This is a piece of #ambient music I made in late 2017. It features synths and a field recording mad in my garden. It could almost be a soundtrack. Hopefully, this moment will not be lost in time.
"Tears in Rain"
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This is a piece of #ambient music I made in late 2017. It features synths and a field recording mad in my garden. It could almost be a soundtrack. Hopefully, this moment will not be lost in time.
"Tears in Rain"
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This is a piece of #ambient music I made in late 2017. It features synths and a field recording made in my garden. It could almost be a soundtrack. Hopefully, this moment will not be lost in time.
"Tears in Rain"
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Here is an #ambient piece I made in 2015. In addition to the synths, it features a field recording and some PaulStretched chanting.
"A Gathering"
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This is a dark, sombre, gloomy #ambient piece I that I made in 2017. This was released on my album "Faders" in 2020. It features synths and samples.
"Elysian Fields"
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More sombre atmospherics from the palace of paint. Murkiness and gloom are the order of the day. One of these days I shall make a cheerful piece of music, but I've been saying that for a while. This i
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Here is a dark #ambient track I made in late 2017. It features synths, samples, PaulStretch and reverb. No surprises there. This track made it onto my album "Faders"
"The Entropy Clause"
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This is a piece of dark(ish) #ambient music I made in 2016 for an AmbientOnline album featuring synths, sampled synths , reverb, reversals and shenanigans.
This is "Disproportionate"
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I suppose this is a clunky fusion of ambient and Berlin School featuring synths, processed audio, samples, and some
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Here is a piece of minimal #ambient that I made in 2018. It features 3 synths, all using their built-in reverb. This track features on my 2023 album "E tenebris oritur lux".
This is "Subaqueous"
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My first track to be released in 2018. I've been quite busy with other stuff (mainly work) lately, so it was a relief to finally get some time to work on new music. There are no external reverbs on th
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Here is a chilled out, relaxing piece of near #ambient music that I made in 2016. It features a subtle build towards the end, and a great Reaktor patch. This is not the album version.
This is "Paraxial"
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A loop-based piece of sequencing containing a few random elements, some of which were not entirely intentional. The three note melodic motif is recalled from Parallax. I find the collection of sounds
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I originally recorded this piece of ProgRock in 2009, and remixed it in 2011 and again in 2013. It was later released on my album "Occultation" in 2014. It features synths, samples and a bass guitar.
This is "Breath"
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Again, this is leaning more towards Prog. This features GTG 44 S quite heavily. the original track took 12 hours to record in December 2009. The December 2011 edit/remix/master took 12 hours and was q
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This is a piece of #ambient music that is hijacked somewhere along the way and turns into a jolly piece of electro. It features synths ,samples and reverb. Lots of reverb.
"Axis Part 2"
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This is my first new piece for over 3 months. It seems to be increasingly difficult to find time for making new tracks this year. This is the companion piece to Axis Part 1, which appeared in March 20
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I put this #ambient piece together in August 2014. Within 7 weeks I had remixed it a further 3 times. If features synths and 'trons. And reverb. Not the released album version.
"Beacons"
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This track was put together for the Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 3 which contains over eight hours of high quality ambient tracks by various artists for the bargain price of $8.99 and also conta
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This is "Parallax", a piece of #ElectroProg which I wrote in 2015. It features #ambient synth sounds with a #dubstep percussive accompaniment and some glitchy arps. This is not the released album version.
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This one started life as an ambient piece and then I added a dubstep rhythm which I later toned down a little in order that the track would remain firmly in the chillzone. I thought the mix went very
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Here is a gloomy #ambient piece that I made in 2016. It's minimal and dissonant. This is not the released version.
"Ventilator"
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here is a piece of dark #electro that I made in Summer 2010, and remixed in 2013 and 2020, before release on my "Undercurrents" album. It even features a short gloomy #ambient midsection.
"Critical Mass"
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This was written in July 2010, and had a major remix in January/February 2013. The 2020 Remix was a minor tidy-up on my new machine . I encountered a lot of problems during the 2013 remix. They re-sur
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This piece of (mainly) electronic Prog Rock was originally put together in 2010, and refined by remixes in 2012 and 2017. Featuring a £130 Ibanez Gio, some samples and lots of synths.
This is "Not As We Know It", from my 2017 album "Indefinite Articles".
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This took 12 hours to record in May 2010. The 2012 edit/remix/master took about 18 hours, including 3 hours wasted when EnergyXT crashed during a monster EQ session! This track originally had the Kore
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This piece of (mainly) electronic Prog Rock was originally put together in 2010, and refined by remixes in 2012 and 2017. Featuring a £130 Ibanez Gio, some samples and lots of synths.
This is "Not As We Know It", from my 2017 album "Indefinite Articles".
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Here is an #ambient #cinematic hybrid from 2017. It features NI Reaktor5. This is not the released version.
"Sagarmatha"
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I was working on a new track and was 90% finished with the composition and 40% done with the mixing. I was having problems writing the ending and had not managed to advance the composition for 4 or 5
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Here's another #ElectroProg piece from 2010 featuring some pleasant arps and some reverbed synths. It had a remix in 2012 and 2017 before release on my 2021 album - "Undercurrents"
This is "Itch"
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Original track: June 2010
Mixed/Mastered: November 2012/December 2012
Re-Mixed/Mastered with Elevate December2017:
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Re-Mastered November 2019 with T-Racks5
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Here is a piece of hybrid Berlin School chillout that I wrote in 2010, remixed in 2012 and 2015. It was released on my 2017 album "Indefinite Articles". '80s synth sounds feature heavily.
This is "Field of Dreams"
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This took about 10 hours to record in April 2010. The March 2012 remix/edit/master took about 14 hours. Both the original recording and the remix were difficult. In April 2010, I felt that ideas were
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I made this piece of hybrid #ambient #cinematica in 2020 entirely with a couple of softsynths, an arpeggiator and some heavy reverb. It turned out quite well.
"Illuminate"
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An arpeggiator walks into a bar. It was reverb night.
Slow, sombre and atmospheric.
Somewhere a sun is rising.
This is an #ambient synth piece that I recorded in 2014, and was remixed in 2016. In 2023 I remixed it in 24-bit audio. This is taken from my "Pyroglyphs" album.
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The basics for this track were made in mid 2012. I returned to it in January 2014 and tied up the loose ends. This track was done and dusted in a relatively short 7 hours. This was recently included o
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This is "Itch". I wrote it in 2010, remixed it an 2012 and again in 2017. It features different mastering to the released album version. It's a darkish electro piece utilising lots of reverb.
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#electro #reverb #dark #arpeggiation
This took 9 hours to record in June 2010, and was the first track I completed in 1 day. The 2012 remix took 9 hours. I shaved off over 1 minute, made some minor arrangement changes and sharpened up th
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I wrote this in March 2016, after a period of nasty weather here in the UK. It features elements of #ambient, some dubstep percussion, and more than a little glitch. This is not the released album version.
"An Ill Wind"
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A predominantly dark piece with a couple of lighter, melodic moments. This is mainly rooted in the '70s Prog Rock era, but the percussion gives a casual nod to modern dubstep
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Here is an #electrohouse piece originally from 2010, which was extensively remixed in 2012 and 2016, resulting in a far more listenable piece of music. It was released on my 2017 album "Indefinite Articles".
This is "Stand Still, I Say"
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This took 8 hours to record in April 2010. I instantly took a dislike to it. It was originally a quirky electronic rock song in 2 sections which didn't really fit together. The June 2012 Edit/Remix/Ma
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