Love the intro...I can almost see marching soldiers...

Been a while since I heard this Steve. I must have been 16-17yrs old when I did this! Just like to thank you for your support Steve. Means a lot! Some exellent material here.

Wow heavy duty...just how a protest song should be.

were just obeying orders so we're not to blame....great f'ing lyric Steve.

So this is what you get when you mix Robert Palmer and punk vibes--surprisingly awesome!

Thanks for the DL, Steve.  This one is a great production!  

megabus  ride

The very first track I uploaded to SoundCloud, now available as a free download.

This song, which I still perform regularly as part of my live set, was inspired by Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority and its resonance with the excuse often given for war crimes and human rights violations.  I made this recording at Durham Street Studio, Hartlepool, way back in 1993 and it features Alan Williamson (http://soundcloud.com/alan-williamson-1) on guitars and Lythan Nevard (http://slightlysquiffy.blogspot.co.uk) on backing vocals.

There's a YouTube video of me playing it live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnIw9zG3zA&feature=share&list=PL3421A8861A66BE39.

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OBEYING ORDERS

Press that button
You must obey
The subject is wrong
So he must pay
Obeying orders, obeying orders

You came to this place
Of your own free will
Signed the contract
And it binds you still
Obeying orders, obeying orders

Chorus:
The same old excuse
Again and again
We're just obeying orders
So we're not to blame

A shot is fired
From the top of the wall
The bullet's on target
And a young man falls
Obeying orders, obeying orders

He shrugs his shoulders
As he closes the oven door
Saying: "What you do you expect
"In a time of war?"
Obeying orders, obeying orders

Repeat chorus twice

It's always the same
It's always the same
It's always the same
We're not to blame

Words and music by Steve Cooke
© Steve Cooke 1992

Obeying Orders

Ruins and life

First track of 'Stray Flux' EP, out now!
Written, produced and performed by Chagall.

iTunes: http://apple.co/1FISfQ3
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1Hq3bcU 

Free download

TMTL

written, produced and performed by Chagall

'Stray Flux' EP out now!

iTunes: http://apple.co/1FISfQ3
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1SWC4bj
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1Hq3bcU (credits, lyrics, download)

Hidden

Set recorded in the early hours at festival Bukolika/Radio Labe stage.
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Photo credit: Mikuláš Vlček

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The Home EP is out! It features all-chiptune, 8-bit video game-style versions of my songs (two old ones and a new one), and a Mountain Goats cover. You can buy it either digitally or as a special USB drive edition at https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/home-ep.

The USB edition includes a papercraft model of me(!), some desktop and phone wallpapers, and a PICO-8 mini-game, which you can also play online at http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=27879.

Before Us Comes The Flood (8-bit)

Moon Maps (8-bit)

laid back rock track. 
I'm baaaack. first rock instrumental recorded my new studio

Echos Of The Night

DURANZIE out now on Genot Centre & Meteorismo // tape & digital
Get it/Stream it now // http://bit.ly/gen032_links
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/janodoe
Cover by Dieter Durinck of https://soundcloud.com/social-harmony
Photos by Václav Tvarůžka

"The sounds emanating from her blend of custom-built modules and vintage synths challenge the perceptions of the human ear, simultaneously bobbing along and screeching triumphantly." 
(Tristan Bath / https://soundcloud.com/spoolsout) 

JANO DOE uses homebuilt electronics to create sounds exploring limits of our auditory perception, incorporating extreme frequencies, volumes and sound event timescales, frequently crossing the barrier to physical sound perception. This sound is defined by inversions, creating the notion that the instrument is controlling the instrumentalist and where the formally sonorous becomes a representation of electrical, physical phenomena even before it is sound. Using intuitively conceived module arrangements, chaotic systems with fragile equilibria occur, always sweeping closer to the catastrophe point. 

On DURANZIE, we are confronted with a heterogeneous handful of sound fantasms. More like trajectories around some attractor than anything like arranged concrete events, this sound maps out its own constraints, like a cartographer of its own circuitry. These are autonomous pieces which purely refer to their own conditions of existence. On the first half of the album, these self-contained pieces are presented in sequence - each piece navigating some kind of local extremum, a little island of stability in some kind of terrible storm. Sometimes this results in bubbling, elementary waves, other times the result is like scanning through a minefield of interference, immersed in a cold hiss or ripped open by mechanical chirping. On the second half of the album, the converse approach results in a lone colossus patiently thawing, a pure tone crystal slowly breaking apart, forming tiny capillaries, trapped tensions finally circulating and slowly transforming itself into a whole different state. 

Recorded in Punctum 2017-2018 by Tomislav https://soundcloud.com/federsel.
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/janodoe using 16 DIY Yusynth modules (yusynth.net), one custom made sequencer module and one of three original copies of the 1970s Czechoslovak Číslizvuk modular synth.
Special thanks go to Milan Guštar and Petr Strenk.

Duranzie

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A funk maverick from the far left of the leftfield, keytar-wielding activist Steve Cooke blends sharp-witted lyrics with sleazy funk, geeky electronica and spiky new wave.

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