Downtempo chill-tronica with electric bass and guitars. Nostalgic laid back groove, combining my new love of synth tones and layered drum loops with indie/post-rock style melodic bass, harmonics and reverrrrrrrrrb.

Quiet Morning

Odd-time post-rock/electro instrumental, grown from a loop pedal jam planted in Reaper. Electro loop and Bass station synth leads took it one way, but the arrangement called for more post-rock style terraced dynamics. Distorted tremolando guitars and drop tuning riffs trapped in ice and thawed out by musical palaeontologists are hung up in the middle 8, and the glockenspiel harks back to the early days of post-rock epiphanies :)

Aftermath

Laid back synth meditation; downtempo beats; sequenced synth bass with indie guitar layers.  Bass station 2/Tal uno leads; NI Monark bass; Blofeld, Hybrid3 and LABS strings; Tr-8, EZ drummer and bits from a sample pack beats. This track was an attempt to make a simpler chillwave inspired arrangement overall.

Your breath can function as an anchor

This track is an attempt to compose in a distinct retrowave style which I am into these days. I had the core elements a long time ago, but only just cast off my heavy pullover of procrastination and mixed it. As often happens, I started with a downbeat sounding idea (the sine wave echo motif against a chord seq) and it gradually evolved into uplifting driving music that closes an imaginary movie. The robot voice intro is a recreation of a noise maker toy I used to have, and thank you to my Dad for letting me use the lovely photo.

Prepare for transport

A fun instrumental written to cheer up my partner. I tried to record as many layers on bass as possible to see what happened, only resorting to 6 string for one line as I recall. I forgot to note where the beat and 'fade out' samples came from so sorry to not credit them. Elmo was tough to mic up he kept moving his head too much, but I think I got a good take;)

Sun Song

Written, performed and recorded by jd_highbias. Thanks to Looperman member mhyst for the 'funky beat with delay' which underpins this track.

Early Summer Rain

Electronic instrumental with bass,  elec piano & synth leads. This track started out as an experiment feeding vsts into an external reverb/delay to elongate pad sounds and create dub style snare fills. The retro theme gradually took on a life of its own :)

From Here To Then

Electric guitar and synthesizer dialogue initially inspired by birdsong from a field recording in the woods. Features extensive use of the bass station 2 synth and the whammy bar;)

Secret Place

A bright, rainbow coloured patch of music, inspired by a walk up Rivington pike, Lancashire :)

Sundogs and Buzzards

A nostalgic synth lead collage with textural guitar harmonics and noises, including skateboard session sounds from back in the day.

Concrete Dreams

A downtempo chill instrumental with elements of pop, rock and electronica. Reverb drenched slide guitar and bendy synth leads alternate with my initial riff, a Cure/New Order influenced lead bass. Many thanks to my friend Eskilize https://soundcloud.com/eskilize for sending constructive feedback on an earlier mix, when I was deep in the mire of mix mud madness!

Timeslides

I play guitar and bass and I'm also afflicted with a growing synth addiction. A home recording enthusiast, my screen name is a nod to the 4 tracking rite of passage that was hunting down high position, high bias tape cassettes :) I miss de-magging the tape heads of my Tascam portastudio, but with Reaper DAW and a universe of plugins I am now a part of the brave new world :)

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