Chris McGrath

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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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I bought ABL2 recently, because I *love* that 303 sound and it was cheaper than trying to figure out how to build my own xoxbox. I had plans to do more with this track. Then I realised I was getting too deep into tweaking instead of releasing…
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Worked on this track for a *long* time. Learnt a lot but it's time to call it done and move on to something else. Am pretty happy with it all in all. Sounds include samples of me clapping and the Snowdon steam train heavily processed with Ableton…
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This is a track I started on the ferry over to Wales for a little holiday a couple of weeks back. * Drums are from Ableton Suite's Session Drums * Bassline is an patch I created in Live's Analog synth * Guitar is me playing through Guitar…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the last track I did, and it shows. I was pretty tired after finishing 3am chill, and had to mess round for ages mangling loops and trying out different things before…
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Sort of a Tuesday improv... Built up around a synth texture that I built up with: Operator->FilterStation->Volcano->Kombinat->Panstation->RP-Delay (what's the fun in having plugins if you can't abuse them)
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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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A little something I've been toying with based on one of the chords from Free's "It's Alright Now". Apologies for my rusty recording mojo...
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This started with a couple of samples in a new version of Boite Diabolique where the samplers slide over them at different rates and varying granular density. I recorded some of that as I varied the rates and then brought the recording into Live…
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This is the first piece made with a Reaktor instrument I built today that I have called "Xylo". Xylo is a sampler that plays a region of the sample back and forth with a 10s release time. Each note defines a region of a different length (but…
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Recorded in 2006. Joe Silence - guitars, beats, vocals Mark Cook - fretless and 12-string basses Originally written by Russell Cowser. New arrangement and additional material by Joe Blair.
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Music music music, making music all day is wonderful, even if the result is mediocre (-:
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This ambient song was inspired by the scenic beauty of the Lofoten Islands of Norway.
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This is just a little shout out to my boy D Hopz. R.I.P
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This is from years ago, living in santa fe. I loved driving around in my little 1980s toyota corolla and listening to cassettes. I loved the way they sounded. So I took a piano song I was working on, recorded it to cassette, dragged mic…
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I bought ABL2 recently, because I *love* that 303 sound and it was cheaper than trying to figure out how to build my own xoxbox. I had plans to do more with this track. Then I realised I was getting too deep into tweaking instead of releasing…
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Guest said

Damn! That was sick! :D I loved it.

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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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Galileo's Cough Drop said

There was a dance party in my ears!

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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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boy named bri said

Nice music to program to :)

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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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Guest said

Nearly missed this! :) Great to hear some fresh sounds from you! Agree with Johnny, love the beat - also dig the bassline and yes, there is dancing in my kitchen. He shoots he scores. :)

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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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Johnny Stone said

great beat mate.

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Ruby developer, carer, wannabe DJ, photographer and medium distance runner. Music production noob

from Banbridge, United Kingdom

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