Killers (Casiotone For The Painfully Alone cover Rehearsal)

Inspired by the novel "Cloud Atlas" and expanding on one of the themes on the evanescent value of artistic production. And by the casio vl-1 - fantasy, flute, and piano.

More on the 704th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Right on Cumulus — The Assignment: Compose 8-bit music inspired by a Cory Arcangel / Super Mario video — at disquiet.com/0704/

Disquiet0704 - Cloud Index

Braquage avec Arnaud (Hommage à Jean-Claude Roché)

Upupa Epops Podlings

Casiotone MT-68 drum machine jam featuring vintage and such.

In January 2021 I had a go at reworking 'Mayday' and it contained this as the bridge section. While I gave up on that particular idea I didn't want this part to go to waste.

This is the only time I've really experimented with unusual time signatures and the 15/8 works quite well here. I'm not sure where I got the name from, though they are involved in proposed lyrics for the song I'd also planned to use.

I wouldn't say a lot of my songs scream 'fun' as much as this does. The pairing of the mandolin from the Casiotone MT-100 and the accordion from the MT-240 blend into this amazing silly childlike lead.

lionsden2021

Yesterday I decided to resample the sounds from my Casiotone MT-240 with the better technology I have compared to back in the day. Turns out that the ones I originally recorded 6 years ago with a cheap iRig adapter into my phone haven't aged well. (Listen to 'Later Tonight' further down on this page and you'll see what I mean.)

With this song I tried using more of the under utilised sounds that I normally wouldn't choose. I used this model in my live shows throughout 2023 and often went for warmer presets like the Jazz Organ, Synth Reed and Flute.

Cherryl Stevens is the name that is written in black marker on the underside of the synth, something only seen under direct light. I'm assuming she was the previous or even first time owner of it when it released back in 1987. Hope she's doing alright wherever she is today.

cherrylstevens2025

track made circa 2006 by chris from  www.googoofish.com 

archive.org did not save any of the website so I can't give credit to the artist properly but I assume from the matrixsynth articles featuring his DIY instrument hacks, mods, circuitbending that he may have lived in Australia then moved to England. 

Anyway this is the best album of CZ music I have ever found...as a special treat this track does feature what seems to be some Casio SK-1 drum blips. But other tracks craft all the percussion using the CZ phase distortion synthesizer as well. 

I don't think I had heard this album when I started my Electric Ninja project in 2010, but if I had of it would have been an additional influence alongside the "Concertmate" collective in France and "PSS-270" in Poland "Casionova" in Australia and "Jebiotto" in Japan.

Casio CZ fun oh fun (CZ-101 - 2006)

Since the start of last month I have been blending the sounds of my Casiotone and Yamaha Portasound collection back into my music. While they always start as something new I can't help but get the urge to go back once more and reimagine my older pieces.

This one in particular is a song I created in 2019, and will turn 6 very soon. It began as a song in B flat but found its way into A flat for later versions in 2020 and 2024. I blended the original and the newer leitmotifs to create something more uniform and the structure lends itself to a full extended version I made later on in 2019.

sleepingaloud2025

B-sides and out-takes from the "Prototype Jive" Sessions. 2003. Many of these songs were studio experiments and were left off Prototype Jive in order to maintain the "live" atmosphere.

Socially Challenged Euphoria (Aka Psychic Crosstalk theme)

16 Socially Challenged Euphoria

I originally made this song in 2019 just around the time I was wrapping up some GCSE music work. A lot of my work from that time was built around experimental chord structures like how the descending bass with the ascending chords creates some interesting 7ths. (Sleeping Aloud is also a good example of the type of chord progressions I was going for at the time.)

loverslane2025

Birthed from a Casiotone MT-205 this song began a micro trend in my music where I'd make one named after each month through 2020. I'd only recently got ahold of the 205 and quickly went to work using it in songs.

It stayed as a short 30 second track much like other demos I make but returned to it by the end of the year to extend it. That summer I'd created an alternate version with preset synths and a hard Simmonds snare that was sporadic and wild and clocked in at 4 minutes long, but I remain fond of the original sound.

aprilshowers2020

Great Rig is the first song I recorded with an audio interface direct from my Casio MT-100. I'd used soundalikes and plainer stock presets within my songs up to this point but having this new piece of gear (a Great Rig, one might say) was revolutionary to me as I was carving a style of my own.

Its a simple song but one I was very very happy to have made. It opened the flood gates to what I could do going forward. I was just leaving that summer's bitcrusher phase hence the extra crunch.

greatrig2019

It snowed for just one day a couple of weeks ago and its yet to come back again. Its nice to see.

I was toying around with this chord progression in a few styles and this one was my favourite. Maybe if it snows again I'll come back to this too.

snow2025

two demos from the the fast forward cassette magazine demonstrating Robin Whittle's early 1980's modifications / upgrades to Casiotone CT-202. Performed by Alan Underhill. Circa 1981. No idea if Part1 was ever released or if anyone has a copy of it still. 

alan underhill - silicon sundae pt2 -  casiotone 202 - ff09-17

alan underhill - silicon sundae pt3 - casiotone 202 - ff08-18

This version of Lemon was originally meant to be for a "30 Seconds Of Fame" reel during my first year of college. We were asked to make a 30 second video that introduced us and our music.

I decided to rework Lemon with it being the first completed original song I made, however my video would end up being a mix of live work and shorter studio excerpts so this was shelved. I would end up using Rainy Sunday from the month prior as an example of my studio work.

lemontv2020

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Defiant and diverse melodic/VGM/BGM music.
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I used to write a lot of music between 2019 and 2023 with a small collection of Casiotone keyboards. I like to post the good eggs here with some newer projects in between.

Torpid Scorpion is the electro-acoustic project of London based musician Rens Troost. 

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A man in his 20's who makes fairly experimental and outsider music. Messing around with keyboards, guitars, various instruments and vocals.

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