Music

'Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going...'

Music :: 2002 to 2007

Most of the collection during this period was recorded on an ancient Hewlett Packard file server that I rescued from a skip. The soundcard was a dirt-basic Creative Soundblaster and the software used was the same copy of Cakewalk PA9 that I'm still using today, running under Windows 95. The only "real" instrument used in the entire collection was my bass guitar. All the rest of the instruments are Yamaha XG voices.

Some of the bass guitar effects are unusual. I generally used to double and even triple-track my bass in order to get some punch into the sound in those early days. I also used a couple of triggered filters (kind of like an autowah) in conjunction with my slapping technique to get some of the stranger tones.

Most of them make me cringe a little, but I keep them around in the belief that one day I'll get round to making them into something a little more "finished" and "refined"!

Track listing

Bass instinct

Then there was...

No matter what

Perihelion

Sally

Brightly coloured machine tools

Darker

We played the game

Aftermath

Animating the alien

Little thing, big difference

Iceland

Bass meant

Analogue sci-fi snob

And now

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