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Archive for November 2009

My music, The Back Catalogue: Part III

And here’s the next batch. For ages, ‘A case of mistaken reality’ was a song title waiting for some music: eventually, it turned into this epic instrumental. The second track here, ‘Hypnosis’, was one of the first where I made use of vocal samples to enhance the music. This was quite an interesting experience and,… (read more)

My music, The Back Catalogue: Part II

OK, here’s the second batch of music. The first track, ‘Master Plan’, was written fairly early on in 1994 and if I remember originally started out as a cover version of The Grid’s “Swamp Thing” (the bassline has some resemblence, even now). The second track is a demo from later on which sounds incredibly ’80s,… (read more)

My music, The Back Catalogue: Part I

In early 1994 I bought a Yamaha SY85 music workstation, with a bank loan taken out just a few months after I had got a Proper Job. I had always enjoyed writing music and now I had an opportunity to actually record some of it properly. The SY85 is a synth, a sequencer, a drum… (read more)