...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Posts relating to production and studio practice.
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, for a change I decided not to buy a guitar, much to the amazement of my partner and my son. For many many years, any spare cash I had was religiously spent on synthesisers, and this Christmas I decided to revive that great tradition. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes So. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes So it’s not often you get a new track ready in the space of a few hours. Actually that’s not fully true, but for the purposes of now, and today, and slinging together an album at some point it is. I made this getting on …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Sometimes, just sometimes, things turn out just how you want them to… This has been knocking about in different guises for about 14 years now(!) – the original was a quick and simple experiment that I did using some loops I made on a very …
Reading Time: 4 minutes A few years ago, I read an article entitled ‘How to regain your photo-mojo’ – a set of projects designed to pique interest for the photographer in a rut. ‘Pah, that’ll never happen to me’, I thought. My partner, however, is joking that I am …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I was very excited to find out that Senser recently opened up a remix contest for their track ‘Age of Panic’ – this is one my favourite tracks from one of my favourite bands – I had been thinking about how to get some of their samples …
Reading Time: 2 minutes OK. So probably a couple of years ago now I posted about my eventual aim to get Suburban Acid Saturation up and moving again, following a bit of an extended hiatus from life getting in the way… Now it it time to update and unveil …
