CD Section

The original recordings of albums 1-8 cover a period of twenty years. They’re all high quality recordings professionally recorded on top quality analogue tape machines of the period.
As I want to preserve that natural analogue sound as much as possible, no digital re-mastering has been done and no ‘enhancing’ dynamic compression techniques have been used on these CDs either. This ,as you may know, is a technical trick employed by record companies to make their releases compete for consistent loudness when say played on the radio. Apparently this constant “in your face” sound level is very good for sales. I’m not keen on it myself, I’m afraid I do prefer loud and quiet bits in my music.
All the recordings here, are simple high-quality direct transfers of the master tapes. So they do exploit the full natural dynamic range of the medium but having said that, you may find they sound generally a little quieter than much of the heavily compressed popular music big-company recordings you may have.

In the last few years computers have generally taken over from tape recorders for music recording. This is no doubt because computer high resolution digital recording is now very good indeed and the recording tools available for the PC are fantastic compared to a few years ago. The only thing that is missing for me is that nice warm analogue tape sound quality but that’s progress.
The ninth album and beyond are wholly computer recorded albums. There’s still plenty of analogue tape sounds on them and the final mixing is still usually analogue but it has all been assembled and edited digitally on a PC internally up to a 64bit depth. The final versions end up as 24bit files. They are reduced down to 16bit CD format only at the final master CD stage. Future albums will still use analogue tape sounds but my use of tape will slowly dwindle and everything will eventually be done digitally.

Most of the music listed here has been previously released by small independent labels. Osiris was originally a long playing record and the other early albums were all cassette releases. The Cds are listed in chronological order . Running times are from around 50 to over 70 minutes depending on the original media running time. Temples runs for over 70 minutes.
For full information on each album and the “Windows Media” or MP3 audio excerpts, click on the cover images.

Can’t play the sound examples? On the home page there are a couple of quick fixes for common Windows problems. Follow these and you should be able to play streaming mp3 and WMA files off most web sites.