I originally started this track in 2007 (part of a batch of tracks I'm currently trying to finish). Inspired by PvD, it took on a sun lounger feel as soon as my Dad (jazzdefector) laid down the first guitar parts. In late 2010, I decided to begin developing the track from the original ideas, writing new parts around the initial theme, which lead to the first two movements of the song. The latter movement is a reinterpretation of the developed themes. This track is dedicated to my girlfriend who I met not long before starting it and who I am still with 3.5 years later.

This is the first track I've made available for download. I l love the idea of people across the world hearing what I do. As such, I've added a lame audio tag. Enjoy.


Thoughts

Output 1-2 (172 1 1 1)

1st track finished on my new mac. It's a real joy for the processor to not grind to a holt. Essentially a trance track with big pads but still contains some of the tight, glitchy, interesting production I like on the verses. Mastered with -10 dB compression threshold at a 1.5 so I've tried to keep a decent dynamic range in the sound and still have it kick.
I'm fairly satisfied with the mix, to the extent that I'm happy to put it out there but there could perhaps be a bit more middle to it. Something to address if I get round to doing a remix.


Colossus

Current tracks and projects that I'm working on. 

Work in prog1

Work in prog2

This is a music track I produced for my friend Joseph Fallon, for his 2nd year final project if I recall correctly. I was in the middle of revision at the time and I didn't have time to construct a set of sounds from scratch, so I took the track "Perfect Conflict" by Aoki Takamasa and resampled it. Again, because of time constraints, the production wasn't as tight as I'd have liked but it still worked. 

As such, I should probably refer to this as a remix which diverges from the point of origin as it goes on. A reflection on the linear manner in which I produced it.

Fragmented conflict

I started this in 2009 and then returned to it a little in summer 2010. The song really felt like two parts and I didn't reach a decision with what to do the with the structure

About time (working title)

Couldn't resist uploading this. Something back from 2005/6 hence the lower quality mixing (I was 17-18). About a year after doing it, a friend from school, Grace Bomken, kindly offered to do vocals. Super-lo tech recording but it was great, this is about the only time I've ever had a chance to work with original vocals. 

Binomial

In some ways, not a great track. With no real song structure, it just meanders about break beats and electro synth lines. More really me playing with drum programming and chopping. 

Somewhere (original mix)

16 bars

As my profile suggests, my name is Alexander Buccheri. I don't claim to be yet another guy who has revolutionised the dance/electronic scene or attempt to impart some self-styled sense of importance through a 3rd-person description. In essence, I love production, making intricate beats, melodies and fusing detailed composition with euphoric melodies. My current "day job" is studying for a PhD in computational physics which is unexpectedly time-consuming but if I can continue to interact through an extended network of like-minded people, hopefully I'll make myself sufficiently accountable to get ~50+ unfinished tracks and constant new ideas out there. 

See below for a mini-bio of my journey through music production and sound design (written in 2010):

I began producing music at the age of 13 after I heard "Spy Break" by the Propeller Heads on the film "The Matrix", with the aim of producing breakbeat as an alternative to playing the drums (which I never got). From an even earlier age I was listening to a wide range of dance music including PvD, Sasha, orbital etc and liked the idea of cross-pollination of genres (much like Hybrid does now). I owe a lot to the Wipeout 3 Soundtrack. 

The same year I was lucky enough to get hold of a cracked copy of Logic 4 Pro and taught myself how to use it on my old Model 2 iMac. Largely thanks to my Dad's expansive taste in music I was exposed to alot of different genres at this age, notably experimental breakbeat and DnB. I still consider Photek to be the out and out master of DnB with his seminal track "The rings around Saturn". This was still an exciting time for dance music, especially trance and much of that musical era 1995-2005) has formed my overall taste in music and seriously contributed to the direction my productions take. 

I've been producing for 9 years now but slowed down during my A-levels and ground to a halt in the last 2 years of my degree (of which was 4 years long). Having recently graduated, I'm now increasing my production rate again and hope to expand my knowledge base past that of Logic, to Ableton Live (which I stopped using on version 3), engage in the live performance of synthetic music and push my creative boundaries.

Somewhere inbetween all of this, I took home an Ableton Live 3 demo from the 2003 Mac show and was exposed to BT (Brian Transeau) who continues to be a pivotal inspiration when arranging and producing my own work, along side big beat acts such as the Crystal Method. 