Another awesome gig at the Strawberry Fair Plastic Den stage. This year it was very wet but the crowd were still up for it. Thanks as ever to the crew who put a huge amount of work to make this happen.
A remix of Fragments by the very talented QUBIK.
The video was created using Ableton + Videosync.
The full EP can be found on bandcamp:
The crowd at Strawberry Fair 2024 were amazing. The picture above says it all. Thanks to everybody who helped to make this happen. The audio below is a rerecording of the original set because as usual I didn’t record it live.
The Strawberry Fair is one of the largest free festivals in Europe. I was delighted to be able to play at the fair in the CEM tent this year. This is a re-recording of the set I played at the fair with custom visuals written using Open Frameworks.
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A guitar and a broken drum machine
This was recored in 2014. At some time I had bought a Korg Volca Beats drum machine. This is a cool little drum machine but it only has one output. Pretty soon after it was released people were putting out instructions on the internet on how to modify these little machines to provide multiple outputs. Pretty soon I had taken a soldering iron to my drum machine. The mods mostly worked but the bass drum which I had liked a lot before the mods now sounded a bit off. I still wanted to make a track with my slightly broken drum machine so I hooked up the individual sounds via a small mixer and started recording. The final track is built around a stock Ableton breakbeat. All other sounds are either from the drum machine or a guitar, all sampled looped and modified further. The ‘arrangement’ was mostly performed in one go as a live mix with a few tweaks.
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The Magic Never Ends
Some time in 2016 Adam ‘Schmaughan’ Vaughan invited me to do a remix of one of his tracks for a charity compilation. I was quite pleased with the result. I felt that I needed a new name to use as a solo act so ‘Parametric’ was born.
The Delta family are back. This time the line is Nick Evans and Frank Bowles. The chair EP is a mix of styles from Disco/House through to Post Rock experimentation. Enjoy!
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The Delta Family
It’s been a long time coming but we’ve finally put an album together. Hope you like it.
GTA was written while watching Grand Theft Auto being played with the sound turned down.
GTA
An uncharacteristically melodic piece!
Trees