I've been working on this cover for nearly 25 years.  I've never felt any of my attempts were worthy...  still feel the same about this one... BUT...  it does have something going on that I can't quite grasp so I'm setting it free to see what happens.  Coincidentally, it also happens to be David Sylvian's birthday for another 30 minutes, so....

My cover of Japan's 1981 masterpiece "Ghosts".  Happy Birthday Mr. Sylvian... and thank you for everything.

Hardware : Moog System 55 Modular, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Oberheim OB-x, Roland Space Echo Analog Tape Delay, Audio-Technica mics, Kenton Pro 2000 MkII CV to MIDI Converter, AVID Mbox Pro

Software - AVID Pro Tools 11, AVID Sibelius 7.5, Steinberg Cubase 7.5, Arturia SEM-V, iZotope Ozone 6, iZotope RX4, SONY Spectralayers Pro 3.

Ghosts - (Japan Cover) - Modular Mix - M.Lowery - February 24, 2015

Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall - Cover

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Cover

Recorded live, no sync button, no laptop.

Mix for Family Funktion LA, recorded live

We have kicked off a lovely Patreon page! Each month, we release a cover, available for download and limited edition square 7" white vinyl, amongst lots of other juicy goods! Here is a tidbit of the first single :) 
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The Sound Of Silence Patreon preview!

Here is a clip from our Patreon universe! Here is the March monthly cover, Gary Numan's CARS! Go to patreon.com/ispeakmachine for more. 
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CARS (gary numan cover) - clip. More at patreon.com/ispeakmachine

Here it is! I sliced off a piece of the April I Speak Machine cover, War Pigs! Grabs it in full here www.patreon.com/ispeakmachine on digital or 7" vinyl with stems, mixtapes, sample packs, studio diary, T shirts and more.

War Pigs PATREON Sneak Peek

Here is the September Patreon cover, WHITE RABBIT!

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WHITE RABBIT - Patreon Sneak PEEK

PAINT IT BLACK (cover)

This is the first version of the COMPLETE 'Star Wars Episode 4 - A New Hope' orchestral score, written using Sibelius 7 and Noteperformer 3. I worked a long, LONG time at transcribing the whole score to the best of my ability, and for me, this is a huge achievement. I know there may be discrepancies here and there, but I have listened and re-listened and used all resources available (of which there aren't many!!) until I could get a result that sounds very close to the originals. All the cues are covered here, from the Main Title to the End Credits. This is solely meant as a scoring project and no infringements are intended. The original work (including the STAR WARS logo) is the property of Lucasfilm/Disney etc., and the main rights, of course, are those of the maestro himself, John Williams, who in my opinion, is the best living composer we have! I hope you enjoy listening to this playlist and understand that I cannot share the scores, even if they are my interpretations. I thank the universe for giving me such good ears!! Enjoy!!!

Ghosts - (Japan Cover) - Modular Mix - M.Lowery - February 24, 2015

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