I wrote this song in 2009 after reading some J G Ballard stories. They fascinated me. After reading Kingdom Come, I decided to write something that would try to capture some of the essence of the story. Materialism. Tribalism. Fascism. As the Observer review says: The book is mired in ambivalence and the only things …
Phil Hunt is a composer, song-writer, musician and producer who does it because he can’t not. He has a proper job as well. He has been writing music since his teenage years, and remembers keenly one of the first rock songs he wrote “I rock therefore I am”. Thank goodness that will never see the …
When I started thinking about writing again, I decided I needed to update my knowledge. Technology and the world has moved on slightly since I last studied electro-acoustic music in 1989! I did some research (by which I mean I used google) and got a kindle copy of the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, edited …
A few months ago I wrote a dance track called NRG. It came from setting a groove on the PC and then picking up my bass and playing a 2-bar ultra-simple pattern. This forms the basis of the entire track. Not proud! The mix is a bit bass heavy too. Anyone want to master it …