TenEleven started out as a demo tune for Novation. The idea was to make an entire tune out of the Bass Station II analog synth. You can check out the video for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijG2jciqyA

TenEleven

Movement

OK, I admit it, I'd been listening to a lot of Tycho when I started this tune. The whole idea of a big happy lead-synth drove this tune from start to finish. It's probably most representative of the music I created a while back; overtly optimistic and full of sunshine.

Analogise

A melancholic piano thing I wrote a while back, whilst staying at a friends house. We'd stay up late, drinking single malts and listen to 'The Stars of the Lid' and 'Gonzalez'.  Those influences seemed to have rubbed off here.

The title refers to the general photographic rule of keeping things in simple measures of three. The three piano lines throughout this piece are supposed to hint at that, maintaining simplicity at it's heart. 

The counterpoint to this simplicity though, is a series of cross-rhythms (a 5/4 beat)running throughout till the end. Hope you like it.

The Law of Thirds

I've always loved an analog polysynth's ability to create powerful hypnotic filtered sounds, sometimes only using one chord. Here my attempt to tackle a heavily swung house tune attempts to maintain the this same idea,repeating, but never actually looping. Each part is a single recording; but the drive really comes from the swing, choosing groove over melody as the primary motivation.

Switch

Uber

TheLighthouse

(AKAxthesecondwall) Transition @Beatcamp

There's more than a slight hint here of another persona of mine in this tune. In juxtaposition though, the focus moves to analog, as much as possible without loosing a sense of the  abrasive nature of the sound. The image is of the tune being played live at London's Koko.

Lomoto

This is my homage to the simply incredible 'Delorean Dynamite' by Todd Terje. If you haven't bought it yet, do so here: http://toddterje.com

I used a Novation Bass Station and Mininova for all the synths, and also made a fun video using the Launchpad Pro on YouTube.

Delorean Dynamite by Todd Terje (Cover)

This tune has hung around my iTunes collection for way too long. So here it is. Now it really is free.

Freedom

How come I start off attempting the create one kind of tune, and then end up making this?

Coffee&Bikes

Subcentre_sundayjam

Guess who just bought a Dave Smith Prophet 6?

EP2100 - ProphetSix

An experiment in Low End Theory for a saturday evening. Don't expect many changes.

LoMo

deep.analog.&.synthy
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