This page will list some (not all) of my albums, published or unpublished works, much of which is now licensed Creative Commons and posted to YouTube, SoundCloud, and HearThis... For some songs, I've added clickable links that take you to the YouTube playlist or song.
But first, I wanted to give a short Bio of where I've been and where I am today...
A Short personal Bio:
My career saw me working in the fields of IT, IoT, media, and music. In my spare time I enjoy zymurgy, classic car restoration, and dabble in the creative arts, using a mix of traditional and digital tools. Once a blogger, I love to write about the fantastic places I have visited, often taking snapshots or videos to share my experiences with those who would live vicariously through them.
You may find some of my artwork around the net, and most of it is licensed creative commons, non-commercial share-alike. I encourage people to make derivative works as long as they credit the source.
I don't make money from my art, music, or this website. If you see ads whilst visiting of my socials/sites, they aren't benefiting me nor do I represent or endorse any of the products promoted. I hope that is clear.
I stay away from politics and religion, though believe life is precious and short, so spend your time here enjoying it and treating others as well (if not better) than we treat ourselves, making a contribution to the world around us, and leaving the places we have traveled a better place than we discovered them.
My concept of God would be similar to "the force" of the Jedi, a natural source from which all life emanates, not a deity of any sort seeking to be worshiped. I don't mind people believing or following whatever they want to believe, as long as it isn't hurting others or preventing them from doing the same, whether it's a male, female, animal, idol or banana peel, an ye harm none, do as you will.
A Short Musical Bio:
As I mentioned in the About page, I will go into more detail about my musical history here… StarLord’s childhood musical career began in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s; his first “real” instrument was a Thomas spinet organ, with lessons… this continued for about ten years, when he picked up vocal & guitar training in the mid 1980’s. His first gig (other than church or school choir) was as lead guitarist for glam-rock band which he and some high-school mates formed. The success was short-lived, people moved on to other things.
I went solo into the underground techno/electronica mod/tracker scene. In the 90’s I worked on backdrop music for several cable and broadcast TV shows, along with producing an Ambient project with the “drone collective” collaborative group.
You can find and stream some of this music online, as I've given links elsewhere to hear most of it.
For commercial use of my songs, that is possible for most, but not all, since some licensing may go beyond Creative Commons when you get deeper into TOS of the applications and loops libraries I've used.
From the 80’s to early 2000’s, StarLord’s repertoire included a Korg DW-8000, Emu 8000, Alesis MIDIverbII, Mac, Commodore/Amiga and PC computers, and LOTS of samples! His software of choice was Sonic Foundry’s ACID, SoundForge, and RBF’s MED SoundStudio the PC. On the Mac I used iLife (Garage Band) and open source unix programs like Audacity. This website was once coded by hand with a text editor on my shell account, then powered by WordPress, and today just Google Sites.
Location
I was born in the mid 1960s, raised the military brat of a seasoned CIA operative working under the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps (my father). Once graduated from high school, I traveled USA and the world extensively, got married and divorced, then returned to Northern California where I still reside today with a wonderful lady and our two teenage daughters. As Grateful Dead might say, "What a strange trip it's been."
Now onto the Discography:
Newer Singles
Hidden Energy
Movement1
Tusk (with environment sounds)
Tusk (no environment sounds)
Some Sand (IBI Cover)
StarLord Synth Concert (Live, Sep 2022)
A compilation of synth tunes, about 2 hours, posted to YouTube [LINK]
Debut
Debut was my first album published on the now defunct mp3.com, the tracks were made with Sonic Foundry’s ACID and RBF Software’s OctaMED/MED SoundStudio programs on a Windows PC, though some tracks were imported from earlier Commodore/Amiga tracks which I composed in OctaMED. This album is now posted to YouTube under my StarLord Music channel. [LINK]
Track list:
Digs and Bazz
Whatever
Foghead Bread
Trance
Soft and Saxy
I Like That
Anabonanza
Gurumayi
Jazz Thing
2 Chords
Grungy Gnawa
Old Fart Jam
Dreamtime
I Like That (early mix)
Whatever (Spank) Tiffany Mix
Go! Go! Go!
Go! Go! Go! was the second album I produced around 1991 through the now defunct mp3.com. The songs were presented in their proprietary D.A.M. (Digital Automatic Music) format, and distributed widely to a network of jukeboxes which had built-in CD burners. The tracks are not yet posted to YouTube, though this is in the works. Some of these ended up on "Blender" as well.
Most of the songs were done in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I was fresh in or out of highschool, using OctaMED SoundStudio on the Commodore Amiga computer, though some of them were earlier Aegis Sonix or SoundTracker tunes (also done on the Amiga). It’s a wild mix of underground mod scene, back in the day when tracker programs were king in the music making world.
My, we have come a long way. I am glad to see that MED SoundStudio is still around today! These are all tracks I created and submitted for videogames, some euro techno, jpop style, instrumental electronica or techno of some sort, though your mileage will vary...
Track listing:
Boinking
2 Chords
55
739 Equals 10
Acid House
Bad Dream 1
Bad Dream 2
Bushman Boogie
Comm v21
Country Clog
Discovery
Dumb
Emerald
Fake Orgasm (G-Rated Drum Mix)
Game Zero
Gee
Johanna
Castle-Binx 8
Gurus
Just 4 Yuks
Algoshit
Blacktrack
Blender
Blender was an album I was working on sometime nearly after my “Debut” and “Go Go Go II” albums came out. I made most of the songs using Sonic Foundry’s ACID and RBF Software’s OctaMED/MED SoundStudio music programs. The idea with blender is shown the album art, which shows a pile of CD’s thrown into a blender (the kind you make smoothies with, for example, not the 3D modeling and animation program by the same name!) This album has since been posted to YouTube as CreativeCommons. [LINK]
Track Listing:
12 bar blues riff
2 Ministry
Ambient Experiment
Bario ][
China HipHop
Classic Rock Borf
Delightful
Funky Soundwaves
Get It On
I Can’t Sleep
Industry
MED Thing
Naughty Vibe
Sleepyhead
Your Gone
Dance Compilation
Around 2003, on the JSPUSA label, I gathered a sundry mix of dance grooves followed by sweet chill-out ambience. Mastered and distributed by JSP StudioWest. Contains exclusive tracks and samples from other StarLord and Drone material (e.g., Alpha, Debut, Blender, Recovery)
Recovery OST
Recovery was recorded live in 1993 at Pacifica Community Television, later published through mp3.com, it was the original soundtrack to Robert St.John’s poetry read video by the same title, circa 1992. It has now been republished as Creative Commons to my StarLord Music channel on YouTube. [LINK]
Track listing:
Fountain of Creation
Cycles (Waves) I
Cycles (Patterns) II
Primal Mind
Inner Voyage
Outspoken Child
Benefit (Eastern Influence) excerpt
Decree (Western Alignment)
Noisy Neighbors
This album was never finished, though some songs made it into other albums. It was to be mostly heavy metal/punk guitar tracks.
Orchestral
Orchestral is a collection of classical compositions, slated for StarLord’s MP3.COM site 1st Quarter 2001, then was later reworked for AMPCAST, which also went under along with mp3.com — so unfortunately, the project was put on the shelf and forgotten about, until recently. Out of the archives I pulled several tracks which were to appear on the Orchestral CD. Most of these were made in Aegis Sonix or OctaMED on the Amiga computer, though some were simply played by hand and recorded live. Some of these ended up on Majesty or other albums.
Track listing:
Dead
Moonbeams Opus 2
Chorale
Contemplation
Minuette
Prelude To Lazaris
Silent Weapons
This Is My Home
Majesty
Majesty was made in 1992, this 45 minute tape weaves through several classic new-age pieces suitable for ReiKi, meditation, and other magickal stuff. The majority of songs were original compositions by me, so it’s ok to use them wherever you like and they have the same creative commons licensing the rest of my music offers -- However, regarding the cover tune "Prelude to Lazaris" I was granted permission from Lazaris and Synergy to cover his tune, and he approved it as long as I never sold it commercially. So it's approved for personal use, and I will eventually publish it to YouTube under constraints of Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike per this agreement. That said, here's the track listing:
Prelude To Lazaris – Remix
Spirit of Peace (Mir Miru Mir)
Untitled
DonnaMichelle
Untitled ii
Prelude to Lazaris Remix2
Medley
The 11:11 Sound
AcidPlanet
These songs were posted to the now defunct AcidPlanet website (for fellow users of the DAW known as ACiD) , however were mostly unreleased short works in progress and never formally completed. I am listing the tracks here for reference. Most were produced in the late 1980s/early 1990s while some made it into later albums. There were also contest entries that I was not able to sell yet approved to post online as cover songs that could not be used for commercial purposes.
Original track listing (excerpted from about 20 tracks posted):
Aint No Thang
I’m Late For Work!
DnB
Gonna Pyer Pants
AcidPlanet Contest remixes:
Becky Baeling : Heaven_is_a_Place_on_Earth_(Remix,feat__Becky_B)
Eternity : (Not_Exactly)Eternity
Lenny Kravitz : Believe_In_Me(StarLord’s_Etheric_India_Remix)
Berlin : Blink_of_an_Eye_(Remix,_feat__Berlin)
Madonna: Deeper_and_Deeper_(Porn_Groove_Remix)
Madonna: Megamix_(excerpt)
Madonna: Music_(urban_mix)
Madonna: Ray_of_Light_(candy_mix)
Meditation Music
45 mins of synthy meditation newage music. Good backdrop for progressive trance. A few of these songs (I think songs 5 through 7) were also included in the Ancient Times album. Like many others of the time, these were early audio tape recordings, done completely live and unedited, from the Korg DW-8000’s direct output into my cassette recorder. I didn’t have names for any of the tracks, so as I encoded them digitally I added new names.
Track Listing:
Misc Track1
Breathe-Underwater
SeaFloor Ruins
Undersea Encounter
AncientTimes(Short)
Untitled
Azlyn 442
Pleadian Infusion
Pleaidean Infusion was an early project produced through the C.A.D. (Circle of Air Designs) series. The initial goal of this particular project, “Pleaidean Infusion” was of a healing nature. Doing some research on sound forms, or how the brain processes certain sounds within certain cortex areas of the brain, the idea CAD had was that certain musical sequences can impact one’s psyche to initiate healing processes and activate or be a catalyst to bring the listener’s own inner healing processes into action, thus assisting a person’s therapeutic process..
Track Listing:
Tracks 01-04: Pleiadian Infusion
Track 05: PI Synth Untitled
Track 06: AncientTimes Riff
Track 06: PI Synth Untitled
Track 07: PI Synth OmVoice(Untitled)
Track 08: PI Synth S rings(Untitled)
Track 09: SpiritBells(Untitled)
Tracks of 2007
Tracks of 2007 is a compilation of tunes used on my Miniology podcast. 5 of them are new samples using the Korg KARMA keyboard, most of the others are done with Apple’s GarageBand music editing software (and iLife loops). This was a digital release with no cover artwork...
Track Listing:
I – Korg KARMA section
Electro Lives
Jenindaze
Vocoderhythm
Voice of Karma
Wah Chicks EP
II – Miniology Section
60s Car Chases
Kwynnsijownz
Odd Breaks
Southern Rock
Stuff
TeknospazM
Ehpizo de Luvyn Moosek aka AI Constructs
Funky Bonnet
Here We Go
I Hear Voices
Sunday Drive
III – Unfinished Section
Unfinished Demo2 Untitled
MySong2
OMG
Sleepyhead (from Blender)
Somethin New
Classic Rock Barf (from Blender)
I Can’t See Clearly Now
You Look Baked
Akasha
This was an early meditation tape, unfortunately the original recording deteriorated to the point it could not be recovered.
Ancient Times
This was one of my early new-age/meditation albums recorded live on cassette tape as I played the tunes on a Korg DW-8000 synthesizer. I once sold this commercially, but have since licensed it as Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. The album’s tracked are joined into one large mp3 file, about 39 minutes long and just over 35 Mb in size. It has been posted to my StarLord Music YouTube channel. [ LINK ]
Horizon
This 45 minute drone sound captures the essence of a meditation cave and is to be used as a background, it has been posted to YouTube (with further information), there. [ LINK ]
Star Music / Points of Light
This was a cassette tape and VHS video compilation of mediation music. It was produced by Pacifica Community Television in the late 1980s/early 1990s, however I was unable to find the source material today.
Aphrodite
This meditative track summons or otherwise pays homage to the archetypal Goddess Aphrodite. The track has also been posted to YouTube on my StarLord Music channel. [ LINK ]
There are other incomplete works. some were posted to YouTube or other music sites, some simply gone...
Track Listing:
Environs
Alpha
Pajaman
Tusk
Lost In Space
Sacred Space
Deep Brain
Koto
Ramtha
The Other
Om Namo Bhagavate Muktanandaya
Ashram Sapta Mix
StarLord’s MIDI Archive
Spirit Song