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Music as well as video clips I've done for TV and film are on my production page.

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listen Benbient 2008 For Benjamin Becker, born Feb 12 2008. 102 bpm, ambient groove deep ethno dub. Composed entirely on a Palm Pilot using Bhaji's Loops between the hours of 3am and 5am while lying around in bed waiting for Ben to wake up to the dawn.
listen Stringy 2007 168 bpm, lush strings, jazzy fun drum 'n' bass with a couple of deep-beat breakdowns.
listen Harmonic 2006 Melodic breakbeat, dissonant pianoish melodies, hard-hitting resonant bass and lots of fun with harmonics and phasing.
listen Rollertechno 2005 Trance-techno, 131 bpm. Hints of kraftwerk. Oldschool drums and even a siren. Breaks too, so maybe it's not really trance.
Quiet Dawn (Canton's Spacedrops Remix) 2003 Ambient guitar-glitch. This is a remix I did for Ottmar Liebert's 2003 Flamenco-Techno album "Nouveaumatic". NB: This song is available under Creative Commons Sampling Plus/1.0 terms. [Purchase]
Bassomatic 2004 Medium-fast breaks. Deep resonant (squirty!) basslines and a catchy melody. Inspirational bass-blending music.
Tunnel 2001 Deep minimal techno. About two minutes in, drops this tremendously thick harmonic pad that puts my hair on end.
Sunset 1998 Groove, some trance-like bits. Older, melodic, not one of my favorite pieces, but it does have a good vibe.
Solstice 1999 Deep trance-techno. One of those rare pieces that popped out in three hours (instead of the usual three weeks.)
Schvisen 2001 Minimal techno. Started work on this on my laptop with headphones on the train from Berlin to Paris, feeling that bleep bleep German vibe.
Birmingham 43 1999 Breaks / jazz. Inspired by this great 1950's radio recording of a sexy meteorologist.
Reaktion 2001 Minimal techno. Gratuitious use of Reaktor.
Presence of Mind 2002 Atmospheric / rolling drum 'n' bass with a thick jazz feel. Swelling pads using Absynth, my new favorite software synth.
303 vs 909 (remix) 2002 "Can you feel it in the air tonight?" Acid-techno. The first 60 seconds is a clip I grabbed from Napster.The rest is me imagining how it might have gone...
Chinese Theater 2002 Deep ambient-breakbeat, lots of swirling melodies. I recorded the basic riffs for this track on my laptop while waiting in line to see Harry Potter at the Chinese Theater in hollywood. The vocal sample is from a Japanese newscast.
Indian Summer  2001  This is a deep and dark drum 'n' bass track featuring a beautiful (hindi?) female vocal. At times the vocal sample is chopped up and sequenced to resemble a tabla performance.This is one of my favorite pieces yet...
Raga Purya Kalyan (Subspiritual Mix) 2002 Warning - 34 MB download, every bit of which is required to deliver this subtle remix of a 25 minute G.S. Sachdev flute/table raga. My additions are minimal -- some synth pads and subsonic bass that massages your butt.
Lujon
[spaceoid mix)]
1999 Ambient space techno featuring a lush string sample from Henri Mancini's tune "Lujon."
Map of the Cosmos 1998 Drum 'n' Bass meets trance. Special thanks to "bella" for opening audio sample.
Invisible Space Journeys 1997 Drum 'n' Bass Jazzizm. Samples are from the most excellent film "My Dinner With Andre". Beboppin electric piano solos by Benjamin "Zoggo" Lewis.
Gorgonzola 1997 Techno-trance. I was eating pasta with gorgonzola sauce while I made this. Engineered by TimmyB.
Girl in the Bubble 1996 Ambient. For Jill T.
Sunflower 1999 Echoey head-wobbling trance, deep sub-bass. Pretty arpeggios and more filters than a pack of camels.
Eleven-Four 1997 Drum 'n' Bass. Guess the time signature.
Ambient Gourd 1996 Ambient. First in a series of five "gourd transmissions" inspired by a special gourd-gift from a special friend. Chimes accidentally supplied during recording by a lucky gust of wind.
Trumped Backdrone 1997 Psychedelic trumpet techno. Trumpet by Char Rothschild. Composed for my brother's film "Cityscrapes."
Lewd Day 1997 Hard step funk-trance 303 fusion. Many folks' favorite track, it seems.
       


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