OK – so it took a little longer than I planned (thanks to the disassembly, relocation and reinstallation of StudioLock), but we got there in the end. Yes, it is that time again to pounce on the unsuspecting public with my files of audio terror. “Here Comes the Future” is now completed (or abandoned, whichever way you want to look at it) – so download and enjoy.
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Track Listing
1. Here Comes the Future
2. The Chorus
Harmonic
3. Out of the
Shadows
4. Singularity
5.
The Gates of
Hysteria
6.
The Complex
7.
The Falls
at Niagara
8. Dry Season
9. Dark Nacre
10. Polar Bear (walking on freshly
laid snow)
11. The Sun Even Shines
12. Ballad for Laika
13.
Stand Up
14. 1-2-3-4
With a change of personal
circumstances, this album reflects a change in my life. With a young daughter
to raise and now a business to run, time for recording
is a premium and so a more direct route to composition was taken for this
project – and that sense of urgency pervades this collection. The twelve
instrumentals are typical of my output but they have more space in terms of
production and are more direct. The two vocal tracks that act as bookends are more
than worthy.
You can download the album by
right-clicking each song title. Alternatively, you can download a zip file of
the entire album by clicking this link. If you have BitTorrent installed and like to use P2P file
transfer, the torrent is available from here.
…when copy you wrote nearly eight years ago is sold onto another content provider and then rebadged as being “new”. This article was written ages ago when I worked for IPC but they must have sold some content to Virgin Media. How embarrassing that my name is associated with such a woe-fully out-of-date piece of work. This was written in 2001, people.
Meanwhile, my attention has been drawn to this little video blog that uses one of my tracks as its backing, which is nice.
Here’s a bit of throw away audio fluff for you that’s going to be on my new album. It’s called “1234” and is one of those tracks that was recorded in a very brief period of time. The guitar/bass/drums were recorded in 10 minutes at the beginning of the week and the vocals were put down in 15 minutes last night. The hardest part was coming up with the words.
Direct download: CLICK HERE
And here are the words so you can sing along!
1234
Why do you think?
It’s called philosophy
Believe in god
What’s your theology?
Or are you green
Like your ecology?
1,2,3,4
Make them wait outside the door
If it’s got three sides
That’s trigonometry
Say it twice
Don’t like tautology
It’s the way I’m made
My biology
5.6.7.8
Always pays to make them wait
Chorus:
Still working on my biography
All my records are my discography
And the words, my bibliography
1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4
Take my picture, capture photography
Can’t read my writing, that’s cacography
Want to dance, check my choreography
1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4
Look where you stand
Check your topography
Dig that rock
It’s all geology
Don’t like my face
My physiognomy
1.2.3.4
It don’t matter any more
Predict your future
With astrology
Read the leaves
Practice tasseography
Read between the lines
My steganography
5.6.7.8.
Look who’s standing by the gate
Chorus:
Still working on my biography
All my records are my discography
And the words, my bibliography
1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4
Take my picture, capture photography
Can’t read my writing, that’s cacography
Want to dance, check my choreography
1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4
Managed to knock out the basis of a possible new track before breakfast this morning (no, really – such is the knock ’em out fashion I have to record to now). It’s not great, it’s not wonderful, it is Heavy Splash:
Direct download: CLICK HERE
Who knows what this audio nugget might turn into? A beautiful butterfly or a fugly caterpillar (you know, the ones that have hairs on them like a bristley brush).
Next time: I have some exclusive video footage of myself auditioning a drummer for a new recording project. Tune in to see how it went!
Using Active Undelete I managed to deep scan my formatted hard drives and recover ALL my lost data after yesterday’s Vista-related mishap. I can thoroughly recommend that software, though it does take a few hours to scan a large hard drive and then recover the files, but it is surprising to see just how easy it is to recover files that are supposedly deleted. It certainly makes me think about selling my old drives on eBay, because the unscrupulous could access all the data on those disks even though I have formatted them. Scary stuff and plenty to think about, eh?
I write about computers for a living. I get paid to write about the inner workings of operating systems such as Windows Vista. I have been doing this for over a decade now, but no amount of experience can prepare you for a mess-up that’s partly caused by the operating system. I know a bad workman always blames his tools but what happened this morning should be a lesson to everyone – this is why I am writing this up. Keywords are: windows vista backup and restore overwriting partition.
Anyway, with the GoogleFluffTM out of the way, what happened to me is a tragedy. I keep backups. I have a backup of all my photos and my MP3 files from CDs I’ve bought. I have a backup of all my creative stuff. I have two external drives totally 500Gb for this. I also keep a second drive inside my computer and have a backup of all the song mixes I am working on – and once I have finished a CD these backups are moved to the external. So I have three backups at work. I also have my operating system backed up in case of emergencies.
Such an emergency happened the other day. For some unknown reason, my PC took over half an hour to start up and then was refusing to boot up at all. So I decided to restore my backup of my PC. I have done this before with a fresh drive, etc., so I backed up my email onto my internal hard drive and moved all my master tracks onto that drive too. I did the restore and was horrified when Vista had taken itself to wipe my D: drive.
You see, when you do a snapshot of your system for a backup, it takes a snapshot of the actual state of your PC at the time. When I did my initial backup, my D: was empty and my C: was partitioned different. Despite backing up my system subsequently, the state of my D: drive and C: drive partitions were not backed up. So when I did the restore – kaput! All those partitions were wiped without my consent. Thanks Microsoft for making this clear in your instructions.
While I am pissed off about this, I do have various final mixes of tracks stored all over the place, but I have lost a number of files. I am currently running an undelete application in order to retrieve whatever data I can. Let this be a warning to those of you thinking of using Vista Backup and Restore. A system restore will cause your PC to revert to the condition it was when you initially backed it up.