Recording chum Andrew Osborne sent over the individual tracks he’d recorded for his cover of Tubeway Army’s “Are Friends Electric?” and this gave me the chance to have a go at some production. His version was a more mono mix, whereas I tried to make it more “produced” if you know what I mean. I also dropped the old vox back in – but this time I think you can hear that I had a heavy cold when I was singing. Whoops!
I have upgraded/sold off a part of my home studio. In an effort to conserve space, I have sold my audio mixer, FX processor, compressor module and PC audio interface/synthesiser. I have replaced the equipment with an EDIROL M-16DX digital 16-track mixer which seems ideal for working with Sonar. I’ve owned the new mixer for over a week but not done much recording with it. As with all new gear, there is a honeymoon period where you test it out and try and figure out how to get it to sound like your old equipment! I am having trouble with the levels in the M-16DX at the moment. Anyway, now I can recorded sixteen tracks at once if I wish, so I can have the drum machine running and jam live over the loop, which is a novelty that I’ve missed since moving from a 4-track multitrack recorder to PC recording back in 1997. I could only ever record a single stereo pair at a time. This morning, in about fifteen minutes, I recorded this little thing. It’s nothing serious – just a playful rhythm track for me to test the levels of my new mixer.
Here’s the new Supergrass video:
You don’t want to have any Bad Blood, do ya?
Like every proud parent, I like to show off my baby. However, the BabyLockTM is a furtive creature who absolutely hates the video. Today, I managed to snaffle some secret shots of Verity during feedtime using my webcam on the PC. She was completely unaware that she was being filmed…
My old recording chum Andrew Osborne emailed me over an instrumental cover of the Tubeway Army hit “Are Friends Electric?”. Unbeknownst to Andrew, it happens to be one of my favourite songs from my childhood – in those days us youngsters thought the likes of Gary Numan was cool. Anyhoo, I really got carried away by Andrew’s backing track so I decided to add my own vocals to it. I’ve probably ruined a masterpiece, but I really like it in all its wonderful lo-fi glory. Enjoy!
OK, so it isn’t your birthday, it is mine and we only have the things we can give away, so I give to you the entire “God Pays Debts Without Money…” boxset. Sprawling over 59 songs and a good four hours of music, it is the last body of work I’ve recorded (and to the cheer of some, probably the last body of music I’ll record for a while).
The following links are for the ZIP files containing the MP3 files. Just so that the GoogleBot knows what’s going on, I feel obliged to say “free MP3 download progressive instrumental rock Darren Lock”. Hopefully that’ll get some folks this way! 🙂
Disc One
Disc Two
Disc Three
Disc Four
The Artwork
Enjoy! And if you really like it, pass it around…
Barry Morse
Oh no…another icon from my childhood has passed on. This time it is British actor, Barry Morse who flew off on 2 February 2008 aged 89, and was most famous to us folks of a certain age as professor Victor Bergman from cult sci-fi series “Space 1999”. Of course, he’s appeared in loads of other TV series and films such as “The Fugitive”, “The Twilight Zone” and most importantly, “The Littlest Hobo”. Of course, another cult show that he appeared in was “Whoops Apocalypse” which had him playing the American president and was another show that I wangled my way to watch on Sunday nights when I stayed over at my grandparents’ place.
Anyway, here’s the rousing opening titles of “Space 1999” as a tribute and I think you’ll agree this is the funkiest sci-fi theme…ever!
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