anguaji

You're Scaring Me by anguaji

The Savage Heads To Town by anguaji

Sad Home by anguaji

River Theme (demo) by anguaji

Resolution Blue's Theme by anguaji

Hopper Invades Blue's Dream by anguaji

Dad Theme (demo With Synth) by anguaji

Blue's Theme by anguaji

Blue Writes More Savage (demo) by anguaji

At the beginning of the summer, I began to be involved in a new play for the Live Theatre in Newcastle, part of their Live Lab programme, which usually includes experimental and scratch theatre performances. What I knew from talking to the producer was that the piece was going to be scif-fi, about the colonisation of Mars and the people who'd volunteered for a one-way trip there. Depending on the budget and dramatic needs, we had some definite set pieces to loosely underscore, but other than that the only brief initially was "retro future". My process for this kind of commission usually works by throwing a bunch of ideas together very quickly for taste testing from the client. Quite a few of the original ideas for the project were used in the final piece, but this one didn't fit anywhere - which is a shame, because I really enjoyed the creation of it and the end result. It was also the first two-people-in-a-studio collaboration that I've ever worked on in electronica - Vinny (my sound engineer partner) and myself just working in front of Ableton shaping sounds and drinking beer. Maybe it'll find a home somewhere else :)

This was the first track of 2015 that I was really into, that didn't just feel like a tinkering practice. It started with a fun jumbled sample-flipping bassline in Maschine, and I got to experiment with some newly-minted boom bap kits that I put together from some Drum Broker packs. I owe a lot of fun play sessions to the Drum Broker and Beat Butcha this year. I'm really looking forward to finishing this track up - it's very close to my favourite kind of oppressive trip hop sound that I'd like to make more often. I'm going to have to take it out of Maschine and into Ableton to finish it though - I find the arranger too blocky in Maschine to work on a whole track in it solely.