Some viewers have asked me to talk about recording music – so here I am blathering on about recording music. Hopefully this will be useful for someone as I feel I am probably just gibbering on.
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This time around I thought I’d talk about my album “EchoNET” which was released in 2009.
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You can listen to the album in its entirety and purchase the digital edition at:
http://music.darrenlock.com/album/echonet
Or you can purchase the CD edition from CDBABY which also features the entire album remixed in 5.1 surround sound on DVD:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/darrenlock7
And to see the full “Seville” improvisation in lovely HD quality video go to: http://youtu.be/Y9YGWw9tI44?hd=1
Or visit my iTunes page:
http://bit.ly/m53fg8
Or my own music page:
http://music.darrenlock.com
Or perhaps I can interest you in a T-shirt:
http://lock.spreadshirt.co.uk
This was suggested by viewer Hippomancy and if you want to know if this album is a Scary Monster or a Super Creep, you’d better watch on, my friend.
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Title Music:
“Stinkhorn” by Darren Lock
Background Music:
“The Mist Suite” by Darren Lock (that’s me)
To buy an EP containing this music:
http://music.darrenlock.com/album/the-stinkhorn-ep
Or visit my iTunes page:
http://bit.ly/m53fg8
Or my own music page:
http://music.darrenlock.com
Or perhaps I can interest you in a T-shirt:
http://lock.spreadshirt.co.uk
YouTube viewer RyanYardComposer, did a review of my music and remarked how he enjoyed the track “Snapdragon”. He mentioned a few of the technical limitations of the piece so I thought it would be a good idea to return to that stamping ground and improvise a piece where I layer acoustic notes on top of each other. It’s kind of a nod to Terry Riley and the ilk, I guess.
Enjoy!
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Look at the pretty colours...
The “Return of the Snapdragon EP” includes this track as well as two other improvised pieces in this style and also includes a free digital HD download of the “Return of the Snapdragon” video.
You can buy the high quality FLAC/MP3 version of this at: http://music.darrenlock.com/album/return-of-the-snapdragon-ep
To buy my music, visit my iTunes page:
http://bit.ly/m53fg8
Or my own music page:
http://music.darrenlock.com
Or perhaps I can interest you in a T-shirt:
http://lock.spreadshirt.co.uk
This was suggested by viewer RadonX9 (amongst others) and so I am looking at the seminal album from Radiohead, “OK Computer”. The question is whether or not this is a ZX Spectrum or an Oric One? You’ll have to watch the video to find out…
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Title Music:
“Stinkhorn” by Darren Lock
Background Music:
“Amongst the Stars” by Darren Lock (that’s me)
“One Brain” by Darren Lock (that’s also me)
To buy this music, visit my iTunes page:
http://bit.ly/m53fg8
Or my own music page:
http://music.darrenlock.com
Or perhaps I can interest you in a T-shirt:
http://lock.spreadshirt.co.uk
As I have a terrible cold, I can’t really make any YouTube videos at the moment (unless you want to watch me sniffle and snort my way through them, of course). So I decided to grab my camera and make this little abstract number to accompany the very first piece of ambient music I ever recorded.
The track is called “Angel’s Tears” and it was recorded in 1994/1995 – I am not sure exactly when – and it features the Roland GR-1 guitar synthesiser. This was before looping or delay pedals were added to my sonic arsenal and so it is just me using long sustained pad sounds and lead lines. There might be one layer of overdubbing. I can’t remember. I doubt it because it was recorded using my Yamaha MT4X four-track cassette recorder – so I would imagine I recorded it as live as possible.
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You can buy this track here: http://music.darrenlock.com/track/angels-tears
To buy my music, visit my iTunes page:
http://bit.ly/m53fg8
Or my own music page:
http://music.darrenlock.com
Or perhaps I can interest you in a T-shirt:
http://lock.spreadshirt.co.uk
One of my favourite bands have a competition at the moment where you can remix one of their songs from their new album and you can win some goodies. The last time I entered a remix competition like this (about 10 years ago – Paul Oakenfold “Ready Steady Go”) I won a runners-up prize, so fingers crossed!
