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ES Waves – Podcast 12

on 04/01/201504/01/2015 By apyssjw

Podcast 12

1. Alison Marks – Mama
2. Mike Mind – Sea of Fog
3. Harvey McKay – Goodbye
4. Alan Fitzpatrick – In the Beginning
5. Slam + Mike Dearborn – 1991 (Slam 2012 Remake)
6. Alan Fitzpatrick – For an Endless Life
7. Brian Cid – Sharp Objects (King Unique Remix)
8. Nicole Maudaber – The Road To Transformation
9. Paula Temple – Deathvox
10. Antix – Hiding Place (Phoney Orphants Remix)

Podcast 11

on 21/12/201421/12/2014 By apyssjw

ES Waves – Podcast 11

Ian Pooley – I Got You (Matthias Vogt Remix)
Dettmann & Klock – Dawning
Chris Cowie – Time Flies
Omar S – Triangulum Australe (say it in space)
Markus Suckut – Hunt
Shed – Boom Room
Morgan Tomas – Panic Room
Octave – Twist N Ego
Andrea Roma & Mark Denken – Pills
RAG – Rage (Epic Mix)
Clouds – Chained to a Dead Camel
Dave the Drummer & Chris Liberator – Underthreat (Patrick DSP Mix)
Joton – Unexpected Suspects (Bas Mooy Remix)
Sonic Union & Kobana – Maelstrom
Jokers of the Scene – Black Mounite (Daniel Avery Mix)
Ian Pooley – I Got You (Mattias Vogt)

Key Tracks

Ian Pooley – I Got You (Matthias Vogt Remix)

Morgan Tomas – Panic Room

Clouds – Chained to a Dead Camel

Originally this mix was designed to be centred around Joton – Unexpected Suspects (Bas Mooy Remix) which is an amazing track. However I started looping Morgan Tomas – Panic Room over (seemingly) all the tracks on the second half of this mix. Love it.

The Mutronics Mutator

on 21/12/201421/12/2014 By apyssjw

The Mutronics Mutator, partly because of its name (well probably mostly because of its name), partly because of what it is and partly because it came out when I was making my first music production steps is a bit of a mystical beast for me. It’s described as a (mutating) filter unit with ‘creamy’ analogue filters.

That said I’ve never seen one outside of the pages of late nineties future music. Reading future music was how I initially got to grips with the concepts of music production, of midi, of sequencing. There’s a desk draw in my studio which is full of each magazine I bought. I justify keeping them around on the basis that one day I’ll maybe dip in and work through the tutorials I never got around to doing (to be fair that’s probably most of them).

I can clearly remember the example samples of the mutator at work and just not understanding how the sound was manipulated, but being fascinated by it, the name just reinforcing the alien concepts.

I’ve always wanted one. At the moment they sell for around a grand. Maybe when that lottery win comes in…

Null Nux X…continues

on 20/12/201420/12/2014 By apyssjw

Null Nux X 31

Changing evolving

on 20/12/201420/12/2014 By apyssjw

Well, the third ES Waves album is in it final stages. I thought I’d be able to move this to completion in 2014 but…I was wrong. The tracks are however…exciting.

Michael Jackson – Bad 25

on 02/12/201202/12/2012 By apyssjw

…was on TV yesterday. I find insights into how people work creatively like this to be truly fascinating. Michael effectively had a studio machine at his home with a team of workers to create ‘demos’ which would then be passed to Quincy Jones’ team to create the final tracks.

One phrase idea that stood out for me was the notion of creating a ‘sonic fantasy’. Definitely a goal.

Start the week – creativity

on 02/05/201202/05/2012 By apyssjw

I caught the start of radio 4’s start the week on Monday before work in which Andrew Marr discussed the role of creativity with several ‘creatives’. The podcast is available now.

Start the week – creativity

This discussion rang true for a lot of my creative life and I think anyone who is remotely creative in any part of their lives could find something they could relate to from one or several of the professional ‘creatives’ who formed the discussion panel. For some time I’ve tried to introduce a discipline to my work and happily there’s some discussion of the importance of persistence in any artistic endeavour but also of the less definite aspects of ‘creating’.

Marillion and The Positive Light – Face 1004 (ES Waves Mix)

on 06/04/201206/04/2012 By apyssjw

I’ve posted yet another old remix I put together up on my soundcloud page. This is a mix of the brilliant ‘Positive Light’ (basically Marc Mitchell) mix of Marillion’s ‘Face 1004’ which is taken from the ‘Tales from the Engine Room’ album. I fell in love with this track, and several others, when I first heard it on Paul Oakenfold’s first ‘world tour’ essential mix from Home in Sydney in 1999. I put this remix together again in 2003 (can you spot a pattern), September 2003 this time.

I’m not 100% on this mix but it’s not all bad. Just really playing around with short snippets of the track with some pretty natty keys I’ve put in which seemed to be a feature of the tracks I was making at this point. Around this time I got chatting with Marc via the chat program ‘ICQ’ (is that still going? we were all over it at university, alot of the time because you could send free text messages from it to mobiles (my first one as well, which obviously dates me!). I never actually sent him this track, as like now I think I wasn’t 100% on it but I can confirm that he came across as a really nice bloke. It goes without saying that he is just an amazing talent. Perhaps one of my favourite tracks of his being Human Movement’s ‘Love has come again’. Just beautifully produced and what an amazing voice.

Octavia – Katria (ES Waves Mix)

on 01/04/201201/04/2012 By apyssjw

I’ve uploaded another old remix I put together, this time from April 2003. I was using the PHatmatic pro on basically every track I was making at that time and was attacking quite a few tracks I loved with it. This is another track from that period. The arrangement is actually typically dance and is a bit out of character for me, it being pretty conventional and to my ears sounds a bit more coherent than you might normally expect to hear from a track of mine. It’s a fairly straightforward production, but one that works well, especially at keeping it’s energy up.

I first heard the original of this track on Jon Lisle’s brilliant ‘autobiography’ mix. I met Jon shortly after I’d put this together but perhaps unsurprisingly he didn’t like it because to his ear it had some ‘euro’ elements to it which I would have thought were the lead synth line towards the end. The original ‘surreal’ mix is a moody as they come trance break beat track which blows this mix out the water but I thought I’d put it up for people to hear as I recon it’s got it’s charms. I was really churning out the tracks at this point, riding a wave of enthusiasm.