I’ve been messing around with the various synth plugins I have in my ownership after making some videos about music software. This is the first sonic shit storm to hit your ears in 2013:
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Ho hum…another 48 minutes of music no-one wants to listen to…
I’ve had some viewers ask what the music is in my videos and I use my own music to add some extra atmosphere to my work. You can listen to the music I use via an EP I have created. It’s called the Stinkhorn EP and costs £2 (though you can pay more if you wish). You can access it here:
http://darrenlock.bandcamp.com/album/the-stinkhorn-ep
Or use this handy player to listen to it:
And if you want to download a whole FREE compilation album, you can get that from my webstore too at:
This set of recordings were committed to hard drive between April and September 1999. At that moment in time, I’d only dipped my toe in the water of “ambient” music and was taking my cue from Robert Fripp, Brian Eno and Terry Riley. I remember that these recordings were put down quickly and it being quite a fraught, yet exhilerating process as it was really seat-of-the-pants stuff. One mistake or duff note and the take would be ruined, so you had to keep focus and really concentrate on the process. However, that rush of adrenalin was the key, I believe, to these recordings.
In terms of equipment, I was only using my Fender Fat Strat guitar and my Roland GR-1 guitar synth – there were no delay pedals in my collection at that time. The really good thing about the GR-1 was that you could modify the sounds so that had a slow decay, so you could trigger a note and it would resonate for a long while, allowing you to move your fingers to another note or chord. So you could create these big smears of sound and create a veritable audio soup without the need for looping or delay pedals. The sound would then decay slowly allowing you to consider your next move…or not.
I don’t know if this is particularly good or not – I have a great fondness for it because I was moving off the map – but here it is cleaned up for the 21st century and available as a free download too.
So this is the album “Blue” and it represents my first steps into ambient music.
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I am registered with a website called “Sentric Music” and this site supposedly finds music for adverts and whatever promotional contracts it is handling. They often send out emails requesting a certain type of song for a project and usually it is some kind of indie-rock genre that I am not interesting in covering. However, last Friday they sent a brief out for an advert for a mobile phone company and wanted something suitably twee and spacey. This is my attempt at a track for them. I doubt it will get picked but this was recorded specifically for a mobile phone advert. So there you go…
09-07-11 [Looking Glass]
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I’ve been putting it off for a long time but I’ve decided to use my Bandcamp profile I set up a few years ago. Today, I uploaded “The Luckiest Man in the World” which you can download for the bargain price of £5. But more importantly, you can listen to the whole thing in fairly decent quality, all the way through. It’s a special set of recordings for me, so please check them out and pass the link on. Click on the big smiling face below to absorb the goodness…
I have been recording cover versions on and off since 2005 but they were more for my own entertainment than anything else. Whilst recording “The Luckiest Man in the World” I decided to record more of these covers in order to improve my own songwriting skills. Some of these recordings were already featured in my podcast but here I present them individually for your enjoyment. Remember, if you like any of these songs, show your gratitude to the original progenitor by purchasing some of their music.
To download the whole thing, please click here.
01 Heroes [David Bowie]
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02 The Bucket [Kings of Leon]
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03 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [Fairport Convention & Sandy Denny]
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04 Are Friends Electric? [Tubeway Army & Gary Numan]
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05 Something to Do [Adrian Belew]
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06 Sabotage [The Beastie Boys]
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07 Willow’s Song [Paul Giovanni – taken from OST of “The Wicker Man”]
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08 King’s Lead Hat [Brian Eno]
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09 Wannabe [The Spice Girls]
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10 A Girl Like You [Edwyn Collins]
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11 Lucky Man [The Verve]
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12 Love Will Tear Us Apart [Joy Division]
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13 Quitting Time [The Roches]
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14 Sunrise [Pulp]
Some of these recordings were featured in a podcast I made last year. You can download that and hear my motivations for recording these songs. Direct download: CLICK HERE
And if you want to subscribe to my Podcast feed so that your iPod or fancy thingamajig can download my noodlings automatically, put this into your feed engine:
http://www.darrenlock.com/podcast.rss