March 12, 2017No Comments

Happy Hardcore mix from 1995

I finally got a working tape deck a week or so ago, and sorted through a big box of old tapes. I found this beauty - a happy hardcore mix that I did with my mate Peach in September 1995. It was literally the first time I'd tried beat-matching records as I had just bought my first set of decks - Arison belt drive things (not great, but you learn to work with them). Some pretty dodgy crosses in there but not a bad effort.

Cheese warning!

February 8, 2017No Comments

Novation Circuit live sketch

This is a competition entry for a track made using only the Novation Circuit, in the Circuit Owners group on Facebook.

It's a pretty basic sketch as no other instruments or devices were allowed.

The samples, as stipulated by the competition rules are by Lightfinger. The synth patches are from by Cuckoo and are available here .

February 6, 2017No Comments

New track: Geodesics

Here is a track I have recently finished:

Or listen on SoundCloud

Also if you enjoy my musical efforts, you may like to follow me on Bandcamp

December 7, 2016No Comments

Vespers

New music – 'Vespers':

https://soundcloud.com/firstpersonmusic/2016-12-01-vespers-master-v3

October 1, 20161 Comment

Microsleep

Not much access to the 'studio' (insofar as it is one) at the moment so this is just a sketch thrown together on the laptop. Mixed on headphones so it might not work so well on speakers.

soundcloud.com/gridrunnermusic/microsleep

July 20, 2016No Comments

Loops – 2016/07

New music under the firstperson name:
https://soundcloud.com/firstpersonmusic/sets/loops-2016-07

April 12, 20162 Comments

New music – Hexagons

I've recently started dabbling with music again in my spare time. This is the first "finished" track with the new setup, that I'm reasonably happy with. Practice makes perfect, so more better stuff is on the way.

You can download a high quality MP3 version here on SoundCloud.

December 16, 2014No Comments

New tune – Visitor 2010

Here's a new track that I have produced. It started out in 2010 as a remix of Another Visitor (sticking with the Impossible Mission theme), but then it sat on a hard drive as an unfinished loop for four years. I finally grabbed a day recently to turn it into a more finished tune. I think this is better than the original; I'm much happier with the production but I definitely need some monitor speakers to get more control over the mixdown.

August 17, 2014No Comments

firstperson – little ambient Mix

I've put together a new ambient mix. It was recorded live and then tweaked in Ableton. The field recordings were captured with my ancient (but trusty!) MZ-R50 MiniDisc recorder and a stereo condenser mic.

Listen to it here or go to the Mixcloud page. If you have an account it would be great if you could give it a like and a share to help it can reach a wider audience.

Track list

  • Firstperson – field recording: Stamford morning
  • Stéphane Kerecki & John Taylor – La Source (intro)
  • Firstperson – field recording: Wet London street 1
  • Carroll Gibbons – The Night Is Young
  • Brock Van Wey – Forever a Stranger
  • Bill Evans – Spartacus Love Theme (sample, looped)
  • Firstperson – field recording: Rain on plastic roof
  • Tim Hecker – The Star Compass
  • Firstperson – field recording: Market day
  • Firstperson – microphone feedback experiment
  • Hallgrimskirkja Motet Choir – Jón Leifs – Requiem, Op. 33b
  • Firstperson – field recording: Wet London street 2
  • Future Sound Of London - Photosynthesis
  • Stephen Crow – Starquake, in-game sound effects (C64)
  • Arthur Russell – Another Thought
  • Spooky – Orange Coloured Liquid
  • Nick Drake – Hazy Jane II

June 29, 20141 Comment

Metallica at Glasto

I enjoyed Metallica’s Glastonbury Pyramid Stage set last night. Prior to becoming acquainted with (what came to be) techno / electronica I was a teenage rock fan of sorts. Never a ‘proper metaller’ in all honesty but aged ~8-11 I had a modest collection of albums on tape from the likes of Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, WASP (yes), Guns N’ Roses and Motley Crüe. And then on starting secondary school I became acquainted with Megadeth and Metallica, before Nirvana came along and then died and then I sort of discarded it all for years having discovered the whole dance music thing.

Anyway I still have a soft spot for Metallica. They can't half write a cathartic harmonised instrumental. I realise that I speak here as a lay-person and that for true 'metallers' there are certainly more nuanced artists who technically do the genre better. But for me they are great entertainers. A bit cheesy, but it's fun.

I gather that some much closer to genre have been whinging about them being sell-outs for accepting the gig – scoffing about "tofu-munching hippies". Presumably these elite only eat raw beef, whist head-butting each other to the death in mosh pits. In the 1980s.

But how many bands would have honestly turned down the chance to headline at Glastonbury if actually asked? Would the aforementioned naysayers rather keep Metallica for themselves? You can't be (of have been?) the biggest rock band in the world and stay underground. And hey Lars Ulrich’s bald patch isn't getting any smaller.

They're entertainers. People were entertained. Job done.

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