Name: Stephen McKenna - To Sheila (Smashing Pumpkins cover) by StephenMcKenna in Stephen McKenna Songs
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: Standalone track, not included on any of my homemade CDs [2007]

Stephen McKenna Songs

Track 7 from the homemade CD 'Stephen's Super Christmas' [2006]

Stephen McKenna - That Toy's Bigger Than Mine

Track 4 from the homemade CD 'The Little Summer EP' [2007]

Stephen McKenna - Eglantine Dusk

Track 5 from the homemade CD 'The Little Summer EP' [2007]

Stephen McKenna - Temporary Sunshine

Standalone track, not included on any of my homemade CDs [2007]

Stephen McKenna - To Sheila (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

Demo track from the as yet uncompleted CD 'Stephen's Lost Weekend' [2009]

Stephen McKenna - S.L.W. Demo #1

Ghost in the Shell is imo one of the greatest IPs of all time, across all types of media. Been a HUGE fan since I was 13 or something. Watched everything, read everything, played the games... I wanted to sample this for years, but never came to actually do it. So here it is, my Jungle flip of the dive scene from the 95 movie. Also, it's been a while since I ve made some Jungle, might do more in the future.

Project 2501

Free Download: http://eternal8bit.cba.pl/

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Eternal+Sunset%22&sort=-date

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBsfYcwv5yZjjJAmioO-amniGBz4ltwoA

Zirds SC: https://soundcloud.com/zirds

Towards the Dawn LP (Free download is in description)

SAY WHATS ON YOUR MIND

I'm feeling this kinda nostalgic 90's/00's PlayStation kinda drum and bass sound lately, so here's another one. I dunno if anybody remembers those old Casio keyboards that were in every music class in schools in the UK in the early 2000s but if you do then you probably remember the "Get on up!" vocal stab that was programmed on all of them. Not a single class passed by without somebody distrupting it with keyboard cat noises interspersed with "Get on up!" 



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Get On Up!

These were some of the first tracks I ever released. When I released these melodic dubstep and liquid dubstep weren't really a thing and they blew up pretty quick. Over the next few years I started to see more artists making similar sounds and then we saw the evolution of chillstep, lovestep, ambient and melodic dubstep as well as liquid dubstep. Maybe they were all the same thing really. Ultimately I think they were all a sort of a response to what was available at the time - namely either paired back minimal sub heavy dubstep or the technically impressive sound design in brostep. There was a gap for more melodic, emotional, chill music in that genre and me and a bunch of others started filling it. 

Sadly I no longer have the project files but thanks to the magic of modern technology and new stem separation tools I was at least able to do a little work with what I had to retouch them and clean them up a bit. I wish I could do more, maybe one day I will do a straight rewrite of these because I really think they're good tunes, pity about the chainsaw bass in heartbeats, it was a pretty common sound back then and I hadn't quite fully detached myself from the standard dubstep tropes at the time. Oh well, it gives it a sort of 2010s charm I think. One day I will revisit this and maybe do a non-chainsaw version.

Heartbeats [2025 Remaster]

These were some of the first tracks I ever released. When I released these melodic dubstep and liquid dubstep weren't really a thing and they blew up pretty quick. Over the next few years I started to see more artists making similar sounds and then we saw the evolution of chillstep, lovestep, ambient and melodic dubstep as well as liquid dubstep. Maybe they were all the same thing really. Ultimately I think they were all a sort of a response to what was available at the time - namely either paired back minimal sub heavy dubstep or the technically impressive sound design in brostep. There was a gap for more melodic, emotional, chill music in that genre and me and a bunch of others started filling it. 

Sadly I no longer have the project files but thanks to the magic of modern technology and new stem separation tools I was at least able to do a little work with what I had to retouch them and clean them up a bit. I wish I could do more, maybe one day I will do a straight rewrite of these because I really think they're good tunes, pity about the chainsaw bass in heartbeats, it was a pretty common sound back then and I hadn't quite fully detached myself from the standard dubstep tropes at the time. Oh well, it gives it a sort of 2010s charm I think. 

She Colours The Sky [2025 Remaster]

Step Off! [2025 Remaster]

Piano Girl [2025 Remaster]

I wrote this with another producer, Tripwire, in 2010. One of our best tunes together in my opinion. Still love this one to this day. I was still relatively new to music production and to dubstep and future garage and I learned a lot from Tripwire and our collaborations together. You can check out his other stuff here: https://soundcloud.com/trpwr/tracks We made a few good tracks together and I always really enjoyed working with him. Haven't been in touch in a long time. I hope he's doing alright these days. I've done what I can with this. Sadly, again, I don't have the old stems or project files so I'm working with an old mp3 file. Stem separation tools make things a little easier but it's still a challenge to really bring this to a modern production standard. One of the big problems with this one was the dynamic range. I think Tripwire and I both liked it at the time, the variance between the soft parts and the future garage style chorus gave it a weird ambient atmospheric feel but on re-listening the difference was perhaps a little too extreme. I've tried to keep the dynamic range while softening the impact of the chorus parts a little.

Kaiori Breathe - Forgetting You (feat Tripwire) [2025 Remaster]

This was one of my earlier melodic dubstep experiments. Probably the closest I got to modern 'chillstep' back in the day. Although I couldn't help but experiment with some weird panning and those standard airy vocals. I think I had been listening to a lot of Genesis and Phil Collins at the time which maybe explains some of the thicker pads and those chord choices. I've hopefully brightened this one up a little in the remaster.

Kaiori Breathe - Bloom [2025 Remaster]

A collection of  music from bands I've been in and some tunes I've done myself...yes I know they're not great but at least I've had fun doing them ;o)

Stephen McKenna - To Sheila (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

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