First attempt at making something with the demo version of live 8 suite and some of the sample tutorials. Just the first third or so of a whole track really. It's the first thing I haven't wanted to delete straight away so I want to put it somewhere…

I decided to focus by timeboxing the amount of time I spent on drums, bass and lead into 30 min sections based on the pomodoro technique. The idea was to spend 5 mins picking the sound for each part, then 25 mins making some loops with it to arrange…

This is the first public output after going through about 40% of nickstutorials.com sound design series. All the sounds started off with my sampling myself either saying something, clicking my fingers or clapping. They were recorded through…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. I'd just finished the trance track, it was 3am, and I wanted something completely different. It's 110bpm, the piano is NI AkousticPiano Steingraber 130. The bass and organ are done…

One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the second track I did. I'm an old trance head, so I had to have a go at making a trance tune during the 24 hours. This had the advantage that I could stretch out the breakdown…

This track also has a version with vocals, it's basically about someone travelling to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to complain about everything that's wrong.

MC's always nag you about two things, to make their voice more prominent in the mix and to add more bass.

There is also a version of this track with vocals describing a boring evening at some party that's not really going somewhere and ways to cope with that.

Two people calling each other at a party setting up a meeting in the kitchen to get a new beer out of the fridge.

The beat started out as a short interlude, but a lot of people like the guitar sound so I stretched it a bit longer.