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One of my favourite friends of old was a tortured crazy genius called Brett Crummett.  We shared so many eye-opening experiences together.  Sadly I found out that he's no longer with us, so here's a montage of us messing about in the early 80s.  The voice and guitar is Brett, the rest is my doing.  I only wish I'd recorded more of him, because this snippet doesn't really do him justice. 

The majority of my noodling involved https://soundcloud.com/pytchblends_seam/manchester-riot

Brett Crummett and Pytchblend - Studio Fever

You are sent to the stars. It is dark and cold, you are old. Time passes differently now, differently tomorrow.

Few of my hardware synths playing a nice little tune. 

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Look left, right, look behind

Alone lost. I looked long at the sun, and could see a green circle print hover thru my eyes for hours after. Cool dark ivy leaves took the pain away.

You can make nice sounds by pushing digital processors hard too. 

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Oppression

Hardware synths playing together in the playground of my playroom.
I caught them, up late. "Lights out!".

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Ring A Rosie

Dead animals float down the river of worship. Their bloated bodies, caverns of empty life. Children wash and bathe and watch.

Found a happy place with some Sample and Hold action out of fear.

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Out of Fear

We need hope. There's pain when hope fails. Bring back light to let hope shine again.

Hardware synths again, the Microbrute taking the lead line, with Scope Modular IV and Flexor patch adding the sparkle (sonic-core.net).

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Taste and See

Student aspirations of the far east. 

Did a course on using Ableton in early 2015, here's Assignment 1 - a house track with stock Ableton sounds. 

Crisp house beats infused with tea.

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Boost Boast

Step into the back seat of a taxi, close your eyes, and take a trip across town. Let your eyelids filter the light and shade, your brain make faces in the pebbledash. Pay the man three kindnesses and seven gratitudes.

Assignment 2 for the Ableton course I did in 2015. Movement was the key here, creating a piece that engages you the listener on a journey thru a confused dystopia. 

This one was a lot of fun to put together. 
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Take Me There

Footsteps in the wet of a black dark side street. Who is following you? You know what to do - you need someone good to solve the mystery.

Assignment 3 for the Ableton course I took in 2015. Recorded myself playing bass guitar along to a funky drum loop, chose the best improvisations, added midi parts to fit the grooves. Wanted to make something jazzy, kinda 70's vibes, yet with modern progressive feel.

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Footsteps

Evoking a lonely person attempting to follow the big world, echoing its movements in order to fit in, yet making an individual utterance.

My friend pytchblend put me onto Disquiet Junto and the disquiet0243 project, so in memory of Bladerunner and all things Vangelis, I cracked out the big guns! Hardware synths only here, track was played live in one take - left hand playing Ableton Push 2 out to a big multi - two Mutable Instruments Shruthi's, Vermona Lancet, and two Sonic Core Scope Modular IV patches, right hand playing the lead line on Arturia Microbrute. Shade of delay and reverb in Ableton. 

Hope you enjoy.

It's Lonely out There - disquiet0243

pytchblend's collaborations, noodles and old tracks.

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