The intro music of my YouTube channel, recorded with 15 different keyboards:
Amstrad Fidelity CKX-100 (Synth 2)
Casio MT-41 (Recorder, Synth Fuzz)
Casio MT-70 (Chorus)
Casio PT-82 (Celesta, Flute, Violin)
Casio VL-1 (Fantasy)
Casio VL-5 (Trumpet)
Kawai MS720 (Banjo (edit.), Drums, User 2)
Yamaha HS-200 (Violin)
Yamaha PC-100 (Violin, Trumpet)
Yamaha PS-3 (Guitar)
Yamaha PSS-A50 (Marimba, Punchy Chordz)
Yamaha PSS-100 (UFO),
Yamaha PSS-130 (Xylophone)
Yamaha TYU-30 (Piano)
Yamaha SHS-10 (Celesta, Drums, Harpsi, Music Box, Wood Bass)

Yamaha SHS-10 Rhythms "Fusion 2", "Hard Rock" and "Country" were doubled with Kawai MS720 Drums. Pitch bend and arpeggio FX made with the Yamaha PSS-A50. No external FX, just a limiter on the master track.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhI09Kau-Y

Keen On Keys Theme 2020

in this mode - the space between my thoughts : the muse : creator: of my inner world : music

ABOUT

- I N T H I S M O D E -
 
Albums 

The Untitled One

A darker collection of work exploring the themes of death, birth and the space in between the two. Life is a continuous stream and birth and death happen as events on the stream. 


NEW EP - En-Trance-D

Trance or achieving a Trance-like state is a spiritual experience. It can take to an experience of reality that is beyond normal every day thinking. Nature has designed us well, we are beings of light as much as the stars in the heavens, we are made in the image of the divine cosmic universe to which we are linked. Trance can take us back home, back to the stars, while still being on the Earth. All we need is the music, let your body and mind go and let the music take you home. 

 SINGLE - HERE I STAND-

The "Here I Stand" single is an expression of the deepest aspects of myself. The raw places in my soul that I have travelled to over the last years of my life. The places I felt I needed to let go and the places I needed to stand firm and resist the temptation to capitulate to a way of being that didn't honour my true self. The Goddess Ishtar journeyed to hell and back to save her lover and in the process she had to shed seven veils or layers of her personality (hence the dance of the seven veils) Its not really about being physically naked, thats easy, but getting emotionally naked.

See more at www.inthismode.com 

BTW the art work for this and my other two releases is created and produced by Leia Sidery from Fablecraft be sure to check out her work 
http://www.fablecraft.com.au
  
MORE ABOUT IN THIS MODE

The moment I heard the opening few bars of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric” my life changed. It was like a doorway opened into a new reality for me. An alien landscape that I felt oddly at home in. Music featured strongly in my childhood growing up as the younger brother of one of the founding fathers of punk rock in Australia. I began my musical life with intensity and have never really looked back. But from that moment back in 1979 synthesisers and electronic music have been an integral part of my musical expression. Along the way I have played in a couple of synth bands, studied classical piano, cello and recorder including a stint in the local symphony orchestra. Far and away the most creative thing I have done in my life is to become a parent. Its the agony and ecstasy of this that has I believe led to “In This Mode”. At any one time I operate in a different mode or role all of which are aspects of who I am but none of them completely defining me and so all the while I am a parent living through the roller-coaster ride of emotions that can involve another part of me is creating musical ideas.

Musical influences are probably to numerous to mention but heres some of it, some of the giants  of electronic music, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, Visage, Human League, Tangerine Dream leading into The Shaman, The KLF, Front 242,  Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins,  Sisters of Mercy, Orbital, Dead Can Dance and more recently Assemblage 23, VNV nation, and Royksopp just to name a few. Along the way lots of classical music found its way in there and a bit of Jazz as well. The list really is to long to list so I won’t but my thanks to any one who has ever provided musical inspiration. In This Mode is a reincarnation of a once dormant aspect of my  creative self using synthesisers and technology to create electronic dance, synth pop, downtempo and ambient music to put into form what has been formless for sometime.

Before the turnaround (fall of the wall), my parents brought a robotron KC85/3 computer home and I loved it. The sound could only be generated by 2 pulses waveforms, but despite all this, some of the original games had a freaky sound.

Meanwhile, I was playing with a friend with a Commodore 64. I always had a penchant for it and I was also interested in various chiptunes. Nevertheless, later I preferred to go to the roots - composing music with hardware. I handled a lot with the DMC tracker for the C64. I can not say if there was any documentation, but I remember that I found out how some parameters work with my old oscilloscope. I wrote some results for Richard Bayliss - Music Scene Tutorial. 

In 2006 I won the "Battle of the Bits - Winter Chip I" competition in the category SID - which earned me fifty 7" vinyls. At that time my interest in synthesizers of all kinds grew (but in general the focus for 8-Bit machines). 

Further hardware that I procured sequentially and still use today:
- Access Virus A and Virus b
- Korg ESX-1 ( JJ ECC83S tubes )
- Peavey Spectrum Analog Filter
- Waldorf 4-Pole - Ladder and Curtis
- Adafruit's x0xb0x ( modified marOS )
- E-MU Proteus 2000 + XL-Turbo + Roms
- MI Shruthi-1 SMR4-II, CEM3378, Polivoks
- Soulsby's Atmegatron + Odytron
- Behringer Crave ( purged PCB )
- Soundcraft Compact 10 and 4
- Cyclone Bassbot TT-303 v1
- Sixty four pixels CV.OCD
- Twisted Electrons AY3
- Ibanez Echo Shifter 2
- GFI Specular Tempus
- Barber Launch Pad
- Arturia Drumbrute
- Pioneer RMX 1000
- T-Rex Replicator
- T-Rex Replica
- Tapco Blend6
- DMG 01

- Midibox SEQ v4
- Midibox SID v2 ( 6581/8580 )
- Midibox DIY C64 Midi Controller
- Speech Chips: SPO256-AL2, Speakjet

.. and of course a real Commodore 64.

It's all about making music on toy and semiprofessional keyboards of the 80's and early 90's. Most of them are quite inexpensive these days, but many of them are still capable of producing some really nice sounds. And I was allways fascinated by the quirky accompaniments.
Here you can listen to the full versions of all tracks featured in my YouTube videos.

Analog Recording Engineer and Composer (LT, FR, EN)

I am a small YouTuber from Slovakia. Apart from that i also make songs in FL Studio. I often upload my songs here for you to listen to. Feel free to leave a like here on any of my songs. For collab feel free to contact me on any of my social medias or e-mail. And also, feel free to react to my songs as well :).