A Brief History of Bundle Records:
The Eighties:
I have been dabbling in electronic music since I bought my
first synth, a
Yamaha CS5, in 1981, inspired as I was
by the likes of
Numan,
OMD,
Depeche Mode, etc.
In 1984 I got together with a like-minded friend on a
number of occasions with our synths, keyboards, drum
machines and a tape recorder and recorded a few tracks. He
even came up with a name for our synthpop duo -
Complex Fusion.
Unfortunately I lost touch with him around 1989, but I
kept the tapes and have
released them for
posterity. Jonathan, are you out there?
In between times I continued to dabble on my own and
record.
The Nineties:
During the '90s I got a PC and did a lot of MIDI
composition. My claim to fame is the disco version of
Pachelbel's Canon in D which I sequenced around '94,
followed by a Eurobeat version of Handel's The Arrival of
the Queen of Sheba.
I have also sequenced several
OMD tracks (Almost, Silent Running,
The Romance of the Telescope and Of All the Things
We've Made). Original pieces include Dunce (my attempt
at a dance track), and Every Day (a depressing piece
about someone on the verge of committing suicide -
incidentally written around the time Kurt Cobain blew
his head off - listen for the gunshot at the end).
To download the MIDI files, follow the
MIDI Files link.
Now:
Still dabbling (on an Apple Mac) with varying degrees of
success, using
Reason,
Garageband and
Logic Express.
All my attempts at creating music (categorised by album)
are freely downloadable by following the links in the menu.
PLEASE NOTE:
Safari fails to download some of the
tunes - you may need to use an alternative
browser.
(K)Enjoy.