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My name is Jay Somerville. I live in Edinburgh. I have been mixing since 2013. I use technic 2010’s with tracktor timecodes and a x1.  I mix a lot of techno, tech-house I also mix drum and bass, jungle and so on .I have a wide range of music I listen to and play.  My first gig was at Studio 24 in Edinburgh. A good mate of mine called Jamie (Beat Master General) runs a night in town called Shake Yer Shoulders (SYS) he was running a night called pop yer cherry in other words. It is for virgin dj’s to play there first set. My first set went really well, I had a lot of good feedback about the night. Since then I have played there again and I have also played at a few other nights/festivals/free parties: k-os audio, Wub Hut, Air 3 Radio, Audio Soup Festival, System anonymous free party. And I have just started a residency with Asylum, fourbyfour and fourplay. I hope I keep getting to play out I have met so many good people through music and hope to keep building a big family.   

www.facebook.com/jay.somerville1
www.mixcloud.com/jaysomerville1  
soundcloud.com/somey2


We are a composer duo. Stephen plays the piano and does all the orchestration.s Lauren has a 3 plus octaves singing voice. We specialise in scores for film and tv 
as well as classical and jazz arias. We met at Costa and havent stopped working since. Stephen is trained in music by Robert Ramskill and Martin Ellerby and 






Cry baby video on here https://youtu.be/0-Y24WWF6-k
Lauren was the lead soloist of the childrens national choir in Israel. She is also an accomplished accordionist. On this site, you can listen to our new album "I cant stop writing music" songs and scores as well rock and pop music we wrote. You can also hear our concerto "Heart vision " based on the piece written by Paul Mcdonald and Lauren which we developed in a 5 part with seperate movements in different styles.
Testimonial
I've just enjoyed a very pleasant hour or so listening to your music on soundcloud. I would have liked to leave a comment on several pieces but I'm a bit wary of signing in or signing up to things on the internet as I was invited to do before I could leave a comment.

For what it's worth I've put a few brief comments below - if you can copy any of them into the space provided for comments with individual songs please feel free to do so with my blessing.

"I enjoyed every piece I listened to and was amazed at the variety of invention and creativity shown by Lauren and Stephen. I was particularly taken with the hypnotic wistfulness of 'Heart vision 1' and the other-worldly, exotic qualities of 'Heart Vision 3'.  'Heart Vision 5' was also very atmospheric with its evocative and appealingly simple melody set against an accompaniment of subtle and varied timbres.
I liked the song 'Not All Alone' in which the quirky piano part off-sets the heartfelt emotions of the vocals and lyrics. Also appealing in its pop-song style directness was 'Be the star you are'. Its up-beat optimism was beautifully done. 
The collection was dotted with sumptuous sounding orchestral pieces like 'From Here to Eternity'. Some of these would make excellent film sound-tracks. There's also a lovely, short piano solo in the collection - 'This Life' which is very lyrical and expressive but with dark undertones.
I must also mention the haunting, dream-like, yearning vocal duet 'Evening with the Swans'. This is one that really sticks in the mind - it's got a great melody and some very effective harmonic shifts in the accompaniment.
I knew Stephen when he was a student of mine over 20 years ago and I was aware then of what a natural musical talent he had. It's marvellous to hear that talent continuing to blossom in this collection of pieces and clearly, the collaboration with Lauren is proving very fruitful to them both."

[Robert Ramskill M.Mus., PhD, Principal Lecturer in Music at Coventry University (retired).]

All good wishes,

Bob


hope williamson <hopewilliamson777@gmail.com>
21:20 (29 minutes ago)
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