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Techno

Lately, I’ve been exploring the techno scene, checking out clubs and diving into the Stay Up Forever crew’s sound. That’s shaped a lot of what I’ve been making. I think it really started with Whirly Wind (Dust Devil Mix) - I'd already been experimenting with different drum sounds, but here eventually circling back to the 808 because it already has that solid beat down.

I originally planned to build toward the Air Songs EP, with Whirly Wind as part of it, but instead, within all the scrag I'd generated I ended up with two tracks that stood out - Upbeat Freaks and Anuran Magic, neither of which used any Air sounds... But at this point I'd started experimenting with text to speech a lot as well. So far, I’ve released a couple of versions of each of these two, but I just don’t feel like I’m done with them yet.

So what’s next? More techno, obviously. This project has turned into a series of singles and mixes, loosely connected by Anuran Mythology of course - a theme that keeps pulling me in. I saw a joke recently about these two aliens standing by their deep-space telescope. One asks, "Have they received our message yet?" The other replies, "Yes, they’re blasting it through massive speakers and calling it techno."

That seems about right.

WaterSongs

The sound of water is all around us. We instinctively know what water sounds like. But its a range of sounds, we have a notion of what water sounds like, and when we hear it, we recognise it.

I went out and recorded a lot of water. Every recording is unique. Water can be in a variety of states of agitation all having their own distinctive sounds.

When I torture these sounds to see what hidden depths they can reveal, they seem to retain that essence of water.

But this isn't a gentle row along the riverbank. It's a head long dive into the twisting currents and spooky caverns way beneath the waves.

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Selected work

Berlin

SNAX

Crystal Shards

On Sleigh Bells' Ring

Prosalirus (2nd Age)

Upbeat Freaks

Album artwork by Graham Nicolls

The Elemental Concoction

This is a concept EP using natural sounds, and created without using any traditional instruments.

Each track is split into the traditional elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. And each track used only the sounds recorded of that element. I recorded over 1000 different sounds.

For example:

Earth, I recorded sounds that are Earth based – digging, pouring sand etc.
Fire I recorded the crackels of different sized fires and explosions.
Air, the wind whistling through trees and gaps in windows, haunting sounds from a chimney.
Water, boiling and freezing water and rain on the roof, babbling streams and the sea.

This was all recorded using a variety of recording equipment, such as phone recordings, but also using a home made hydrophone, along with a variety of high quality mics where possible.

When it came to creating the music for these recordings, by design they all shared between them a connecting symmetry of BPM and key. This then allowed me to create a fifth composition, An Elemental Concoction, a concoction of all the elements, by taking stems from each song and layering and weaving them together.

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