On this episode, we discuss the overlooked album Relayer, by Yes with my good friend, ack.

Episode 1 - Relayer by Yes With Ack

The title track from the album of the same name.  First started in 2019.  Over 50 different mixdowns in the files....  and it even took me 10-12 attempts to lock this one down for uploading to Soundcloud.  Thanks to the Infeceterd Mushroom pusher on Waves for finally helping me get some punch and breathing space on the track without losing the drums or bass or vocals at any one time.  (I've written elsewhere about my struggles to master more high energy, up-tempo EDM style tracks.

it's a full on dance / EDM track with some dubstep and jazz undertones.    i was experiementing quite a bit with vocals 'in the round' (i.e. repeating the same phrases one after another, y'know like frere jaques in school!).  works quite well in the chorus i reckon.
i did try to make a more extended mix, but it just didn't work, so went back to the shorter version.

the title of the track (and indeed the album) refer to the fact that often, however much you try, it feels like someone else is writing your story and not you.  kinda 'main character energy' where sometimes stolen the director's chair.  this feeling happens to me a lot. haha

Someone Else's Story

Another track from the 2019 album 'Someone Else's Story'.  
most of the tracks on that album were very ambitious as I was flexing my 'i know think i get it' production skills.  so most of the tracks have versions and mixdowns in the 40s and 50s.  
this one has just 3 version of the logic file and just 3 mixdowns.  
it's quite possible that the track isn't finished... it does kinda just go into a slightly weird place then stop.  but I figured that it works, and any tinkering could take into the 'never-finished' territory.  So a very light touch remastering in October 2024 and it's here.


Take Down My Number

2023 remake of the 2017 track from Disposable Designs.  with added trancey / ravey bits and better groove.  

Take Your Clothes Off II

This is a 2025 remake of the track 'Roger Williams' from Sonamnulism in 2006.  The original name came from spending 2 weeks in New York and living in that hotel in Midtown.  I'd been to NYC once before only for a couple of days, so this was awesome.  8-9 years later, I very nearly moved there to live.  Everything was organised, and then I pulled out at the last minute after my salary was being cut to lower than in Singapore - with a massive hike in taxes.
anyhow, back to this track - it was written when i got to London.  A long ambient dub fest, where I even reecording my own singing on it.  which is very rare for that time.  
everything's pretty much kept here.  added some female vocals (giving the new track name).  some synths remapped from Atmosphere that I used back in 2006 to Omnisphere.  a touch of extra percussion and drum fills, a proper mix and master.  and here we go!
Cover art courtesy of AI image reworked in Pixlr app.

Under My Magic Spell

The original Homage was a. ... erm.. homage to a certain manchester band who single-handedly turned a load of indie disco kids onto dance.  my sister Caroline, and therefore me, her younger brother sneaking into the Cube or the Agincourt in Camberley.  

when Dave and I did the original back in 2004ish, I also did a remix.  Which Dave claimed was better.  Having done the rework of the original, here's the rework of the remix. Copy of a copy of copy of copy.

and even more, because now it's a homage to more than one song.  another, slightly older manchester band who were also able to shift from indie to dance via Ibiza - taking in the England football team on the way.  You'll recognise the kick drum and the synth bass sound.  

now, i think this remix is better than all the others.  original?  no.  makes you wanna dance?  absolutely.  

Blue Gold (Homage Redubbed)

this is the shorter version of the remake of 'Copenhagen' - originally on 2006's 'Ambition' album.
this shorter version goes straigt into the breakdown and builds it back up.  
it starts with some porno like sounds.  which i can't remember whether i recorded them from a DVD (remember those!) - or it was a recording of a previous girlfriend. (Julia).  anyhow, it's only there for a bit.
this is one of those tracks made with 'Northern Exposure' (Sasha& Digweed's seminal mix album) in mind.  
the original chord sequence came from reversing some electric guitar playing that I couldn't get in time (due to being rubbish at playing) - reversed, it worked.  and from there.... nearly 20 years later, we get to this.  
i'll put up the full mix version as well - burt experience tells me that 9min long tracks don't get many listens!! haha.  enjoy!

Closed To You

This is a remake of a track from Monte Cristo Gamble [sic] in 2000 called 'Cornered To It' that i'd practically forgotten.  Mainly because I did a rework of it in 2006 called 'Second Corner' on Ambition.  (We'll hear a remake of that remake sometime this year).  I much preferred Second Corner, so forgot its origins.

anyhow, 25 years later, it gets some long overdue love.  the vocals from loopcloud on this one - sounds just like early Radiohead Thom Yorke to me.  Quite Haunting as the phrase 'I could have stopped you' goes on repeat and refrain.

Could Have Stopped You

Another remake!  This time of a track from c1998/99 called Juniper.  I wrote it with my good friend Liam in Ealing, London.  The original track was a sprawling ambient piece picking up fragments from other tunes i'd writen or was writing at the time. There was very little bass for some reason.  Probably because at the time, I had no idea what i was doing.  so if there was a kick drum, there was little bass. Compression was mystery, sideways compression seemed like something on the professionals could have.  

so now we've a bass, a shiny polish to the synths and an upgrade into a dance pop track with a classic 4 chord progression from G Minor.

Juniper (Do You Trust Me?)

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East Cafe - One Silent Cloudburst (1tyrant@thebonaparte Edit)

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Audio damage dubstation, panstation
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Fender Stratocaster 
Schecfer Diamond Electric 
Line6 Pod Guitar Mukti Effects 
Boss guitar multi effects and various other pedals 
Peavey Bass 
Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit 
Alesia drum pads 
Stanton turntables

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