Breadboard - music by Used Soyuz

Santa got me a DIY breadboard synth kit - the Electronic Sound Advent Calendar from Eight Innovations: https://eight-innovation.com/dir/advent-calendars/ This kept me occupied over the holiday, and I outputted three short sequences I created on it. I then edited, echoed, reverbed and stretched these on Audacity to make this dirge. Enjoy.

Perky - music by Used Soyuz

I wanted to make an upbeat instrumental, although it inevitably turned a bit dark and fuzzy halfway through. Composed in LMMS using Linn drum samples, and too many TAL Noisemaker presets, including: SIDChord FN, Analog Down Glider, 2050 Punk, and Lo Fi Party. Mastered in Audacity. Stock footage from Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CEP500.

Helicopter Spies - music by Used Soyuz

Inspired by my favourite song by the magnificent Swell Maps, which I really should have left alone. Composed with LMMS using tweaked presets from two archives for the wonderful Synth-1 VST by Ichiro Toda (Ami Evan: Thriller ATMOS / Broken Leader / Phatt Leader / Arp 1, and Argon2005: Analog Gate / Screamy Lead). Public domain video from the Prelinger Archives.

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.

Pierce Film Lid - music by Used Soyuz

I have switched to another laptop (Dell Inspiron with slightly more RAM) so I have a clean install of LMMS, and used Synth1 for this composition, pulling presets almost at random from this huge collection: veryrandomstreams.blogspot.com/2012/03/over-10000-free-patchessounds-for-free.html (fx_suspiria, boys o' summer, sweet smoke, plucky). I bashed my vocal samples around in Audacity, which I also used for the final audio mix. The royalty-free video is from pexels.com, and the visualiser animation and edits are from veed.io.