Of course, I have a myspace where you'll hear some of my tracks and find links to my musical "social network".
I also play bass in The Ten To Five Project and we've been getting some great gigs all around Scotland recently, as well as local radio airplay. We have now played King Tut's in Glasgow three times. Rumours of the band splitting are probably just a cunning PR device. Have a look at the myspace page or check out the band website at tentofiveproject.com.
If you don't like myspace why not drop me an e-mail at scope_boy@scopeboy.com
"Way Of The Bedroom Worrier" is out now! A compilation of all the best tracks I've done from 1998 till now, or at least the ones I wouldn't have sample clearance trouble with. 9 tracks and 45 minutes long.
The MP3s are free, but they have embedded Creative Commons metadata.
Information page on the release and Creative Commons license here.
Note some versions of Windows Media Player may not play the mp3s because of the metadata. I'll
fix this when I get around to it.
If you want it uncompressed, why not buy a CD from me for £5.
I also have a track on the Tronic compilation album.
I've not done much recently because I was busy helping to get the Ten To Five Project EP out, and then I decided to quit using Cubase, and learn Ableton and Pro Tools instead. I was a loyal Cubase VST user for years, but Steinberg just lost me with Cubase SX. I recently did my first gig with Ableton and I'm loving it. However, work has got so busy lately that I've hardly had time to do any more music, and then my laptop blew up... So I'm not sure what to do next.
For a sample of my real-time Ableton mashing skillz, listen to Cloud Engineering which will be in my new live set, if I ever get round to playing live again. I performed the breakbeats on this track, thanks for the use of your cymbals John-Boy :-)
Future Music's Dr. Demos said my stuff had "Quite a charm to it."
The best review I ever got, from Making Music magazine's "Web Demonology" in 2002. Making Music are no more, but I found it in the Wayback Machine.
When I was little my mum and dad forced me to listen to Joy Division, The Cure and The Pixies. Later on I got into Metallica, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains. When I left school I had a conversion experience, sold all my guitars and started listening to drum'n'bass, jazz, trip-hop and house. I also learnt to play bass and program synths about that time, and built a small home studio. Then I had a bit of a metal relapse, started playing guitar again and ended up in a band doing Soundgarden covers. When that fell through I went back to doing electronic music, but I tried to bring guitars into it too. I started singing and playing acoustic open mic nights, and met a bunch of fellow musicians who eventually ended up being TTFP. Doing that gave me the notion to try a live electronic gig, and it's all just taken off from there.