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I finally - after 4 years - mixed a version of this track in Logic Pro X with my vocal added for the poem that I wrote about atomic weapons years ago, plus some Apple loop backing vocals and effects. ------------------ THE GARDENER In The distance His flower bloooooms. But the gardener Has not seen his garden. His plants never need The sun or rain. He sows his seeds by Remote Control. And when all...

softer version than the guitar version I did originally Here's the guitar version https://soundcloud.com/dacca/you-again-with-clive-hawkins

One of my Logic Pro X Apple loop compositions.

Just the second track of mine created on my iPhone. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. ----------- Image: "The Pleiades, an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star#/media/File:Pleiades_large.jpg

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." George Orwell, 1984 Optimism in a dystopian world. One of my Apple loop mixes / compositions.

A mix of glitch and dubstep created in Logic Pro X.

An old track I'd forgotten to upload!

A dark electronic piece mostly created in Blocs Wave with additional synths from Addictive Synth and GarageBand.

3 Aliens Walk Into A Bar by dacca

Imagine a barren planet seeded with life from Earth - this is the premise for this track. And another. And another! Thanks to the Drake equation we like to think of life - even intelligent life - as common throughout the universe. Maybe it is. But as our species, and our robotic/cybernetic/transhuman/A.I. partners, spread to the stars we will seed barren planets with life from our beautiful Earth...

I'd been watching my daughter play "The Last of Us II" on PS4, a fungal zombie apocalypse survival horror game. The music is not what you might expect if you're not familiar with the franchise. It features a lot of hauntingly beautiful acoustic instruments played by Argentine Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla - I'm a fan! Here's a link to a great mini concert you can watch - https://www.youtube.com/watc...

This track started as a bit of an analog synth doodle and developed into a tribute to one of the pioneers of early synthesiser music and the iconic Moog synth. Artwork: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Moog_on_the_wall_art_-_Asheville,_North_Carolina_(2013-11-08_03.15.15_by_denise_carbonell).jpg

The world needs a reset button, it just ain't right... One of my Apple loop compositions / mixes. ========== Art: https://pixabay.com/photos/cd-cover-fantasy-butterfly-face-2964320/

An imaginative electronic musical journey into interstellar space. ===== All instrument, played by David Coutts in Logic Pro X, plus customised drummer track created by David Coutts. ===== Image taken from NASA's "Going Further and Farther": https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/121/going-further-and-farther/

I created this track after flicking through the pages of a recently acquired book - "The World According To Physics" by one of my favourite popularisers of science, physicist Jim Al-Khalili. The book is both broad in scope, and adorably small. It looks highly accessible to a non-scientist such as me - I'll start reading it shortly (May 2020). Amongst the topics is unification - the search for a "G...

A possible site for the battle of Mons Graupius (83 AD) between the Romans and Picts in North East Scotland. I've tried to capture a sense of the ancient history of the landscape, I hope you like it. Mostly composed of Apple loops, plus a few background synths, using Logic Pro X. For my brother, Peter. ------------ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons_Graupius ------------ Image taken from...

Space is magnificent. All instruments played by me in Logic Pro X. ---------

A song for our COVID 19 pandemic days.

With the COVID 19 pandemic taking its toll around the world, images of plague doctors of old appear in social media even so often. It's these images that have inspired this dark ambient piece. All instruments played by me in Logic Pro X. Think of this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doctor_Schnabel_of_Rome_(Plague_Doctor).png

A piano heavy classical piece with a nautical and dramatic theme. If like this track then also have a listen to this one - https://soundcloud.com/dacca/aubreys-surprise -------- One of my Apple loop mixes / compositions. -------- Art: Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821) "A storm, with an anchored ship in distress off rocky coast" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_storm,_with_an_anchored_ship_in_di...

I've taken my old Drumdreamer track https://soundcloud.com/dacca/drumdreamer-open-collaboration, itself based on my open collaboration Sleepdancer track https://soundcloud.com/dacca/the-sleepdancer-open, and added both metal and jazz elements to create a jazz metal fusion. Novel Coronavirus (COVID 19) definitely not cool. Virus - "A piece of bad news wrapped up in protein." Sir Peter Medawar(2000)...

There's so much darkness in the news, and the next several months don't look any better. But there is always hope, and hope will triumph over fear. 21st March, 2020 One of my Apple loop mixes / compositions. ----------------------- Art: "The Light Fantastic" by VallGall on DeviantArt: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mainbanana/30456877894/

With the coronavirus pandemic I keep hearing the term "self isolation" as applied to those testing positive for the virus going into self imposed quarantine. Well, this is my somewhat dark dubstep / metal (or "dub metal", as I term it) track based on that thought. In some ways - to me - the track transcends the original meaning of the term to any form of self isolation.

Backing track created via Novation LaunchPad with a couple of additional Addictive Synth synthesisers played by me.

Inspired by the epic worldcraft of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic "Dune".