Monday 13 July 2020

New Tascam Jam tune.

Ingredients: Beat programmed on my Yamaha QY70, Delay on snare mixed live through my Zoom 1204, One synth line on the Yamaha OY70, Some vocals sampled on my Yamaha VSS 200, All recorded on my Tascam Porta 02, Then bounced down to two channels on my Tascam 488, Played a bass line, Played a guitar line, Seasoned liberally with my DOD FX25, TC Electronic Rusty Fuzz, A sprinkling of TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb.

Tuesday 23 June 2020

Tascam Jams.

This is going to be where I upload a series of jams on my Tascam 8 track 488 cassette portastudio, they're a bit rough and ready as I'm playing it all live apart from some of the drum beats which are programmed... this means mistakes are kept in, which is f****** great as it mirrors life perfectly, our mistakes are kept in our lives and we learn to live with them; as in life as in music.

Also recording to tape mirrors the direction of time, when you record digitally its very easy to grab stuff in a non linear way, which is great if you are not lazy. However for someone like me I tend to cut and paste a lot and it leads to repetition.

I record these basic tracks on a Tascam Porta 02, then squash them onto one or two tracks of a Tascam 488 and then add overdubs... then they go into digital, then they bounce around a few satellites, go down a few wires and into your ears. Cheers.






Wednesday 19 December 2018

New Acoustic Song

Here's a new Acoustic song, played on a Taylor Big Baby. I'll be doing more videos in the new year. Download the original song here for free :

Saturday 21 January 2017

Some old electronic music WOT i DID.

I also dabble in EDM, here are a few links to the thing I did a couple of years ago called Surf Prophets... I haven't posted that side of my music online before, but it's time to put the stuff up on Bandcamp, Youtube, ans Soundcloud (The usual suspects).

It's mostly instrumental, some have vocals, i'm aiming to use the tunes as backing tracks and release a version with vox.




Thursday 19 January 2017

Things have been a bit quite on the Broken Mono front as usual, however I've been collaborating with a Mr Lee Hoggett (AKA) C60 over the past year or so... I thought it'd be nice to post a tune here, so here we go.







This song is called Freedom:


Lees music can be heard Here

Cheers.