My Birthday Gifts To A Grateful World

Here are three birthday gifts from a dreary old git. My Red Mix, White Mix and Blue Mix. You're welcome, World.

Fantasy Festival Beer Tent - Dance Like A Parent Mix

Things are getting out of hand in my Fantasy Beer Tent. Old fools who should know better are determined to show the young 'uns how it's done...

Fantasy Festival Beer Tent - Stingray Mixtape

It's getting late in the fantasy festival beer tent. But there's always time for one more round.

Fantasy Festival Beer Tent - Radio, Radio Mixtape

Here is another mixtape to be played after hours in my fantasy festival beer tent. Mind out for the slops.

Fantasy Festival Beer Tent - UFO Mixtape

Here is my second Mixcloud mixtape. A wannabe DJ mix for a certain festival beer tent late night session. Are you listening Matt? Of course you're not. No one is. But I don't mind. I've got the bar to myself.
 

My First Mixtape

Not content with making my own dodgy tracks, I thought I'd have a go at ruining real music by mixing my own mixes. Here's my first go, just a few clips that were stuck in my head. I seem to have my Eighties head on today (and most other days I guess). And if some of them keep coming back, well isn't that what earworms do? Click the Mixcloud player for a full track listing.

Soyuz 2

More homemade music, and another tribute to Soyuz - the Soviet veteran which is still the only way to get people into space. Inspired by the Soyuz exhibited at the wonderful National Space Centre in Leicester.

Composed in Caustic 3, with vocals, samples and editing in Audacity. I also used Audacity to render a final mix, amplified at -11 Db. I hope it sounds less 'hot' and clipped than my earlier efforts.

The twiddling and droning are all my own work. The sampled Russian radio chatter came from here and the Red Army Choir sample from here. The video samples came from here, here and here.