voiceROM
Boring Music For Boring Animals

More VoiceROM!.
Download it now! For free!
More bandcamp stuff (I recommend downloading in "MP3 VBR (V0) - 20.7 MB" format):

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voiceROM
Irritating Music For Irritating People

Drums, MPC and EWI, mostly. New 11 minute album from Dylan Marshall, Jon Hunt and me.
Download it now! For free!
For lovers of off-kilter grooves, vinyl samples and Jon Hunt.
Here is the bandcamp stuff (I recommend downloading in "MP3 VBR (V0) - 20.7 MB" format):

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1.1 Immermann
"Clovers" EP

A new Immermann EP! Recorded mostly live to "tape" in Studio Concrète not too long ago. It featuers us playing other people's music. And I made a bit of a film clip for one of the tracks.

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1. Chromakey Dreamcoat / Bocuma (Boards of Canada)
2. 1983 (Flying Lotus)
3. Song of the Sad Assassin (Why?)
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5. OnThatNewThing / Luki (Madlib / John McLaughlin)
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7. Leaf House (Animal Collective)
8. What Do We Find (Jarrad Payne)
9. Alone in Kyoto (Air)

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Emily Smart
All the White Horses

Another great song by Emily which we recorded in Studio Concrète last year. I play drums and also went ZING with a plectrum across the grand piano strings while Hamish held down chords.

Can be downloaded here or listened to while you view this Ryan Polei and Tim Lucas-made clip:

There are also a bunch of clips from the launch up here on Emily's youtube profile. Be checking them.

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Zeal
With the Moon Alongside Racing Us Home

So this has been out for a little while now but my website updates are few and far etc. I think this is a truly excellent album and I'm pretty pleased that I had a small part in making it.

Zeal is Robert Jarvis, an Adelaide human who is now a Melbourne human. He makes good music and does lots of interesting stuff, like making musical instruments out of toys and visa versa.

Here's what I did on the album, according to the bandcamp site: Additional mixing on track 4, drums and percussion on track 7, drums, clapping, jeans, bass drum, programming and additional mixing on track 8. 

Check out all the cool stuff that Robert does: Singing, nylon/electric guitar, electric/upright bass, piano, pedal organ, harmonium, melodica, sampling, sequencing, stomping, clapping, drumming, humming, self-oscillating delay pedal, alarm clock, banjo, ukulele, playstation 2, glockenspiel, toy piano, casio. 
I think that gives you a better idea of what the album sounds like than some broad or made-up genres (like acousticcy electro-pop groove jazz-hop-wave or something).

Simply direct your browser to the Zeal Bandcamp site to download the whole thing for free or purchase a CD with very nice looking hand-made packaging.

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Collaborator: Leo Auri
Improvised Duo Goodness

Mein dickie old chum Leo and I did a bunch of concerts around Berlin in 2009. He sneakily recorded our final show, at Salon Petra, which was the best of the lot I think.

Features Leo on vocals, piano and a box of dingsbums, and me on drums and a nice resonant pot.

Leo Auri website (with heaps of stuff including a few free downloadable mp3s)

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Southie
Nobody Out There e.p.

Earlier this year I hit the studio for a few weeks with Southie (a.k.a. T-Slice to the hip-hop crew). We had a blast, learning bits and scraps of foreign languages, discussing our mutual man-crush on Christopher Hitchens, constructing toy birds out of percussion instruments, clamps and blu-tack and recording a bit of music.

Tim came in with a swag-ful of catchy un-cliched songs and an open mind, and we had a great time combing through the songs (with a metaphorical comb NOT AN ACTUAL COMB) making sure every cubic centimetre was interesting and pleasing to the listener.

I started out as co-producer but 'Chief Reverb Applier' would be a better description of what took place. I think I played some percussion here and there too.

Chris Weber has a couple of guest spots on trumpet, Flik Freeman makes some bass-like noises and a couple of tracks feature a choir that may or may not have known that they were in a choir at the time.

Southie facebook

Southie myspace

Southie iTunes

Southie on Triple J's Unearthed (wherein you can rate and/or review it which encourages Triple J airtime which in tern makes life better for everyone)

And there's a clip for this song!

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Ronnie Taheny
Renaissance/Point

One of the biggest projects I've been involved in to date is this magnificent double-album by Ronnie Taheny. I was engineer and co-producer, plus drummer, backing vocaller and shakuhachist.

Disc one - Renaissance - is a fairly chilled-out acoustic classical/pop affair, mostly with the Outhouse Orchestra (Marie De Lint on Flute and Amanda Goodfellow on Cello). For lovers of well-written text and lush harmonies.

Disc two - Point - is a bolder and more diverse story. I'm particularly proud of the first two tracks. Pop gold! both of them. They are Ronnie's idea of a 'simple and catchy' song, which, while undeniably catchy, still contains lyrics like "keep in mind your solitude's fine, but it's better spent with us" and "Well, you're eating lead now. Gonna go for Goya's cred now." (compare with "stop calling, stop calling, I don't wanna talk anymore"). This disc also has some out-and-out poetry and sound-scapes and about one million instruments and things. It' s an explosion of colour and thoughts. And more lush harmonies.

Ronnie's website (with heaps of stuff including a few free downloadable mp3s)

Renaissance Point on iTunes

Outhouse Orchestra myspace

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Emily Smart & the Clever Girls
You and I single

Three great tracks from Emily. As a co-producer, it's my job to make suggestions like 'how about I play banjo on this one!' or 'why don't I put down some banjo on this other one!'. I think the results speak for themselves.

Emily Smart website

iTunes

Clever Girls myspace

Triple J's Unearthed (you know the deal)

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Knife And Tube
You and I single

Dylan Marshall and I have been doing a metally duo thing for a little while. Occasionally we set up some mics and a camera in the studio and record something like these.

One Sweet Dave

From the video description:

this one features multiple camera shots!
Points of interest:
- bass drum kept moving forward (quite irritating and usually doesn't happen on carpet. I don't know why it happened here. Maybe something fell off.)
- bass drum eventually collides with the microphone stand holding the camera (after a cut half way through), causing it too look like the whole room is shaking when I kick - pretty cool if you ask me.
- Dylan did several solo takes wearing the masquerade mask properly, but it started irritating him.
- wallet on snare
- first use of nude ribbon mics in the room with the guitar cabinet. With sm57 of course.
- 3:08: drummer point of view
- 3:18: right-handed Dylan point of view
- kick would have sounded better but someone felt the need to liberate my good kick mic from my house. Ah, thieves. How I hate them.
- cheap Chinese hi-hats modified and made excellent by Craig Lauritsen - www.cymbalutopia.com (crash is from him too.)
- Once again, all mistakes and inaccuracies have been left in because it's too hard to fix them when you're filming at the same time.
- watching in HD improves video and audio quality!

Knife and Tube (from when we were called The Dylan Ja Escape Plan)

Ironically, our live shows are all to click-tracks and with loops and things, while these video-songs are all just what you see and without click or anything. All mistakes are left in for your enjoyment.

More Knife and Tube coming soon!

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Moose & Squirrel
Live at COMA 2010/1/4
Dinosaur
('deinos' meaning 'terrible', 'powerful', 'wondrous', and 'sauros' meaning 'lizard')


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Meteorite
(just what causes the light)


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Moose and Squirrel is what happens every time Chris, Jamie and I get together and play without specific instructions or stylistic guidance. The music is usually fairly intense, loud and fun.

For this gig we had artist Steve O'connor arting on stage with us. The songs are named after what he drew.

Lovingly engineered and bootlegged by Marty Jones, one of the best and most averagely-heighted sound guys in Adelaide.

Chris Martin – keyboards
Jamie Mensforth – bass
Jarrad Payne – drums

COMA website

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1.1 Immermann

My band's first album! You should totally buy it I reckon. Below are a few free, full length, high quality tracks from the album.
I spent about four years working on this, on and off.

- buy the mp3s from the whole album!
cdbaby - buy the physical cd!
website - there is nothing really useful there yet.
myspace - pictures and upcoming gigs and crap.

Arts & Skiing (Jarrad Payne)


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A particularly punchy track. For those of you playing along at home: the opening riff is in 4/4, 15/16 (for the first four bars only).

James Brown - guitar, stick
Adam Page - tenor sax, tenor sax with feet
Jarrad Payne - drums, programming
Dylan Marshall - guitar
Flik Freeman - bass, bass with beer bottle, lyrics to Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'
Jon Hunt - alto sax, saxaraca

1.1 Immermann Theme (Jarrad Payne)


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One of the oldest Immermann tunes. The mid section features one of the first recordings of a vocal-looping performance by Adam Page. The melody is almost bebop. This was recorded before I owned much equipment at all.

Jarrad Payne - drums, programming
Adam Page - vocal loops
Dylan Marshall - guitar
Jon Hunt - alto and baritone saxophone
Flik Freeman - bass
James Brown - guitar
Jon Wilson - claps
Josh Hinton - claps, woo!

Saxafrogger (Adam Page/Jarrad Payne/Jon Hunt)


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ATTENTION HIPHOP PRODUCERS: use this track to make some beats. And send me a link so I can hear it. It would please me greatly. No law-suits would be filed.

This is a bit of an impromptu jam following an Immermann rehearsal.

Adam Page - drums
Jon Hunt - saxafrogger
Jarrad Payne - saz

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1.1 Immermann
Minotaur - Zeal VJ set (Jarrad Payne/Ronnie Taheny)

The music here is the midsection from the song Minotaur, but the visuals are being manipulated in real-time by Zeal, otherwise known as Robert Jarvis. Check out his latest clip while you're at it - it's for Agnes Kain's song Gideon.

Flik Freeman - bass, vocals
Dylan Marshall - guitar, noise
James Brown - guitar
Jarrad Payne - drums, keyboards
Adam Page - tenor sax
Jon Hunt - alto sax, bass clarinet

cdbaby
website
myspace

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Satan's Cheerleaders
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Satan's Cheerleaders. The first real big proper thing I've recorded. I think it's pretty damn good.

Much, much more information and a few free tracks at www.scheerleaders.com

Simon Ridley - guitar, vocals, some keys
Stu Earl - sax
Lyndon Gray - bass
Jamie Mensforth - bass
Dave Telfer - piano, organ
Jarrad Payne - drums, keyboards

Satan's Cheerleaders iTunes
cdbaby - buy the actual cd!
myspace

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Germany
(traditional)


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Germany.

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Jes' Wedding Song
(Jarrad Payne)


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Something I wrote to accompany my sister as she walked down the aisle.

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Restaurantica
(Jarrad Payne)


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An mostly-electronic work in progress. I think it's coming along quite nicely though. Maybe it's finished.

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I Get On Scoreboard Now
(Jarrad Payne/Dylan Marshall)


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A nice taste of some upcoming hiphop stuff.

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Adelaide Cobra Ensemble
Live at COMA 2009/9/7
Introduction and explanation by Stephen Whittington


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Set 1


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Set 2


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We had a lot of fun playing John Zorn's Cobra game piece. It was the first time I'd ever played with Adam or Hilary, and also my first time playing the banjo in front of a crowd. I think the whole thing sounds pretty sweat. I mean sweet.

Expertly recorded by Marty Jones, Adelaide's most versatile and least-likely-to-whine-about-difficult-bands-to-engineer-for sound-engineer.

Stephen Whittington – conductor/some noisy things
Derek Pascoe – tenor saxophone
Chris Martin –piano
Hilary Kleinig – cello
Adam Ritchie – guitar/laptop
Jarrad Payne – drums/banjo

COMA website

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Golden Years Soundtrack
(Jarrad Payne)
Parts 1 - 5






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Some 80's inspired electro-funk music I wrote and produced for an independent short film called Golden Years. (Why isn't my name on the imdb site?)

It was directed by Aimee Knight and produced by local human Sam Cherry.

Part 3 features Brenton Triglone on banjo
Part 4 features Ronnie Taheny and Marie de Lint singing in Århus, Denmark
Part 5 features some vocoded Dutch by Marie de Lint

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Satan's Cheerleaders
Live at the Bottom of the Ocean (all tunes written by Simon Ridley)
The Cursed Hands of Automaton


The Doctor is In...sane


Champagne


100% Sold on Jesus


Kricfalusi


Henry's Lament


Asleep in the Deep



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This was one of the first Satan's Cheerleaders shows, professionally recorded so we could use it as a demo to get more shows.

A lot has changed since 2006 but I still think this sounds pretty good. If you like this somewhat you will freaking love the album - grab it from one of these links:

cdbaby
website
myspace

Simon Ridley - guitar, vocals, theremin
Jarrad Payne - drums, percussion
Lyndon Gray - bass
Stuart Earl - tenor sax, keyboards

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Hello. This is the website of Jarrad Payne. I am a drummer, producer and composer living in Adelaide, South Australia.

Here you will find many mp3s and some videos of music by me and some of my friends. Much of it was recorded live, some of it is available to buy, some of it is just rough ideas put up for kicks. Most dates are approximate.

You can contact me at ja@scheerleaders.com if you wish, or through Facebook if you're into that sort of thing - but write something in the message bit so I know you're not just some permafrosty-hearted marketing researcher or general crazy person. I also have a Twitter account, but I don't really tweet anything much.

All the music up here is under copyright, so if you want to use something of mine for something that you or someone will be selling then please contact me first. If you want to use something of mine for something from which you won't be profiting then that's cool, but please send me a link when you're done.