My Hero (for Shane Rimmer)

I grew up with Thunderbirds, and Scott Tracy (voiced by Shane Rimmer) was my first role model and male hero. With the sad death of Shane on 29 March 2019, I have uploaded my first ever bit of shabby digital music, which samples the voices of Shane and Peter Dyneley (Jeff Tracy), and tramples all over the majestic music of the criminally underrated Barry Gray. RIP Shane.

I Like Trains

This was composed on my train to work, using Caustic 3. Vocals and melodica (thanks Santa!) added in Audacity. I boosted the vocal levels, after being told that the lyrics were too mumbly.

My back catalogue

For the sake of completeness, here are some links to Soundcloud, which has all of my recordings, as well as two recent playlists:

Profile with all songs
Demonstrations - My First EP
Air Pressure EP

Pipes

If anyone were actually reading this, I would offer a prize for the first person to identify the source of the samples on this one. I quite like the video, which is about a steam engine at the Science Museum.

Night

I seem to veer between naive pop songs and weird twiddlings. This is definitely on the twiddling side.

Afraid

This got me my first 'Don't Like' vote on YouTube, which made me very proud. The vocal samples are from old episodes of Dr Who and UFO, and the video is from a John Mills movie.

Automation

This is my first experiment with using Text To Speech software, instead of my own flat monotone. I think I just made myself redundant as a singer. It was also the first track I made using the automation controls on Caustic 3 - hence the title.