Ambient Space Music/ Film Score with a nod to Vangelis, Blade Runner, Jonn Serrie (Interplanetary Chronicles), Tangerine Dream and the 2021 BBC series “The Universe” with Prof Brian Cox.

Sivulliik, also known as Uttuqalualuk or Arcturus, is 36.7 light years from our sun. 
 
An orange giant, it has the same mass of our sun but is 25 times larger and 170 times more luminous.  Its diameter is 35 million kilometres.

Plasma drives are turned off as Deep Space Exploration Vessel (DSEV) “Star Finder” uses the gravity of Sivulliik to catapult it into deeper space, filming its wondrous, awesome beauty during the long flyby and harvesting plasma power for the drives.
With sadness, the plasma drives are turned back on and Star Finder continues its quest into the unknown.

*(Uttuqalualuk is Inuit for “old man”)
*(Sivulliik is Inuit for “the first ones”)

Recorded, mixed & mastered in Cubase 10.5: Neil Buxton
Additional synth programming and tweaking: Neil Buxton

Artwork - NASA

Sivulliik Flyby

Written only to compliment the You Tube video (link below):
A full description of the details is on You Tube

https://youtu.be/VpCxDMaQLMs

Prom Night 130322

When the warm bass-heavy sounds of Caribbean dub meets the icy mountains of the Scottish Highlands, it’s time for Winter Chillout.
With thanks to Chris Werner (Spring of Sound) for an extra pair of ears during mixing & engineering.

Winter Chillout

Tribute to Edgar Froese and the great music of Tangerine Dream.
Based on a story of a wrecked spacecraft somewhere near the Pleiades, and the oxygen running out for the last surviving astronaut.


Before it Ends

Another tribute to Edgar Froese.  Uses  Stylus RMX, Omnisphere, Kontakt & more.

The Lava Seas of Sulfann Beta

TD style Berlin School track written a few years ago in conjunction with Synthics AKA Spring of Sound AKA Chris Werner.
The space signals and mellotron melody lines are based on Mars from the planet suite by Gustav Holst.
Too many instruments to remember but includes Creamware Pulsar Modular Synths II & III, M-Tron and much more.

Observing - Mars

Hobby composer living in Nairn in the Scottish Highlands.  
Aurora Borealis hunter/photographer in the dark months.
Love mountain biking, mountains, lochs & glens, hill walking, beachcombing. 
Fell in love with Tangerine Dream circa Rubycon & Ricochet era, and stayed in love with all things synth & computer ever since.  Nowadays listen to a lot of melodic & uplifting trance, progressive & deep house.
Not writing a lot in at the moment, but trying to improve my mixing/production skills.

Neil B

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