Ok. Sit back, put your headphones on and put do not disturb on for about 10 minutes.  Yep, its 10 mins.  But the original was over 15.  The original being 'Hitched To Me' - which is here on soundcloud.  As is the remake from 2020 - 'Goodbye'.
this was meant to be just a remaster with a few tweaks on the original.  butas is often the case... took on a new life of its own.  It's still very much the original tune and structure (albeit cut back to a modest. ...ha ha... 10 mins.  unlike 'Goodbye' - it's not a new track entirely made from fragments of the old.  Its  genuine remix and elevation to be a senosry delight.
I used to think that Hitched To Me was the best thing I'd written,  and coming back to it - there are some awesome bits.  I hope any listeners give it some time to breathe.

Give Them A Hug

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 the long version of the remake of Copenhagen.  It's quite trippy and mad.  all sorts of backwards guitars and different synths and samples going on....

Closed To You (Full Trip Mix)

a short little rework of another track from 19 years ago.  added some vocals, some ear candy and not much else.  
i do remember when I originally wrote this - that I was trying to use major keys for a change!!

April Showers II

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?)

This one is kind of a companion piece to Juniper.  They were both originally written around the same time, and share some beats, bass and a G minor key signature.

This 25 years later remake, pushes th 100 bpm jazz organ track into some pretty hectic dnb -yet still retaining melody.  and as such, reminding me of Chase and Status.  There's some lovely digital evolving pads going on from the Roland powerhouse keys of the 90s (thanks to Roland Cloud for those).

I've never been to Harare (in Zimbabwe).  though I studied it's socio-geographic history at University.  so know a bit more about it than just some random city.  hopefully the cover art feels like it represents in some way.

With Love From Hurare

TEXTURES: NOIR JAZZ & NIGHT SOUL delivers 10 original compositions, blending moody chords with the atmosphere of intimate slow-burners and high-tension, crime-noir drama. This pack captures the pulse of midnight — smoky jazz clubs, rain-slicked sidewalks, and neon-soaked soul grooves.

TEXTURES: NOIR JAZZ & SOUL

The final track to be reworked from 2000's Monte Cristo Gamble.  Fittingly, the first track, which was called 'Confused'.  Build around a dub organ with samples about the green party, leaving the world to future generations and 'Die Now'.  it's bleak and anxiety-inducing.
the remake in 2025 isn't any warmer or cuddly.  I retained a lot of the same bits, but added in some variation on the chords and extra vocal spice.
Even though the samples don't say anything explicitly, the panic in the track made me feel of 80s height of cold war paranoia.  With my both my parents working in the defence industry, thatcher and reagen were icons to them.  in 1986 before things took a turn for the better, the 9 / 10 year old me wasn't so sure about these people.  or the ones who came after.   the cover art imagines them all having a picnic in front of an icon of power.

It's Very Confusing

uptempo dance ballad with a brilliant male vocal.

Bluue skies

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30+ years of writing music.  now back to lots of hardware to complement the soft synths.  And of course, the compulsion to add the kitchen sink, fridge and oven is still there!

Kit:
Logic 
Cubase
Ableton Live
Reason
Expose
Loopcloud
Arturia V collection, Pigments
Arturia microfreak, minifreak, matrixbrute, minibrute, Spark 
Roland boutique Juno, Jupiter, JP3, 808 and 909
Arturia Audiofuse
Focusrite Scarlett
Roland Jupiter Xm, JD-Xi, Gaia SH-01 MDC-1 Dance Module
Korg Modwave, microKorg, MicroKorg XL, korg ER-1, korg 05RW, kaoss pad
Novation ultranova, mininova, a-station, Circuit Tracks
Access Virus-b
Beringher Deep Mind 12, UB-Xa, TD-3, Crave, MS-1
Nord Stage EX
Sequential Prophet 2000
Waldorf Pulse
M-audio Venom
Native instruments kontakt, massive, reaktor, FM8, battery, guitar rig, traktor, maschine, absynth, and the rest of the ultimate collection 
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spitfire Albion 
Aria orchestra 
Softube Parallels
Waves Gold and a lot of their plug ins. Abbey Road TG, brauer motion, butch vig vocals, ovox, flow motion
Isotope ozone
Sugar Bytes effectrix, looperator, turnado, factory, cyclop, obscurium 
Audio damage dubstation, panstation
AAS lounge lizard, strum, chromophone
UVI relay 
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

Mario Alaimo - Music Composer, Vocalist, Musician, Pianist & Guitarist. Played in numerous Bands in the Manchester scene in the 1980s. Released first E.P. in with Luce tu Cruze in 1983 “Across the Air”. Pilot for the TUBE T.V. show Channel 4. From the 1990s to date just composing, from 2008 accompanied with Genavieve Dupoix Videographer /Video Editor & Vocals fusing Music with Film to add a New dimension.
Genavieve videographer & film editor. Credits The Prodigy “Run with Wolves”, also videos for Local Bands The Project, Cero Cero, Johnny Tristam, & Dirty Little Secrets to promote them. Mijas Blues Festival and various others.
Now with 4 tracks in iTunes we are hoping to have our Album “Synesthesia” available in the New Year 2015!

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