My live perfomance recording of one of my favourite Tangerine Dream tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRSNy8DcIDk&feature=youtu.be

Dreams

Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (Live Cover)

Strange Things Part 2

Songdesign

With our first edition of May, we’ve had a fifty, fifty split between ambient & experiment and the more uptempo melodic sounds arrived on our desk this month, we were going to make this podcast in two halves, but decided to mix the two together giving you light and shade variations over the three hours.
If there is any thoughts on this do let us have your comments,
On the list we have the latest releases from Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter, Vanderson, Syndromeda, Robert Rich & Markus Reuter, Baltes & Erbe and Romerium, with one track from Lomita, Jaja, Mindphaser, C J Rogers and David Parsons last album Puja, which we managed to get hold of, Mick’s a great fan of his music.
Some names not familiar to us here,  include Arovane & Porya Hatami, Carlo Celuque, Natural Life Essence & Threadbare, with a mixture of Berlin School, dark & experimental ambient excursions to Chill-out sound.
With the release of Steve Jolliffe’s new autobiography, including a copy of Cyclone, plus a short unreleased track from Tangerine Dream from 1967, Steve’s brief association with the group in Berlin, with just Edgar Froese & Klaus Schulze, we’ve included the track Bent Side Coldwalk from that album, Steve was a major influence on that release, the first one with vocals which split the fans somewhat and rumours had it Edgar hated it.

Playlist list no 109

02.29 Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy ‘Gryoscope’ (album Memento) www.din.org.uk
08.29 Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy ‘Memento’ 
14.31 Vanderson ‘Invisible Contact’ (album Beyond Time Structures) www.mellowjet.com
22.00 Vanderson ‘Sense’ 
28.32 Baltes & Erbe ‘Cold Flowers’ (album Electric Garden) www.erbemusic.com
38.24 Baltes & Erbe ‘The Element Of Gold
43.17 Baltes & Erbe ‘Basic Lifeform’ ***
48.36 Daniel Dorobantu ‘Pământul Străveziu http://dorobantu.thyveils.com
54.08 Lomita ‘White Mountain Dream’ ( album White Mountain Temple)  www.mixcloud.com/claudiakretzer/ 
62.50 Carlo (Cacau) Celuque ‘Berlin Walk’ (EP Berlin Walk) www.carloceluque.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-walk
70.11 Carlo (Cacau) Celuque ‘New Dreams’
75.37 Romerium ‘The Monk’ (album White Mountain Temple) www.romerium.com
81.47 Syndromeda ‘Passion’ (album XXX) *** www.syngate.net
95.03 Arovane & Porya Hatami ‘Specreature’ (album Organism) www.karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/organism
99,20 David Parsons ‘Offerings pt1’ (album Puja) http://gterma.blogspot.com.au
107.47 Robert Rich & Markus Reuter ‘We Shed The Remnants Of Last Winter’ (album Lift A feather To The Flood)
114.47 Robert Rich & Markus Reuter ‘Glistening On Wet Tarmac’ www.robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/lift-a-feather-to-the-flood
120.00 Mindphaser ‘Return Of Arrakis’ (album Canticles Of Dune) www.mindphaser2.bandcamp.com/album/canticles-of-dune
129.41 C.J. Rogers ‘Dark Dive’ (album Thunder Run)  https://www.jamendo.com/album/166985/thunder-run
133.41 C.J. Rogers ‘Black Wings’ 
140.24 Natural Life Essence ‘Unknown Sun, To Another Place’ (album Imaginary Motion) www.cyan-music.com
148.08 Jaja ‘One Day On Arcturus 6 1’ (album One Day On Arcturus) ***www.cyan-music.com
157.38 Threadbare ‘Sun Puddles’ (album Home Is A Memory) www.aatma.bandcamp.com/album/home-is-a-memory
164.09 Threadbare ‘The Decay Of Things’ 
169.02 Tangerine Dream ‘Bent Cold Sidewalk’ (album Cyclone)

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Sequences Podcast No109

Sequences Podcast No 131
Here is our second edition for the double bill of podcasts this month, this time leaning on the more, shall I say the lighter side, although we have a varied musical lineup featuring cinematic scores, ambient/dark ambient, ethereal guitars, other worldly sounds and much more.
We start the journey through the music of Erik Wollo,  showcasing heroic guitars cinematic synth orchestrations dynamic & emotional, a trademark of his recording career.

Playlist No 131
01.28 Erik Wollo ’Wind Journey 1’ (album Wind Journey) www.spottedpeccary.com
06.25 Erik Wollo ‘Dreamlines’
11.40 Erik Wollo Passage Of Time’
16.14 Keith Richie ‘Alive!’ (album Xenogenesis Volume 1: Dawn) https://keithrichie.bandcamp.com/yum
19.10 Keith Richie ‘Awakening’
21.29 Keith Richie ’Nikanj’
26.16 Levente ‘Vanishing 1’ (album Lost Works) https://levente.bandcamp.com/album/lost-works, 
27.47 Levente ‘Salvador Dali: The Art of Cinema’
32.42 Levente ‘Carl Friedrich Schinkel: Cathedral Towering Over Town’
36.00 Fiona Joy ‘Story of Insanity’ (album Story Of Ghosts) https://bluecoastmusic.com/fiona-joy/story-of-ghosts#.WxIrJS8ZOqC
38.47 Fiona Joy ‘Story of Ghosts’ 
41,56 Flow ‘Waters Gather’ (album Flow) www.flowthegroup.com
45.13 Michel Huygen ‘Return to Mystykatea’ (album Kryptyk) www.neuronium.com
51.31 Michel Huygen ‘Al-Ula.’
56.35 Daniel Dorobantu & Alira Mun ‘O Vreme Inalta’ (EP Pamantul  Straveziu) https://danieldorobantu.bandcamp.com
01.05.33 Levete ‘Aether’ (album Elysium) https://ultimathuleambient.bandcamp.com 
01.14.18 Fringo Chills ‘And Then Comes The Rain’(album In The Nature) www.syngate.net
01.24.10 Alphaxone ‘Enviroment’ (album Edge Of Solitude) https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com
01.29.37 Alphaxone ‘Echosphere’ 
01.35.29 Canopy Of Stars ‘The Rain And The Waves’ (album Waves) https://canopyofstars.bandcamp.com/album/waves
01.46.42 Thought Guild ‘Three Moons Medling’ https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com
01.51.15 Meg Bowles ‘Hymnus’ (album Evensong Canticles For The Earth) *** www.megbowlesmusic.com
01.56.45 Meg Bowles ‘ Time & Light’ ***
02.01.24 Wojciech Kania ‘Green Valley’ https://www.facebook.com/kaniawojciech
02.10.25 Glimmer Room ‘Mr Price Remembers’ (album Memories Foreknown) https://ultimathuleambient.bandcamp.com
02.14.17 Glimmer Room ‘Carbon Statues’ 
02.25.20 Scott Cole ‘Earth Source’ (album Beyond Earth) https://ultimathuleambient.bandcamp.com
02.32.02 Peter Ball ‘Drawn From Sleep’ (Slow Colours Mix) ‘ (album Bohemia) https://ultimathuleambient.bandcamp.com
02.38.46 Xerxes The Dark ‘Apperceive State’ (album Inner Mystery) https://xerxesthedark.bandcamp.com
02.45.06 Rapoon ‘We Beat Our Drums’  (album Offworld OP1Equs) www.winter-light.nl
02.51.35 MO-DU ‘More Than One Word’ (album MOD03) https://mo-du.bandcamp.com
02.55.52 MO_DU ‘Monoceros’
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Sequences Podcast No 131

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Tangerine Dream | Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 2018

Espen Kraft made a great video about the AKAI S612 Sampler (https://youtu.be/01u2alyA08Y) and with it, a really nice, poppy tune that I simply couldn't resist the urge to turn into a full song. He graciously let me have a go at it, and liked the results. I got the stem mixes and vocal tracks, and basically went to town with it, giving it the full treatment I tend to go for. Trying to keep the liveliness and happy bouncing basslines, the steeldrums and cheerful brass lines. I added the intro, some bridges and turned the intro hook into a chorus since it was the main thing that caught my attention the first time. I also took Espen's vocal lines from his original chorus and harmonised them and did a little Porter Robinson thing at the intro and break down towards the end.

Hope you like it. :)

Espen Kraft: Lyrics and original composition, mastering for streaming.
Anders Enger Jensen: Re-arranging and composing, mixing.

Lyrics: 
Why so shy, while I kiss you?
Why so shy. Tell me why!
Oh, I miss you.

Why so shy? Tell me why!
Why so shy, while I kiss you?
Why so shy? Tell me why!
Oh, I miss you!

Take it out on me if you want to,
I don't care if it hurts.
I said I wanted more than that little maybe.
So baby take off my shirt, right now!

Why so shy? While I kiss you.
Why so shy? Tell me why!
Oh, I miss you!

I've been thinking of this moment,
when I get you by myself.
I feel you wanted more than just my friendship,
so here I am, right now!

Why so shy? (why so shy) Tell me why!
Why so shy, while I kiss you?
Why so shy? Tell me why! (Tell me why!)
Oh, I miss you!

Why so shy, while I kiss you?
Why so shy? Tell me why!
Oh, I miss you! (2x)

So Shy (feat. Espen Kraft)

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Another low key and chill synth track.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/DjOvitdvADE

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Retro Grooves Vol. 4

Alpha Centauri B

Single from the upcoming sound track to a new retro point and click game, The Last Goddess: www.thelastgoddess.net

Both versions available for purchase at Bandcamp: https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/colins-theme

Youtube:https://youtu.be/XzyerSnqib8

The Last Goddess OST

Colin's Theme

Music video: https://youtu.be/wsFLTqhRsfg
Tutroial: https://youtu.be/qxfppDr9j7o

This is a little track I made one evening (and night... took about six hours total since I had to get it done before the morning) at the hotel while attending Thomann's Synth Reactor 2019 in Germany. Wondered what I could create with just this miniature FM recreation.

I used the Reface DX to lay down the sounds part by part, and section by section, since this synth has only one part. I had to use sample packs for drums (Zenhiser 80s Retro Drummer) and I allowed myself a couple of ReFX Nexus2 parts to fill in and add sprinkle here and there. The rest is all DX, some heavily processed, others straight through. A few parts were glazed in Valhalla reverb to get the thickness of it all.

Thank you to Yamaha for letting me hog this little baby for so many days. ;)

Reface my DX

Reface My DX

This is the main song I made during my stay at Thomann's Synth Reactor 2019 in Germany. The question was if it's possible to make some good retro 80s synth music with budget synths (around $500), and it most definitely can.

I set up a little miniature version of my studio with a Yamaha Reface DX, a Yamaha MS61, a Roland Juno DS, Roland SE-02 and a Behringer DeepMind 6. Combined with my MacBook Pro with MOTU Digital Performer, Microbook IIc and MicroLite MIDI interfaces as well as a Thomann T-Mix DM-20 Digital Mixer (also around $500) and some sample packs from my collection. All melodic parts are played by these synths, the drums are slightly from the MX61 (percussion and hi hats) while the drums are Zenhiser 80s Retro Drummer because there are virtually no good retro kits to be found these days. It's all modern stuff apparently.

Thanks to Thomann, Roland, Yamaha and Behringer for letting me borrow these fine pieces of gear. 

Check out the full report here: https://youtu.be/JxTVgEg11MQ
Music video here: https://youtu.be/P0T_HPib_UA

Strange Things Part 2

Tilo Voigthaus