Workin’ The Middle from Steve Mason on Vimeo.

In other news, I must apologise for the lack of updates to my own website. Although I have been working on a lot of different things over the past few months, there hasn’t been much that warrants a full post yet, in my opinion. Either way, I will try to be a little more active in the future by posting more bits and pieces to the site.

An independent game developer got in touch with me to ask for permission to use my track “Lost in Bass” in his game “GraLL” – a 3D puzzler involving strange scientists, hazardous obstacles and a mysterious, spherical robot!

The track was slightly longer than the developer had in mind and was sounding a little rough since its original release in 2003, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to create a new and improved edit for 2007.

Check out the game and you’ll hear my track if you make it to the last level, or simply download the mp3 from the link below!

While digging through drawers full of old junk one day at my dad’s house, I found some cassette tapes filled with silly home recordings. One tape in particular contained recordings of my sister and I as young children; reading nursery rhymes, telling jokes, inventing bizarre radio stations and other ridiculous shows, plus a wide variety of other incredibly random sound bytes and noises. In other words, I had stumbled upon a sample goldmine!

“1985 EP” is a collection of strange, brooding, electronic rhythms that were inspired by the quirky, nostalgic sounds I sampled from that childhood cassette tape.

Enjoy!

“Mars Wind are 2 hard techno kids from the streets, and the lovely Marta who sings from her cold heart into the fast night. Rip it up to this!”

Mars Wind is a project that in_tense and I created in the haze of an extended drinking binge… yay, vodka! We decided to deliberately limit ourselves to the SID chip for all of our melodic and percussive needs (or at least an emulation of one, courtesy of QuadraSID VSTi by reFX), abandoning the traditional approach of using more advanced synthesisers which would have us wasting far too much time browsing endless presets. Working within these constraints actually created a great sense of freedom and forced us to be more creative. Our intention was to create short, fun tracks with a high replayability factor.

Song lyrics after the break…

*** Lift off! ***

Prepare for lift off!
All systems are go!
Mars Wind rock the beat!
Keep with the boom!

Keep with the boom!

Prepare for lift off!
All systems are go!
Mars Wind rock the beat!
Keep with the boom!

*** ASCII Gangster ***

Two Six
Seven One
Nine A

Two F
E D
C D

ASCII gangster
ASCII gangster
Seven bits of heaven
ASCII gangster
Bits of heaven
ASCII gangster

(Repeat)

*** Hello ***

Hello… Who is this?
Hello, are you still there?
Hello, are you still there?

(Repeat)

I just want to talk to you.
I just want to talk to you.

Hello, are you still there?

(Repeat)

*** Marching towards the light ***

Marching towards the light
Marching towards the light
Marching towards the light
Marching towards the light
I love today
Marching towards the light

Go
I know
I meant to stay, stay, stay

Go
I know
I meant to stay, stay, stay

Go
Marching towards the light
I love today
Marching towards the light
I love today

*** Hit the streets ***

Hit the streets
Hit the streets
Hit the streets… Tonight!

Simply divine
Simply divine
Who, me?

Simply divine
Simply divine
Who, me?

Hit the streets… Tonight!
Move… Hit the streets
Who, me?

Hit the streets…. Tonight!
Move… Hit the streets

Hit the streets

*** Transam ***

Get in my transam
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby
Yeah!

(Repeat)

Ooh yeah!
Ooh yeah!

Let’s go to KFC
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby
Yeah!

Give me my headband
Love me tonight
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby
Love me tonight!

Ooh yeah!
Ooh yeah!

Give me my headband
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby

Let’s go to KFC
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby
Yeah!

Let’s go to KFC
Let’s roll!
It takes two tonight
Touch me baby
Yeah!

*** Sex (yeah) ***

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… One two three

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… One two three, more for me

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… One two three, more for me

On your bed
On your floor
Have a Coke
Out the door!

On your bed
On your floor
Have a Coke
Out the door!

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… One two three, more for me

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… One two three, more for me

On your bed
On your floor
Have a Coke
Out the door!

On your bed
On your floor
Have a Coke
Out the door!

Sex… Good for me, yeah
Sex… Good for me, yeah

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