New Tunes: Swim, by Caribou

Uplifting music for interesting moments in time . I found this album months and months ago during one of my periodic trawls for new and diverse tunes. I keep a notepad .txt file with tons of URLS of things I’ve heard samples of but don’t get the instant WOW factor. Which isn’t a bad thing. [...]

Music News: Dead Can Dance launching new album and world tour for 2012

The group that shaped the early days of my creative output . To say that I’m excited is an understatement of the same scale as saying the Universe is kind of big.  Dead Can Dance – Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, the Father Dagon and Mother Hydra of the strange, ethereal, haunting and eerie – [...]

Personal Blog: Jazz Disaster and return of The Mood

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 04:45 hrs.  Tuesday 13th March 2012.  My first early start in a few days. Supping a mug of tea and enjoying the silence and solitude up here in the eaves of the house; deep red glow from my lava lamp.  Ignoring the ever-creeping crack in the roof. Bloody [...]

Tune of the day ¦ Music for cyberpunks – Reves Mecaniques by The Hacker (Michel Amato)

French electroclash and techno I bought this album by The Hacker (Michel Amato) back in the mid-noughties and it slotted into my cerebral cortex like a slice of carbo-plastic bio-soft. Immediate expansion of neural circuits and a flash-import of creative ideas to fuel the stories I write. There’s some stunning colabs with Miss Kitten (Caroline [...]

1981 Synthpop – Ex Luna Scientia by Gary Numan’s old backing band – Dramatis

Ex Luna Scientia This is a bit of a very rare treat. Digging through my old vinyl collection a couple of days ago I came across a promotional copy of “For Future Reference” an album by the early 1980s synthpop band Dramatis.  (Rocket Record Company: Train 18).  I stuck it on and found myself flashing [...]

Music for dreaming and dream visualisation: Origin # 01, by Solar Fields

I bought this as part of my monthly hunt for new tunes to feed my creative needs – music that provides a structure to firm up my imagination, music for my writing. However the album had a totally different and profound effect.  I’m a great believer in dream visualisation.  Shaping ideas and goals within the [...]

Tune for today: Peek-a-Boo by Siouxsie & The Banshees – Peepshow (album)

Post-punk from 1988 “Peek-a-Boo” by Siouxsie & The Banshees is probably the track that got me hooked into their sound. I’ve just dug out the vinyl of the Peepshow album – probably not listened to it in 20 years and I’m bloody loving it.   . Peepshow takes place in some distorted fairground of the [...]

Album Review: Gary Numan – Dead Son Rising – Music for Cyberpunks

What I listen to when I’m burning chrome… I bought this a few weeks back and it’s possibly one of the most perfect albums Numan has ever made; part of his on-going and relatively recent collaboration with Ade Fenton.  Skip back to the Halcyon days of Tubeway Army through to Berserker; this is where most [...]

Stunning ambient electronica by Stellardrone – Milliways, music to write new worlds to

Stunning ambient electronica by Stellardrone – Milliways, music to write new worlds to Jaw dropping soundscapes to tingle your eardrums and send shivers up your spine. Click repeat and drop out of reality into your sci-fi and dark fantasy realm of choice.  This is writing music of the utmost highest quality.  The echoey tick-tock of [...]

80′s nostalgia: listening to Snobbery & Decay – Act – Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer

80′s nostalgia: listening to Snobbery & Decay – Act – Claudia Brücken and Thomas Leer. Maybe it’s because I watched Fright Night yesterday evening, or the fact I’m working on photographs and the S-W section of my blog where I get to indulge in the setting down of memories, but I’ve been listening to some [...]

New Tunes: Skying, by The Horrors

New Tunes: Skying, by The Horrors Another random buy. Like the album cover. Gave it a preview on PLAY and wasn’t sure but left the window open. Came back again later and thought yeah, this is atmospheric and could be great writing music – so made purchase. See more posts like this – click David [...]

Writing music for the day: AES DANA – Natti Natti (ANDROCELL rmx)

Writing music for the day:  AES DANA – Natti Natti (ANDROCELL rmx) I’ve just spent an hour writing to this. Carbons (genetically engineered slave workforce) and The Changed – survivors of Yellow Dawn left altered at a molecular level by the first pathogen. Enjoy! . See more posts like this – click David J Rodger [...]

Music: introducing FAIRMONT – awesome atmospheric writing tunes

This is a track by a group called Fairmont. Spectacular electro music, primarily ambient but with some quality mood and atmosphere. Gritty enough to be a universe away from certain dull types of the electro-ambient genre. I highly recommend you give it a go. You can enjoy an entire playlist here, courtesy of YouTube: enjoy! [...]

Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army – John Peel Sessions – Volume Two – August 1979

I was digging through my old vinyl collection and discovered this gem that I’d not listened to for an age.  Gary Numan had a massive influence on my young (8 year old) brain and my early imagination with lyrics about rape machines and electric friends – cold liquid love and dystopian themes within a strange [...]

Free Music Download: ambient dub – 110ml scratch me / scratch you

Another audio gem from the ragged king within his – a strangey isolated place – handing out his gifts of music for moods and soundscapes to write (and do other things) to. I subscribed to this WordPress site and every few days get a new delight materialising within my inbox. This one arrived last night [...]

Music Free Download Heaven: chilled ambient mixes – Solar Fields, Ulrich Schnauss and much more…

So my good friend, writer and agent provocateur Mary Rajotte, knows I have an unquenchable thirst for new tunes. Mood music, creative zen and adrenaline pumping sounds for action scenes in my writing. She pinged me a note about being able to download a Solar Fields mix from a website called A Strangely Isolated Place [...]

New Music, Gig review: Spokes – what an honour to be there

So my girlfriend says, “There’s a cool band playing down at The Cooler tonight, we should check them out.” I’m nonchalent.  Spokes?  Never heard of them.  The Cooler – a major dive in a popular part of Bristol (Park Street). It’s a double-negative. Except… I’m there and there’s about 5 people in the whole place. [...]

#Inception analysis of the musical cues

Pretty darn clever: observe