03 June 2019

Liberty (remix of XTC song)



'Statue Of Liberty' is a 1977 single by the wonderful XTC. I've had it in my head as an earworm for a month or so, and decided to exorcise it with a crude Audacity remix, plus some added audio clips. It was only when I finished it that I made the connection to Trump's state visit to the UK this month. Weird things, brains.

29 March 2019

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.

17 February 2019

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.

31 January 2019

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:

30 January 2019

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.