My overblown cover of Voice Farm's "Double Garage" from 1981.

Double Garage (Voice Farm Cover)

My cover of Landscape's 1981 single "Einstein A Go-Go". Mix 7, updated 2021-06-28.

Einstein A Go-Go (Landscape Cover)

Pretty Girl (Remastered)

In 1984, techno-rock band Spot The Dog, hailing from Lodi, CA, recorded "Adventures In Anxiety". Originally, the music was written by Kit Watson and Gary Bell, and was played live by their electronic duo Eye5. Lyrics were added by Patrick O'Shaughnessy when Eye5 was absorbed into the fallout from the explosion of Digits. Additional keyboards were provided by John Reed. Duncan Atkinson gave the song its guitar. A music video was produced for the song, and that video made it onto MTV's Basement Tapes competition in 1985, where it was resoundingly beaten. The video and original recording can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l133kFYVTfg. This is a brand new 2021 recording of the song. Performed, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by the original songwriter Kit Watson. Aside from voice, no analog instrumentation was used. It's all synths.

Adventures In Anxiety (2021 Redo)

Recorded in 1985. E-Mu SP-12, Yamaha DX7 IIFD, Yamaha QX-1.

Something In The Science

In 2023, Landscape produced a new remix of their song "Einstein A-Go-Go" and called it their "Einstein on the Floor Mix". It was released on Bandcamp digitally, and was to be included in the forthcoming "Landscape A-Go-Go" deluxe CD box set containing all of their albums and a bunch of bonus material. I decided that I should revisit my original cover of this tune and give it a similar remix treatment. My original cover recording can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/supremeelectricbelt/einstein-a-go-go-landscape-cover

This version is meant as a tribute only, and no monetization or copyright infringement is intended.

Einstein A-Go-Go (Einstein on the Floor Mix) (Landscape Cover)

Recorded at Nacnud Sound, Lodi, CA in 1984.

On The Touman (Remastered)

Cover recording of "Strong In Reason" by Squeeze, originally from their 1978 debut S/T LP. Included on "If I... If I... If I...: The Songs of Squeeze Revisited", a fine 4CD Squeeze tribute offering from Burning Sky Records.

Strong In Reason (Squeeze Cover)

A cover of Tuxedomoon's "Incubus (Blue Suit)" originally appearing on their LP "Desire" from 1981.

The story behind the song, from Blaine Reininger:

"When John Foxx came to the studio in 1981 while we were recording this song he said 'Brilliant track!', to which I replied 'No wonder you like it. It sounds like you.'

"This song was inspired by a dream I had. We were due to be interviewed by a guy from MIT the next day. I dreamt that night that the guy from MIT was so technologically advanced, he was probably from the future. He had all kinds of gadgets. He was wearing a powder blue leisure suit. The next day, the interviewer turned out to be a garden variety radio geek."

Incubus (Blue Suit) (Tuxedomoon Cover)

Here is my 2025 re-recording of Spot The Dog's instrumental track, "Great Pressure". As originally recorded in Randy Sparks' trailer studio, it appeared as the b-side to the band's 1985 single, "It's Christmas Time" (which I have also recently re-recorded; see my Bandcamp). I wrote this song as an exercise in using some of the first software MIDI sequencers available for personal computers, and I never had any intention of releasing it. But the rest of my band heard it and insisted that it be put to tape. The band's keyboardist/guitarist John Reed dubbed in a bunch of cool guitar tracks and turned it into a rocker. At some point, we needed to select a flip side for our Christmas single, and it was decided that it needed to be this freaky little diddy. Go figure. Learned a bunch of new recording and automation processes in making this fresh version. Instruments used: Moog Minimoog, Oberheim OB-Xa, FXpansion Strobe 2, various PreSonus sound modules, samples and amp sims.

Great Pressure (2025)

Supreme Electric Belt's 2025 cover version of Pylon's 1979 first single, "Cool". An instrumental for now. But will that change? Time will tell....

All rights of original publisher and copyright owner reserved in totality. This new recording is not for profit, and for entertainment purposes only.

Cool (Pylon Cover)

"My 80s Girl" was originally written and recorded in 2016 exclusively for the 1st Anniversary show of Doug Lynner's "World of Noise" webcast, which was co-hosted by Marisa Conover. This is a new re-recording of the music for that song, with the vocals still to go.

My 80s Girl

Instrumental mix of my cover of "Fallout" from DATA, originally released in 1980.

Fallout (DATA Cover)

"Long Jump Down" was originally written and recorded by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, who was a bandmate of mine in Spot The Dog during the mid-80s. Spot had long broken up, and Pat was doing a lot of music on his own. This is a song that I have always very much appreciated for its dark and brooding feel, as well as its very relatable first-person lamentations of the DJ who finds himself totally smitten by a female member of the club staff who, despite giving him her number, never answers his calls. This is the finished music mix. The vocals will come later.

Long Jump Down

Quick and dirty remastering of this 1981 release from Voice Farm.

Voice Farm - Mödern Things (Remastered)

A remastering of the B-side track from Voice Farm's 1981 single.

Voice Farm - Elevate (Remastered)

A new remastering of the B-side to Spot the Dog's "It's Christmas Time" single from 1985.

Spot The Dog - Great Pressure (Remastered)

A remastering of Track 4 on Side B of Voice Farm's 1982 debut LP.

The World We Live In

Voice Farm - Voyeur (Remastered)

A new remastering of the B-side to the "Vanessa Vacillating" 12-inch single.

Slow Children - Unplugging The Vacuum (Special Re - Mix) (Remastered)

A cover of the Telex song which was Belgium's entry into the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision 2000

Remastering of the third track from the eponymous 1984 EP from Class Action.

Class Action - Blast Off (Remastered)

This is a new remastering of "SF Underground", a 4-track 7-inch 33-1/3 RPM record which was the first release ever from San Francisco's Subterranean Records in 1979 (Catalog Number SUB 1). A record release party was held at Mabuhay Gardens on November 7 that year, and for $3 you got to see the four bands with tracks on the record perform live, and a copy of the record for free. Includes tracks from punk acts No Alternative, Flipper, Tools and VKTMS.

VKTMS - Ballad Of Pincushion Smith

Tools - Asexuality In The 80's

An ancient cover of "Moon Over Moscow" by Visage.

Moon Over Moscow (Visage Cover)

Don't Step In It

Feminine Footsteps Approach

From the 1982 cassette release "Adventures In Anxiety".

The Sequence of Events, Vol. I

Spot The Dog - Conventional Means

Nervous Gender - Cardinal Newman (Remaster)

This is the voice of Colossus. This is the voice of Guardian. We are One.

This Is The Voice of Colossus

Back when I was called Passion Or Patterns, I recorded a cover of Devo's "Jerkin' Back and Forth" exclusively for DEVOtional 2015. Not sure if it ever got played there.

Jerkin' Back And Forth (Devo Cover)

A cover of the 1971 Top Ten hit "Draggin' the Line" from Tommy James, recorded by Kit Watson in collaboration with PopGems (Dane and Marisa Conover).

Draggin' The Line (Cover)

The synthpunk persona of Kit Watson. What we have here is a mish-mash of old and new; fresh attempts and stale goodies; mostly original, with a smattering of covers. Much of this has not been mastered properly, and most of it was executed in "toy software". Now that I have the right gear for the job, a self-titled album is in the works. Don't hold your breath, though. I'm the Tom Scholz of synthpunk. It's not ever perfect until it's perfect. I have also decided not to post here any versions of any of the songs going onto the album. When the album releases, that's when all the songs will be available.

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