Marten Jansen Rock Music

Feel Alive

Mar 31, 2012 New compositions Leave a comment
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I’m learning this as I go. Some songs are available on iTunes and Spotify, one is available on iTunes only, some earlier songs are on a host of download and streaming sites. The current song, dear reader, will be on the following sites:

iTunes
Amazon MP3
Spotify
eMusic
Rhapsody

I sent the song to the distributor today and it should be available on iTunes within a couple of days. Spotify needs up to 6 weeks, which is their problem, right?

Hopefully there will be no ****up on the song’s pricing on iTunes as with the previous song, in which case you should try another site from the list above.

enjoy/regards

Marten

He Was A Middle Aged Caucasian

Mar 3, 2012 New compositions Leave a comment
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Holy Smoke!….for the lack of stronger language…. I asked the music distributor to fix the typo in the song title, but it’s still present in the album title. Never mind about that. That middle aged caucasians can’t spell is well known. A slightly bigger problem is that the song is listed at iTunes as costing [...]

Jazzmine update

Aug 13, 2011 Music Leave a comment
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I have added an update to the song Jazzmine Revolution, because I felt it wasn’t quite right. I made some changes between 2:10 and 2:20. I don’t blame you if you don’t notice the difference at first, but the change gives the second part of the song a more natural flow. You can tell apart [...]

Free

Mar 14, 2011 uncategorized hoopla Leave a comment
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Free…I like free. I want the people in the Middle-East and North-Africa to be free. I want everybody to be free. Economically, free means something different, in the English language. It means that you don’t pay for something, like air, or sunshine. On the Internet free has been important. Microsoft got a foothold in the [...]

Time Goes On

Feb 25, 2010 New compositions Leave a comment
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My new song is titled Time Goes On. I drew upon similar resources as in Your Dreams and You Said with the difference that Time Goes On is 9 minutes long. Previously I didn’t have the confidence to move beyond 4 or 5 minutes and would end a song at the first opportunity. Time Goes [...]

You Said

Dec 25, 2009 New compositions Leave a comment
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You Said is an ode to guitar rock. During the 1980s I was a fan of guitar bands like Dire Straits, U2, Simple Minds and The Stones, but then, at some point, guitar rock became so predictable and retro that I switched to House music, until in pure desperation I switched to classical music, mid-90s. [...]

Your Dreams

Nov 17, 2009 New compositions Leave a comment
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Ok, so this track is a little unorthodox, as I always try to push my envelope. In my opinion it’s an artist’s obligation to be unorthodox (while making art, that is) because art is, or can be, escapism. In the visual arts you can work towards realism, but even there art is only interesting, in [...]

Requiem for Batman

Oct 13, 2009 New compositions Leave a comment
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Requiem for Batman is a hommage to Batman (March 6 2000 – April 21 2006). I’ve made a habit out of alternating songs with drums and pop vocals with songs that are based on Vocaloid and result in a mix of classical music and jazz. The classical angle is due to listening to classical music [...]

Come Home

Sep 23, 2009 New compositions Leave a comment
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My new song is called Come Home and is based on a sample DVD that has many short clips of vocals. So if the vocals sound familiar, it’s because many people have used them, but the song as a whole is still what the composer makes it. All in all, using vocal samples is much [...]

Tell Me

Sep 11, 2009 New compositions Leave a comment
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I told you I’m into Vocaloid, the singing computer.  Today’s track is a song based on Vocaloid, in the sense that it inspired me to write some music I would never write without it, even if I had a real singer. It’s  a simple song, in that it consists of a bass, keyboard and a [...]