Here's my tribute to Binary Finary's original version of 1998. Made using Caustic 3 for mobile and using stock caustic sounds and synths only.

Binary Finary - 1998 (Caustic Version)

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

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 Bells Of Hell

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

ALRIGHT, FOR THIS ONE I'M GONNA NEED YOU TO RAISE THE VOLUME ABOVE EVERY RECOMMENDED LEVEL.

Inspired by, and dedicated to, the energy of The Aira-ites aka @user-934088877 (although he'd probably except to the beat, too conforming to a plain 4/4 scheme).

Fun fact: other than a bass and some subtle pads, there's just one monophonic synth instance, played like it was polyphonic. The whole thing is basically a savage note-stealing ride :-)

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All synth parts are Sunrizer (one little beast of a synth!), all drums are Caustic.

Artwork: "Materia Borealis", rendered in Mandelbulber.

Scratching The Velvet

I was 12 years old when the video game Deus Ex Machina was published. I must have played it maybe a couple years later, but still as an impressionable young man :-)

It was weird and awesome, a video game that came with a "real" music soundtrack on the same audio cassette. Incredibly fascinating to me, I remember it as a mystic experience.

This is my cover of "I Am Machine", first song from the game soundtrack, written by Mel Croucher, with the original (and amazing) vocals by Donna Bailey.

I hope my version does justice to the magic that this masterpiece of computing and entertainment history represents.

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An amazing little piece of software, called Spleeter, was used to extract the vocals. The rest (beat, synths, and vocoder) was all done in Caustic. Plus a healthy dose of Korg iWaveStation for those extra-cheesy '90s sounds.

Artwork: based on original artwork from the Deus Ex Machina video game.

I Am Machine (Deus Ex Machina - Mel Croucher cover)

bandcamp

Dark Matter

Dedicated to the memory of my good friend Diane Moser who left the planet the 17th of December 2020:
https://soundcloud.com/diane-moser

https://www.montclairlocal.news/2020/12/22/diane-moser-dies/

She stressed always being yourself in an effort to compose and play original music and she Inspired me to try and write my own music. after a long absence I had to teach myself Caustic all over again. Also I used the Caustic mastering app. The only thing interesting here is that it modulates down a 1/2 step for the 2nd half of the piece. Recently I have been listing to music by Troels Brun Folmann and may have been inadvertently influenced by his style and compositions.

Alcubierre Drive

Making Android music. Mostly Caustic and Audio Evolution.

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