This is a project of mine from 10 years ago under the alias “Music For Sleeping”, when I first moved to Bristol. It’s a collection of abstract electronic music and experimental meanderings. Some of the tracks were written whist living in West Wales, collected from old DAT and cassette tapes, while the rest were concocted in Bristol. I used a variety of sound sources for the project ranging from pitched-down wind chimes to cut up samples of tracks from “Music To Watch Girls By“.
One of the tracks was used for a short film by Anakissed called “Distance Over Time“, while others were used for a locative based exhibition by photographer Liz Milner called “A Walk in the Woods“.It’s very rough and badly mastered by today’s standards, but you get the vibe of it…and it’s bound to send you to sleep
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08. Confinement
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10. Lost in Dreams
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13. Crocus Sativus:
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Star Wars: The Battle for Hoth for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available for download on iTunes. The game which was developed in Bristol by FluffyLogic is a classic Tower Defence type strategy game and features music and sound design by me. It was a real pleasure to have access to the original Star Wars sfx from the film!
About The Music:
Everyone knows the original score to Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back by John Williams, which still sounds great 30 years on! Instead of using the original score in game I wrote two new pieces that reflected some of the drama and tension of the original. Fans of the genre will be pleased to know that we kept the original Star Wars music for the front-end and in the menu screen.
Due to demand I’ve put together a jungle set to follow on from the first Summertime Mix from 5 years ago. This set features the same tracks from the St. Paul’s Carnival After Party from the Black Swan on 3/7/2010. Anakissed provided some awesome visual skills on the night! Check back for a video/vj version from her soon.
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I’ve been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Best Original Video Game Score category for my work on Savage Moon: Waldgeist on Playstation3. All will be revealled on Thursday 2oth May 2010 when Ana Kronschnabl (CEO FluffyLogic Development) and myself will attend the awards ceremony, but in the meantime have a listen to the music from the game and then go and buy it!
The Ivors are a prestigious, worldwide recognition of musical talent and are judged and presented by the music-writing community. Other artists/writers nominated this year include songs performed by Dizzie Rascal, La Roux, Bat for Lashes, Lily Allen and Paolo Nutini. We asked Armin for a comment and he said, “It has been a great pleasure to create the soundtrack to the Savage Moon series of games on Playstation3 and PSP for FluffyLogic LTD. The thriving Bristol music scene has had a major influence on the music I compose bringing in flavours of dubstep, drum & bass and breakcore. Computer games have generally had quite traditional sounding orchestral soundtracks for a while now, and to be able to bring in more experimental music to the games market has been a real challenge.”
As such we’d like to say a huge ‘congratulations’ to the sound designer and composer, Armin Elsaesser (aka Parasite). He is up against some strong competition for the award; Empire: Total War and Killzone 2. Fingers crossed…
Maldore asked me to do a guest appearance on his weekly radio show on Renegade Radio, so I kindly obliged. Little did I know he had a load of questions lined up for me! Listen to an excerpt from the show below or download the show in it’s entirety.
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Tracklisting:
JungleFever & Stivs - Fat Ting (forthcoming on Death$ucker/Bomba Cuts)
My good buddy and American expatriate Mad EP asked me to do a guest mix for his monthly radio show Tasty Cyanide on sub.fm. The show usually consists of bass-heavy shizzle, so I lowered the tempo and turned up the bass for a dubstep / breakstep blow-out! If you want to check out archived show visit: http://tastycyanideradio.blogspot.com
My DJ set from the Overkill Tent @ Glade Festival in the summer of 2009. I played to a packed tent on Friday afternoon after only just making it on site in time! The crowd were all itching for some raggacore after hours of Dubstep and were wild throughout my set. It’s a bit of a Death$ucker Records marathon, but I hope you like it!
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Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign will be released on PSP via PSN on December 22nd 2009 with music by me! It is set within a huge gathering of Imoons, the Hera Cluster, that drifted into human space. Preliminary intelligence suggests that it consists of, at least, 20 Imoons populated by a rich variety of Insectocyte forms, some of which we have encountered before and some of which are new. Have a look at the trailer:
Reviews:
The music (there are new soundtracks to unlock) is depressing, but in a good way, and the sounds the turrets and the dying Insectocytes make is meaty and terrifying. Sound 9/10. - videogamer.com
The music fits in with the dark and sinister theme. Sound 9/10. - sanctuary4gamers.com
This is a project of mine from 10 years ago under the alias “Music For Sleeping”, when I first moved to Bristol. It’s a collection of abstract electronic music and experimental meanderings. Some of the tracks were written whist living in West Wales, collected from old DAT and cassette tapes, while the rest were concocted in Bristol. I used a variety of sound sources for the project ranging from pitched-down wind chimes to cut up samples of tracks from “Music To Watch Girls By“.
I’ve been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Best Original Video Game Score category for my work on Savage Moon: Waldgeist on Playstation3. All will be revealled on Thursday 2oth May 2010 when Ana Kronschnabl (CEO FluffyLogic Development) and myself will attend the awards ceremony, but in the meantime 
My DJ set from the Overkill Tent @ Glade Festival in the summer of 2009. I played to a packed tent on Friday afternoon after only just making it on site in time! The crowd were all itching for some raggacore after hours of Dubstep and were wild throughout my set. It’s a bit of a Death$ucker Records marathon, but I hope you like it!