Standing Water

The Music of Brian Cantin

Voodoo Thang

Posted on Sep 30, 2015 in All Recordings, Demo

I came up with this basic riff on the bass and then jammed on it a bit with my guitar. It has a very ’80s hair metal sound to it which I dig and hope you do too. This isn’t a complete song at this point, but it’s a pretty fun short demo and one of my better sounding mixes. Title Original Author Other Versions Brian...

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Fire 2k12

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 in All Recordings, Electronica

An old synth track I wrote, one of my first, originally recorded on a Korg X5 in the ’90s. It’s hard with just an archived MIDI file to capture the original sound without a copy of an old sequencer program called ‘Trakx’ and an X5, however I have re-vamped it in LogicPro 9 and tried to re-create some of the sounds. For some reason this was called ‘Fire’ and...

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Funky Friday

Posted on Nov 23, 2012 in All Recordings

It’s Friday, and was playing around some more with GarageBand and my bass guitar. Came up with a funky little loop. Title Other Versions  

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Slow Drive

Posted on Nov 21, 2012 in All Recordings

I came up with the lead riff for this, then wrote bass and rhythm guitar afterward, opposite of how I typically put a demo together. Sounds like some sort of slowed-down Dire Straights song to me. I like the feel of it enough that I may expand it to become an actual song. Title Other...

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DeeFlatGroove

Posted on Nov 8, 2012 in All Recordings

Another short GarageBand demo, just some riffs I’ve been working on with some random lead bits I improvised over them. Title Other Versions  

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