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My Retro Computing (and gaming of course) section has pictures of my collection and a bit of an explanation on what each thing is.
This is where I have my own musical meanderings.
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Deacon Blue’s – Raintown
Released in May 1987, with it’s iconic Oscar Marzaroli’s grim snapshot of Glasgow’s skyline in the 60s adorning the album cover, this was Deacon Blue’s first album and it catapulted the band into the UK pop scene with the beautifully written and performed “Dignity” as it’s title track. Only being 16 years old at the time, this was in equal measure the soundtrack to my youth along with New Order’s 1987 superb compilation album and Erasure’s “the Circus” album.
The Raintown album however was something different. Clean guitar, beautiful chords, great lyrics (only a certain Scottish demographic will know what he means when Ricky Ross sings about Bogey packing his lunch in a Sunblest bag – classic) and raspy singing from Ricky and soaring supporting vocals from Lorraine McIntosh all begin with the hauntingly wonderful “Born in a Storm” which segues smoothly into the Raintown track which sets the tone for the whole album.
The album had several chart successes from it’s single releases but for me, aside from Dignity my favourite song is “Love’s great Fears”. I do enjoy listening to this from start to finish on occasion – not necessarily only on a dreich Glasgow afternoon
Way back in 1992, a wonderful platform game appeared on the shelves of our favourite computer game stockists (John Menzies in Clydebank for me personally). That game was Flashback from Delphine Software, for the Commodore Amiga. Released at the height of the Amiga’s popularity and taking advantage of all the Amiga’s considerable attributes, and being …
The NeverEnding Story holds a special place in my heart. I came to the story, much like most of us in the UK, via the 1984 Miramax Movie of the same name which was a screenplay adaptation of the original 1979 German book release by Michael Ende and was translated into English by Ralph Manheim …
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So, I’m a lucky retro computing loving boy! I happen to own a sweet ass Amiga 1200 (in the cool CD32 limited edition case from A1200.Net) as you will see from the photo’s on the site. I’ve had an accelerator in this machine for many years (way before the cool CD32 case) and what I …
I sometimes create music with my collection of synthesizers. I’ve been doing this since the early days of owning my Amiga (probably from 1990 or so) and had an old Yamaha SY22 and a Boss DR550 drum machine running with the Steinberg Midi sequencer. Times have changed and my current synth’s of choice are my Roland Juno Di and Juno JDxi with Ableton or Garage Band.