Freelance Producer and Engineer based at south west studio Nine Volt Leap just outside of Bath. Here is a selection of songs I have mixed, engineered and producer. www.ninevoltleap.co.uk, info@ninevoltleap.co.uk.

Sly Palms transcribe the death of the hippie dream in the late 60’s to its parallels in today’s self-centred society by spinning yarns about the true source of all macabre – people. Recorded at Malthouse Studios with Dom Mitchinson (Spectres, Oliver Wilde), it’s Garage rock with rumbas, oompahs, wailing organ and wonky guitar lines. Nick Cave meets Gogol Bordello through the Doors.

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"Leftfield troubadour from New York City known for making his own instruments. Inventive and Romantic" -TimeOut

UNCUT magazine says "Truax is shaping up nicely as one of the great rock eccentrics."

 His evolving 'band' of self-made sound sculptures include a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called 'Mother Superior' and a souped up Gramophone called 'The Hornicator'.

He crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology, and a lifelong obsession with things lunar, including various reasons 'Why Dogs Howl at The Moon'. His nine studio LPs include highly-rated covers album 'Songs From The Films Of David Lynch'.  

Other notable supporters and collaborators have included Jarvis Cocker, Duke Special, James Konopinski Smith of Yard Act, Richard Hawley, Bob Log III, the Dresden Dolls and the late author Terry Pratchett. Currently he’s finishing off a 2022 album release that features drummer Budgie of the Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees et al.


On Soundcloud in 2011, The Monthly Journal album was a living, mutating organism taking place in twelve intervals over a year. Tracks were informed by any number of things: the vibe, feeling, texture, atmosphere of the changing seasons, the expanding and contracting lengths of days and nights, weather, news, dreams, personal or world events as they unfolded. Songs were produced and released within the window of each month.

MC’s please get in touch madcolour@hotmail.co.uk

'She Ain't Blue' MUSIC VIDEO watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o0juO_juz8

Formed in 2011 by Hong Kong born singer/multi-instrumentalist Louise Schwarz and Wiltshire based drummer/vocalist Jake Cheesman after seeing a Melt-Banana concert. Budada began as an Anti-Folk/lo-fi duo playing shows across the Southwest & Wales while also gigging for two months around Hong Kong.

Augmenting to a more traditional four-piece Budada added Lance Thorman on Bass and Jack Ward on Guitar the band became something much more powerful. Budada’s style contains a range of elements, including indie rock, psychedelia and noise pop, whilst they firmly maintain their dark folk edges producing extremes of beautiful acoustic bliss to storms of electric energy making them unique and gripping to audiences.

At the start of 2013 Budada released their debut full length LP ‘blackpeppercowboybone’, which was recorded in a factory on an industrial estate. After the success of their self-released debut, Budada released a new EP ‘Scum Rises to the Top’ in Febuary 2014 on Mandala, Produced by Dominic Bailey (Thought Forms, Port Erin, Heymoonshaker) and Jozeph Chowles (The Daturas). Also releasing videos for 'Mainshock' and 'She Ain't Blue'.

The band are now working on new material and are taking bookings at budada@mail.com


I'm currently finishing work on a new album.  I'm aiming to raise money for a vinyl pressing this fall. I'm hoping for a release in 2022.  In the mean time.  Here are some of the tracks.

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