Discography
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Commercial Releases
Death of an Aura (Benbecula Records)
2008, CD/FLAC/mp3
Also available on iTunes, Beatport, Juno.
Lemodie (Benbecula Records)
2006, CD/mp3
As physical copies of Lemodie are becoming increasingly scarce, your best best will be to purchase mp3s from Bleep, which are now encoded at the highest possible quality, at 320kbps (almost imperceptibly inferior to CDs), and free from any DRM restrictions (leaving you free to make copies and burn your mp3s to CD). You can preview the entire album above, and though playback will pause every 30 seconds, simply hit the play button again to resume.
Also available on iTunes, Beatport, Napster, 7digital, HMV Digital, TuneTribe.
Where possible I’d really appreciate it if you could leave a review (e.g. Amazon.co.uk, Discogs, or Last.fm) — this would be a huge help for me. Thanks!
Press release:
“Benbecula venture South over Hadrian’s Wall once more to bring one of the most wonderfully written and melodic pieces of electronica to grace these shores. Ochre aka Chris Leary, first came to the public’s attention via his album for Toytronic in 2004 entitled A Midsummer Nice Dream. During that time and up until autumn 2005, he has offered a steady output of remix work and compilation appearances via the likes of Subvariant, Boltfish, Audiobulb, Igloo and Unschooled.
Where the Toytronic album was a ‘best of’ collection of older recordings spanning a couple of years, the album Lemodie for Benbecula, is an especially commissioned body of work.
Ochre’s take on the electronic format takes the medium to its melodic limit, with an orchestral feel and precision that would challenge the best contemporary traditional composers.
Benbecula once again embraces the advance of music within a medium. Rather than pushing the noise envelope via the technology available, Ochre expertly demonstrates that the most complex of compositions can be realised in a human and organic way via technology, possibly more than anyone before him.”
A Midsummer Nice Dream (Toytronic Records)
2004, CD/2×12″/mp3
Remixes
A Day For War (Ochre remix) (Multi-Panel - Alone In The Field, Unschooled Records) 
Calmed Robbery (Ochre remix) (Keef Baker - The Widnes Redevelopment Project, n5md)
GITD Trea Cylm (Ochre remix) (Rusuden - Formulae Remixes, Terminal Dusk Records) 
Hellomusic (Ochre remix) (Melodium - Hum Hum & Bla Bla EP, Autres Directions in Music)
Styge (Ochre remix) (Ed Chamberlain - Mixxy EP1, Baselogic Records)
Appearances
Bluebottles (Yearbook 2006, Benbecula Records) 
Copacetia (Subvaritrax, Subvariant Recordings) 
Esign (Future Sound Theory, Celestial Dragon Records)
Jingle Bells (A Very Unschooled Christmas, Unschooled Records)
Me & My Variflex (Rhythms Re-Lik, Ginglik)
REM Sleep Research (Igloo Trax, Igloo Magazine)
REM Sleep Research (Sample & Hold, Unschooled Records)
Reunion (Intelligent Toys 3, Sutemos)
Reverse Engineering (One Point One, Rednetic Recordings)
Shiverbox (Intricate Maximals, Audiobulb Records)
Sticklebrick Symphony (Everything Is Green, Toytronic Records) Sticklebrick Symphony (Region Zero, Boltfish Recordings)
Swings & Roundabouts (Rhythms You Lik, Bubblewrap Industries)
The Everywhere Air (Music Volume 4, Benbecula Records)
Valley Forge (One Point One, Rednetic Recordings)
Key: Bleep | iTunes | eMusic | Napster | Amazon
P.S. I’m not the same Ochre that releases Didgeridoo Music. 
Leave a Reply
May 16th, 2007 at 11:52 am
You’re the best!!! beautiful music, I’m addict, please you must become.
Salut from bcn.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
A Midsummer Nice Dream is a great work, Lemodie just astonishing! Not a single ordinary track! All these classical things make me dizzy. Keep it up, Chris! Cheers.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
complimenti……
bravi.
August 18th, 2007 at 3:36 am
nice music :DD , hector de bcn dius?
August 28th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
You’re an extraordinarily talented man. Please keep producing, and thank you for bringing such wonderful sounds into the world. =)
September 11th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
hey dude,
great sound… i dig in it.
really the kind of stuffs i enjoy to listen to.
hope to meet you once.
cheers
September 18th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Some of the most well constructed, neck-hair raising music I have heard for a long time.
Effin beauty
October 8th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Loving your sound here!!!! Lemodie goes on repeat all the time
November 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Wow, what a beautiful music.
I love your work.
Greetings from Germany
November 5th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
There are a lot of people out there that have the talent to create unique sounds and to make a good mix. But only a few musicians have the education and the flair to write beautiful, energetic songs like you do. Keep up the great work.
I think a lot of music lovers would like to have a copy of your cds. You should really try to make some availible. A cd with a nice cover means much more to me than a downloaded MP3 file.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:34 am
your music sounds great in a car stereo among other places. i deliver papers at night and your mp3 cd ive made gets quite a lot of time in my stereo.
November 15th, 2007 at 2:48 am
everything sounds so great…just makes me smile for no reason when i’m listening.
p.s. - ever thought of doing a limited vinyl-only release available off this site of some of your favorites (pretty please!)???
Greetings and Salutations from Kansas, USA!
November 15th, 2007 at 3:28 am
I have a suggestion. Would you be so kind as to list all of the known/released tracks you have collaborated to make? Im itching to get my hands/ears on anything you have had yours on. :p
November 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Thanks! Well, there’s always the possibility of another self-release, but I’m not sure anyone would buy tracks on vinyl that are already available on the site as mp3s. Plus of course I’m keen to continue handing unreleased tracks to Benbecula for possible future releases.
I do agree a vinyl release would be fun; it’s a shame Lemodie wasn’t available on vinyl, but the kind of costs involved don’t really make financial sense in the current musical climate. If I had the extra cash myself I would have perhaps helped subsidise a vinyl release… but then I seldom have spare cash. We’ll have to see what happens with the next release - perhaps we’ll get a vinyl run out then.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Hi Aaron—I think the above list is a fairly complete list of released mp3s, along with their related mp3 purchase links, where available. Anything that doesn’t appear on that list is probably either too old or not worth bothering with anyway.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:18 am
TheGonz—Well, being a small indie artist on a small indie label, large CD runs of more than 1000 units often aren’t practical or feasible, unfortunately.
As the bulk of CDs are usually sold within a few weeks of release and then largely forgotten about as the promo hype dies down and everyone moves on, the risk of being left with boxes of unsold CDs collecting dust in warehouses are fairly high, especially at this tiny commercial level. Not to mention the difficulty in today’s uncertain musical climate in convincing a distributor to take on so many copies of a release.
It makes more sense for indie labels to put out small runs so they can quickly recoup their investment and move on to the next release, rather than potentially be left with a huge financial deficit due to underwhelming sales of a single release. Even as it stands with 1000 unit releases, the production of one release relies on the success of the previous release to support it.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:46 am
alrighty. is the valley forge track available for mp3 download? i cant seem to find it for download. the cd is rather expensive for me (around 20 USD+shipping), although id really like to have the cd anyway…
November 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I think that’s one of the few releases not currently available on mp3, unfortunately. I’ve updated popular purchase links for the remaining releases though.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:17 am
great music to rediscover once in a while
keep up
December 16th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
b ig thanks for your great music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shouts
March 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Just an update for you Aaron—Rednetic have just finished implementing their own download store, so you’re now able to buy tracks from 1.1, and any other release, in 320kbps mp3 for 70p per track:
http://www.rednetic.net/shop/
May 11th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Any hope for the Styge Remix to become available for download?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I’m quite sure it will, as it’s due out on Baselogic (though I’ve no idea of the time frame at the moment, sorry).