Recent Blog Posts
'Real' musicians and 'producers'
post a comment | posted Apr 18
Lately I've been trying to get two tracks finished for a compilation on the label I sort of run with two friends. They're fairly good tracks. Not without their flaws, but serviceable. I've noticed that both of them follow certain characteristics - ...
The amateur code
post a comment | posted Mar 29
What's up in the world of Aquaboogie? Well, as well as playing several Malty Media gigs, I've come up with numerous new tracks. It's been a fertile time, in which even as a new idea becomes untenable, ten minutes later a better one will come along....
Padding things out
post a comment | posted Feb 23
I have put together a track with those cicada recordings I mentioned earlier. It's what you'd call 'classic ambient' - basically an augmented major chord sustained for about 80 bars with various phasing and reverb effects to make the chord shimmer ...
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
Pass the mic
post a comment | posted Feb 3
In recent weeks I've been trying to put together a track for a comp. The pressure is on! It's a bit tough trying to assemble something 'good enough'. Whacking off (er, as it were) something efficient is easy enough, but making it count is difficult...
Craft improving maneouvres
post a comment | posted Jan 19
Lately I've been trying to improve the way I do things. Here's a catalogue of how it's been done. The first year I did music, I mucked around with a synth with a friend and made feedback noises using a borrowed tape recorder of my grandfather's. De...
2007 in review
post a comment | posted Jan 2
Firstly, I am making virb my primary location for music ponderings. I have another blog, but I've decided for keep that separate for personal, off-message rantings. Just to confuse things, now that I'm in partnership with Michael Upton (aka Jet Jag...
Post match review of the gig last Friday
post a comment | posted Oct 21
Andy's New Science gig went well. My set was the best I've done I think, despite accidentally turning my computer off halfway through. Oh noes!
As always after these events, I get to thinking 'where to from here'? The audience was good, if you i...
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