from the new CD "Orange" You can feel the sameness, all around Beat tomorrow, into the ground, a-ha It's just the weight of sound You can smell forgiveness, if you try And hold back sorrow until you cry, a-ha It's just the weight of sound…

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.

An experiment in using [Photosounder](http://photosounder.com/) which is a spectral editing tool. This track started as a sharp tin can hit which I turned into a droning gong. But I had no idea where to go next. So I started rifling through…

A quick little indulgence. Got a new toy this week (valhalla shimmer). Just had to totally overuse it. Now to eat some chocolate.

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…

Came up with this Before bed last night. Had to record it this morning so I wouldn't forget the Sound of it... Live recording I'll do a better version when I have more time... Well.... Off to work for me... This is…

Today, the Ableton folks surprised us all with the release of 8.2 which came with a new plugin called Amp. Of course, that meant a bunch of presets to explore... Without aiming to do anything, I happened on these four presets (played simultaneously…

More LoopShifted piano accompanied by Stylus RMX and Omnisphere. At over eight minutes it's perhaps a little self-indulgent but maybe it's more like punting down the river Styx than jet-skiing on a lake of fire.

Had to do this one on the fly before an open mic night.... Sorry about the quality... Came up with the song this morning ...... One take... GTR+MIC on one tracks (doubled up), Played live.... Not much time to record music or…

The salient lines in this traditional song, for me, are these: "... and still I hold, / that the time will come / when he and I will be as one ..." What need is expressed in this "holding"? Against what, does our singer hope? The resistance…