April 2010
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Hustle here, hustle there
Tunng recently made the stubs of their song “Hustle” available via Soundcloud, so I decided to join in the fun and do a mix. I first saw Tunng at one of the excellent “Fistful of Folk” twisted folk festivals 2 or 3 years ago, and like many people was immediately grabbed by their harmonies, acoustic/classical guitar duets and electronic percussive backings. At times they...
February 2010
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Zoetrope Dancer
This one’s something of an enigmatic piece with spiralling violins building measured, almost nonchalant crescendos over a bed of electronica that drifts in and out - until all are swept up in the climax. This is the second track on The Drift EP released last year, which is available as a creative commons free download. I was aiming for something hypnotic, with gradual transformations...
January 2010
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Roads
Wrapped up in your own thoughts, walking alone at night, wondering where you’re really going. Thoughts and memories that haunt and comfort.
Photo by Devangshah
December 2009
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The Drift
“Whats, what’s your, er, plan?” “My plan? I haven’t got one”
Title track of my latest EP, this is an overtly symphonic piece in which I had a lot of fun working with the Miroslav orchestra brass and choir samples, and slipped in a snippet of dialogue recorded on a mobile phone while out and about.
A couple of people have commented that this track reminds them...
November 2009
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Small Pleasures
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I sampled the fragment of electric guitar on this instrumental from a song by Cuzco, a band I played in many moons ago. I cut short the opening riff, then slowed it down at a couple of points further on in the piece. That riff and the double bass rhythm became the basis for building up the rest of the track. This...
August 2009
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Wisp
This piece is based on some morphing textures on an electric guitar, a simple looped acoustic guitar motif, and viola. This is the longer version of what was originally a 40 seconds intro track
Photo by cayusa
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