I started putting this together in October 2022, and eventually completed it in March 2023, although I was working on quite a few other projects during that period.

This started out as an ambient composition, but it slowly morphed into a chillout or possibly New Age piece.

EDIT: 20230514 I have remixed the track, moving the unaffected "bell" synth towards the centre of the stereo field, and reduced its volume. The track was then mastered, using the original chain

Orders of Magnitude

Return to the Glass Cliff

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Return To The Glass Cliff

Here is a piece of chilled-out electronic rock that I put together in November 2022. I've been busy with a couple of album releases since then, so only just found the time to upload this one. I made use of the factory sounds that came with the Mangle for this piece.

Thanks to dagrimshaw on pixabay for the image

The Wringer

This is a relatively minor remix of The Wringer. I have removed some sample repetitions, and slightly increased the volume of the drums.

Edit: In September 2024 I remastered the track. I have increased the LUFS level by almost 0.6 in preparation for an album release.

Thanks to dagrimshaw on pixabay for the image

The earlier (2022) version of the track can be found here:-

https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/the-wringer

Abstraction Layers

The Wringer (2023 Remix/2024 T-Racks5 Master)

Here is a mellow, ambient piece that I put together in a few hours over 3 or 4 days at the end of November 2022. A couple of days after I completed it, I realised that a couple of my favourite '80s albums had been talking to me.

Edit:2023-08-17

I made a minor remix of this yesterday. I have improved the stereo placement of 3 Absynth instances, adjusted the levelling of one of them, and tweaked the EQ to remove some harshness.

Displacements

Lens

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Lens (2023 remix/2023 master)

This is quite a minimal ambient piece that I put together in April 2023. It features an unconventional Reaktor drone, a couple of synth patches from TassMan4 and a Spitfire LABS flute creation, along with plenty of reverb.

Spot the sonic reference to David Lynch.

Edit: 20240120 - I remixed this yesterday, lowering the noise levels in two modules within one instance of TassMan4, then lowered the volume level and re-EQ'd that instance. I also changed the EQ on the LABS instance, and then remastered the track.

Extinguished

This track was put together in 2024 for the excellent CC-Undefined Compilation - Illusion which was released February 14 2025. The compilation features 12 tracks of various electronic styles by artists on the CC-Undefined label. The album is available as a "name your price" album from Bandcamp, linked above.

Here is a link to the full album on SoundCloud:-
https://soundcloud.com/ccundefined/sets/cc-4-illusion

CC-4 Illusion

Residuum

This is the 2024 T-Racks 5 master of the track previously uploaded in May 2023. This is a little louder than the earlier upload. This track was inspired by an earlier visit to Thailand. This version should appear on an album later in 2025.

Here is a link to the original track:-
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/return-to-the-glass-cliff

Return to the Glass Cliff (2024 Master)

This is the December 2024 remaster of the early 2024 mix of Extinguished.

Here is a link to the original track:-
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/extinguished

extinguished (2024 remaster)

I put this together in April 2024, but circumstances have once again caused the delay of its release. This was the first track I made using the Crow Hill Vaults Beta Celest-a-tone and Attic Grand. There is a lot of reverb in use here, but less than I used on an earlier iteration of this piece.

It's a piece of music in two contrasting parts - descending darkness and emerging light.

Conflicted

Celeste

Trying to reconcile love for old-school Prog-Rock with more modern approach to instrumentation and composition. Hopefully the results of this unlikely fusion will yield some level of success.

Great website, specialising in Eclectic reviews of ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, folk and progressive rock … http://makeyourowntaste.com

Collaborations with other musicians:

http://smp3030.bandcamp.com/

Other artists that you really ought to listen to............

http://www.soundcloud.com/happy-hooves
http://www.soundcloud.com/polyslax
http://soundcloud.com/2ndmouse
http://soundcloud.com/sonic_arts
http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe
http://soundcloud.com/smp3030

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