Category: Audio

My first tune from my first album. Lots of samples that I really have got round to getting permission for, but it’s all part of life’s rich pageant.

If you’re interested in the samples and don’t recognise them, the ones I remember are from:

• ZZ Top: Fool for your Stockings (descending guitar lick)
• Elvis Presley (unknown, dialogue intro from early stuff)
• ZZ Top: I Thank You (main guitar riff)

I can’t source the other samples but I remember playing the main guitar riffs, sequencing the bass and drums, and sweating over it a bit!

Credit is due to the providers of these lovely originals sounds we pilfer ….

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Another of my favourites. The strings in this track were a bit of a breakthrough for me. The operatic singing was just a spur of the moment sample direct from Radio 3 ! No idea who it is. I like the abrasive lead synth line in the chorus bit.

Potato Glow is the first track on the 2000 album ‘Comfy’. It’s a very upbeat instrumental built up on layers of samples and a synth arpeggio I played almost by mistake. I still love it.

Plasticene is a love song. An obsessive lovesong, from the kind of lover that someone could really get the creeps from. But me means well.

 

 

 

Leave Me I’ll Get By is a song written in 1990 and I finally got enough skills together as Minnellium to record it in 2004. Now there’s a learning curve for you.

Continue reading “Podcast: “Leave Me, I’ll get by””

“More than you ask for” was written by me in 1986, and recorded by the Doofers in December 1987 (see separate article). It’s always had a special place in my heart because it represented such an exciting time – starting to create music. I still like it, and had a modern re-take on it, which I thought I’d share with you.

My first podcast… a tune from the past.

Feature is quite a heavy instrumental, with a hefty chorus. Hammond organ and some organic drums.

Enjoy…