Spurgeon

This was an exercise in using a bunch of eighties-style synth sounds, then the sounds started directing the melody and rhythms. Weird and cool how a piece of music determines its own path sometimes.

The Maastricht Treaty

The switch between the offbeat and the on-beat seemed interesting in the beginning, but I couldn't quite make it work the way I wanted it to. I tried just doing it conventionally then, but it fell completely flat so I left it alone.

She Left Without Looking Back

I was thinking about that strange half-trance you get into driving on dark motorways at night, too far from home and hours left to go. When you know you should be taking more breaks but you just want to get off the road. When the red tail-lights in front of you show you how the road curves ahead.

Break Every Two Hours

This one just took off on me, into parts unknown.

Gagarin

Butter

Settle in, make yourself comfortable...we're going to be here for a while.

Hammock

All hail Herbie! I was messing around with some 80s synth emulations when his "Watermelon Man" popped into my head. It seemed to fit,

Watermelon Man

Started as something, finished up as something else.

Air Support