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.

Soyuz - Homemade music by A Real Patrick Martin

Knob twiddling on Caustic 3, using its modular softsynth and padsynth, edited in Audacity with samples of Soyuz missions from www.svengrahn.pp.se plus some droning from me. At least I'm not pretending to sing.

I was inspired by my favourite object at the National Space Centre in Leicester, a Soyuz capsule which really is hanging from the ceiling between the cafe and the gift shop:

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.

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.