The two versions of Colin FA - the one with the dirty beats, and the one with the less dirty beats.

Album Catalogue number: CFN-SC-0024

CFA1C1D - Brokenbeat Jams on the MC-707

5/4 beats, 180bpm (ish), MC-707

First structured composition created on the 707 (before now it's just been more jammy, but this has more of a structure and different sections etc, not just knob twiddling). Played the sections ("Scenes/Clips)" live, recorded onto 4-track tape - beats in one channel, everything else in another channel. Bounced across to Harrison Mixbus to re-digitize it, in mono. Then uploaded to Soundcloud, and Distributed instantly (well, Friday May 30th 2025 it will be released to the rest of the world - Spotify/Apple etc).

This track is 180bpm originally, but the tape may have affected the speed it's been captured at, so it could be a slightly different BPM. It is in 5/4.

Colin FA

Spotify [TBC]

5/4 beats, 180bpm (ish), MC-707

This is a more distorted version of "Colin FA" (the "DB" in this version means "Dirty Beats"]. The saturation/crunch is from overloading the 4-track tape machine. Also crunched this into the CALF Limiter in Audacity. It is a completely separate live mix from the other cleaner-beats version. The dirty version was played/created first, but the clean-beats version was released first because it took a while to mix/master the mad crunchy version due to the blown-up tape causing some mad glitches, which I was finally able to fix (basically by turning the outputs down on the tape machine).

This track is 180bpm originally, but the tape may have affected the speed it's been captured at, so it could be a slightly different BPM. It is in 5/4.

Colin FA DB

OCTOSHED! ----->>>>>> ☀ weird Beats / DnB / Ambient / Breakbeats / Samples / > Noise / Field Recordings ☀ >>> ☀ Amiga / Linux Audio ☀ >>>>>>>> releasing new tracks [2023] along with tracks from the past few years [2016 ->], but maybe the odd nugget from a good few years ago [1996 -ish onwards].

To be honest, I'd given up on Soundcloud for a long while, but I've returned to it in 2022 and it seems to be much improved. Also, maybe I never quite appreciated it in the first place. It's one of those things that is too hard to comprehend the scale/size/quality of, so you need to spend time with it to get the most out of it. It's certainly great when you connect with someone new etc, or discover their music etc.

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