Category: Albums


Out of Thin Air [2026]

Not sure how to count all the bits and bobs I’ve done over the past thirty-or-so years, but this might be either my 46th or 43rd release depending how you count “God Pay Debts Without Money” which is four albums in one package. Anyway, this is another collection of mostly bright and breezy guitar instrumentals with one singy song in the form of “Aisle of Plenty”.

With this collection, I fed some of the original tracks into an AI service and prodded it enough time until it spat out something I thought was akin to my style of music. I then sat down and removed all the AI stuff and reworked it in my own image, employing the algorithm to act in almost a producer role, guiding where some of the songs would go in terms of arrangement. I think this was very successful in places as the original versions of those songs a million miles from each other.

So this is another 40 minutes of guitar-based fun that I hope you enjoy!

Out of Thin Air [2026]

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May Cause Irritation [2025]

You lose count of all the music you record. Well, at least I do because making music is my hobby and over the past thirty or so years I’ve been mucking around making all manner of noises and “putting them out there”. I say that I’m unique in this creative process as I’ve often shown every faltering step from my early days in 1992 getting to grips with a 4-track recorder and learning how actually record a song, through to my transition to digital recording on PC back in 1998 to my expansion of that process through the 21st century. It’s all there for you to explore or ignore.

I have many folders of music in my archive, many bits and bobs that are just waiting to be assembled and so it came pass that on a whim I decided to put out this collection “May Cause Irritation”. I’m not sure what held me back these past few years. Maybe it was the total indifference of my potential audience that took away my appetite. I don’t know. In the past, I collected 40 or so minutes of music and just released it – no matter what. But in the intervening years, I’ve become a little more selective, perhaps?

This collection was assembled over four years from tracks recorded between September 2021 to June 2025 It’s my usual mish-mash of guitar-led instrumental music with a few more esoteric bits thrown in, as I realised that my more experimental (or odd) side had been neglected in some of my other later releases – so I was trying to re-capture some of that feel from the late 90s to early-00s when we through it all at the wall to see what ended up sticking.

Credits

Darren Lock: guitars, basses, keyboards, percussion & drum programming + sleeve photography & design
Alan Harwood: Executive Producer
Recorded between 30 September 2021 & 14 June 2025

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Post Cultural Blues [2025]

A History of Bleeping & Droning Volume 1

A History of Bleeping & Droning Volume 2

A History of Bleeping & Droning Volume 3

A History of Bleeping & Droning Volume 4