Eric Thompson

Audio Files

• Eastern Beast

  A delicate original acoustic guitar piece stemming from traditional Khanseran, Mongolian, and Arabian music. Modern editting techniques and features have been applied for the development of a unique soundscape, utilizing the essence of "old-school" industrial sound philosophy as well as world influence and a twisted mind to produce a bizarre experience which leaves one with vast mental imagery and perhaps a sense of violation or perversion.

  Duration: 05:27

• Homme-Age

  This is a dual concept piece; a tribute to dating and also to modern man and the nature thereof. I believe the samples render it rather self-explanatory. The drums and piano were constructed through morse code ("When they believe, they don't listen; when they listen they don't believe; when they do both it's total bullsh**"). This song is somewhat of a blurred line between fantasy and reality, reminiscent of too many genres to name one.

  Duration: 02:56

• Connercoction

  This track has Michael Conner's vocals applied to a nifty smokey, jazzlounge beat-oriented piece with some chipper piano and stoned bass. A mellow groove that seems like a spring board of sorts.

  Duration: 04:02

• Tales of Nazarene

  This is a new song made by a story from Sir Mangus Noble of Charleswood and a churrango (sp?)with some sitar and drum&bass loops. Some minor editting and cleaning but a rather rough draft.

  Duration: 03:57

• Khanseran Folk

  This is a traditional (slightly modified) folk song which is about exploration of a land by being its student and admirer. Unfortunately I do not have access to all of the instruments which would have been used, but it is a rather well-kept rendition for being entirely synthesized.

  Duration: 03:21

• Con-Troll

  This is a nice, heavy hitting industral/EBM track which uses loops made by Electrohead and samples provided by Mr. E. I can't get enough of this one. It is exactly the industrial sound I have aimed for for years.

  Duration: 04:17

• Dumb'n'fun bags

  Just a fun little ditty with a variety of samples from a variety of sources. Very fun to dance to and good for driving. This is my second best song of the eectro sort, I think.

  Duration: 03:51

• Alienglomp

  This is one of the more typically structured songs of mine, leaving the end result a sort of radio friendly time-travel soundtrack with inexplicable imagery. Makes me think of being probed...again...

  Duration: 02:51

• (m)Angles

  This is another sound experiment performed with Sir Mangus Noble of Charleswood. Be warned, this is an abrasive track that will make you feel as though Primus had a collective penis in your ear.

  Duration: 02:54

• Rastaaun

  The lyrics for this are in the Khanseran language, and the music is an original bass-oriented piece (using Looperman samples). The vocals are delivered by yours truly in a manner much different than their original form. This song originally follows a more traditional rhythm akin to Celtic folk and traditional blended with Czech and Turkish influences (best way to describe the mode of Khanseran traditional music which this would come from). The lyrics, transliterated to Roman characters, are posted separately.

  Duration: 03:47

• Pay Your Pain

  One of the few songs I actually do vocals for. I will soon be posting the lyrics (difficult to discern at certain points of the song). It is a humble and haphazard recording, but it's what I have.

  Duration: 04:26

• A Night At The Commie

  Another track which I do some vocals on. Again, a humble recording, but the Commercial Hotel is a humble place. This was inspired by being the night person for front desk at a haunted hotel, plagued with caffeine-nicotine addicition, sleep deprivation, angry spirits and crackheads all around. Fun times.

  Duration: 06:48

• Story Be Told

  The vocal sample is a beautiful but brief bit by a user on Looperman. My music has been taking a rather chill and easy-listening mode lately, no?

  Duration: 02:58

• Did She Know

  A song composed of mixed samples from Looperman.com and some original lyrics and editing, etc. I have the lyrics to this already up on the site.

  Duration: 04:34

• Soma

  This is a fun one. The beatboxish vocals are arabic phonetics with some gypsie-esque funkomatic percussion acquired from freesound.org, along with a pleasant little flute sample and some interjectory electrofunk loops and samples of Hakim Bey speaking on the essence of creativity, in a sense.

  Duration: 03:07

• Praj'da (Inverted Grace)

  The tags more or less sufficiently describe this one. I wish I had names to attribute to the vocal parts, but the source (soundbible.com) did not provide any. I thank these strangers for their voices sincerely.

  Duration: 03:56

• Mute Trumpets

  This song is not what one could call smoothly done, but I like the sassy bass and I post it because it was made under the advice of my roomie Rachel.

  Duration: 03:09

• Nephilim

  I thought I already posted this, but appearantly not. I am kind of proud of this track, and I like the goofy '80s ghostbuster part towards the end.

  Duration: 04:30