Arabic Acid

A homage to that early 90's Frankfurt techno sound made famous by artists like Pete Namlook with his "Escape..." releases.

Escape From Frankfurt

Okay, a massive departure, at least in terms of how it was made - I bought an iPad last year because I had been tempted by Korg Gadget for years. I don't like the workflow as much as Caustic but the gadgets (i.e. synths) are amazing. This is the first track I've 'finished' since I started using Gadget last Summer! Given a polish in Caustic Mastering to add a little zing.

Smart Cap

Just a quick experiment to make a very old school hardcore/jungle track. Reese bass and programmed 'breaks'. Probably more fun to make than to listen to ;)

Hard Core Stick

Better with headphones, maybe a little too close to WARP records circa 1995 :/

Insect Army

An attempt at a tech-house type vibe, and another track using a 'text to speech' app and a vocoder, this time using a Polish voice from Google TTS to speak English. I started it in January and finally felt inspired to give it a quick polish and finish a mix at the weekend.

Voxel Disco

First track made and finished in the box with the Akai Force

A Body of Work

Fifteen

Second end to end in the box track with the Akai Force - the arrangement was recorded live and then the automation recorded on top. The arrangement is solid, the automation less so!

Eighteen

My third or fourth completed track made with the Akai Force and the first one I've made using external gear (the rather awesome Behringer TD3-MO)

Twenty In Dub

The image is a joke because on the weak > strong acid scale this is definitely on the mild side! I normally use the square wave from because I'm simply obsessed with it so this was a bit of a departure into a sawtooth jam.

Twenty One

An angry, noisy, temper tantrum. Inspired by Steetcleaner era Godflesh and the current political climate.

21st Century Politics

My first completed track for ages...a celebration of the (digitally recreated) 303 and my first track entirely made from Triplets.

Triple Acid Explosion

http://www.teotigraphix.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Teoti+Graphix,+LLC

A little thing created using some new preset / sample packs for Caustic 3 from Mike, the Single Cell Software webmaster.

Drum Workout (Teotigraphix Caustic Sample Packs)

The FM Bass synth that leads reminded me of the sounds from LFO's debut album, Frequencies from 1992 - I decided to emphasise this and even added a Speak & Spell machine for that old-school LFO feel!
Mark Bell sadly passed away in 2014 - he worked with Bjork as a producer and as part of her touring band, and resurrected the LFO name in 2003.

LFO (RIP Mark Bell)

a new acid / techno track made with Caustic 3.2 and with the upcoming Mastering app from Single Cell Software.

Breathless

Why 'Electronic Soup'? Because it overuses delay and reverb leading to a soupy, blended and indistinct sound! A stem from a while back (maybe Q2 2017) that grew out of an experiment with salsa rhythms (only the heavily affected hats have survived). The USP is using the hats as a trigger input to a Vocoder but mixing them out of the Vocoders audio output so it acts more like a trancegate.

Electronic Soup

Kind of in the style of Adrian Sherwood's work with Tackhead on his On-U Sound label in the 80's.
Industrial political dub.

The Message

A few years ago at Whitby Goth Weekend there was a furry wearing Nazi / SS insignia (armband and hat) and the image stuck in my mind.

Nazi Furries Fuck Off

Not really sure why I decided to make a programmed bit of blues but there you go - lockdown does strange things to us all!

DrumMachineBlues

Groovers on Manoeuvres

Scene But Not Herd

More moody electronics - whenever I go away for more than a night I have a laptop or tablet with me and generally start a new piece of music. This was started in Greenwich, South London near the O2 Arena when I was there for the Massive Attack show.

The Green Witch (Hope)

Somewhere between Tech House and Deep House - mostly made with FM Synths which are one of my most underused synths in Caustic 3.2.

Panacea

Recent tracks were made with the Akai Force, a Behringer TD-3 and the modded out version of the TD-3. Anything from 2022 or earlier were made using the mobile DAW Caustic from Single Cell Software. http://www.singlecellsoftware.com. It's designed for Android (and iOS). Tracks between 2022 and 2016 were made using Caustic on a Google Pixel C tablet, older tracks were made on a Nexus 9, ancient tracks were made using Caustic on a Nexus 7 or an awful but cheap 7" Android tablet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.singlecellsoftware.caustic

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