Side A:
01 Clusterfunk 
02 Hex Flex

Side B:
03 Bodybeat
04 Bass Ventura

Available as a pre-order from https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/clusterfunk as limited edition cassette and digital download.

I wrote this EP over the summer whilst scoring a soundtrack to a game. It was therapeutic and completely contrapuntal to the music I was composing, and I took the opportunity to make some really funky, shuffe-tastic and glitchy music, and Clusterfunk is the result. 

One of the aims of the EP was to use all of the gear and equipment I've used on my previous 80s themed offerings, but to move things forward and create something with a slightly more modern fidelity. I'd like to think I could have made 85% of this EP back in the 80s (with a ridiculous amount of bouncing and overdubs), but it was very refreshing from a production stand point. 

I often find modern production to be too rhythmically safe. I chose to challenge myself to skip beats and create non-formulaic twists to propel the tracks forward. The songs are largely built around edited live performances, to maximise the human feel and emphasise the aforementioned concepts of rhythm.

Anyway, I hope you like it! 

- Robin 

http://www.twitter.com/ogresounds
http://www.ogresound.co.uk/

'Clusterfunk channels the musical aesthetics of 1980's funk and combines them with a modern musical fidelity. Produced with a variety of vintage analogue and digital synths and drum machines, Clusterfunk is an exploration of groove, syncopation and rhythmic anomalies - a journey down a musical road less travelled, inspired by the electro-swung rhythms of yester-decades.'

Clusterfunk EP Preview

Past Away

Finally got around to uploading some of the music I made for the TIGA Gamehack this year at Pinewood Studios. Essentially we had a mere 24 hours to make a game, and all in all had an amazing sleepless night!

We opted to make a top down space cowboy shooter in the same sort of vein as Cowboy Bebop/Firefly etc., so the music's a bit of a homage to Ennio Morricone,  Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts...and some Noisia esc bass noises also creeped in there somehow. 

The first part's the in game music, and the second piece is the character select/menu track. 

Hope you enjoy it!

High Moon (TIGA Gamehack 2013)

Sound design driven trailer track, made entirely of processed found sounds. 

Omega Supreme (Sound Design Trailer)

OUT NOW: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/195

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My love letter to 1980's action cinema, and probably most ambitious offering to date. Hope you enjoy it! 

This mix is an abridged mini-mix and doesn't contain all the tracks. Total album runtime ~47 minutes. 

'At the end of the Twentieth Century nuclear war engulfed planet earth. Out of the ashes rose the Technocratic Republic of Eurasia. In a desperate last bid for world peace, survivors of World War IV, realising that humanity could no longer be trusted with guaranteeing its own survival, placed their trust and fate into the hands of MAR-X, the Mechanised Autocratic Robotic Systems MK. X. 

Brief prosperity ensued, but it wasn't long before a neo-luddite movement gained momentum and rallied against the new autocracy. World War V, the war for human independence, broke out, fought on the Iron Front of Eurasia. The neo-luddite rebellion was vanquished, but pockets of resistance still remain... 

The year is 2023. You are disgraced, Cold War II veteran, ex-Lieutenant John Fader; the fate of the planet is in your hands.'


195 Sampler

This year I did the LD32 jam, where you and a team produce a game in 72 hours. It was amazing fun and involved a lot of sleepless hard graft! This is the soundtrack I wound up writing for our entry Nuclear Autumn! Thought I'd share it! We came 16th out of 1468 entries, and placed 9th for audio!!

If you want to scope out the game myself (audio), Phi (programming and design) and Andy (art) made, you can do here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=29305



Nuclear Autumn OST

Cities In The Sky OST (Preview)

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Dragon Breath

Job For A Cowboy

Sneaking Suspicions

Faces Of War

Atomic Shogun

Into The Breach I

OUT NOW: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/all-hallows

Our all analog love letter to 1980s horror cinema! Dallas Campbell and I bring you the cinema of the imagination, vintage synths coupled with a story that traverses the legacy of classic slasher flicks (unadulterated by bad acting). 

You can listen and read in full via bandcamp on the 27th October 2015! Happy Halloween!

This mix is an abridged mini-mix and doesn't contain all the tracks. Total album runtime 55:40.

Follow Dallas Campbell here:
twitter.com/freezeyourbrain 
http://magichappened.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/dallas-campbell 
instagram.com/freezeyourbrain/ 
facebook.com/dallassynthmusic 

OGRE and Dallas Campbell - All Hallows' Album Sampler

From All Hallows' with https://soundcloud.com/dallas-campbell/ ! Stream the full album here: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/all-hallows

Happy Halloween!

OGRE and Dallas Campbell - Silhouette

From All Hallows' with @dallas-campbell @freezeyourbrain: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/all-hallows

OGRE and Dallas Campbell - Tomorrow's Headline

Just finished the LD34 jam, where you and a team produce a game in 72 hours. It was amazing, sleepless fun and hard graft! This is the soundtrack I wound up writing for our entry Witch Garden Leafiosa! Thought I'd share it!

You can play the game Phi (programming), Faye (art), Joe (art) and I made in full for free here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=29305

Witch Garden Leafiosa OST - LD34

OUT NOW: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/calico-noir

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This mix is an abridged mini-mix and doesn't contain all the tracks. Total album runtime 48:25 minutes.

My love letter to 1980's thrillers, hope you enjoy it!

'Hired as a freelancer by his old employers, the FBI, psychological profiler Jerome Bishop must piece together the most labyrinthine case he’s ever faced. After years of compulsory retirement, his world erupts in violence - a series of ritualistic murders, a wave of panic and fear. When every clue is a dead end, every crime scene as cold as its victims, Bishop must go beyond fear and reason to delve into the mindset of a most insidious killer. Violent, thrilling, hardboiled explosive action. Nothing is darker than...Calico Noir.' 

Calico Noir - Album Sampler

From The Psychic Zero - https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/the-psychic-zero

The Psychic Zero

Forgotten Intentions

Completed my third Ludum Dare game jam the other day, where you and a team produce a game in 72 hours.  The theme for LD36 was 'Ancient Technology', so I made this ambient soundtrack for our Bronzepunk entry exclusively using my Yamaha TX81Z from 1987. As always had a lot of sleepless fun! You can play our 80's styled point and click adventure game for free here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=50157

Bronzepunk OST - LD36

The future's only hope...has a zero percent chance.

OGRE teams up with the creators of Image Comics' new sc-fi thriller THE WEATHERMAN (@theweathermansoundtrack) on a soundtrack of original songs also featuring...

@Magic-Sword

@MakeupandVanitySet

@PowerGlove

@LeMatos

@Lazerhawk

Listen to OGRE's track "Never Come Back" and check out THE WEATHERMAN on sale now at your local comic shop.

Look for the release of the next song on THE WEATHERMAN soundtrack when THE WEATHERMAN #4 hits the stands on 9/19.

SYNOPSIS:

Nathan Bright had it all: an awesome girlfriend, a kickass dog, and a job as the #1 weatherman on terraformed Mars. But when he’s accused of carrying out the worst terrorist attack in human history—an event that wiped out nearly the entire population of Earth—Nathan becomes the most wanted man alive, and a target of a manhunt that spans the galaxy. But is Nathan truly responsible for such a horrific crime? And why can’t he remember?

Confused, terrified, and ill prepared for life as the galaxy’s most wanted, Nathan’s fate lies in the hands of Amanda Cross, the disavowed government agent assigned to his case. Together the unlikely duo will have to rely on each other as they battle their way through the solar system in search of the truth buried in Nathan's lost memory...and the key to stopping the real enemy from carrying out a second extinction-level attack.

A full-throttle, wide-screen, science fiction epic about the damage we do in the name of justice and what it truly means to be redeemed…you don’t want to miss THE WEATHERMAN!

Never Come Back

Out now via Bandcamp & MEGATAPES: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/the-chairman

The original soundtrack to The Chairman, directed by Frank White IV.

This is an abridged mini-mix and doesn't contain all the tracks. Total album runtime is 38:04. 

Unsanctioned by the board of directors at their powerful multinational, The Pantheon Group, Joy and her supervisor, Vincent, run an experiment on telepathic abilities. Katie, an unwilling research subject and powerful psychic antenna, prepares to silence the chaos in her head by drowning. Her father Miguel, held in a nearby warehouse, must intervene by contacting his daughter telepathically, or watch her drown via hidden cameras. When the experiment is ultimately interrupted by a call from corporate headquarters, Joy must return to the office and face her reclusive, unnatural employer, the Chairman. 

Gear: Cassette Tape Loops, CV Modded Walkman, Doepfer, Make Noise and Mutable Instruments Eurorack System, KNAS Moisturizer, KOMA Field Kit, Korg Mono/Poly, MS-20, Poly 800, Moog Minitaur, Mother-32, Tascam 414 MK II.

The Chairman

The Chairman - Original Soundtrack - Album Sampler

PRE-ORDER DIGITAL & LIMITED CASSETTE EDITIONS: ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/all-hallows-ii

All Hallows' II w/ @dallas-campbell - January 25th 2019

35 years ago investigative journalist Ellis Ledstone admitted himself as a patient to an alternative healthcare facility, The Shepard Institute For Psionic Inquiry. 6 months later, police would break down its doors to discover the remains of a dozen patients in The Institute’s basement. Until now, the events leading up to that night have been largely withheld from the general public. For the first time ever we attempt to piece together that story. 

All Hallows’ II includes the unaltered case files of the events of 1983. The reader is encouraged to come to their own conclusions by examining the interviews, reports and artefacts within. 

All Hallows’ II is a full length soundtrack album by transatlantic synthesists Robin Ogden (OGRE) and Dallas Campbell. The sequel builds upon the previous instalment of All Hallows’: slasher synth chase sequences, atmospheres laden with powerful dread and eerie soundscapes score a true horror story, track by track, to thrilling and cinematic conclusions. All Hallows’ II is a conceptual narrative journey into cults and the occult, unfeeling cosmic horrors, and the unplumbed darkness of the human condition.

All music composed, performed and engineered by Robin Ogden & Dallas Campbell. 

Mastered by David Klug: facebook.com/davidklugstudio 
Artwork by Faye Simms: twitter.com/MD_Doodles 
Story by Robin Ogden & Faye Simms

OGRE and Dallas Campbell - Last Rays Of Daylight Part II (Titles)

PRE-ORDER DIGITAL & LIMITED CASSETTE EDITIONS: https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/all-hallows-ii

All Hallows' II w/ @dallas-campbell - January 25th 2019 

35 years ago investigative journalist Ellis Ledstone admitted himself as a patient to an alternative healthcare facility, The Shepard Institute For Psionic Inquiry. 6 months later, police would break down its doors to discover the remains of a dozen patients in The Institute’s basement. Until now, the events leading up to that night have been largely withheld from the general public. For the first time ever we attempt to piece together that story. 

All Hallows’ II includes the unaltered case files of the events of 1983. The reader is encouraged to come to their own conclusions by examining the interviews, reports and artefacts within. 

All Hallows’ II is a full length soundtrack album by transatlantic synthesists Robin Ogden (OGRE) and Dallas Campbell @dallas-campbell . The sequel builds upon the previous instalment of All Hallows’: slasher synth chase sequences, atmospheres laden with powerful dread and eerie soundscapes score a true horror story, track by track, to thrilling and cinematic conclusions. All Hallows’ II is a conceptual narrative journey into cults and the occult, unfeeling cosmic horrors, and the unplumbed darkness of the human condition.

All music composed, performed and engineered by Robin Ogden & Dallas Campbell. 

Mastered by David Klug: facebook.com/davidklugstudio 
Artwork by Faye Simms: twitter.com/MD_Doodles 
Story by Robin Ogden & Faye Simms

All Hallows' II

OGRE and Dallas Campbell - Have You Seen Me?

'Same city, New Vices.' 

Produced with a variety of analogue and digital vintage synths, recorded hot to tape and mastered to a VHS bordering on demagnetised and overbiasing territory, Calico Brawn is a gritty and decadent reverie of the excess of 1980's Miami.

I spent the winter months longing for warmer climes, watching all 5 seasons of Miami Vice back to back, and ultimately writing this album. Calico Brawn is a soundtrack for the progressive 1980's cop show, with a few 21st century twists, trying to capture that warm Floridian vibe. 

Track by track (+ sampler timings):

01. (00:00) Always Outnumbered, Never Outrun - Sprinkling of a DX's electric pianos over a punchy analogue bass ostinato. Those are some live drums ran through an SSL Talk Back Compressor, in the ubiquitously 80's style of Phill Collins' seminal 'In The Air Tonight'.

02. (01:36) Calico Dawn - The chord progression and melody are from a DnB sequence I wrote on a Korg EMX about 5 years ago...and never used, so it feels good to show it the light of day, albeit in a totally different context.

03. (02:37) Free Fall - Live Peter Hook style bass bits, undoubtedly influenced by re-working my way through Joy Division and New Order's back catalog. 

04. (03:40) Brawn - This track's actually pretty heavy, but I've selected the mellower section here. I just jammed along really and hit on a bouncey cool chord progression. Quite a lot of this album was actually played live, which was a welcome change from my usual workflow. 

05. (04:16) Shore Thing - Pun title-tastic, though not necessarily obvious from the clip. This track starts with a tropical vibe, and some white noise waves, and segues into a rolling bassline. Quite proud of the instable synth lead line in this one!

06. (05:38) Stay Tuned - I love making hip-hop beats, and the 80's undeniably saw the release of a lot hip-hop classics. It seemed to fit the vibe of the album, so I had a jam and recorded a piano and kit to the worst sounding consumer deck I could find. Trippy wobbles and flutters all the way! (Anachonistic trip-hop maybe?)

07. (06:37) The Call - This track is tape delay central, and I chained a few together, then flipped them, and then reversed them back again. I really do like the saturated guitar-esc synth lead line a lot with the groovy bass and live tambourine loops. Cool runnings.

08. (07:46) OJO - This was a 'how much can I make analogue synths sound like a tremolo surf guitar'. It's my washed up in the Keyes music. 

09. (08:30) Exhale - Bit of Fairlight percussion, and a droney dark analogue bass. Drums are played back through a Yamaha sampler for some granular time stretch twists. 

10. (09:16) New Vices - not a guitar! But I ran my KAWAI K1R through my Marshall and solo-ed away. Took a fair few takes, mind! I did a little tutorial on how to get the sound here, with a free multi-sample of my K1R patch: http://ogresound.tumblr.com/post/49960455283/tutorial-tuesday-wednesday-edition-3-simulating-an

11. (10:07) All's Well That Ends Well - So this one starts out as a fairly conventional synth track (if there is such a thing?), then halfway through I flip the beat in a glitch-hop sort of way (which you can hear here), with a lot of live bass bits and some more guitar parts. The snare's is a 909, ran through a hardware saturator to make it pop! 

So there you have it! Probably best enjoyed whilst cruising for leads in your Daytona and busting drug dealing perps downtown. 

Total album runtime: 38:18 
Release date: 20th May, 2013

You can pre-order from my bandcamp here, and get a track early: http://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/calico-brawn

Hope you all enjoy it :)

Robin 
- OGRE

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Calico Brawn (Sampler)

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