Makefile

World of NCIS

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:19:43 +0100

World of NCIS

When Will I Be Underwhelmed

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:55:00 +0100

When Will I Be Underwhelmed

Don’t Let Your Drum Machine Go Down on the Creedence

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:54:00 +0100

Don’t Let Your Drum Machine Go Down on the Creedence

NCIS versus Soilbleed A very, very rough version of a versus...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:41:00 +0000

NCIS versus Soilbleed

A very, very rough version of a versus remix. I might have to give up on this idea because the tonalities are way too different.

Cyber Scene Instigation Cheesy derivative TBM with samples...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:41:13 +0100

Cyber Scene Instigation

Cheesy derivative TBM with samples ripped from CSI: Miami.

Eating the Fig Drops galore in this bass-heavy dance track....

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:13:00 +0100

Eating the Fig

Drops galore in this bass-heavy dance track. Beats are taken from Eshan Khadaroo’s “Clockwork Nasty”. The rest done in Reason using patches from a variety of free Refills:

Stompp “Synth Textures”
XSynth Free “Leads”
XSynth Free “Pattern”

Lost Forever (DeadMa2 remix) Robert Miles collides with Deadmau5...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:28:00 +0100

Lost Forever (DeadMa2 remix)

Robert Miles collides with Deadmau5 in this remix of uncertain attribution’s Lost Forever.

I Like to Destillat I think I heard a versus remix of Das...

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:16:00 +0100

I Like to Destillat

I think I heard a versus remix of Das Ich’s Destillat against Reel 2 Real’s I Like to Move It about five years ago. My memory was awoken when I heard the VNV Nation remix of Destillat on Friday, but I cannot find the “versus” version anywhere — so here is my version instead!

Vertigo This musical track is my first full track created in...

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:40:00 +0100

Vertigo

This musical track is my first full track created in Propellerhead Reason, and is fairly raw form at the moment: effects chains are incomplete, equalisers aren’t set properly, generally the mix is in need of “tarting up”. After buying some Jean Michel Jarre vinyl while in London, I think I can hear his influence in the choice of synth at the start. From there things go a little crazy. The tonality vaguely hovers around G-rooted aeolian and G-rooted melodic minor, though there are a lot of chromaticisms sprinkled into the textures that get layered up.

I hope the soundscape evokes the vertiginous nausea of looking down from the top of a bungee jump…

The Typography Blues (revisited) Original Version

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:09:00 +0100

The Typography Blues (revisited)

Original Version

The Typography Blues With apologies to George Gershwin: white...

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:21:00 +0000

The Typography Blues

With apologies to George Gershwin: white man — particularly this one — can’t sing the blues.

With apologies to the listener: it’s rough and ready, words written and the four parts recorded in about an hour and a half. And I can’t sing the blues. Or even sing.

Chorlton With apologies to Augustana; this comedy cover was put...

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Chorlton

With apologies to Augustana; this comedy cover was put together in just four hours, so it’s a bit rough around the edges. But even I sound like Coldplay now.

Black Metal Birthday

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Black Metal Birthday

Excerpts from the piano Toccata by Khatchaturian used to test a...

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:26:00 +0100

Excerpts from the piano Toccata by Khatchaturian used to test a microphone arrangement on my upright piano.

Beneath An Empty Sky Raven’s lyrical poetry; the...

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:21:00 +0100

Beneath An Empty Sky

Raven’s lyrical poetry; the improvised “radio edit” of the song.

“Call the Ships to Port” by Covenant went a bit...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100

“Call the Ships to Port” by Covenant went a bit silly in my head. Now it’s “Call the Cowboys Home”. The rules:

no music
no practice
figured out by ear as I went along
one take for each track (no going back and fixing mistakes)
instrumentation: one guitar, my voice (beats are done by knocking the body of the guitar)

Radio/Karaoke Edit of Paranoia Infection The full version of...

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:50:00 +0000

Radio/Karaoke Edit of Paranoia Infection

The full version of Paranoia Infection was about twice as long and contained many verses of misanthropic lyrics. It was all written and recorded during the evening of 31st December 2007-1st January 2008. Part of the original soundtrack featured the sounds of fireworks in Old Trafford celebrating the New Year.

I particularly like the entry of the distorted guitars, but most especially the ring of the overdriven piano.

Involved:

GarageBand
some XLR and instrument LightSnakes
Dream, my seven-string Ibanez
a Digitech RP-7
my gorgeous piano
various breakbeat samples

It’s so late in the evening that it’s already late...

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:31:58 +0000

It’s so late in the evening that it’s already late in the morning. Fuelled by non-alcoholic cocktails that GarageBand breakbeat loop got stuck in my head. A couple of riffs from Liquid Tension Experiment’s “Paradigm Shift” started playing themselves, and this prog / industrial / breakbeat mash-up was born. The video above was added afterwards, using an EyeToy camera which struggled to stay in sync with the music.