Completely and unashamedly inspired by original era Orbital, the build ups on simple, rolling, menacing bass lines, skittery rhythms, pressure and release hissy sounds and skanky high ends.

Choons

Paranoia

My attempt at a kind of obnoxious drill and bass, a-la early Atari Teenage Riot or Alec Empire. 

I like this, but all the elements got lost when for no real reason, Fruityloops deleted everything - all samples, all files, all unfinished pieces I was playing with. This was my headphone version, to see what needed fixed, like the ploopy bass. So everything's a bit loud, a bit silly, and not quite finished. Still like it, though.

Into the darkness (Fucked over by Fruityloops mix)

Another casualty of the Fruityloops purge, managed to salvage this by chucking it through a couple of effects progs and throwing weird effects on top of it. Inspired by those old dark ambient compilations I used to live by once upon a when I had the time.

This is something I created to accompany me on late night walks. Because masochist.

Ambient 11

Written for a friend's thirtieth birthday, this was my attempt at creating a kind of 4/4 wibbly wobbly bassy thing, with slightly off kilter, out of sync acid type melodies and sounds. To sound, you know, menacing in order to celebrate someone getting older.

Most likely inspired by later era Orbital, and the entire Warp catalogue.

Turning Thirty

Just a silly little ditty that came off the cuff one lazy, hazy day. Never quite finished, but pleasant and jolly enough as is.

Jilly jolly

Created in a somewhat insomniac month of into the nights, spent mostly watching crap on YouTube and then stealing samples of things from the things I was watching and looping them, doing weird things with effects etc. This, I think, is basically a loop of some Russian choral singers, footered around with.

Chart Hit 1

An attempt to write something slow, nice, and sweet. Hit it a bit hard with the reverb sauce, but it was a go at doing something without 4/4 beats, and on the limited Fruityloops palette I had.

saccharine

Another of my 'inspired by insomnia' pieces, this is sampled from a documentary I found about cannibals, then manipulated and played around with to make it twisty and weird. Just like cannibals.

Cannibals

As it says on the tin, I heard this amazing piece of Carl Craig, read the story behind it - that he wrote it as a piece of drive around music - and attempted my own version of a slow build piece of techno that one could drive around to.

I heard Carl Craig One Time and thought I could do it, but not as good

Sometimes when you've got nothing else to do, you do this kind weirdness.

Dark isolationism for being locked down to...

Ambient Once

Inspired by - and nowhere near as accomplished as - Orbital, The Orb, The Black Dog, Plaid, Alec Empire, Autechre, Acid, Ambient, and all manner of other electronic muzaks. I do this for the fun of it, and I do it knowing my own myriad limitations.

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