First EP I've published in a while!  I've mastered all the individual tracks, but I've yet to put them all together with proper spacing and red-book formatting, etc.  That will be coming in the next few weeks as a free download for a week!

Question Reality

Trance Take Me

September Trance

October Trance

Prophet Of Glory

Created with 4 Samplers, 4 Analog synths, and all squeezed into my EPS 16+ 2MB of RAM (except for my upright piano at the end, that was the EMU e5000 Ultra) for recording onto cassette tape.  Recorded back in to Reason 10 at 24/44.1kHz

Created in Hardware with both vintage and modern analogs, some digital VA synths, and a lot of samplers!  Instruments used are:

Moog Source:  Bassline
Moog Slim Phatty (x4)Chords in Bridge, (x1)"log drum" mid part
Novation Bass Station:  Sample material, Breakdown, Lead at ending
Ensoniq EPS 16+:  Bassline topper in Chorus, Intro section chords, SequenceBass in Bridge
EMU e5000:  Bright Saw Pad in Chorus
SP1200:  Sampled Drums
MPC2000: Sampled Drums
Maschine 2: Sampled Drums (final output from drum machines)

Inspired by the classic first chase scene in Blade Runner....crowded streets in Oriental LA, Deckard frantically searching for the Replicant, finding her and shooting her as she crashes through a bunch of plate glass windows and falls dead on the street.

Nothing at all like the beautiful Vangelis score, this is a re-imagining of the specific chase scene....and only very loosely based on it at that.

A Bitter Pill

This song is in the opening scene of a student film  being made at Columbia College in Chicago, IL and is also the opening track to the completed EP Thoughts While Drowning

Instruments include:
Reason Europa
Reason Grain
Ensoniq EPS 16+
Roland Alpha Juno
Oberheim Matrix 12
Moog Slim Phatty
Novation Bass Station II
EMU SP-1200
Native Instruments' Maschine 2

Mixed in Reason 10.1 using internal and outboard effects:
Eventide H3000
Eventide H9
Strymon Deco
Strymon ElCapistan
Lexicon 480L
ADA S1000 Delay
EXR Exciter (obscure and old...)
Warm Audio WA-2A


This is a pre-release version, locked to picture, but perhaps not in it's final state.  I did some additional processing on the Master buss that will probably not be on the soundtrack.

Played back into a Tascam 3-Head tape deck using one of those old adapters for playing CDs in your cassette equipped car....I used Dolby A to compress and then expand the track, passed into an Altec transformer box that I made myself and then into a Pendulum PL-2 analog limiter just to catch peaks...  Recorded back into Reason 10 as a stereo mix.


ENJOY!!!

Deep Waters

***MEANT TO BE LISTENED TO AS A CONTINUOUS TRACK***

A short EP, mixed here as one continuous song that I wrote in the midst of a deep depression for catharsis and to express what I was feeling.  Thoughts While Drowning was created using a wide range of analog and digital equipment (Analog mono and polysynths, digital samplers and drum machines, analog processing and a digital console and reverbs, delays, and modulation effects)

I mastered directly to cassette tape that was slightly driven using the noise-reduction circuit as an effect.  

I hope you enjoy this.  Please feel free to comment on what you like or would change!

Thoughts While Drowning

Final track from the EP Thoughts While Drowning
*SONG FEATURES IMAGE GRACIOUSLY LICENSED BY Nicole Lawson*

Instruments:

Notation Bass Station II
Moog Slim Phatty
Oberheim Matrix 12
Europa by Reason
Roland Alpha Juno
Tascam DR-05 Field Recorder

Effects:

Lexicon 480L
Sony HR-MP5
ADA S1000 1 second Digital Delay
Strymon Deco
Strymon ElCapistan
Eventide H3000
Eventide H9
Yamaha Rev7 (O2Rv2 effects)

Processors:
Warm Audio WA2A
Yamaha O2Rv2
Trident 80B EQ
Unnamed ancient Furman Preamp/EQ
Empirical Labs Distressor
Empirical Labs FATSOjr
uHe Satin
uHe Presswerk
Brainworx VSM-3

Washed Up

musician, photographer, engineer, Renaissance Man
(if you'd like to use a song and/or artwork, PLEASE ASK ME, I'm a nice guy!)

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