Yesterday I discovered 'vaporwave'. Today I tried to make a vaporwave track, using sound samples from a soundtrack I made for an abandoned visual novel. I did it all on headphones while at work.

Enclave (Vaporwave experiment)

you can download this album for free, or name your own price, at bandcamp. it's also available on cassette tape. https://jamescroninmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dead-horses

dead horses - a story of friendships, failed relationships, and aliens. 

this album was recorded, mixed, and mastered on analogue cassette tapes over the course of one eventful summer. 

the opinions contained herein represent the views of the songwriter alone, and sometimes, not even him.

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everything written and performed by james cronin 
front cover art by lucy rosenstiel 

tape duplication by Tape That (Staffs) Ltd. 

special thanks to jamie (for letting me use his bass), steve (for tea and stroopwafels), alex (for liking it), lucy (for using all her crayons), binny (for kate bush and the intervening 9 years), harry (purveyor of exquisite musical opinions), dowse (for nimu), jason (for stealing samples of his drum kit), yan (for embarrassing ourselves in harmony), josef kenny (because i keep breaking tape recorders), and dr jerry ehman (for the wow! signal). 

the COOL JOHN recording company, #00

Buy a tape

Nighttime In America

written  performed  mixed  ||  james cronin
mastered  ||  jason parker  parks of bathgate.

eliza the android  ||  vocals  choir
juno 6  ||  arpeggios
dx7  ||  bass
tr-707  ||  drums
portastudio 414  ||  tape loop
casino  ||  guitar
microkorg  ||  pad
little phatty  ||  triangle wave  siren
sararr  ||  swell
pianoteq  ||  piano.

the COOL JOHN recording company  ||  #03

Daughter

worked on this for about six months, i'm not sure i even like it any more. i filmed most of the recording process but i don't have the energy to edit it into a video, so here is the audio for now.

the squishy bits around 3:00 is where my cassette deck ate the tape and i had to splice a few seconds out.

yeah yeah i know i messed up the drum solo but you try recording it one drum at a time with a bucket and a drumstick.

i dunno who those people are in the photo but it pretty much sums up this cover.

Abbey Road Medley (Beatles cover)

worth mentioning i recorded this while extremely drunk and lonely in a mouldy studio flat, christmas day 2015

To All Of You (Syd Matters cover)

i'm working on some originals, but in the meantime, enjoy this cover i did of fleetwood mac's "dreams" featuring the fantastic Shonalika on vocals

check out their metal-influenced songwriting at http://shonalika.com/

plus you can watch a video i made for this song here https://youtu.be/Qliof4tBswA

happy new year, love you all xxx

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)

Music and lyrics by James Cronin
Guitar solo by the fabulous Sam Binstead

Recorded by James Cronin
Mixed by Sam Binstead at Rialto Sound
Mastered by Jason F. Parker at Parks of Bathgate Studio

The Wind

Music and lyrics by James Cronin
Drum programming by Sam Binstead

Recorded by James Cronin
Mixed by Sam Binstead at Rialto Sound
Mastered by Jason F. Parker at Parks of Bathgate Studio

Crease

Music and lyrics by James Cronin

Recorded by James Cronin
Mixed by Sam Binstead at Rialto Sound
Mastered by Jason F. Parker at Parks of Bathgate Studio

Crease (Reprise)

On the Fourth Floor

i've been listening to a lot of pet shop boys

follow shonalika here
https://www.facebook.com/shonalikamusic/

Last Christmas ft. Shonalika

featuring an outrageous fairlight solo which was tragically deleted from the original mix

Like A Virgin (Edit)

all songs written, recorded and produced by envelope generator
except track 4 coda written with evie chalmers

Hypocrisy

Too Good To Be True

Natalie

Genie Mac

Emasculine

original by The Darling Invasion https://soundcloud.com/darlinginvasionofearth/helena

written by holly b
recorded by hazel c

Robots

Don't You Want Dreams (mashup)

A cover of "Focus" by Yellow Magic Orchestra. It's the same as the one on YouTube, except with the original Japanese lyrics rather than English-translated lyrics.

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