One of my few attempts at a techno/rave song...definitely listening to a lot of MARS-FM in Los Angeles at the time.

Viva Techno! (1992 instrumental demo)

From the Mind Machine demo "Nodisco Or Funk" (July 1993)

Foreign Pain (1993 instrumental version edit)

From the Mind Machine demo "Nodisco Or Funk" (July 1993)


Shake (1993 instrumental demo)

From the Mind Machine demo "Nodisco Or Funk" (July 1993) My last and final attempt at a "rave song"...

Dance Of Confusion (1993 instrumental demo)

From the Clockwork Project demo "Ouija Dreams EP" (summer 1995) 
An instrumental I did, one of the first tracks I did under the Clockwork Project moniker.  I loved the movie "Billy Madison" so much I decided to experiment and incorporate some Adam Sandler samples from the movie into the track.

Gamers (1995 instrumental demo)

Original version from the Clockwork Project demo "Pluses and Minuses" (2000) 
I wrote this song for my dad after he passed away in Feb 1999, but I never cared for how my vocals sounded in the final version.  Here is the instrumental mix of that song.  I can definitely hear the De/Vision influence in this track.

Missing You (1999 instrumental version)

From the Mind Machine cassette "Surrealistic Synth" (April 1995)

Ghost Town (1995 instrumental demo)

In A Dark House (1994 vocal demo)

Original version from the Mind Machine cassette "Surrealistic Synth" (April 1995)

Hate (1994 instrumental version)

First track recorded under the name Clockwork Project.
From the Clockwork Project cassette "Clockwork Project" (December 1995)
Original instrumental version "Ouija Dreams" also on the "Ouija Dreams EP" (summer 1995)

Home Again (1995 vocal demo)

This Soundcloud page is a revisit to my youth when I was pounding out instrumental synthpop demos that never saw the light of day.  

I was listening to a lot of synthpop, new wave, industrial synth, goth, and techno in 1990-1995 and those genres influenced me greatly in the music you hear on this page.  

If you were ever into Depeche Mode, Erasure, Cetu Javu, Camouflage, Anything Box, Seven Red Seven, etc.  or even De/Vision, Beborn Beton, Wolfsheim, Mesh, this music may interest you.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did digging through the archives!  

P.S. That photo was taken summer 1994 when I was almost 21, around the time when most of these songs had been programmed/recorded.

Brian Olsen