Circle In The Dark

A little experiment I did just last week. I fed one of my little hardware sequencers into the EX7, but while the arpeggiator was engaged. It was predictably random (if that's a thing)! There are Fits and Starts, and then a really nice flourish once in a while, several times in fact, because it was so interesting to hear amongst the fun kind of chaos. #SoundCloud ☁️

Four Seven Three

Four Seven Three ❹❼❸ (Yamaha EX7 and Friends, Recorded Sept. 2025)

Here's a wild experiment with my Washburn bass put through my Zoom effects unit. The sound is all chopped up, and I love the fact that it's difficult to tell exactly what instrument is being used. #SoundCloud ☁️

Bounce

Bounce ༘⋆ (Washburn Bass Guitar + Zoom multi effects, Recorded January 2025)

This is an upbeat and completely improvised little piece from 2006, "Almost Lost", with the emphasis on the Almost part. I love putting part of the intro ... into the outro, and this time it really worked well IMO. All Yamaha great again here, DX7II D and TG300 mixed with the crunchy sounding RY10 drum machine. I bought, used, sold, sometimes bought again, all kinds of gear. What's strange is that some of the stuff I used quite a bit, appears nowhere in any of the music that I saved. Weird! 

The title came from this period of time being a hard one, but I still persevered and stayed on the grassy side of the Earth. In the end, not lost at all.

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Almost Lost

Almost Lost ᝰ (Yamaha DX7II D + Yamaha RY10 + Yamaha TG300, Recorded 2006)

Remember when the Yamaha DX7 took over the world? Well, not the entire world, but the world of music for sure. And all kinds of music, not just electronic music. Entire albums had nothing but the DX7 and it's module cousins + various sequencers on them. Oh, and I DARE you to find a 1984-onward Phil Collins ballad without the DX7 sound on it! You will not succeed. 😄 It's a wonderful instrument, but it did get a bit overused at the time. Still, I love the sound, which is why you'll hear it on a lot of my older pieces. 

This isn't a DX7, though I did have a later model, the DX7 IID at one time. It's a sample of a DX on my EX7, and just like the DX it's very metallic / bell sounding. It does sound a bit like mid to late 80's smooth Jazz / Jazz Fusion. There's a Bob James (best known for the theme to "Taxi") album from the mid-80's that I haven't heard in forever ... yet it still inspired this. Here's "DXter". 🙏

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DXter

DXter ᴅ🇽 (Yamaha EX7 Synthesizer, Recorded September 2025)

This is more Sound Effects than music, but it's kinda cool. The crashing / scraping / hitting effects are all Yamaha EX7 that I recorded several months ago. I added some spacey sounds to it with Pro-53, a Prophet 5 soft synth from Native Instruments.  

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Collision

Collision ───୨ৎ─── (Yamaha EX 7 + Pro-53 soft synth, Recorded June & October 2025)

An experimental Ambient Guitar piece from 2022. Lots of effects of course, with the PSS-460 analog percussion sounds added in 2025. Stuff like this was never intended to be heard by anyone, but what the Hell, right? I've enjoyed posting the stuff that I think isn't half bad, so let's throw in some weirdness too.  #SoundCloud ☁️

Ultralight

Ultralight 𓂃𓂃 (Electric Guitar + a Whole Lotta Pedals + Yamaha PSS-460, Recorded in 2022).

This piece just felt like time travel to me. Not the Sci-fi kind, but the real kind, in real time, in real life. We all have more experience with that now than we used to. The past few years have flown on by, I suppose you could say at the speed of Life. It's hard to feel that sometimes, but please always remember, that we are the lucky ones. 

And so I titled this "Life-Timed",  and it was improvised and recorded earlier this year, I believe it was in July, one of my favorite times of any year. It was a completely accidental gift to my ears, and maybe yours too. I hope you like it. 💙

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Life-Timed

Life-Timed ⴵ (Yamaha EX 7 Synthesizer, with a bit of Absynth, Recorded July 2025).

"Why can't we just get in the running car?", titled after the GEICO commercial of course! A bit of haunting piano soundtrack music. Happy Halloween! 🎃 #SoundCloud ☁️

Why can't we just get in the running car?

Why Can't We Just Get in the Running Car? ☠︎︎

- Two years has passed since the last original release.

"Strut" is now here and it's the first sneak from the coming album which will hopefully be released in the near future.

// Nite Sprite 2013 ©

I WANT TO STRUT

Strut (Radio Edit)

Close Your Eyes
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-- FOR THE GEAR HEADS -- 

M1
SH-101
Korg Prophecy
Korg Wavestation
Korg Mono-poly
Boss MZ-2 "Metalizer"
Korg Polysix
MICRO KORG !!!
Arp Odyssey 
MS-20
The "Mini-Moog"
DQ65 by J1000
TR-808
TR-606
Boss dr550 mk2
TR-909
TR-707
TB-303
VPRE-72 (Magic Switch)
Fairlight CMI (Virtual banks)
Fruity Multiband Compression
MSI Stereo Buss Compression
Fruity! :) Soft! :) Clipper! :)
Gross Beat
Effector
Fruity Legacy Effects

Circle In The Dark

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