audio recording made by Colin & Mingo in 1983.

The source material in this piece has been used without the permission of the copyright holder(s) (if any), so this piece is for private use only.

Level 15

The audio clips heard in this piece are excerpts from a longer segment made by Colin & Mingo in 1983.

Among those audio elements used here from the original recording are several sections of a German language instruction recording, sometimes being played at 45 RPM instead of 33 RPM. The German language instruction is also being echoed and looped.

Goofy Music for Spontaneous Human Combustion

Track Listing

Side A / Disc 1

Hell Market Revisited

Voyage Centrale

Bag of Fun

Hell Market Remix

Necrophilia

Augen: Gefährlich

The Veal Song

Germans

9 1/2 Weeks

Voices

My Name

Level 15

Cut Up

Table

A True Story

Charitable Machine

Swing Job

Pink Escape Kit

Ass

Seven Songs of Salt

Side B / Disc 2

Edgy

Swift Planetary Edge

Cacogroove

Playing the Tuna

Triple Action

Scenic Route

The Lost Art of Contemplation

Be Nice to Your Ribosome

Symphony Ballistique

Crescendo

Return of the Man with the Big Boots

Tales from the Swamp

Interzone

Eine kleine Schlachtmusik