With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013. Demo version.

With the electrorgasmic Aged Machine, written and recorded for the RPM Challenge 2012. Sabotaged by the coffin card girl Rode out of the cartomancy world I'm soaking and sick of this Of being a bee sting because he doesn't know a good…

With Mr Sandbags (beats and reichatron), as band "Elusive Gene". Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)

Lots of interesting tidbits about this song. It was the first song I worked on this year. I wrote the piano/bass/drums while sitting in the car in an Indian restaurant parking lot. It was the first time I set out to write an instrumental (fail…

A happy little ditty about flaming death from above.

I told myself that the 2013 RPM album was going to be guitar/bass/drums/vocals. Maybe an occasional keyboard thrown in as a gimmick. Yeah, this song is based around an electric piano and has a sax solo. So much for convictions.

A song about trying to do the right thing. Remixed with a little added goofiness in the fall-apart-Mission-of-Burma-break section.

A song about how hard optimism can be. Third song finished for 2013 RPM Challenge/FAWM. Might this be the album opener? I have never owned a fuzz box, but the amp simulations in GarageBand have finally corrected that stomp box oversite…

A song about sunrises. 7/8 time. Enough said. The prog side of Robbie's brain is pleased.

A song about a tough day at the office. This one turned into more of a project that it deserved. My first take on the vocals seemed okay at the time but was really unacceptable. I went back and fixed the problems and ended up clipping the…