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Second hospital beats. Now with a filtered simple drum pattern and a "oh" melody, straight from the eighties and the Art of Noise hits. This one is also quite poppy and has a happy sound.

First Hospital Beats. If I remember correctly, it was created while I was accompagnying my son when he was in hospital for a week. I brought my laptop and a headphone. There is a sweet flute-like melody and syncopated rhythmic patterns. It is quite poppy, but not fully elaborated into a song.

Old cassette recording of an instrumental, recording a long time ago, using a Roland JV80 and an old MIDI file. Quite long, but I'm still thinking about modernising the arrangment. The initial layering of melodies is still good, IMHO.Had an improvised 5/4 second part, with some over-the-top sax.

Original cassette version of entropie, which could become part of a soundtrack or so.  It was later re-recorded with violin and synth

Light poppy electronic piece. Some drums and blings and beeps, with delay effect. And a soft pad melody.

Electronic atmosphere piece. Improvised and if I can remember correctly, played on the computer keyboard. Did I mention I like large pad sounds? And filtered drums?

I still love this song, but I lost its original Cubase file. The lead voice is actually a bass sound, but pitched two or three octaves higher. I was lucky to have it recorded and burned to CD, as that is the only thing that is left. Oh well, plenty of other songs to go. The Cubase problem was the fact that I created songs which held different arrangements and in some cleanup session I forgot to save the arrangement for Spacy into a new song. To me, it actually improves the song. Oh and the wide pads too. I love synthetic strings and pad sounds. They can add a layer of richness to many songs.

No Name was an attempt to create a song that combined different time types. It has three parts, one in 7/8, one in regular 4/4 and the end in 5/8. It is stylistically like the old Marillion songs, but without the Rothery solo and the Fish poetry. It might work out fine with guitars and real drums as a progrock tune, I believe. But for now (and for the time being), this is keyboard only.

Just some fancy base line and some drums and synth sounds. It's instrumental. The overblown flute in the end is a little too harsh, but the JV80 it was created on is at my parents place at the moment...I actually created many of this kind of tracks, using just the MIDI from an old Cubase and then a MIDI cable to the JV80. This ran fine on an old Pentium PC, without any noticeable latency. Long before audio and virtual effects or instruments came widely available.