First tune I've posted here...

Hey Synkrotron. I really liked this track. It is very well done and I really don't have any criticisms at all. But upon reading that your creative juices had dried up, I thought that I really should ask if you've heard the soundtrack to the game Uplink: Hacker elite. It's quite an old game, but the soundtrack is great, and it is all very reminiscent of your track. You should check it out to see if it gets your juices flowing again. Anyway, really liked the track, well done. Ali

I dig it.

Wow! I honestly didn't expect that. Not when there is so much excellent traditionally played and recorded music here. From real musicians too with so much more talent than I'll ever have. So, I'm humbled.

@Ali - Thanks for listening. Looking at your extensive SoundCloud collection, and on playing the first track there, it appears you create electronic stuff yourself, although I should listen to more just to make sure of that. I notice you've done an FSOL cover. FSOL are a band close to what I would like to do, but struggle. They've done some great stuff in the past, most notably for me Lifeforms. I'll check out that game thing... you're not the first one to mention computer games when it comes to my "music."

@Beep - LOL dood, I'm so glad you dropped by. I've been digging your stuff for a couple of months now so I know what you do, and I was wondering what on earth you would think of my MIDI stuff. Sounds like you found it okay ;). You're right, it does jump around that track, and I could have made it last even longer, but I decided to keep it "short" hahaha. Thanks loads for listening.

@CLEAN - Thanks for spending some time listening to my tune and I'm glad you dig it :)

@foxwolfen - Thanks to you too, and to the reference to JMJ. That's so kind.


And thanks to anyone else who may of given it a chance. It's nice to know that stuff you do is getting a little bit of attention every now and then *big grin*

 Hey Andy, I loved the way you wove the textures in there. Great mix man! FWIW soundcloud will allow wav. files as well. I usually upload in 24 bit wav.

Thanks again Ali. I've got the youtube thing playing. It's a compilation of different artists lasting forty odd minutes I see. I obviously need to listen through it and then look up those artists. I've found Skaven on SoundCloud already. Some of the stuff sounds very Tangerine Dream, from their mid nineties era.

As for your question on how I've made it so clear... got me there young man, and I ain't got a clue. So I can't take credit and it was just an accident. Let's hope I can do the same again lol.

@Starise - Thanks for taking time to listen, I appreciate it. And you upload 24bit WAV's? Blimey, that must take up so much time and space. But I notice that SoundCloud limit you by song time and not file size, so that's fine I guess.

@twisted6s - Thanks to you too. We cross posted so I'm editing this to add my thanks here instead of a new post. 


I've got to say that I've had a much greater response here than I thought.

Thanks again peeps :)

I really like this Andy - you managed to keep my attention in the quiet passage at the beginning before the main theme. Great choice of texture sounds - very cool

Heh. Cool, man. Yeah, I'm really swamped right now but we'll get it going. As far as the black keys that's what the transpose functions are for. I know I'll be using that a lot when I start going all keyboard nerd on stuff. ;-p

Actually very much looking forward to hooking up my original DX-7 now that I have room to set it up. However I've been told I need to do a bunch of fiddle faddle to make it play nice with standard MIDI as it was built before the industry agreed on the set rules. I do however have my little Oxygen 25 too so if I get too annoyed I can mess with that and the internal sounds on the Yammie are still pretty epic too as well as the stuff on the data cartridges I snagged... two of which are the writable kind loaded with stuff some unknown lunatic programmed at some point in time.

So much fun to be had. Cheers.

DX-7... LOL, I remember when they came out dood haha. I used to spend a lot of time in my local music store, drooling over the Moogs, Korgs and Rolands. They had what was an awesome synth at the time, a Jupiter 8, and I could walk up to that monster and instantly get the sound I wanted out of it, no problemo.

When the DX-7 came out, I said "what on earth is that?" and was told it was one of them new FM synths. Total lack of turny knobs had me well stumped and I tried for twenty minutes to get some decent sounds out of it. Walked away in disgust and swore never to get an FM synth, ever LOL.

I was so relieved when they started making all them newfangled virtual analogue things. I knew where I was again. Such a relief haha.

You're right though, sounds can be epic, and certainly sit there in the history of electronic music. I just can't do with me knobs...

I listened to this yesterday, but didn't have time to comment by the time it finished ;)  I don't think I've ever made it to the end of a track this long on here before, so there's a compliment in itself I guess.

I only listened on lappy speakers, so can't say much about the mix other than that it came across very well all things considered. I think you might need to work on your promo skills a little - saying it's "as boring as hell" probably isn't the ideal introduction  ;) - I nearly decided not to bother, but then maybe you just employed some clever reverse psychology, because I did listen and I'm glad I did. Hints of JMJ, which can only be good. If you're into this kind of stuff and you don't have it already, you need to get Omnisphere - just made for this style and if that doesn't inspire something in you, nothing ever will. Absoultely awesome synth !

Anyway, enjoyed the tune - hopefully you'll come up with something else soon, which I look forward to hearing.  Sometimes when inspiration deserts me, I just do a couple of covers of tunes I like and the deconsruction of them, then learning how they are put together usually sparks off an idea or two. If it doesn't, then it's still good mixing / production practice (of which I need plenty, lol !)

@paulo - Thanks for getting to the end of the tune, and even liking it by the time you got there. Like you said, the fact that you got to the end of a tune so long is indeed a compliment.

I have to admit that I'm a "glass half empty" kind of person, but it does sometimes work as a bit of reverse psychology and tempts people to find out for themselves how bad something really is.

I've heard plenty of good things said about Omnisphere but I've not looked into it yet, mainly on account of having two other quite heavy weight synths like Absynth and Tassman. Add to that synths like Ultra Analog, Twin and Chromophone and I'm kinda getting all synth'd out. But you've got me interested again and I suppose one more synth may just kick something off in my head.

@Mark - Thanks for listening :-) I've just listened to a couple of your tunes at SoundCloud and it's not that different to what I've done so you can't be that far away. I've got a load of tunes from ten years ago that I'm not even going to bother uploading until I've done some serious remixing and mastering. I think we just develop, as composers and musicians over the years and I've been creating stuff for nigh on thirty lol. The tune I've uploaded and linked here seems to be hitting the spot but it's not always been like that.

AT, thanks for dropping by and for managing to get through the whole of that tune. I really do appreciate it.

I've popped over to your SoundCloud page so it is playing the four Rm101 tracks as I type (I'm a slow typist... not in a single finger way... just considering my words). The first track just didn't prepare me for the following three. Such a varied array of tunage and all kept me hooked to the last. Definitely not the norm. It's not placeable, except to say it is "alternative." I hate labelling music though, to be honest. Yes, I know some have a definite genre, but some times some music just does not.
Blimey, I'm waffling a bit there.
S'funny really, that most of the peeps that have commented here don't hit me as being into electronic music, so it just goes to show how wrong a person can be in his assumptions LOL. In fact, darned stupid of me to try and second guess what peeps listen to. While I compose trite electronic music, I'll more than likely be listening to Slipknot and Meshuggah.



I'm off before I prattle some more.

Thanks again :-)

Thanks Wookiee. The sharing pleasure is all mine, and I'm glad you dropped by to check out my single tune at SoundCloud.

I'd better get my skates on and start composing again, instead of decomposing LOL.