The Drawing Board

Cover of Apache by The Shadows with Stephen Nicholson

Lead Guitar - Stephen Nicholson
Rhythm Guitar - Stephen Nicholson
Bass - Steven Grant
Percussion - Steven Grant
Keys - Steven Grant
Whistling and Grunting - Steven Grant
Horse - Horse

Apache (cover) - With Stephen Nicholson

New track that will be featured on my next EP coming May 2016 !

Colder Throats

First version of a soundtrack I made for a short film: https://www.arte.tv/sites/concoursfiction/video/dela-ciel-gris-2/

Album de Elsa Casado

soundtrack 01

Video accompaniment music: largely inspired by Attagirl's Soundtrack 1 -  https://soundcloud.com/attagirrl/soundtrack-01

Telos

London duo Tokyo Taboo’s debut album '6th Street Psychosis' is out 24th March 2017 via TT Records. The album features ten tenacious, in-your-face tracks that combine the band’s rock and pop punk influences.

The duo comprise of singer Dolly Daggerz and guitarist Mike, who are joined by a band for their live shows. Dolly takes inspiration from iconic performers from Heart to David Bowie and Karen O and Mike simply loves a good riff. Tokyo Taboo is a perfect amalgamation of Dolly and Mike’s influences; inspired by Manga, Japanese culture, drag and 80s fashion, they are true performers, with an image that equals the intense vibrancy of what you hear on record.

Featuring hectic, heart-pounding hooks and soaring rock-inspired vocals, Tokyo Taboo cover a range of subjects on the album, which was recorded in Downtown LA. From Dolly’s quarter life crisis to politics and vulnerability, they aren’t afraid of smashing the expectations of ‘the industry’ whilst wearing their hearts on their sleeves, cuts, bruises, tears and all.

On the album, ’Bubbilicious’ is a racing, high-octane opener, whilst ‘Emotional Suicide’ is filled with an uptempo, feisty power and ‘N.A.R.C.I.S.M’ oozes brutal honesty, raw riffs and dark undertones. Meanwhile, single 'Make It Out Alive' was inspired by the vote to bomb Syria and the feeling of frustration, hopelessness and anger Dolly felt, which seethe through the music as she spits and snarls each lyric over Mike’s raucous riffs.

'Make It Out Alive' gained support from the likes of Radio X and BBC Radio 1 and with '6th Street Psychosis' out soon, Tokyo Taboo hope to bring their own brand of modern pop punk kicking and screaming into the public consciousness.

'6th Street Psychosis' is out March 24th 2017 via TT Records.

Live dates:
March 24 - Camden Rock Presents: Tokyo Taboo Debut Album Launch @ Crowndale, London.

Tokyo Taboo are available for interviews.
EPK, photos and artwork available upon request.
Official website: www.tokyotabooband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TokyoTaboo
Twitter: @ToykoTabooUK

6th Street Psychosis

Drowning

Action Music For Secret Quarry Games Part One

Just playing around for the first time with Ilio The MINT sounds for Omnisphere 2, on Logic Pro X. This composition is called Cyber Jungle.
For the cover image, I'm attaching a snapshot of the Logic timeline including names of the patches I used. The MINT patches were created by Mike Babbitt and are lots of fun to use in production.

Cyber Jungle (The MINT patch demo for Omnisphere 2)

Sandman

Created and developed by Nitrome
The music for the online game Sandman was composed by myself, Lee Nicklen, back in January 2006. The game was released by game developer and creator Nitrome.

EMAIL LEE NICKLEN: lee@kayotix.com
PROJECT PAGE: http://www.kayotix.com/news/nitrome/sandman/
WEBSITE: www.kayotix.com

Lee Nicklen Sandman Main Song

Original name: "Mop V16 - Einde Langer Versie"

Mouse Cursor History Track 3

Dog Police were a new wave band from the 1980's that were on the cusp of breaking into the mainstream, but never quite made it. Dog Police saw their almost MTV single hit viral status, thanks to the archives of the internet and a very creative music video for their title track “Dog Police”. They made waves on the MTV show Basement Tapes with their very DEVO like synth based new wave rock and creative lyrics. While they didn't win the competition, they did get the attention of Weird Al Yankovic who featured their second music video “1-800” on his MTV takeover show Al TV. Based on new wave, but occasionally branching out into other styles such as the Lounge rock “Are You Middle Class Enough”.


Originally pressed and distributed privately by the band, it is now out of print and very hard to find. Reissued by Toxic Toast Records for the first time since 1982. Pressed on a limited run of 500 Police Blue vinyl, including two unreleased bonus demo songs from the 1980's.

Apache (cover) - With Stephen Nicholson

Steven J Grant