My first intentional foray into pure dance/house/trance, with a euro feel to it. This was also my first attempt at putting music to an acapella vocal track (not easy, BTW). It was originally called "Grinder" until I found this acapella, which gave it the final name (and it's a bit stupid, I know...but I liked the voclas).

This is shorter version than the original I had posted and removes a section in the middle that I never really liked.

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"You know when you're when you are approaching a stale green light at a pretty good clip, and it turns orange, and there's a split second there where you evaluate many things...do I gun it and make it through, or do I slow down 'cause I definitely won't make it, are there any cops around? am I in a rush? how fast am I going? how far away am I from the intersection? is there anyone right behind me? have I past the point of no return? ...all these thoughts and more flood your brain in a microsecond, and a decision has to be made. Well what if that sensation was occurring 24x7?

This was actually my first compostion from late 2006, with my new setup—a computer I built specifically for music production, my good old Roland D-5, and Acid Pro 6.0. I can hear the TD, Orbital and Underworld influences...this 16-minute, 155bpm epic features characteristics of each...there are several sections that slowly weave into each other—this would end up being a recurring theme in later pieces—and in general I would describe it as "textured", "complex", "layered".

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Hmmm...Cranberries? Someone said "Annie Lennox"...not sure, but this is my first tune with a conventional rock structure and vocals. Heavy guitar, 80's bassline, straight ahead drums and sexy female vocals.

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This tune was created while thinking about my beautiful baby daughter, and all the emotions I had felt after her birth―joy, fear, anxiety, bliss, jubilance, anticipation...LOTS. As a result, this piece meanders through a good dozen musical genres, although they blend quite well and it's difficult to know where one stops and the other begins. It's dancey, trancey, even a bit hiphoppy, and very electronic.

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My first compostion, an ode to my favourite band and huge influence, Tangerine Dream (well the Virgin Years anyway) from way back in 1994. Back then, my sequencer was an early non-standard version of Cubase, running on Windows 3.1, with all sounds generated by my state-of-the-art $1,000 Roland Sound Canvas. It took me about 12 weeks to create this. Now it takes me about 2.

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I was going for a very chill "B-Tribe" sound...I can also hear Delerium influences. It weaves across a few different musical themes. Nice acoustic guitar chords and East Indian intrumentation.

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Hmmm...treading into old school electronica territory. Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Orbital. Nine minutes of sequencing and analogue sounds, very "Berlin school". I have no idea where the title came from; I was high. This is interesting, but not my best.

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Ah, yes..."Train by Night". I don't quite know how to describe this. "Ambient electronica" doesn't quite cut it...unless that includes 80's inspired synths and beats. Perhaps "A trippy mystical journey to the depths of your subconscious in a dark 80's electronica style." Yes I quite like that.

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This was done in a single evening after seeing a video by my friends Dave and Stacey taken while camping at Killbear Provincial Park and posted on Stacey's facebook page. The video shows Alexandria White singing "The Forest Song" and and dancing like I've never seen an eight-year old dance before. After laughing my f***ing ass off a number of times I knew I had to use her vocals for a cheesy synth-pop song. Alex, you're a star, baby!

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