You really have nailed the 80s lo-fi feel.  This is a very good song which I think would sound good on a radio

Well done fella, a seriously deserved win!! :)

oooh nice. Very retro sounding. Well done Matt! I love those bubbly synths. ha. great sound. A well-deserved win for sure.

The synths really swirl and circle around. I really like these ideas in this track. Gives me a little inspiration. Thanks for that.

I can hear a bit of Vince Clarke / Erasure like textures too. Nicely done Matt.

Melankoli

Bleak

Scandinavia

Here is my cover version of my favourite Tangerine Dream song. Beach Scene is from TD's Thief movie soundtrack.

Thanks to Darrell Farnsworth @Translunar for sound design advice and support.

Instruments / Processing:
Reason 8.3 DAW
Ozone 6 mastering
Roland JX-8P, JU-06, JP-08 synths
DSI Mopho X4 synth
Renoun Reverb
Synapse DR-1 reverb, AF-4 filter
Softube Tsar-1R reverb, [Guitar] Amp
Jiggery Pokery Performance Stratocaster, Chenille chorus, Kings Of Kong drums
Selig Gain processor
Korg Mono/Poly RE synth
Rob Papen Predator, Vecto RE synths
Kuassa EVE-AT1, EVE-MP5 EQs
Propellerhead Parsec RE synth
Proton 3, Matrix refills

Tangerine Dream - Beach Scene - Cover by Cosmic Address

A song made with Jiggery-Pokery Sound's very cool upcoming Reason rack extension Combo electric harpsichord.

Elektrik HC (JPS's Combo electric harpsichord only)

Another song made with Jiggery-Pokery sound's eclectic electric harpsichord.

Combo eclectic harpsichord (JPS's CEH and drums)

[Former title _Concrete Blues_]
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

20 Meter Blues

The winning entry into the PUF challenge: VAST. 

All synths originally from Tom Pritchard Sound Design VAST Demo, but highly edited.

LinnDrum kit from Jiggery-Pokery Kings of Kong
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We’re the cure for your new punk waves
The age-old shore up new age graves
Sell elegance with white noises
Opinionated comeback poisons
Your Kaiser sends her ornaments
We stomp out all the malcontents
Stomp

Hide forever, what we did
I want to be this comeback kid
Her beat-up turbo 911
Never acquired this much fun
Kept in time she paid her rents
We’ll stomp out all her cruel moments
Stomp

She’s everybody’s failed muse
Oh, how to fill her empty shoes
When the muse has failed
And it’s never comin’ back
She took me to the higher places
Then left me to these human races
The muse has failed
It’s never comin’ back

Take my space and fill it up
Never say you’ve had enough
Emote iconics distilled, deterred
Drunk on lovers disinterred
We have heard it and we can’t take it
No-one gains cos no-one makes it
Stomp

She’s everybody’s failed muse
And cast aside one colour blues
When the muse has failed
And it’s never comin’ back
Stomp

Erato
Polyhymnia
Terpsichore
Urania
Euterpe
Calliope
Melpomene
Clio
Thalia
She’s everybody’s failed muse
You never filled my front page news
When this muse has failed
And it’s never comin’ back
She’s everybody’s failed muse
Oh, cast aside those empty shoes
When the muse has failed
And she’s never, heaven, ever comin’ back

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The Failing Muse

A song "à la early Jarre" made exclusively with Jiggery-Pokery devices (except for drums) in Reason 10:

1 x Combo 310 Unique Organ
3 x Chenille Chorus Ensemble
1 x Republik Handheld Percussion
1 x JPS Harmonic Synthesizer
1 x Combo X 705 Space Organ
5 x Champagne Supernova
2 x Combo Continental Organ
2 x Combo Compact Organ
1 x The Animus Shimmerverb Ensemble
2 x Titus BDD Delay Line

Dextropropoxyphen IV

Physically speaking, a man can only labor so much. Then it's onto writing some timeless musical classics. Product 2003-2008

Chatty Mo Fo

In which we salute the Pandemic Lifestyle. 
Sit your butt in your chair. 
Send your mind out to play.
Have hope.
Be kind.

Adventures In Sitting

With infectious and highly melodic tunes, The Quixotes specialize in songs about abject misery. Straddling multiple genres including electronica, indie- rock, 80's pop and blues. The rather schizophrenically monikered Quixotes are in fact merely one Matt Black, a London-based singer-songwriter.

The Failing Muse

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