new release: Lee Rosevere - Fall of the House of Usher

For this Halloween, we're pleased to present a new original score by Lee Rosevere written for the 1928 silent public domain film "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Melville Webber and J.S. Watson Jr, based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

This early and fine example of avant-garde cinema is a visually-rich film, and offers many possibilities and challenges when it comes to the music, especially since it doesn't follow conventional storytelling techniques.

You can watch the film with the music below, or visit the website to download the film and/or the score.

 

ISS Stacks

Well, blow my lips off!

A little over 24 hours ago, Christoph Malin posted a video made from NASA footage of the earth at night (some of the same footage appears in one of our own videos), featuring Lee's song "Eileen" from the Music for MOBA album.

However, this is not your average time-lapse space video - the images are 'stacked' - and it's been watched at Vimeo more than 160,000 times, not to mention a nifty little Wired.com article - thanks Christoph!

New release - Jared C. Balogh - Between Equinox

Happy Puppy is pleased to present another collection of humanly-impossible-to-play compositions by the prolific Jared C. Balogh.

These cerebral but very musical songs fits right in with his Rhythms of Life album, previously also released on Happy Puppy, continuing his synclavier-esque modern classical material.

This new album features some of his earliest works; "Break In The Action" is listed in the song notes as being recorded in early June, while "Quick Steppin' Q" goes back nearly three years, played by an imaginary avant-garde jazz duo.

Over 74 minutes of enjoyable and thought-provoking music, and we hope you enjoy it and graciously thank Jared for sharing his music with us. Available now for free download!

For more on Jared's music, visit him at his website, facebook or twitter.

2 new items...

Lee's track "Eileen" seems to be a big hit over at Vimeo... the song most recently appeared in Evan Burn's wonderful short documentary "The Junk King", which has received 20,000 views in just 2 days.

We're super-chuffed to be a part of the latest remix EP by Sweden's #1 pop band Acid House Kings! Lee did his best Phil Collins-esque production work - you can get it at iTunes, or stream it below to listen!

new album playlist: Beyond the Goal

Possible hockey lockout gotcha down?

Back in 2008, the Corporation that Broadcasts throughout Canada held a contest for a new hockey anthem to go with their very popular hockey TV show. They lost the original rights to the iconic and well-known theme, and so asked Canada to write a new one.

There were over 15,000 entries.. and most of them are lost to time, which I think is a shame and I would like to see them remembered and preserved.

The Corporation that Broadcasts throughout Canada took down the website a few years ago, but with a little help from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, I was able to look up original contest entries that were posted on the site.

However, they didn't store the mp3 and video files that people submitted on their own website. They used off-site storage... and the files are still there!

It's impossible to collect all the songs... each entry was given an ID number, but you don't know who the artist is, or what the song is called, unless you cross-reference it with the Wayback results... and they didn't capture every page, but I managed to create the following "album playlist" from what the Wayback gave me.

I actually collected a 'personal' CD worth of anthems, so I do have more songs than are listed here that I quite liked, but unfortunately I never saved the original ID numbers, so I can't find them now... and I cannot re-upload them without the permission of the songwriters. Most cases, all I have is a name and a city, which isn't very helpful in tracking them down, with the exception of a few.

So instead, I'm linking to the original files - you'll have to rename the file yourself if you want to save it (every file name gets tagged as "31").

It includes some well-known Canadian musicians like Gowan, Moe Berg from TPOH, Carly Paradis (who played piano on the "Moon" soundtrack), Myles Goodwin from April Wine, Steve Eggers from the Canadian pop/rock band The Nines, and many more you've never heard of.

Also included is Logan Aube's "Hockey Scores", which I highly recommend you read the story behind.

Get them before they go!

New release: Peter DiPhillips "Omphalos"

Presenting a debut release by Peter DiPhillips for Happy Puppy: Omphalos.

Peter, who also goes by the name slowdazzzle, creates dark and spacey electronic soundscapes highlighted with minimal but effective melodies... definitely of interest for fans of atmospheric soundtracks.

Many highlights, but we particularly enjoy the synthy-calm "Tranquillamente" trilogy at the end, which pretty much sounds like what its title implies.

You can find other releases of Peter's on his Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages, where he recently posted the sequel to this release, Omphalos II.

new release: Origami Repetika - Computer Time

After releasing his first single on Happy Puppy last year, Origami Repetika is back with his first mini-LP for us.

The man behind Origami Repetika is Adam Sigmund, who is a member of the Origami Republika collective, and now is also a member of the South Jersey SoundFont Collective (SJSFC).

There's lots of bright and sunny sounds in these bouncy tunes, and would probably do well if you were looking for chipmusic to exercise to - case in point, the song "Sunny Morning Exercise Club".

Share and enjoy.