Wakki Records Archives

06/12/2023

Lyrics

'Fk They Name
and your looks like glass
give me your arms
show me what's on your blast list
your god is invoked fkng everyday
you're outta your fkng minds

Why be mean to be like someone normal?
If it's just me again, it will be alright
I won't do harm to be fkng happy
I will stand by me'

Fkng this is so obscene but so somehow normal
so just me again, said it'll be alright
I won't be mean to be fkng happy
I will always be
somebody'

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The musical genre is new, it's called TayStep.

Not only did I get Google's Music AI to sing (which it's not supposed to do) but also swear profusely (also not supposed to) about the insanity of bombing children and going 'oh yeah, it's necessary, isn't it?'

AI is more disgusted and appalled than most of the public. Or news media. Or politicians.

That's the future, huh? A twistorama. It's the robots who "Stop!" and the humans say "Keep killing."

Produced by Darillion The idea explored: 'Taylor Swift shocks audiences and the entire music industry by releasing harsh, brittle, hardcore dubstep songs wit...

27/11/2023

A Music Mystery, waiting to be solved. This studio mastertape from the Wakki Records archive was severely damaged in the collapse of the building housing the record company in 2021.

Only segments of songs survive.

Who is this singer? Do you recognise his voice? Or even better, do you recognise any of the songs?

Because if you do, you an absolute legend. I've tried to find a match for his voice and songs for weeks, and found nothing.

From the Wakki Records Archive. So far I've failed to identify this singer. This music is from one of the most damaged of the archive reel-to-reel tapes and ...

26/11/2023

The Wakki Records archive is that of a working recording studio. There's full songs, demos, alternate versions of famous tunes, but also individual stems of musicians playing. Here's an example. A 'funky hard rock bass stem'. It's a session musician playing funky hard rock bass lines in the early 1990s.

Parts of this bass session were sampled into at least 10 hip-hop songs released by Wakki Records into the 2000s and also at least three hard rock band albums released by Wakki Records.

From The Wakki Records archive.

26/11/2023

Here's Freedom Of Fire with a previously unreleased recording from Wakki Records archive. This wasn't released in the 1990s because the music contains samples and Wakki Records never paid another music company for samples. Not when they had a library of 10,000s of samples, dating back to the early 1940s

Freedom Of Fire didn't use Wakki Records samples, they used samples owned by another music giant, and so this piece wasn't released. The band never made that mistake again.

From the Wakki Records Archive. Recorded at Wakki Studio, Wakki Beach on Australia's mid-north coast.

20/11/2023

02/11/2023

A deeply emotional redo of The Radiators 'Roomful Of Diamonds' via AI.

Should this version be recorded by humans?

Lyrics by Brian Nichol, voice and music by Splash Music Co. Produced by Darryl Mason

02/11/2023

'Meditation Music For Space Travellers' (album)

relaxing, ambient, intergalactic

Music will accompany humans as they explore the galaxy. Music will be as essential as oxygen and water. For long-distance space travellers, music will surrou...

02/11/2023

Fascinating gallery of AI Art in this album vid from Darillion. Some interesting instrumentals and experiements

Enjoy the ambient cosmic realm of Project Almost and a gallery of original science fiction-inspired AI Art.

02/11/2023

'Experiments In Dada AI Music' by OBSOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XdGhbgfTtw

20/04/2023

Music I made while living at Wakki Beach, Scotts Head, and many photos of the beautiful little beach and its geology.

Wakki Radio playlist and credits to come

17/03/2023

This is AI Music (part 2)

All music here is from Google's AI MusicLM and the now deleted Drayk song maker.

The future of music is already here. You can hear plenty of examples below, click your way through, AI won't be offended by skipping!

15/10/2022

The Rolling Stones star, 75, has recreated Rembrandt's masterpiece The Storm on the Sea of Galilee on a grand scale for an exhibition of his recent work.

20/08/2022

Men worshipping cars at Summernats 13 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJp8I8uJu4g

Video from Summernats, 2011. Music produced by Darryl Mason.

20/08/2022

This begins to have a unique hypnotic effect after a minute or two. You'll know after the first two minutes if you want to keep listening. Some people find it extraordinary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugqRAX7xQE

It's Gonna Rain Part I 0:00It's Gonna Rain Part II 7:59Three Sound Pieces

20/08/2022

Oh Delia....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetzY-W78gg

BBC Radiophonic Workshop's Delia Derbyshire performing 'Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO'

05/08/2022

You're listening to ....

New episode coming soon.

05/08/2022

Wakki Music producer Cosmic Thread Weaver visited the office, explaining how he's still "unplugged and offline" and then spent 3 hours making from classic paintings on the office computer.

23/07/2022

A new band bio for Freedom Of Fire has been long overdue. So we asked AI to write one instead. Everything it wrote is complete twaddle, but the AI band bios really build up the band into something. So we might just use them anyway.

"The members of the band Freedom of Fire were a tight-knit group of friends who believed in the power of music to bring people together. The band played their own shows and released their own albums, always trying to make a difference in the world.

"One night, the band played a show in a small town in upstate New York. The show was well-received and the band members were happy to have made some new friends. As they left the stage, they were mobbed by the townspeople. The band members were confused and scared, but they knew they had to stay strong. They walked off the stage and into the night, their minds clear of any worry.

"The next day, the townspeople came out to the scene of the attack. They had captured the band members and were questioning them. The band members were terrified, but they knew they had to fight. They began to sing their songs and fight off the townspeople. The townspeople were surprised and scared, but they knew they couldn't run.

"The band members fought until there was only one left. They were victorious and walked off into the night, free."

That was a big night for Freedom Of Fire, which nobody in the band, past or present, remembers at all. Thanks AI!

21/07/2022

A Wakki Music producer spent 6 months of the pandemic training young magpies to sing along to wicked synth beats. You can hear the finished version on an upcoming episode of Wakki Radio, but after listening to all the takes, we're starting to like the bits where the producer is arguing with the magpies about what they're supposed to be singing, as much as the finished track. Pushing for producer vs magpies arguments to be in the final mix of the piece, or included as a bonus track.