Well my name's actually Martin and I was born and raised in a small town outside Johannesburg, though I've been living in a small town just outside Leeds in Yorkshire for the past 400 years or so, playing in various bands and duos and ensembles of nefarious type.
I got my first guitar when I was 15 and started writing songs the day after as I was too dumb to realise that you were allowed to play other people's music. Then 15 years later, in April 2008, I discovered the Mac and finally started getting my songs down and out there into iCompland where all the strange yet somehow lovely people live. I didn't know it was possible to have so much fun by yourself on the computer.
At the moment I'm using a mac book, a semi-acoustic Ovation guitar, an SM58 mic and two Lightsnake USB-to-instrument leads to record everything and I'm having a whale (wail ... wale .... whail??? Where the hell did that saying come from?) of a time!
Hope you enjoy it too.
Cheers

MSI - Terrifying yet wonderful

September 4, 2011

My Brave New Digital World

February 9, 2009

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Gonna Make You Happy (video - fixed)	Music Videos	Feb 3, 2012	96
Freak's Show	Rock	Feb 2, 2012	123
Staying Alive (Hallelujah)	Comedy	Jan 13, 2012	305
Son of my Sorrow	Alternative	Dec 8, 2011	421
Digging Holes	Country	Aug 26, 2011	653
Gonna Make You Happy	Alternative	Jul 29, 2011	630
Those Dirt Walls	Alternative	Jul 21, 2011	208
Pianissimomo	Classical	Jul 7, 2011	220
Loving All the Wrong People	Alternative	Jul 7, 2011	306
Can a Duvet Stop the Living Dead?	Pop	Jun 24, 2011	262
Polly-Anna In A Swimsuit	Rock	Jun 10, 2011	336
Call Yourself A Man	Pop	May 5, 2011	446
Into My Arms	Alternative	Feb 21, 2011	317
Playing To The Cheap Seats	Alternative	Jan 3, 2011	312
Someone to See	Alternative	Sep 23, 2010	375
Why Can't You Love Me? (For what I could've been ... )	Alternative	Sep 17, 2010	350
I'm Not Here To Make Friends	Rock	Aug 29, 2010	1371
Alphabug .... (Insecta)	Childrens	Aug 15, 2010	889
Komplek City	Alternative	May 31, 2010	405
Being Human	Electronica	Apr 23, 2010	444
Your Thoughts May Be Recorded For Training And Security Purposes	Alternative	Apr 9, 2010	792
We're All Gonna Die ... La La La Laaaa	Inspirational	Apr 1, 2010	1035
Tom Waits For No Man	Jazz	Mar 26, 2010	731
Help (Evil Beatles Cover)	Rock	Mar 4, 2010	2160
Save Yourself	Metal	Jan 21, 2010	469
I Wrote This Song In Pencil	Alternative	Jan 14, 2010	1011
I'm Just Doing What Everybody Else Is Doing	Alternative	Dec 10, 2009	558
Frozen Little Robot	Pop	Nov 26, 2009	559
We Are This England	Pop	Sep 24, 2009	540
Big Mac	Blues	Aug 29, 2009	636
Living (It's All Borrowed Time)	Alternative	Aug 7, 2009	598
Never Gonna Cry Again	Country	Jul 28, 2009	825
Crawl Creature ... Crawl	Metal	Jun 11, 2009	697
Fires Light The Way	Alternative	Mar 15, 2009	1061
Piano Quartet (For Legs with Traffic)	Classical	Feb 25, 2009	571
Come To Me You Dirty Little Rock'n'Rollers	Electronica	Feb 17, 2009	787
Love Is In The Air ... Breathe Deeply	Pop	Feb 5, 2009	764
Christmas Prayer	Holiday	Jan 22, 2009	723
Tis the Season ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Dec 27, 2008	629
Merry Birthday	Holiday	Dec 24, 2008	546
Bless the Good Ship iComp Lord	Folk	Dec 17, 2008	2246
Sick Spirit ... Hold Me In Your Arms	Metal	Dec 9, 2008	1334
Hey! Hologram! ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Nov 30, 2008	757
Guess Who's Coming ....	Alternative	Nov 6, 2008	726
iwantiwantiwantiwant	Punk	Oct 17, 2008	1018
Gustav and the Devil	Jazz	Sep 10, 2008	1388
The Weathergirl	Pop	Aug 15, 2008	1144
Your Wife	Country	Jul 30, 2008	1336
Harvey ... (The "Luka" Years)	Alternative	Jul 11, 2008	1295
Lie, Steal and Cheat	Folk	Jul 10, 2008	1068
I.C.B.M. Sexy	Alternative	Jun 29, 2008	838
Words on Words	Spoken Word	Jun 24, 2008	765
Rock n Roll Soul Cake (aka Mercury)	Rock	Jun 23, 2008	1908
The Girl With No Shame	Folk	Jun 18, 2008	2140
What happens to the words I hear?	Spoken Word	Jun 16, 2008	668
Friend	Alternative	Jun 11, 2008	1080
Hold On	Pop	Jun 10, 2008	1078
Get That Finger Up ......... (mini-song 53 seconds)	Rock	Jun 8, 2008	953
I Hear You Don't Know ... (mini-song 55 seconds)	Alternative	Jun 5, 2008	673
Tis the Season	Rock	Jun 3, 2008	616
Mischief	Pop	May 29, 2008	701
Set in Stone	Alternative	May 22, 2008	872
I Heard It In The Bass Line	Jazz	May 19, 2008	1576
You're All Of This (and more)	Alternative	May 15, 2008	746
Funny You	Alternative	May 15, 2008	650
Let's Start A Little War	Alternative	May 15, 2008	677
Famous	Rock	May 14, 2008	1020
All Night Talkers	Pop	May 13, 2008	1039
Man United	Alternative	May 13, 2008	866

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Flying to Orion	Inspirational	Sep 17, 2009	548
Crawl....Creature Crawl	Industrial	Aug 9, 2009	467
Don't Hear The Distance	Electronica	Aug 4, 2009	706
Maggots All	Punk	Jul 29, 2009	1898
A Christmas Prayer	Holiday	Dec 20, 2008	3088
Loving All The Wrong People	Rock	Sep 19, 2008	3112
Dear Prudence (Beatles' cover)	Rock	Sep 7, 2008	766
What A Mess	Alternative	Aug 31, 2008	657
All Night Talkers	Pop	Jun 18, 2008	860

Title	Artist	Genre	Plays
En Förlorad Värld	brnPetra [+1]	Alternative	160
Big Head [MSI: Remix]	8MonthMalfunction [+4]	Electronica	591
Anthony	Zeppelin456	Rock	121
never ending story (limahl cover)	that80sboy [+2]	Pop	774
Calling You	gepo	Country	319
doomsday	sarahdupuis	Alternative	220
Boys of Bedlam (cover)	randolf	Folk	292
London Cabbie Cowboy	MattFrance	Folk	370
Two Is Better Than One v2 instrumental	randolf	Pop	1521
One Horse Town	BossHook [+2]	Rock	1383
All / Oil Is Well	Trilobite2	Alternative	643
Fragile Glass (Song Bird)	Everine	R&B	736
World Class Fad	Dyl	Alternative	556
One Rock From Canada	Trilobite2	Classical	658
SWING THE CIRCLE	SISTERS	Jazz	582
WALKIN IN THE RAIN (w/Cathi Rice)	MickD [+1]	R&B	868
Don't Hear The Distance	8MonthMalfunction [+2]	Electronica	706
5LUG 5P4WN	KnqulearShift	Rock	597
Oo Ee Oo Ah Ah	NomadicMind	Alternative	983
WONDER	MickD	R&B	539
Teabox Artist	carolineguenther	Jazz	675
lizard [an original song!]	randolf	Childrens	2728
Dendrites	AcetyleneJukebox	Electronica	814
Nebulus-Elevade/Bild	JanCivil	Other	468
I will make you forget you were sad	9volt_tongue	Pop	466
Lord Is It Mine	etgilles [+1]	Rock	1086
South of Vulcan - 4- Last Touch	Surak [+2]	Metal	1920
The iComps International Agnostic Monotone Choir	Mark_Hayes	Other	907
A Song For Wendell	Trilobite2	Inspirational	1007
Stjärnor på mitt täcke	brnPetra [+2]	Alternative	1069
iCompositions v1	pm [+1]	Music Videos	1724
When the Earth Lies Still	Kybele	Folk	467
Yesterdays (2)	pedroberto	Jazz	622
The PAIN in Loving You by Storkaas	TheOmegaProject [+3]	Jazz	1793
Ex Astra Cuniculus -10- Never See the Sun (Final)	Surak	Rock	788
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor-II. Scherzo minaccioso-Allegro con moto	gloebs	Classical	417
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor-I. Allegro vivace	gloebs	Classical	443
I CAN'T BELIEVE	SISTERS	Alternative	614
Wanna buy a Monkey?	monkeyscat	Alternative	548
Heart on Trial (w/Lunatrick & RamonaJi)	MickD [+2]	Alternative	914
The Beds Too Big Without You (Police cover)	pete	Pop	643
Once Again	sonicbrat	Folk	598
Heaven	Everine	Dance	914
What Kind Of Fr**nd Are You?	JackFancy	Alternative	608
Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite #5	AcetyleneJukebox	Classical	818
Alman	AcetyleneJukebox	Classical	599
El Conquistador	visualine	Other	641
I can’t wait to meet you boy (When you become a man)	mfwmiles [+2]	Rock	1158
Damn, Well Here I Am	jimdonaldson	Country	517
Tigre	ochrestomanci	Pop	638