Lone is about those times alone, that we've had so many of recently. Throughout the slow times of the pandemic I have found some solace in walks in Epping Forest, slowly exploring deeper as the months went on. Lone is the soundtrack to these walks.

Lone

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Fully improvised live set on my Eurorack modular system, techno and progressive house.

You can watch a video of the set recorded in my studio at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRR4Srzriy0

Live May 2024 (Live set)

Improvised live set at the Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) night at the Dublin Castle in Camden.

Live at EMOM, Dublin Castle, London (2024-06-05)

Progressive house and techno, improvised live on my modular synth system.

Video of the live set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Jx-qO0UGY

Live June '24

40 Minutes Of Ambience

More live and improvised sounds from my modular explorations.

You can watch a video of this set here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiw9mEIrNiY

Live July '24

An hour's  improvised live set on my eurorack modular synth.

Going for the darker progressive grooves with this one, with a bit more melodic stuff creeping in during the second half. 

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

Live Aug '24

Live Sept '24 (live modular synth techno)

My live set from the September EMOM London. 

I was on second so started things out atmospheric and then into some melodic progressive house and techno.

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Live at EMOM London (Dublin Castle) 4/9/2024

Live modular set at Plugged in the park, London.

Live at Plugged in the Park (7th Sept 2024)

Upped the tempo from my usual style for a techno driven set at Super Noodles in London.

Live at Super Noodles 18-09-2024

Live at Synth Club at The Social, London 4-11-2024

An hour's live set, starting with a reprise of the piece I put together at The Social last week and going off into improvised, dark and melodic directions.

I've been listening to a bunch of old Global Underground mix CDs recently, and I feel like the influences rubbed off. Parts of this one remind me of the kind of vibe in Sasha's Global Underground Ibiza, particularly towards the second half.

Unfortunately the video got cut off around 10 mins before the end, but the music continues (Thanks to my Zoom H4 Essential recorder handling the audio)!

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

Live November '24

Live set at Factory Setting at Venue MOT in London in December. Greta fun playing with loads of other live electronic acts. Started this one out a bit more melodic before moving into funkier territory. 

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

Live Modular Techno set at Factory Setting, London, Dec 2024

Live set from my studio this week, building melodies and breaking down into more tribal atmospheres.

Random mistake in there when I loaded some breaks into the sampler with the volume up, but I liked the rest of the set so decided it's all part of the improvised thing!

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

Live studio set December 2024

2024-12-18 Super Noodles at Biddle Brothers, London

New year, new music! I brushed off my stuff after a break over the end of year holidays and brought my kit down to Pirate studios to crank up the volume and improvise some new techno. Playing around with more grooves and hypnotic stuff for a lot of this, with a bit of a melodic payoff towards the end. 

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

Jan '25 Live Improvised Modular Techno set

Headed to the 'Super Noodles' EMOM at Clapton in London to do a short improvised set. Didn't manage to get a proper video but here's the recording...

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X

2025-03-19 Live at Super Noodles, London

Live at Dublin Castle this week. Some more improvised grooves and melodies.

Live at Dublin Castle, London EMOM, 2025-04-02

Improvised modular techno in my studio

I'm looking forward to playing a midnight set at the Night Cafe in London this coming Friday, so I've been practicing and captured this hour of improvisation. Please with how this one went, starts out atmospheric and progressive, and then goes back and forth a bit between more rhythm driven techno and more melody driven progressive house. And a bit of breaks right at the end. It's tempting with this live stuff to go all one level and just try to keep the energy up all the time, so I've been working on having some light and shade and making the longer performances take more of a journey.

Gear used:
Torso T1 Sequencer
BitBox Micro Sampler
Mutable Instruments Plaits
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
Dopefer A-111-6
Knobula Poly Cinematic
Make Noise Mimeophon
Jakkplug Monsoon (Mutable Instruments Clouds Clone)
Blue Lantern Stereo Sir Mix Alot
Timo Rozendal FMP
WMD MSCL Compressor
God's Box and Thonk Humpback filter
Mod Dwarf
Forge tme Vhikk X
Happy Nerding FX-Aid x2
Roland S-1

2025-06-16 Live improvised modular techno

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

Tracklist:
George Fitzgerald - Beginning at the end
Henry Saiz - For days and nights
Round - Glass / John Talabot - Voices
Pedestrian - Airs & Graces
Dense & Pika - Colt (George Fitzgerald Remix)
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love / Bicep - Just
Anna - Haze Moon (Matador Remix)
Ishani - Don't stop the fight (Mentat mix)
Sasha ft Kiki Amos - Shoot you down
Arthr - Balloon (Mentat mix)
Khen - Land of Goshen (Patrice Baumel Remix)
Mentat - Nostalgik
Radio Slave - Screaming hands (Tuff City Kids Dreamscape UK Mix)

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Mix: Summer Seventeen - Mentat

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

Tracklist:
Pedram - Takio
Taho - Woody
Spada - Gloriosa
Ben Bohmer - Mondfinsternis
BAILE - Amae (sasha fabric2099 Mix)
Florian Kruse, Hendrik Burkhard, Mi.li.an, TheGround, Vincenzo - Kingdom Of Crumbling Walls (Vincenzo Remix)
Eli & Fur - Night Blooming Jasmine (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)
Skober - Butterfly Effect
Daniel Helmstedt - Arithmetic
Circle Sky - The Light (Patrice Baumel Remix)
The Dualz - Time
Max Cooper - Rule 110

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Mentat Mix 3

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com .
Subscribe at www.mentataudio.com/podcast .

Tracklist:
Henry Saiz - Claustrum
Hannes Bieger - Galeras
Peter Shik - Someone Else
SCB - Test Tubes (Hammer Remix)
Jesse Somfay - Faberge
GHEIST - Loewe
Backsvart & Simon Kiosk - Old Souls (Marcus Homm Remix)
Khen - Closing Doors
Tim Fishbeck - People Can Fly (Marc Depulse Remix)
Pete Moss - Strive to Live

Mentat Mix 5

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com .
Subscribe at www.mentataudio.com/podcast .

Tracklist:

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Sylvia Says (Radio Slave Remix) [Because Music]
Eagles & Butterflies - SKETCH 7 [Innvervisions]
Henry Saiz - Life Before Man [Natura Sonoris]
Lindstrom - I Feel Space [Playhouse]
Andhim ft Högni - Stay Close To Me [Superfriends Records]
Robert Babicz - Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Magnolia Mix) [Push Communications]
Nicolas Bougaïeff - Pulse Train [Trapez]
ROWA - Flamborghini [Traum]
Koelle - Flowers of Darkness [Ton Töpferei]
Barry Jamieson - 303’s in Love [Kyubu Records]
Lil Silva - Lines (George Fitzgerald Remix) [Good Years (Red Essential)]

Mentat Mix 7

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.
More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com . Subscribe at www.mentataudio.com/podcast .

Tracklist:
Nuage - Haunting [Project Mooncircle]
Moon Boots - Keramas [Anjunadeep]
Modeplex & Soul Button - Ardor [Steyoyoke]
Kenton Slash Demon - Arp8 [Watergate Records]
Patrice Baumel - Grace [Kompak Extra]
Dusky - Songs of Phase (Audiojack Remix) [Unreleased]
Einmusik - Flare [Einmusika Recordings]
Gabe and Rikfell - Waterfall (Doctor Dru Remix) [Sprout]
N’To - Alter Ego [Hungry Music]
Luis Junior - Otro Ayer (Microtrauma Remix) [Traum]
Fabrizio Lapiana - Far Away [Figure Jams]
Youandewann - 1988 [Lo:Rise]
Scuba - Adrenalin [Hotflush Recordings]

Mentat Mix 8

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

Guest mix for System Showcase on Proton Radio with Andy Green (@theandygreen) and Robin Thurston (@robinthurston). More shows @systemshowcase .

*Out now - new track 'Entropy' on Traum Schallplatten*
*Stream & download at www.mentataudio.com/entropy *

More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com . 
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Tracklist:
Mentat - Entropy (Intro mix) [Traum Schallplatten]
Nuage - H.A.L.O. [Anjunadeep]
CRI - Initial [Anjunadeep]
Max Kuffel - Botsuana Braindance [Traum Shallplatten]
La Fleur - Tears [Kompakt Extra]
Betoko & Kastis Torrau - Dosya [Einmusika Recordings]
QuiQui - Gain Control [Traum Schallplatten]
SLG - Nine Hours [Trapez]
Rex The Dog - Vortex [Kompakt]
Losless - Beast [Steoyoke]
Deniro - Epirus [K7 Records]
Tibi Dabo - It’s All Behind [Crosstown Rebels]
Leftfield - El Cid [Hard Hands / Sony BMG]

Guest Mix: System Showcase on Proton Radio, July 2019

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com . 
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Tracklist:

Paul Epworth - Voyager [Sony]
German Brigante - Solitude [Dirtybird]
Huxley - Weirdest Green [Knee Deep In Sound]
Raxon - The Ancient [Kompakt Extra]
Pig & Dan - Promised [Truesoul]
Hannes Bieger and Francesco Lombardo - A Million Souls [Bedrock]
Super Flu - Acumulee [Diynamic]
QuiQui - The Conquest (Bessif Mix) [Aftertech Records]
Graham Baxter and Matter - Everything, So Young (Sonic Union Remix) [Strange Town Records]
Yotto - Shifter [Odd One Out]
Giorgia Angiuli - Inspiration (Henry Saiz Remix) [Stil Vor Talent]

Mentat Mix 10

Mentat Mix 12

Deep, melodic house and techno from UK DJ & Producer Mentat.

This time including my new track June out on Traum Schallplatten and a few more favourites from the Tour De Traum XVIII release.

More mixes and original tracks at www.mentataudio.com . 
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Tracklist:
Sunspot (NL) - Bugged [Traum]
Mentat - June [Traum]
Clarian - Pale Blue Palm Trees [Anjunadeep]
Eli & Fur - Into The Night [Anjunadeep]
Losless - Caesium [Traum]
Monolink - Frozen (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) [Embassy One]
Emde and Rosenhaft - Kol Hayom [Traum]
Enamour - Heart Strings
Andre Sobota and Felipe Novaes - Prescience (Alex O'Rion Remix) [Clubsonica Records]
Kiwi - Kiya (Rave Mix) [Needwant]

Mentat Mix 12

Mentat - Flight
Out on Cirrus Sounds 2nd October 2020.

Stream & download: http://www.mentataudio.com/flight

Press Release: https://www.mentataudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Flight-Press-Release.pdf

Flight

Flight (Extended Mix)

Out 4th December on Traum Schallplatten (@traum-schallplatten)

Buy at: https://geni.us/tourdetraumxx

Tour De Traum XX

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