Standing Water

The Music of Brian Cantin

Tourniquet (Cover)

Posted on Nov 24, 2018 in All Recordings, Covers

It is no secret that I am a Marilyn Manson fan. This is a track I lovingly put together in my home studio earlier this year using Logic Pro X. I played with the arrangement a little bit but I think I got a pretty close feel to the original “Antichrist Superstar” version of this song.I played all of instruments myself except the drums, which I programmed in because I don’t have a...

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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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She Lies to Me (Rough)

Posted on Mar 21, 2014 in All Recordings, Demo

This is a simple song about adultery. I’ve spent a lot of time explaining myself previously, that’s about all you get for explanation on this one. Take it as you will. This is an incomplete demo – the drums come out too strong in the mix and the bridge is missing, however it’s a great example of the direction I’ve been heading in lately, and even incomplete I am...

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New Demo – From Far Away

Posted on Feb 9, 2013 in All Recordings

Here is a song I have been working on this past week. It’s a different style from the music I usually write, more of a rock-ballad and more radio-friendly than the majority of what I have previously written. It actually started with the bass riffs and the rest of the song came together quite quickly in GarageBand. I got everything arranged approximately how I wanted it then imported the...

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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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