Vintage Ochre tracks from ‘AudioMicroDevice’ now available for download/purchase
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For those of you who were interested in hearing my very early works, I’ve added tracks from my 2001 demo CD, AudioMicroDevice, to the music page, completely remastered, with high quality versions also available for purchase. I guess it’s the first time for almost eight years that these tracks are available in genuine lossless CD-quality, too.
AudioMicroDevice was originally given away to anyone who asked, and while the tracklist varied a bit depending on what I was writing at the time, I’m quite sure I’ve managed to collect all the tracks from the CD’s various permutations (the discogs listing is pretty much accurate). Some of the tracks went on to be released on A Midsummer Nice Dream, others though various compilations, and so couldn’t be included here; I’m just filling in the gaps, making the long-lost material available for those who are curious, for a bit of fun.
Stylistically, it’s pretty varied stuff, written before I’d actually settled into any kind of musical identity; some of the tracks were actually college coursework pieces, which might account for the scattered nature of the CD.
Hope a track or two catches your ear, anyway. 
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February 26th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Thanks a lot chris for this re-release! The sound quality with the flacs is pristine and sounds amazing on my speakers. The unreleased track “Liquid Oxygen and Kerosene” was a great bonus as well! It made the purchase even more worth it. It sounds like you came up with that track after beating ocarina of time or something(or at least zelda inspired to some degree..and even better than koji kondo’s work in my opinion).
for those who are curious, the original tracklist for audiomicrodevice was as follows:
1.Low Grav Freefall
2.Children Playing With Lego
3.Render
4.Reverse Engineering
5.Larchryma
6.Moonlight Sonata
7.Electroshock Stopclock
8.Kaleidoscape
9.Semblance
10.Neverminded
11.System Failure
12.Low Grav Freefall (High Altitude Mix)
13.Reverse Engineering (Beta)
14.Esign
Also Chris, i was curious as to what the difference is between reverse engineering and the beta version of it. i can barely tell the difference.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
The ‘Beta’ version of Reverse Engineering is the raw Audiomulch-only version of the track. I started writing it in Audiomulch, then imported the audio into Cubase to add the synth sounds.
Liquid Oxygen and Kerosene was written for one of my college projects at the time, a year or two before RE; it’s supposed to be a piece inspired by the book/film ‘Contact’. VST instruments were just taking off at the time, but my PC wasn’t up to the task, so I bought an EMU Proteus 2000 synth with my student loan–LOaK is all P2K. I suppose the sounds aren’t too bad given they all had to fit into the synth’s 32MB of RAM–I loved the Mellotron samples in there. Glad you like it, thanks.
March 1st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I barely found this release on peers few years back (I had asked twice people who went on a business trip to London to buy hard copy of any of your albums and twice they came back empty-handed after visiting Piccadilly Circus’ Virgin and HMV!) and after listening to it, I thought why it didn’t go commercial straight away. Indeed AudioMicroDevice differs from subsequent albums and has 90s’ charm but even today music on this album sounds very mature from my perspective.
On top of track «Esign» its video is a great extra.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Great download Chris, well worth the $ £ .
I was wondering if there was some album are anywhere for this, mainly cos I love the artwork in my itunes and if I ever do burn it to CD it would be nice to have something on the front of the case.
March 6th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hi Simon—sorry I didn’t see your message earlier. I’ll see what I can dig up in the way of artwork; I have a feeling all I have is a low-res image.
I’ll playing with the idea of offering an optional CD version via one of the on-demand CD manufacturers (assuming the pricing is reasonable). If anyone has any comments or recommendations regarding this I’d love to hear them.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Heya, I bought AudioMicroDevice years ago and still hold Semblence as one of my all time favorite tunes. It’s pretty cool to see you’re still going and blogging along the way. Keep it up.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Hi Dan—glad you’re still along for the ride, thanks!