As close as I can make, a copy of the Gary Numan Living Ornaments 80 Live version of Every Day I Die.

The track was originally released and sounded vastly different on Tubeway Army 1st album in 1978.

 It features on Numan's first tour in 1979, with Billy Currie providing, in typical Billy Currie style, the ARP Odyssey lead. Again, it's a different sounding version than the initial release and this 80 version. 

Roger Mason, an Australian musician who played with James Freud, found his way into Numan's live band through a failed Freud/Numan collaboration and became responsible for synths on his 80s tour, along with Numan's long time band - messers, Payne, Bell and Sharpley, and of course, the much missed Paul Gardiner. 

Mason confesses to being a Billy Currie fan and produces what I consider to be one of the best examples of a synth solo on the ARP Odyssey. 

 This is my homage to one of the most excellent synth solos ever. Played originally by Roger Mason (www.roger-mason.com/bio.html)

This track is created using. 

Live Drums provided by Jeff Riddle

Live Bass provided by David Handy

Other instruments played by myself

Roland Cloud VSTi - Jupiter 4, Bass & Voice presets.

1978 Moog Polymoog 280a - Vox Humana 01 Preset.

2015 Korg ARP Odyssey through 1978 MXR- 117 Flanger & Behringer Chorus FX pedal.

Electro Acoustic Takamine guitar.

Reaper DAW.

Finally, this solo could never have been learned without Paul Hurst and his You Tube video
@p_k_hurst

Paul currently plays keyboards for Tubeway Days, a Numan 79-81 tribute band. 

Every Day I Die (Gary Numan Living Ornaments 1980 Cover Version)

This week's theme was "Roots/Influences" so I went back to the first album I ever bought - Gary Numan's "The Pleasure Principle". I usually prefer to try to find my own sound, or at least a blend of several influences, but in this case I tried to recreate as close as I could to the sound of that album with my own original song. I couldn't have done it without the amazing Polymode virtual synth though.

Synthetic vocals by Emvoice Jay and Lucy - that was the one part of the sound I was never going to get close to.

Deepest apologies to Mr Numan for blatantly ripping off his sound here!

Lyrics:

Electric heart, sparks and beams 
Digital dreams, of machines 
Love in wires, touch not real 
Yearning for what we can't feel

Digital hearts, analog souls 
Lost in a world out of control 

Neon streets, robotic eyes 
Mechanised life, no surprise 
Machines in charge, we're their prey 
Have we lost our way?

Digital hearts, analog souls 
Lost in a world out of control

Digital Heart, Analog Soul

On May 5, 2023 The head of the UN World Health Organization declared “with great hope”  that we are at an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, stressing that it does not mean the disease is no longer a global threat.

"In the memories of those who live through them, the grim days of plague do not not stand out like vivid flames, ravenous and inextinguishable, beaconing a troubled sky, but rather like the slow deliberate progress of some monstrous thing crushing out all within it’s path. No, the real plague had nothing in common with the grandiose imaginings that haunted my mind."
adapted from La Peste, (The Plague) by Albert Camus, published in 1947.

vocal, polymoog and dance macabre orchestration by naldo

La Peste, a Danse Macabre

A track including a recording of a Korg Prophecy (vintage synth from 1995), combined with a Polymoog VST that's been modified, and some Blue Sky vst added in as well in parts. My first attempt combining a real vintage synth in a DAW with VST elements.

TakeIt

Yet andother 1977 Polymoog model PM203A awakens in the workshop at Hideaway Studio during resurrection and restoration with a little piano noodling to celebrate... setting up the dynamics of the velocity sensitive Piano timbres on the Polymoog is particularly time consuming as the calibration of its somewhat unusual keyboard sensing system requires a lot of careful tweaking of several trimmers and play testing.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2023.

1977 Polymoog PM203A: No.1609 Awakens - Piano Test 01...

NH 3

M.E.

A live stochastic experiment 
with the Mini Moog, 
Memory Moog, and Poly Moog 
synthesisers from @CherryAudiovst.

Envelope Horizon

A live stochastic experiment 
with the Mini Moog, 
Memory Moog, Poly Moog, Taurus,  
and Vocoder synthesisers 
from @CherryAudiovst.

Envelope Drone

This now near 90 year old 1/4 ton 163 valve behemoth never ceases to amaze me - Over the years I have found that no matter how you record, sample or process material from this beast it always ends up sounding like something from another planet and I'm still left staggered to think this was the brainchild of a small team of talented men in the late 1930s truly motivated to break the norms and see their vision of the future come true.

In this case I had a go grafting together two excerpts of a test recording I made back in 2020 played at half speed and the result is fascinating - you can hear the effect of Novachord's 6 free-running LFOs affecting both pitch and timbre and the remarkable dynamics and frequency range of the instrument happening before your ears in slow motion. Remember, this thing literally has a VCA and envelope generator for every single one of its 72 keys just like the Polymoog and PS-3300... in 1938 technology!

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020/25.

1938 Novachord #346: The Beast Doth Gently Awaken in Slo-Mo...

A live stochastic experiment 
with four Poly Moog synthesisers, 
processed variously with Moog rack 
String Filters, Ring Modulators,  
and Vocoder, from @CherryAudiovst.

String Moodulation

The UNIVERSE (Part XIII) Deep Music KosmoS Stellar

I'm an French Musician creating for visual media.
The land of my ancestors is "USHANT (Ouessant)"
I live in Brittany near the "Pointe du Raz".

All compositions - © John USHANT de KELLER

NG-Xp is experimental music created by naldo & guillaume
https://soundcloud.com/naldeau/tracks
https://soundcloud.com/guillaumelecompositeur/tracks

tastierista 
1988-92- HIGHWAY 69
1993-96- MEDICINE MEN
1995-96- AMANITA 
1999-2000- MONEDA
2001-2002- KOSMEN
2006-2012- RAILROAD BLUES BAND
2012- COSMICK CHARLIE
dal 2013- FACTORY

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

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Кальмар любить вас.
Жаба люблю тебе,
Кальмар люблю тебе.

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to work with me 
as a promoter, or other, 
needs to be fluent in :

Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, 
Egyptian Arabic, French, 
German, Korean, 
Japanese, and Chinese. 

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A Boston-based scientist who enjoys creating music. All album and page photos are copyright by the artist.

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