Can Teach EP out now on Bandcamp

The Can Teach EP, my fourth offering on Bandcamp, is now available for no money whatsoever!

Quatermass - music by Used Soyuz

Thankfully you can't hear me at all in this track, which was inspired by the 1967 Hammer classic Quatermass And The Pit, which was written by the great Nigel Kneale, and directed by Roy Ward Baker. My vocal samples feature the plummy talents of James Donald, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover, with Andrew Keir as Professor Quatermass. 

I trimmed the samples in Audacity, then used LMMS to arrange them into beats, with backing bleeps from the legendary Synth-1. I took presets from two archives: Blade 2, Organ Environment and Thor (from Art Institute Vol.1),  and Fallen Into The Abyss and Sedusa (from aMUSEDd Atonal Abstractions). I tiddled with a few of these presets, and left others alone, before using Audacity again for the final mix and mastering. The video footage is from Curious Droid's fascinating documentary on Britain's Black Arrow rocket programme.

Can Teach - music by Used Soyuz

It's taken me nearly two years on and off to finally record this; I'm not sure if it was worth the trouble. I tried to keep the music (composed in LMMS) as simple as possible, with vocals and mixing in Audacity. The samples are from a genuine BBC Schools 'Music and Movement' record from the 60s. Royalty-free video from videezy.com.