public-28k-taster (actually 209 generations)

DarwinTunes medley at 1050 generations

Justified Music welcomes you here on soundcloud!

Twitter: follow <a href="http://twitter.com/JustifiedMusic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/JustifiedMusic</a>

Bob is a human who loves music and has been doing live mixes on a lockdown radio station he set up with friends. Most are on Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/Glastonauts_Live/) but he'll start putting them here too.

DarwinTunes (2009-2016) was an experiment to see what kind of music we get as a result of evolution by natural selection applied to a computer-generated four bar loop.  The "synth patches" are evolved also - using additive synthesis (just sine waves).  The only human input was the choice of tempo, time signature, effects rack and few other minor things.

I’m never sure when to start when I talk about my love of music and sound.  Do I begin with going to sleep all through my childhood to Radio 4 with the background of my family downstairs at night talking enthusiastically, laughing and arguing.  Do I begin with listening to my sister getting ready in the morning for college with The Jam, Blondie, Earth Wind and Fire then later The Smiths and Chaka Khan blasting through her stereo?  Was it Sundays, listening to Junior Marvin or Toots and the Maytals?  Or maybe travelling with my mum and dad in the car with one of uncles mix tapes filled with a mish mash of soca, reggae, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and gospel. I can repeat the sound of my dad’s 1976 yellow Skoda’s windscreen wipers in the rain. 
  
Was it sitting next to my brother watching and listening to him modifying his Spectrum ZX 80 and 81?  Or listening with frustration at the loading sound for Chuckie Egg on his Commodore 64 as his copy failed to load.

At the age of 13 I stood in the family front room and set myself the responsibility of choosing whether to follow the alternative path or house.  I chose the indie path but not ever exclusively.  Smith and Mighty’s Walk On, A Guy Called Gerald’s Voodoo Ray, 808 State's Pacific and Stakker Humanoid's Humonid blew my mind as did Rebel Mc’s Wickedest Sound and Public Enemy's Welcome to the Terror Dome.  The Pixies' Debaser, Sonic Youth's Teenage Riot, Pussy Galore’s Dick Johnson and Mudhoney’s Super Fuzz Big Muff lp made me choose to play the guitar.   

Now my taste ranges from jazz and fusion through to funk, through to hardcore punk, through to electronic music and house (in its may forms, though not too hot on trance) through to hip-hop, through to dub, through to pure basic noise.  

I can easily run through the tracks that made some kind of shift or difference in my life, but the full list will bore (I'm guessing you are bored already!) 

One day I hope to place some of my own dabblings with sound on my Soundcloud with help from my panda chum and citizen b. 

In the mean time I will fill my time playing with my kids, creating art and continuing my journey of listening to and creating sound.

Check ya later…….


DarwinTunes medley at 1050 generations

uncoolbob aka DarwinTunes