Rebecca (of iamlovelace.com fame) and I are kicking each others' asses to make fun, silly electronica.
So I ended up writing this little ditty which took around 20 hours days from start to a final mix i’m 80% happy with.
I love packing my toons full of sound design, pans, cuts, humour and homages (generally to 70’s Jean Michelle Jarre and Tomita). If you’re actively listening, those touches will hopefully tickle you the colour of your choice and make ya’ll smile a little as I did while composing this cheesy and fun number. If you get it, you’re awesome… and probably in your late 30’s. Soon you may be enjoying, olives, gardening and Radio4.
In ‘Lightstream’, I really wanted to compose a fun, hooky and cheesy song with real vocals serving as background vocal to speech synthesis (*of the 80’s) rather than the other way around. It’s a story about sci-fi and robot equality, and a constant goal of mine is to get some emotion out of those frackin’ toasters.
I will not confirm nor deny rumours that the Robot is singing, “Touch me, on my frequency…”. You’d have to ask her.
The main hilarious riff should have been done on a rare, handmade British synth called the ‘Deep Bass Nine’, but as that was in the garage and I was in the zone, I opted for the unfortunately clean-sounding Moog Sub37 but after a while of de-twiddling, it did a pretty fun job of a basic dorky-sounding saw riff! This was a feisty one, but it soon learned respect.
*Yes, I am old enough to have had a Commodore 64.