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22nd
December 2012
Following on from my
last post, here's my complete
set of 4 Christmas covers. This
includes the Deck the Halls
cover I uploaded a
couple of weeks ago; a
Radiohead inspired cover of We
Three Kings; drum & bass and
house influenced covers of
Good King Wenceslas and
Auld Lang Syne.
Android Boogie at Christmas by sam-davis
8th
December 2012
Its very
nearly Christmas and I'm
currently playing around with
some public domain seasonal
favorites. First up is an
Electro/Chiptune/LoFi cover of
Deck the Halls . This
track will be available as a
download very soon. Enjoy!
21st
October 2012
Not been the most productive
month for me but I'm getting
back on the horse! This weekend
I've produced a new version of
the McJazz
track
Fish Dance
(see below). This version uses
most of the ideas from the original with a
few new chord sequences, beats
and bass lines! I've also been
working on a B-side to go with
the upcoming single 2 Years,
more on this soon!
1st September 2012
As you can see I've
updated my website, with a
completely overhauled layout.
Thanks to my dad at
Davis Solutions for helping
me in making this happen.
You will notice a lot
of new pages have been added to
the site including pages
dedicated to
digital audio,
projects I'm involved in, a new
biography page and
more. You can download the first
two LoFi LP's from the
downloads page as well.
I've been quite
productive of late, as you will
see from the
previous news stories.
I have
also produced more tracks over
the last couple of months for
Android
Boogie and I
will be releasing a
collection of tracks (hopefully)
in the next few months.
Conrad & I also have
another LoFi
project on the cards, so watch
this space!
29th August 2012
To celebrate the
release of The Very Best of
Mike Oldfield, Indaba Music
are running a competition to
remix Mike Oldfield's debut
composition Tubular Bells.
I decided to enter this
competition with an ambient take
on the original work. My remix
uses bells, synth pads,
natural(ish) sounding drums,
plus period seventies bass and
Fender Rhodes patches. Indaba
provided the multitrack
recordings of the original, but
I opted not to use them. Instead
I transcribed the motifs I
wanted to use.
Click on the link below to have
a listen to my remix. Hope you like
and recognise some parts from
the original. If you do like the
track please vote for it; you
will need a Facebook or Indaba
music account to vote.
Sam Davis' "Tubular Bells" Remix
Contest Submission on Indaba
Music
20th August 2012
During the summer I’ve been remixing an awesome dubstep number by
Scuttle (a.k.a. Tim Bowman) called
Acid. I went to uni with Tim; he’s an awesome guitarist and is rapidly becoming a dubstep and electronic music guru.
Tim was kind enough to send me the multi-track for
Acid straight out of his sequencer. In this ditty I’ve taken Scuttle’s original melodic motif and put in under different chord sequences, with crazy changes in instrumentation, drum beats and styles underneath. I’ve tried to go with an approach
en par with The Flashbulb or
Aphex Twin; to keep it changing and therefore keep listener interest. Anyways, here it is!
Acid (Android
Boogie Mix) is also
available to save onto your
computer on my
downloads page.
1st August 2012 ... and
Android
Boogie was born!
Over the last few months I've
been struggling to think or a
musical alias for tracks I've
been writing. I have finally
settled on
Android
Boogie, to describe the
glitchy, computerised nature of
my tracks. This will also be the
name for an LP of approximately
15 tracks.
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