A remake of one of the oldest synth pieces I've written. I no longer have a copy of the original which was created on a KORG keyboard belonging to my brother, about thirty or so years ago. 

This version is a bit more polished.

In Transit (single)

In Transit (the theme from Starship Awesome)

It's Tuesday, the 21st of June.

The official first day of summer - and to kick things off right, here's the latest track from Foozle Bop, a summery little jingle called Hero Of The Summertime.

Feel free to bounce along.

Hero Of The Summertime (single)

Hero Of The Summertime

At some point, everybody has to record a holiday song. This one's my attempt at it. And nothing says holiday like sleigh bells, thck swirly organ music, and.. uh.. distorted rhythm guitars.

8 Tiny Reindeer (single)

8 Tiny Reindeer

A Tribute to Dave "Baby" Cortez and his Happy Organ.
Not quite Punk, not quite Surf - but all Rock N' Roll.

The Legend Of Happy Dave (single)

The Legend Of Happy Dave

I was an 80's skatepunk. Wheeled plank rumbling under my feet, and boombox hanging by my side, usually pumping out something that sounded a lot like this song, while wasting my summer in the sun-baked parking lot of the local corner store.

As Bryan Adams once sung, "Those days are gone forever.. I should just let them go, but..." So, like him, I recorded a song about it. 

So here's to Johnny, and Kenny, and Lucky, and Dave, and Tina. The old gang... Wherever you've got to.

Oh, and to my old board too, now immortalized in the cover art.

Skatepunk Summer (single)

Skatepunk Summer

A little ditty inspired by an afternoon marathon of Kung Fu Panda, and Jackie Chan films.

I Know Kung Fu (single)

I Know Kung Fu

I was noodling around on my guitar one day and it started to sound good, so I recorded it.

Dark Blue

Surfy 80's Summertime Rock N' Roll made by aliens. 
One on the Electro-Drums.
One on the Bass Keytar.
One on Rhythm Guitar.
And one on Lead Tamborine and Solo Guitar.
Hand claps by all but the Rhythm Guitar Player.

Summer Splash (single)

Foozle Bop : Summer Splash

A short comedy segment involving a commercial for a radio station that plays nothing.

Created to be the soundtrack for one of a selection of phony commercials which were to be fit into a comedy program some friends were making. It never got used, though.

Script, plus all voices, music and SFX done by me.

This Is Radio Cobalt

This started life about ten years ago as a rough demo track. I decided I wanted to do something that sounded like The Cars. I got the idea sketched out and then set it aside to deal with other things. Fast forward to this year, and I find it sitting around in an unfinished state, and decide to throw a little polish on it. 

I basically end up rewriting it, adding chord changes where there were none before, adding keyboard parts. Giving it a proper musical structure, and fleshing it out from a demo rough into a complete song. And so here it is, a tribute to one of the greatest new Wave bands of the 80's. 

Car Tune.

If Only I knew somebody who sounded like Ric Okasek to dub some vocals over it.

Car Tune (single)

Car Tune

Just about nearly a year ago, I received a shiny new Vortex Wireless keytar for Xmas, and over the course of the year I've been noodling around with it, with my collection of modeled vintage synth VSTs, and though I'd come up with a lot of really nice sounding little musical doodles, I didn't really have anything that could be called an entire song.

Anyway, I finally sat myself down, watched a load of youtube tutorials on things such as turning a loop into a song, writing a melody, 80's style chord progressions, and what makes them work, and so forth.... and eventually, the end result was this. The first new Cobalt synthpop/synthwave track in a good many years.

So here's to the keytar. Long may it funkify the world.

Blue Wave (single)

Blue Wave

I was messing around with chord shapes, and the arpeggiator on a roland Jupiter 8, and it ended up evolving into this piece, partially inspired by the work of Giorgio Moroder. 

It's super happy. Cotton candy for the ears.

Skyrider (single)

Skyrider

Cartoonist, Commercial Artist, Musician, Weirdo.

Cobalt

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