Bibio reworks Amon Tobin’s ‘Wooden Toy’ - the track appears on a super deluxe ‘bolted’ box set on Ninja Tune.

Sunday Evening Filter House.

Sequencing the SP1200 via MIDI and jamming on the mixing desk. Great fun. All the samples & beat are coming from the SP.

FX: Akai MFC42 analogue filter, Boss DD7 delay and Moog phaser.

Saturday Evening Choppage.

Jamming on the SP and testing out my new limiter!

Garden Rhythms.

Sunshine in England is precious, so when the weather is fine it feels sinful to be cooped up in a studio, I’m very lucky to have the choice, so why not choose?

When the weather is fine, I like to take a few bits of gear outside and enjoy being creative in a different environment, plus there are all sorts of other sounds to explore outdoors, and in this case, sample.

A quick video of me making beats entirely out of recordings of objects found in the garden. No previously recorded samples were used.

Capturing sounds with a vintage Sennheiser MD-21 microphone, then using the EMU SP1200 for its inimitable fidelity, then resampled and sequenced on an Akai MPC 5000. 

Videoed by me on a Canon 5D mkii.

A Shepherd’s Delight.

Shot from my bedroom window recently.

My Summer Eyes.

Shot in a forest in the Quantocks, Somerset, late summer 2011.

The divine ship sails the divine sea.

Time lapse of the night sky from my garden.

Merry Bokeh