Where your treasure lies

This Demo was recorded on a Tascam Porta 2, a VERY primitive 4 track tape recorder... I enjoy recording without having to use a computer, the sound quality isn't as good, but it's more immediate and feels more natural.

The Octopus Sound

I'm in the process of digitizing a old album I recorded on a 4 track Tascam Portastudio about 10 years ago, it's called "The Octopus Sound". I've Only found half of it so far, so I imagine I'll soon be rummaging though my box of tapes trying to find it. I'm posting it on Bandcamp as I find it.



Here is a YouTube clip of the mix of Easy Engine, I was going to do this for the whole album, but It's probably not going to be that interesting, so will be just putting up the audio.

All The Words

Here's a year old YouTube clip I recorded on my posh camera and with my proper posh mikes.

All in the game

Here is a YouTube clip of the latest song I've written "All in the game". It just came out of nowhere last month, it's always nice when songs do that. It's on YouTube, and all the usual places. It's got a bit of Nick Drake in there, minus his dark magic maybe, but hey.









Here is the song on soundcloud recorded with as few mistakes as I could muster in my studio:







Here it is on Bandcamp for free download at the moment:

Roland SPD-6

 I'm really not a drummer, but I got a used Roland SPD-6 off Ebay a few months ago to add a bit of live drums to my tracks. I used to program all the drums, but it's more fun to make up loops with this thing by playing them rather than putting dots on a grid in a sequencer:

It's got a few nice kits, loads of useless stuff like guns going off, explosions etc. 

I recorded the drum parts to this track with them.

Old School

I grew up in the Analogue world, as a musician that meant using 4 track porta studios to record half assed songs, and this frequently involved banging my head against a wall more often than not. Using ye olde drum machines was a lot more hassle than putting dots in a grid on a computer. 


 Then the digital age dawned, at first it was great, Myspace was really good. People genuinely found your music, I made some great contacts and found people who supported my music. Plus about 9 years ago I actually put together my first album using Cubase, I called it "TuLK"

 Move 10 years on I realize the digital dream, is a digital nightmare in some ways. Myspace died, and the sharks came in... people stopped buying music, NME and Melody Maker died, and one or two great bands who we'll never hear off never achieved the success the would have had they not disappeared in a digital swamp. To a certain extent that is all down to the digital world.


 So why am I moaning?, we'll I know it's not all bad... there's still some good music out there, and I don't miss paying £15 in 1995 for "First Rays of the Rising Sun" by Jimi Hendrix thank you very much!... But, i'm REALLY sick of looking at computer screens when I record my music... if I wanted to do that then i'd have gone into IT.