I wish I could say I created this because I have a noble political agenda. In reality I just couldn’t pass up an excuse to use a sample of the queen saying ‘Psycho-Active Drugs’ Preview The Queen's Speech by Fatnick Stream/Download
Category: Music
The Serious Stuff
Alone Fighter
This is a relaxed, slowed-down version of a track from the classic space-jazz soundtrack for Sega’s Galaxy Force arcade machine. Enjoy! Preview Buy/Stream
Diggin In the Carts
Hang on, how did I not know about this? Red Bull have commissioned a documentary series, called Diggin in The Carts, which is all about the history of Japanese video game music. This is most definitely relevant to my interests. They have already popped the Read More …
Speccy Jam has begun!
Blimey, The Speccy Jam has begun, and it’s already getting a lot of coverage! Check out this article in the Guardian. It’s just a shame, inevitably, that they seem to forget that anything other than the 48k Spectrum existed. Anyway, people are already posting lots Read More …
Speccy Jams is Here!
Hurrah! its finally here: Speccy Jams is now available for purchase! You might be bored about me going on about this by now, but just to recap the album costs a minimum of £2 and contains 8 glorious new Zx Spectrum-flavoured tracks. It will be Read More …
Speccy Jams
Released in honour of 2014’s Speccy Jam competition, Speccy Jams is a collection of 8 catchy Spectrum-style ditties produced for the AY-8912 sound chip contained in the ZX Spectrum 128 & +2/3 Preview Stream/Buy
Speccy Jams: Album Art Release & Preorder info!
Hello Spec-chums! This is all getting quite exciting. There are now just three days to go till the start of the second Speccy Jam and two days until the release of my Speccy Jams album! My good friend Fabiana has submitted the final album artwork to Read More …
Announcing. . .Speccy Jams!
Next week, a bunch of friendly and talented people will begin a frenzied week-long dash to create a game for the second Speccy Jam. It’s going to be tremendous fun. You REALLY should take a look. Now, as you are probably aware, there is nothing Read More …
Goodness Gracious
Ellie Goulding’s track basically sounded like a Megadrive game already…so I went the extra mile and remade it in FM Drive. It’s available as a free download from soundcloud!
New Track: Goodness Gracious
While having an incredibly dance-ready toddler often has its down-sides (especially in public,) one of the upsides is that I’m forced to to listen to a lot of music I wouldn’t necessarily hear by choice. One track I’ve taken a particular shine to is Ellie Read More …
DRUMS!
I’ve had a few people ask me how I produced the drums Modulated Frequencies (you know, that track you can see over on the right? Why don’t you listen to it? Go on!) It’s always incredibly lovely to have feedback, but unfortunately I don’t really Read More …
Modulated Frequencies
The first release from my upcoming E.P. Modulated Frequencies, This Jazzy-fusion track mixes live guitar, bass and drums with the rich FM tones of the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip found in the Sega Megadrive. Preview Stream/Buy
Lots o New Stuff
Blimey! I haven’t updated that much over the last couple of months have I? The reason for that it because I’ve been (surprise surprise) really busy. With a few things too. Aside from all the boring worky kind of stuff, I’ve been fixing my recording Read More …
New Year, New Job, New Track!
Ahoy, Happy New Year! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet, but I’ve recently started a new day job. Hurrah. Unfortunately, the process of finishing job A and starting job B has taken up more time than I anticipated, so I haven’t been around much – Read More …
Urban
Christmas Noise seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition! At this time of festive good cheer, why not make room for something harsh, aggressive and brutal? Cribbed from the audio generated by my helmet cam, this piece documents a short extract of a ride Read More …
Context is Everything
So today I have two pieces of music for you. The first is the background music for “Ice Cap Zone” from Sonic 3 on the Megadrive:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxlqTpZ-24[/youtube] The second is an unreleased track called ‘Hard Times,’ written by obscure 80s New Wave act ‘The Jetzons’: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvnsriLZvL0[/youtube] Read More …
New Release: Big Yellow Building
Blimey! Its been months since I’ve released anything musical. Don’t worry though, I’ve been working on something special. A few months back, my colleague Melanie decided to organise a talent show to raise money for Children In Need. For my contribution, I was going to Read More …
Big Yellow Building
Written for a talent show at work. I wanted to try something new, so I opted for a bit of Jazz. May have been overdosing on Shakatak and Casiopea at the time. Sorry about that. Preview Stream/Buy
Gaming Spotify
I was browsing the tech blogs yesterday when this caught my eye. I was partly intrigued because Spotify are a service I use to distribute music, but mostly because the guy’s musical name was clearly a Commando reference. With the inevitable “let off some steam Read More …
New Single: Chase
Phew! Ever have one of those projects that starts out as simple, straight forward and whimsy, but ends on dragging on forever? This feels a little like that: I started out with the relatively simple idea of creating an 8-bit dance track and combining it Read More …