Couch Boy Music

Back to music production after a break. I’ve been manipulating some of the recordings from the We Dance, Wee Groove performance at the Scottish Youth Theatre in November. At the start of the show – whilst people were arriving, I would improvise on the guitar (with lots of delay) over a reggae drum loop. At the close of the show we’d use of same loop and I would do some scratching over it, using some samples of a certain person (who shall remain nameless – he gets too much publicity)!  I used the Ms Pinky system to make this happen.  Dave Boyd provided some additional live percussion.

Anyway, I pulled some of the highlights together in Ableton with some additional sounds to make a complete track.  Here is the result:

Couch Boy – We Dub, Wee Groove

Hope you like.  If you download the track, please leave a comment.

Thanks.

I’ve just moved my WordPress hosting for this blog over to Dreamhost apps.  Early days so far, but seems to be pretty cool (not to mention FREE)!  I’ve been messing about with some of the other apps (Mediawiki, Zenphoto) but having WordPress is the way forward for me at the moment.  I might even move my work site over as well when the hosting comes up for renewal.

Check it out:

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I’m getting quite excited about the latest release of Ableton (such is my sad existence).

I use Ableton Live to DJ, play live sets and when I’m writing and producing music.  I decided some time ago to focus on just one package, rather than learning a wee bit about lots of different music production software.  In the past I’ve used Acid, Cubase, Fruityloops and Reason but Live does it all for me (for the moment anyway).

This latest version promises to feature a looper, which is something that looks very useful from a performance point of view.  It also looks like great fun as well – which is always a good thing in music software (what’s the point otherwise?).

Anyway, rather than me describe all the new features, you can check them out on the Ableton website:

Ableton Live 8 announcement

More acoustic stuff. This is a song I wrote last year, inspired by a friend of mine.