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# Ali Jamieson

Formerly Zeroes and Ones

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## Posts

- [Boolean Logic Gates for Eurorack Modular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2025/01/13/boolean-logic-gates-for-eurorack-modular/) - Understanding logic gates in the context of a modular synth rig was a huge a-ha moment for me. I didn't really know what Boolean logic was, or why it was useful to me. It seemed like the mysterious secret language that was beyond my comprehension. When I finally understood a little it really opened everything
- [Examples of Songs in Different Time Signatures](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/06/examples-of-songs-in-different-time-signatures/) - As part of a module I'm teaching at the moment I'm compiling Spotify playlists for a range of different time signatures. As the vast majority of popular music including dance/EDM, hip hop, rock, pop, soul, country etc is in 4/4 time, it can often be tricky for people to compile examples of a range of
- [Modular Synthesis 101: A Guide to Eurorack Modular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/05/14/modular-synthesis-101-the-basics/) - This article was originally written in 2015. Like many of my other well read articles, I’m giving them an update for 2025, with more up-to-date information, better writing, audio and visual accompaniment. If you’ve clicked this link you might well have some understanding of what modular synthesis is, and, when I took the dive in
- [Rebel Technology Open Sound Module & Reaktor 6](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2025/01/09/rebel-technology-open-sound-module-reaktor-6/) - In 2025 I'm dedicated to clearing my drafts folder. This dates back to 2015(!) which is incredible I'm bothering to publish but funnily enough the content is still relevant. Reaktor is near-limitless world of musical potential. Native Instruments' flagship digital semi-modular saw a sixth incarnation released in September 2015 and with it the introduction of
- [Drums like Block Rockin' Beats](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2025/01/08/drums-like-block-rockin-beats/) - Last night there was a post on Reddit from Alternative-Bug-6905 asking about how to achieve the mid 90s big beat drum sound. The drums on this song sound so overwhelming huge. How did they take Bernard Purdies drumming and make it big enough to rock blocks? Before and after samples: https://www.whosampled.com/The-Chemical-Brothers/Block-Rockin'-Beats/ Here's the Chemical Brothers track in question,
- [A Belated 10 year anniversary post: The past, present and future of Zeroes and Ones](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2024/12/22/a-belated-10-year-anniversary-post-the-past-present-and-future-of-zeroes-and-ones/) - The title is perhaps a little grandiose for an infrequently updated personal Wordpress site but I’ve wanted to write something more for my own crystallisation of thought than anything else. May this year saw the anniversary of ten years of posting on the site - an anniversary I totally forgot to mark. In that decade
- [A Bluffers' Guide to Frequency Modulation](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/05/19/bluffers-guide-frequency-modulation/) - There's a whole variety of synthesis types available ranging from things you've probably come across like subtractive, wavetable and granular to lesser known techniques like additive, phase distortion, Karplus-Strong and vector. For the longest of times I had thought Frequency Modulation was only capable of making thin and papery computer game sounds, cheesy brittle electric pianos and laughably
- [Chord of the Day: Get Down Saturday Night](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/16/chord-day-get-saturday-night/) - Get Down Saturday Night was a 1983 hit for Oliver Cheatham written by himself and Kevin McCord and released on MCA Records, peaking at #38 in the UK singles chart that year. It’s been sampled countless times, most notably by Daft Punk, Michael Gray and Room 5. In addition, it was re-released in 1988, ‘89, ‘98, ‘99,
- [Reaktor's Newscool](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/05/25/reaktors-newscool/) - In the 1970s, British mathematician John Conway devised Game of Life a simple turn based zero player game in-which patterns of cells evolve through generations, either surviving or not based on simple rules. Cells are arranged in a 2D grid, and if they have neighbours determines whether or not they made the next turn. Here’s the
- [Cadences, Turnarounds and Endings](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/01/06/cadences-turnarounds-and-endings/) - In this post I'm going to discuss some types of cadences and turnarounds. Cadences are a topic that comes up for my first year foundation Understanding Music Theory students (as well as for many others), and this will acts as a resource to demonstrate the four types of cadence they need to know. However I'm
- [Describing the Relationship Between Two Notes: Harmonics as Decimals](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/20/describing-relationship-two-notes/) - This was originally published in December 2017. I am giving the graphics and writing an update. I was walking along the canal a while back with my good pal discussing saxophone and how his work rota had allowed him more time at home during the day, meaning he can practise the (often) unwelcoming sound of overtones.
- ['gazed and Confused: A Guide to Shoegaze in your DAW](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/12/gazed-and-confused-a-guide-to-shoegaze-in-your-daw/) - This article was originally published back in 2015. As with other well-read posts on this site, I'm trying to revisit some to tidy up some of the writing and audio and generally make them a little more professional. Shoegaze is the maligned term for a sub-genre of guitar music that started in the British Isles
- [Kool & The Gang: Summer Madness](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/08/15/kool-gang-summer-madness/) - Taken from their 1974 Light of Worlds album, Summer Madness is perhaps one of Kool and the Gang’s coolest tracks in a slew of well known dancefloor fillers. Who Sampled have recorded a whopping 145 entries for samples of this song, but perhaps it’s most notably known for Gang Starr’s DJ Premier In Deep Concentration,
- [Misirlou: Istanbul to South California](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/11/20/misirlou/) - Even if you don't recognise the name Misirlou you will know the melody. It has been covered well over a hundred times and sampled to death. Misirlou is a folk melody from the Ottoman Empire that emerged some time before 1920 (although it's not unreasonable to assume it's much older than that). The song was
- [Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit (Ondine)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/30/ravel-gaspard-de-la-nuit-ondine/) - Ondine is the first movement from Ravel's fabled 1908 composition Gaspard de la nuit. The piece is regarded by many as one of the most demanding piano works. This fact certainly hooked me into its orbit but it's really the post-romantic/impressionistic harmony that fascinated me. Maurice Ravel, born 1875 died 1937, was a French Basque
- [Reese's Pieces: How to Create Kevin Saunderson's Legendary Bass Patch](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/08/14/reeses-pieces-how-to-create-kevin-saundersons-legendary-bass-patch/) - Reese bass is an often-confused term that crops up in dance music production usually within the jungle and Drum’n’Bass communities, but can be found in glitch hop, bass-house, dubstep and virtually any genre that is obsessed with bass. There are countless YouTube tutorials on creating the perfect Reese sound, commonly built up of stacked super-saw
- [Can I get an Amen? The Winstons' Classic Break Examined](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/31/can-i-get-amen-winstons-classic-break-examined/) - It’s been called the most important six second drum loop, it’s virtually spawned an entire genre, it’s subject to much debate in all corners of the internet from the legal ins-and-outs to how best to chop it up. In-fact it’s so famous it’s probably entered the unconscious musical vernacular like the Wilhelm scream did with foley,
- [Guitar Rig 6 Equivalencies (updated for 2022)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/12/29/guitar-rig-6-equivalencies-updated-for-2022/) - Guitar Rig is Native Instruments very own guitar amp and cabinet simulator. Much of their modules included in the software is an overt nod to a real-world amp, microphone or guitar pedal, however as they don't own the copyright, many of the names are allusions to the gear they are emulating. Back in 2013 Daniel
- [Logic Pedalboard Equivalencies (updated for 2023)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2023/01/08/logic-pedalboard-equivalencies-updated-for-2023/) - Recently I compiled an equivalencies for Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 and I thought I'd complete the same list for the Logic pedalboard modules. Some of the observations in this are from this Reddit post but the vast majority are my own observations. Distortion and Fuzz Candy Fuzz - I've seen suggestions this is a
- [My Parallel Pedalboard](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/09/30/my-parallel-pedalboard/) - Guitar pedals were one of the catalysts for me getting into music technology. Through listening to various bands who created these non-guitar-like sounds I became fascinated in the guitar more as a vehicle for making weird noises rather than just being a traditional instrument. Around this time I joined up to GuitarGeek (now part of
- [Talking Synths: Using Vocoders and Talkboxes in your DAW](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/03/03/vocoder-v-talkbox/) - Vocoders and Talkboxes are often confused in that both sound like synthetic voices and are often created using synths; they also require pretty much zero singing ability to use, which is great if you want to add lyrics to your track without being able to hold a tune. However, that’s where the similarity ends. I’m
- [Joy of Six: The Best Free 64-bit Plugins](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/24/joy-of-six-the-best-free-64-bit-plugins/) - Since the switch to 64-bit, I’ve had my plugin library halved and had to re-evaluate what I can and can’t use on a daily basis when producing. Many plugins I have relied on, such as Bram.Smartelectronix.Com’s s(M)exoscope, iZotope Vinyl [EDIT iZotope have rereleased Vinyl as a 64-bit plugin!] and Tone2’s BiFilter2, have sadly not made the switch
- [Everything you Need to Know about Reverb](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/04/12/everything-need-know-reverb/) - Reverb is by far one of the most useful and interesting effects in modern production. From a mixing point of view it can be necessary to place dry recordings in an imagined space, from drum mics, lead vocals, guitars, percussion etc. From a sound design and production angle you can radically change the tonal makeup
- [Aphex Twin: Xtal (Ableton Recreation)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/08/11/aphex-twin-xtal/) - Aphex Twin is the moniker of Richard D. James, a Cornwall native whose output spans three decades, releasing on such labels as Apollo (R&S's ambient sister label), his own imprint, Replhex and of course British indie Warp. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Aphex Twin's music is up there with Daft Punk, The
- [Aphex Twin: Tha (Ableton Recreation)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/11/22/aphex-twin-tha-ableton-recreation/) - Tha is the second track from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92, a landmark ambient techno album released by R&S Records in 1992. Elsewhere on these pages I've deconstructed Xtal, but recently I transcribed this track for my Music Theory and Composition foundation students to demonstrate syncopation, and I thought I'd share it on this
- [Echoes of Naima: Exploring the Link Between Erykah Badu and Coltrane](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/06/11/naima_otherside_of_the_game/) - I want to look at two songs. One is the 1959 ballad Naima taken from John Coltrane’s game changer Giant Steps, and the other is Erykah Badu’s Other Side of the Game, produced by Richard Nichols and The Roots, taken from her 1997 album, Baduizm. On the face of it, there do not seem to be too
- [Erykah Badu - Other Side of the Game](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/31/erykah-badu-other-side-of-the-game/) - An incredible track from Erykah's 1997 Baduizm album. Otherside of the Game was written by Badu, Questlove, James Poyser and Richard Nichols. Wikipedia describes it as "effectively showcases Badu's debt to jazz as well as soul", which I can't disagree with. I'm going to look at each of the three sections in the song one
- [Major and Minor Triads, Sevenths, Ninths and More...](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/19/diatonic-chords/) - This article was originally published back in 2014. As with other well-read posts on this site, I’m trying to revisit some to tidy up some of the writing and audio and generally make them a little more professional. This article is part of a wider series on music theory fundamentals, so there will be some
- [Eddie Kendricks - Intimate friends](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/09/20/eddie-kendricks-intimate-friends/) - Discovered this song in an awesome playlist by AAA Badboy, which was 60s, 70s and 80s soul music sampled in Jungle records. Check the playlist out here. The song I want to look at today is Intimate Friends by Eddie Kendricks. Released in 1977, it's been sampled by a plethora of people including most notably
- [Pedal Tones and Inverse Pedal Tones](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/26/pedal-tones-and-inverse-pedal-tones/) - Pedal tones and inverse pedal tones are two ways of adding interest to a harmonic part by use of a static tone or tones, and in some cases repeated ostinato. Today we'll look at a few examples that demonstrate these concepts in modern music. Let's go. Pedal Tones Let's start off by defining our terms.
- [What is the Funkiest Tempo?](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/09/12/what-is-the-funkiest-tempo/) - I've been categorising my breakbeats folder by tempo for an upcoming project (more on this another time). The process involves selecting certain breaks, importing them to Logic, cropping them to exactly one, two, four or eights bars and detecting the tempo. Below is the results. I've re-rendered these with their tempo rounded to a whole
- [Examples of Famous Drum Machines in Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2019/08/28/examples-of-famous-drum-machines-in-music/) - When searching for this topic recently I was disappointed that well written articles had missed out one or two notable drum machines, or more thorough lists lacked examples, so here's my short but sweet list of examples of the drum machines I think are worthy of inclusion. This is not every drum machine ever. I'm
- [Interval Recognition](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/02/01/interval-recognition/) - This article serves as a guide for my first year Understanding Music Theory students but is also a go-to for anyone who wants to improve their musical ear. I am far off a natural when it comes to pitch recognition and it took me putting in the hours developing this skill. Interval recognition is something
- [Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Larry Levan mix)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/08/03/inner-life-aint-no-mountain-high-enough-larry-levan-mix/) - As genre defining classics go it's hard to look past Marvin Gaye's Ain't no Mountain High Enough as a candidate for an exemplary Motown soul song. Penned in 1966 by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and released on Tamla (a subsidiary of Motown Records) the next year. The song is a duet between Gaye and
- [Sight in Sound: Metering Frequencies with Spectral Analysis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/06/02/spectral-analysis/) - Spectral analysers are a useful tool for helping to diagnose troublesome frequencies in your mix, weather it be low-end rumble, a pokey mid-range spike or a piercing high frequency. Of course a visual representation of your music is substitute for your ears and trusted monitoring systems but using it conjunction with these can iron out
- [Modular Electro Sample Pack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/02/modular-electro-sample-pack/) - Recently a I completed a sample pack for Sample Magic with a good friend of mine titled Modular Electro. Readers of this blog know I am keen modular synth collector and I was in my element with this pack. In this article I want to take a quick look in some detail at some of
- [Compress Yourself: Parallel Processing in Ableton Live](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/07/10/parallel-processing/) - Parallel processing is a technique for mixing an effected version of a track with a dry version. This is particularly helpful when you want to process a sound but the plug-in doesn’t have a dry/wet knob or you want to be able to control the effected signal with additional effects, such as EQ, reverb etc.
- [Radiohead: Everything in its Right Place](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/09/chord-of-the-day-everything-in-its-right-place/) - Radiohead’s Kid A saw a change in direction for the Oxford five-piece. Released in 2000, and sandwiched between OK Computer and Amnesiac, it’s probably fair to say it had a little influence from both of these albums. With less of an obvious rock influence than OK Computer but not quite as far-out and experimental as Amnesiac, it regularly tops
- [Jan Hammer Group: Don't You Know](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/03/31/jan-hammer-group-dont-know/) - The Jan Hammer Group's track Don't You Know is a groovy synth-jazz funk number taken from their 1977 album Melodies. It has seeped into the collective conscious through Erol Alkan's inclusion of it on Another Bugged Out Mix and through being sampled numerous times. I was recently teaching a class on Massive by Native Instruments and wanted to demonstrate the Stepper LFO. This is
- [Replicating the Blade Runner Soundtrack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/14/replicating-blade-runner-soundtrack/) - Ridley Scott’s 1982 Cyberpunk film-noir adaptation of the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? changed science fiction forever. Similarly to how Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey had done previously, and how later The Matrix would, the genre could never be the same after Blade Runner. We follow Deckard
- [Make Noise MATHS for Beginners](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/11/02/make-noise-maths-beginners/) - When I first started out in the world of modular synthesis, I was lucky to have a couple of friends that had dipped their toes into the eurorack world and they helped me out understanding various aspects such as power, cases and signal path. One thing they both recommended I invest in was the Make Noise
- [French House 2 Sample Pack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/11/14/french-house-2-sample-pack/) - My production partner and myself have just completed our second sample pack together for Sample Magic and Splice titled French House 2. In this article I want to take a quick look in some detail at some of the production techniques that went into it. You can buy the pack here. Filtered samples, funky keys,
- [Making DIY Coffee Can Speakers](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/07/12/making-diy-coffee-can-speakers/) - I don't know why but I am a total sucker for these Extralife DIY videos. Perhaps because I am so cack-handed myself and have the DIY skills of an undeveloped chimp who's yet honed his motor neuron skills. Perhaps I living vicariously through these videos, as, if only I could solder (and understand basic circuitry)
- [How to Make a Printed Circuit Board (DIY PCB Fabrication)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/05/11/make-printed-circuit-board-diy-pcb-fabrication/) - Zeroes and Ones editor, coder, musician, DIYer and producer extraordinaire Matthew Cieplak under the alias Extralife has started a new YouTube channel which he describes as "Funky disco music with a side of DIY, software and electronics. A channel for the doomsday-prepper slash clubgoer demographic." His second instalment is a video on making your own PCBs (printed
- [How to Etch Aluminum / Etched Guitar Pedals](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/10/23/etch-aluminum-etched-guitar-pedals/) - Extralife is back again with another mesmerising DIY video, this time on how to etch designs into homemade guitar pedals - something close to my heart. Anyone who knows me or has read this blog knows I am a guitar pedal addict and it's fair to say that hoarding these cheap metal rectangular prisms during the latter
- [Top 12 Effects Plugins under £50](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/02/07/top-12-effects-plugins-under-50/) - Most DAWs now come bundled with a plethora of really useable effects plugins. Apple's Logic in particular has numerous great options for modulation, spatial effects, distortions and dynamic control and with the latest 10.2.1 plugin re-skin they all look pretty darn sexy. Ableton Live isn't far behind with less options but some more creative ones, and
- [Measure Once, Cut Twice: EQ Basics](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/01/05/measure-cut-twice-eq-basics/) - Equalisation, more commonly refereed to as EQ, is the process of balancing frequencies to give a more pleasing overall sound to an individual track, group of tracks or master. It’s a mandatory part of music production used in tracking, sound design and mixing and you’re probably more familiar with it than you realise. Graphic equalisers
- [Radiohead: Idioteque](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/12/radiohead-idioteque/) - Radiohead's Idioteque was released in October 2000 and is probably one of the clearest examples of what they were trying to achieve sonically with Kid A. I'm a little bit of a johnny-come-lately when it comes to Radiohead; I was never that bothered by any of their earlier guitar-orientated rock output (which on reflection I do
- [Modular How-To: The Expert Sleepers ES-8, Kenton Solo, Poly2 and Malekko Sync](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/01/16/modular-how-to-the-expert-sleepers-es-8-kenton-solo-poly2-and-malekko-sync/) - As my studio is in a shared space, we regularly use each others equipment, however my modular is still quite a specialised tool. With that in mind I started writing this guide with a view of anyone else wanting to use our space, they should be able to plugin in a few USBs and viola,
- [The Major and Minor scale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/01/06/the-major-and-minor-scale/) - This article is designed for my foundation Understanding Music Theory students but is available to anyone else who is staring out with composition or production and wants to understand how scale construction works. By the end of this you should be able to Figure out a major scale on any given rootFigure out the minor
- [The Crown - Duck Shoot (Rupert Gregson-Williams)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/01/14/the-crown-duck-shoot-rupert-gregson-williams/) - After finally sitting down watch the Netflix series The Crown last year I was really blown away by the excellent soundtrack. English composer Rupert Gregson-Williams along with scotsman Lorne Balfe composed the music for season one and two. During season one there is a scene where Churchill goes shooting. The accompanying piece of music is
- [Modular Synthesis 102: East Coast Synthesis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/02/10/modular-102-east-coast-rig/) - If you caught our eurorack introduction and have the bug to start embarking on your own system, then you’re in the right place. If you didn’t, I do highly recommend reading it, as some of the terminology in this will be more properly explained in the first part. However, this is for beginners, so I’ll do
- [Using External Hardware with Ableton and Logic](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/12/14/external-hardware/) - There was a time when studios were only comprised of hardware. Whether that be sequencers, drum machines, synths, reel-to-reel tape recorders, mixers, effect units, patch-bays, compressors, EQs and such – these were the mandatory tools in order to take your music from concept to something physical. Building a home studio would have required thousands of
- [Charles Mingus: Jump Monk (Transcription)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/03/31/charles-mingus-jump-monk-transcription/) - As a young impressionable teenager, it was first hearing Mingus' tribute to Thelonious Monk - Jump Monk - that first turned me on to jazz. I'd been exposed to odds and sods during secondary school but this was a milestone in terms of me becoming obsessed with the sound. Taken from his 1955 live album Mingus
- [Stranger Things: Kids (Ableton Recreation)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/08/15/stranger-things-kids/) - This summer's Netflix one-to-watch has undoubtably been the Duffer Brothers' nostalgia soaked Stranger Things. Incase you've been living under a rock, the story follows a group of kids, a mother (played by Winona Ryder), two adolescents and a cop searching for Will Byers, a boy who vanishes in the first episode. With clear hat tips to directors like Stephen King,
- [Squarepusher: Tommib (Ableton Deconstruction)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/09/08/squarepusher-tommib-ableton-deconstruction/) - Next to Aphex Twin, there is perhaps no-one more synonymous with the cringe inducing term "IDM" than Tom Jenkinson, better known to most as Squarepusher. Part virtuoso bass player, part programming wizard, Squarepusher has had a fantastically eclectic career, wowing both bedroom producers and wannabe Fleas alike. Jenkinson's earlier works came from a more jungle/drum'n'bass background,
- [Chord of the Day: Aphex Twin - Cliffs](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/06/25/chord-day-aphex-twin-cliffs/) - It seems pointless trying to write an introduction that adds anything to the already behemoth legend status of electronic music pioneer that is Aphex Twin (or Richard D. James to his pals). There are few electronic artists that have come close to touching the sides of the imprint he has left on the music scene
- [Erykah Badu: Honey](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/22/erykah-badu-honey/) - The track I want to look at today is Erykah Badu's 2007 single Honey. It's produced by 9th Wonder, who has worked with Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Drake, Destiny's Child, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and blog-favourite Jill Scott, to name but a few. Honey is taken from Badu's fourth alum New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), which saw release
- [Ayers on a Bee Thing: Roy's Ubiquitous Summertime Jam](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/09/everybody-loves-the-sunshine/) - In 1976, Roy Ayres released his album Everybody Loves the Sunshine under the Roy Ayers Ubiquity moniker. The title track is a cool, lazy summer evening jam that’s been sampled by Mary J Blige, A Guy Called Gerald, Machinedrum, J. Cole, Dr Dre, Lemon D, 2Pac and Common to name but a few. It’s also been covered by
- [Chord of the Day: A Long Walk](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/08/22/a-long-walk/) - Who Is Jill Scott? (Words and Sounds Vol. 1) is the platinum album from Neo Soul singer, songwriter, poet, model and actress, Jill Scott, released on Hidden Beach Recordings in 2000. A Long Walk is written by Scott and Andre Harris and produced by Harris and Vidal Davis. It reached at no. 9 on the US Billboard's
- [Ambient Pads in FM8](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/04/07/ambient-pads-fm8/) - Native Instruments' FM8 is monster of a synthesiser capable of a vastly broad palette of sounds ranging from brutal Skrillex transformer-type bass to searing pads and leads to late 80s/early 90s rave sounds and beyond. One thing I think it really excels at too, is expressive ambient pads, and that's what we're going to have a
- [Air: La Femme D'Argent](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/11/22/air-la-femme-dargent/) - I've tasked myself with doing this in my lunch break, so here goes... Air's Moon Safari is one of those 90s coffee table albums along with Zero 7's Simple Things and various others that helped bring the sound of downtempo and chill out to the masses (there are tonnes more but I'm against the clock here...)
- [Joey Dosik: Inside Voice (Chords)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/03/09/joey-dosik-inside-voice/) - The cynic in me feels there aren't too many great new love songs made these days, Inside Voice from Joey Dosick certainly bucks that trend. Joey is part of the Vulfpeck collective and released his EP Game Winner back in 2016, pointing out this was recorded while he was recovering from a basketball ACL injury. The
- [Queens of the Stone Age in your DAW](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/09/04/queens-of-the-stone-age-in-your-daw/) - Queen of the Stone Age is the brainchild of guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Josh Homme. Few bands have left such a lasting impression on the rock idiom since the 90s as Queens of the Stone Age, and it could be argued a lot of that is down to this man and the musicians and
- [The Prodigy: Climbatize (Always Outnumbered Never Outpunned)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/08/14/the-prodigy-climbatize/) - The Fat of the Land was the Prodigy’s third album, and a huge commercial success. Released in 1997, I still remember buying it on cassette and taking it home to listen to for the first time (there were no leaks or previews in those days!) Everybody of course remembers Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe and their hit
- [The Ones: Flawless (Logic Recreation)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/16/ones-flawless-logic-recreation/) - With my drafts folder brimming with 80% finished long-reads I thought it a neat idea to get out a really quick recreation of a classic Ibiza house record. This actually took a little longer than it should have done but I had great fun researching and doing it. The song in question is The Ones' Flawless which
- [The 8 Most Important Synths in the Development of Hip Hop](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/01/8-important-synths-development-hip-hop/) - Nothing is more synonymous with Hip Hop than the sampler - a cornerstone on which Hip Hop is built. Without Kool Herc's beat juggling of "breaks" from Soul, Disco, Jazz and Funk records there would be no Hip Hop and none of the countless breakbeat inspired genres that spawned off the back off its legacy.
- [Polyrhythms in Ableton Live](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/09/07/polyrhythms-in-ableton-live/) - A really neat feature of Ableton Live is the clip loop length. In session mode this can easily facilitate simple polyrhythm generation which can lead to some great results. Polyrhythms are two or more multiples or divisions of a meter, for example 1/4 and 1/3, or 3/16 and 5/16. Sometimes these can sound cacophonous, but used
- [Feel Good Hit of the Summer vs Clapping Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/05/26/feel-good-hit-summer-vs-clapping-music/) - Like any self respecting music producer, you can't help but be fascinated and influenced by the influence Steve Reich has had not only on contemporary classical music and minimalism but his ripples are felt through electronic dance music too. Reich's career has been eulogised elsewhere far better than anything I could contribute, but in short, a
- [Altered Beast: A Brief Guide to the Altered Scale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2022/01/01/altered-beast-transforming-use-altered-scale/) - This article was originally published in 2014 and has been updated for 2022. This is a brief guide to the altered scale - how you can figure it out and some basic harmonies derived from it. The altered scale is a mode of the melodic minor and has some notoriety within jazz circles for improvising
- [Chord of the Day: The Jump Monk V](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/07/08/junk-monk-v-chord/) - I want to quickly have a look at this chord I stumbled across in Charles Mingus’s 1955 piece, Jump Monk, which can be found on the album, Mingus at the Bohemia. Mingus’s hard-bop tribute to Thelonious Monk deserves pages of its own but I really just want to focus on a chord in the ‘B’
- [Chord of the Day: The Desert Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/03/30/the-desert-music/) - The Desert Music is a composition by minimalist composer Steve Reich written between 1982 and 1983 and based on The Desert Music and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams. The piece is made up of five movements and lasts nearly forty minutes but it’s the first few minutes of the first movement that has always caught
- [Breaking the Rut: Chord Progressions](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/24/breaking-the-rut-chord-progressions/) - How to write convincing progressions is a question that often comes up with my students. With a basic grasp of music composition it’s possible to string together coherent chords that sit nicely within a key and support the main melody or motifs. But how to take that to the next step and compose sophisticated sequences
- [The CAGED System: Unlocking Guitar Chord Inversions](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/05/27/the-caged-system/) - The CAGED system is a method for quickly and logically learning all the potential chord inversions for the guitar’s fretboard. Ordinarily the basic shapes are taught to you and for playing in bands or basic accompaniment, this is fine. However when you want to push your playing and delve deeper into harmony, the CAGED system
- [Reaktor's SpaceDrone](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/07/21/reaktors-spacedrone/) - When first unboxing Reaktor 5 back in 2000-and-something I was blown away by the capabilities of these other-worldly synths, drum machines, granular sample destroying effects and sequencers, but it was some of the generative tools that really captured my imagination. Whilst I'm still not quite au fait with the monstrously complex Skrewell, SpaceDrone is a
- [Frequency, Pitch, Overtones, Harmonics and Timbre](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/07/10/frequency-pitch-overtones-harmonics-timbre/) - One of the eureka moments I had studying music was when I began to understand the harmonic series and how in turn this relates to pitch, intervals, harmony, tuning, waveforms, frequency and latterly timbre. The topic was broached by my piano teacher when I was trying to transcribe some Charles Mingus, and struggling with it. To
- [Forgive me Lord, For I have Synth: A Guide to Subtractive Synthesis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/19/forgive-me-lord-for-i-have-synth-a-guide-to-subtractive-synthesis/) - This article was originally published back in 2015. As with other well-read posts on this site, I’m trying to revisit some to tidy up some of the writing and audio and generally make them a little more professional. Subtractive synthesis is easily the most important type of synthesis you will come across and responsible for
- [SSL, Neve and API and on a Budget](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2019/02/28/ssl-neve-and-api-and-on-a-budget/) - At some stage or another, anyone who records in a humble home studio might want to move beyond the sound of an economy microphone and audio interface. There's nothing wrong with the sound for most purposes but if you've ever wanted to place your vocal, drums or guitar recording in a different era, or breathe
- [A (very) Brief History of the Theremin](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/01/25/brief-history-theremin/) - Is there an instrument more synonymous with a mood than the theremin? I'd hazard a guess no. Probably the kazoo, didgeridoo or other more novelty instruments might be in with a shout, but the theremin holds the prize of being considered a serious instrument and being totally bonkers at the same time. Adding one of these
- [1983 in Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/09/1983-in-music/) - Continuing in our series looking at at each year from the decade that shaped electronic music perhaps more than any other, we arrive at 1983, a huge year not only in terms of albums and singles released but also in terms of technology. There's a lot to unpack here so let's get going. Playlist from
- [1982 in Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/08/1982-in-music/) - Back with another "the year is..." and this time we're taking a look at 1982. Some of the biggest songs of 1982 include Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners (and apparently the Emerald Express, who I always forget about) and Men at Work's Down Under.
- [1981 in Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/12/08/1981-in-music/) - Continuing with the series, today we take a look at the year that was 1981. Here's a playlist of some interesting tracks: A lot of fantastic albums released in 1981, including Prince's Controversy, Chaka Khan's What Cha' Gonna Do for Me, Kraftwerk's Computer World, Nightclubbing (Grace Jones), an eponymous album from The Time (also Prince
- [Modular Synthesis 103: Clocking with Live/Logic (Triggers with Attitude)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/03/16/modular-103-clocking-livelogic-triggers-attitude/) - Right from the start, I knew I wanted to get my modular working with my computer. I imagined all the possibilities of running MIDI to a from my system, using Reaktor, Ableton Live, OSC… all that stuff. In reality it took me a bit longer than it should have done, partly because it’s not that simple
- [Modular Quick Tip: Sidechain Compression](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/10/19/modular-quick-tip-sidechain-compression/) - Sidechain compression is a method whereby an external source is used to trigger a compressors, rather than the signal that's being fed into its signal path. It's common place in electronic music and has been popularised by various french house producers. Hear the unaffected sample from the start and listen to how the kick drum attenuates in
- [Trigger Warning: Kick Drum Layering with Eurorack Modular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/11/19/kick-drum-layering-eurorack-modular/) - There have been countless words written about kick drum synthesis and layering kicks within Ableton and Logic (in these pages and elsewhere), so I thought I’d try and bring something new to the table. The advantages of layering your kicks (and other drums for that matter) are well documented, but in short it allows us greater
- [Korg Mini KP for Eurorack (Modular Kaoss Pad)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/20/korg-mini-kp-for-eurorack-modular-kaoss-pad/) - Back in May this year I contacted Million Machine March about the possibility of modifying my old, battered Korg Mini KP into Eurorack modular format. The owner, Chris, responded to me and we exchanged ideas about how it could be done as well as considerations. Chris has previously worked on Korg mods before, and this
- [1980 in Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2021/09/26/1980-in-music/) - It's not controversial to say that the 1980s was an utterly transformative decade in music. Over the next how-ever-long it takes me I want to chronicle some of the music, year by year, that means something to me from a truly iconic decade. Below is a playlist I've made spanning the whole year: Hip Hop
- [20 Jazz Funk Greats: Dancing music in the C20](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2019/08/28/20-jazz-funk-greats-dancing-music-in-the-c20/) - I love the blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and during 2016 they posted a series of short articles titled Dancing music in the C20, expertly detailing the lineage of dance music during the 20th Century through some of the more and less obvious music genres. I always refer to these during teaching but due to
- [Kicks from Scratch: Customising, Sampling and Layering Drums](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/06/01/creating-a-custom-kick-drum/) - There are numerous sample packs offering club-ready kick drums and this is by no means a bad thing. However, these might not always be suitable for your track. Sometimes it’s necessary to layer a few kicks together or bastardise a sample to make it fit for purpose, and sometimes this means creating a kick from
- [Review: Arturia Drumbrute](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/10/18/review-arturia-drumbrute/) - As avid readers of these pages will know I am a huge Arturia fan, and when given the opportunity to review one of their new hardware additions for Garnish Music, I jumped at the chance. The Drumbrute is a 17 voice all-analog sequencer and drum machine that has some neat performance and sequencing capabilities and
- [Drums in Logic's EXS24 Sampler](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/09/07/drums-logics-exs24-sampler/) - I'm creating a series of very short Logic tutorials, partly to help me out with a student I'm currently teaching but also as Logic's manual buries this information deep within hundreds of pages of explanation and I've not yet seen other sites cover this in the simplicity and succinctness it requires. Today I want to
- [Processed: Audio Beautifier for Reaktor](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/04/14/processed-audio-beautifier-reaktor/) - Hi! I’m Kris. I’m stoked (that’s Australian for very pleased) to get the chance to run you through Processed - a Reaktor ensemble I made and uploaded to the User Library back in early April 2017. It almost sounds embarrassing, but I’ve been working on this ensemble on-and-off for about 8 years now. First up, download the Processed
- [Broke with Expensive Breaks: Vintage Drums on a Budget](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/04/04/vintage-drums-budget/) - Spending years in bands self producing and releasing material, it was always clear to me that one part of the process stuck out and that's drums. Recording vocals, bass, keyboards, guitars, horns, strings etc can be done with one or two mics in a fairly ordinary space and with an entry level soundcard producing very
- [What have MIDI Guitars ever done for me?](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/02/13/midi-guitars-ever-done/) - Since its inception in the early eighties, MIDI has cemented its presence as the standard communication method between electronic instruments. It's well known for its studio applications for electronically composed and sequenced music, but what has MIDI ever done for the guitar? Can something as established and natural as a guitar ever work in harmony
- [Counterpoint in Native Instruments Massive](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/08/09/counterpoint-native-instruments-massive/) - Massive is wavetable synthesiser released by Native Instruments back in 2007 to great fanfare. It's known for its brutal sub ripping basslines, formant filtered vocaloid patches and grizzly distorted effects. But, underneath the facade of being this rebellious digital monstrosity, it's capable some damned clever modulation that can be used in a very musical way. One
- [Drop Voicings](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/07/22/drop-voicings/) - A breakthrough for me as a musician, and particularly as a composer, was when I stopped imagining harmony in rigid frameworks. The first instrument I excelled at to some degree was the guitar (being a fairly average pianist), and that had a great impact on the way I thought about chords. Music theory often teaches
- [The Best 15 eBay Synth and FX Finds](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/03/15/best-15-ebay-synth-fx-finds/) - Perhaps due to budget constraints, or a desire to always have something that few others did, I've always sought out music technology on eBay rather than buying new. Don't get me wrong, my studio is full of modern-day stuff too - I wouldn't suggest getting a computer from eBay and I've heard mixed results about
- [NAIVES: Horizon (Ali Jamieson Remix)](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/01/30/naives-horizon-ali-jamieson-remix/) - As a music technology teacher it’s often useful to go through a track in its entirety as a case study. Normally using your own music makes the most sense as you have access to all the stems and have prior knowledge of the sound design, chord progression choices, where samples are taken from etc. Depending
- [Masters at Work: Channel Strip Mastering in your DAW](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/01/08/masters-work-channel-strip-mastering-daw/) - Something that regularly crops up is questions about demystifying mastering, and whilst I’m not the person to go into detail about exactly how to master your own music, there is a case for shining some light on the subject. Mastering is sometimes seen as an Illuminati, secret hand-shake society of engineers unwilling to spill the beans
- [A Guide to Chord Substitution](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/01/08/guide-chord-substitution/) - When I was younger and first getting into learning about harmony I was always fascinated in particular by certain jazz pianists and their ability to string long complex chord sequences together, drifting in and out of original key with ease. This is what I became to understand as chord substitution, and is done to harmonic variety
- [Zeroes and Ones Meets: Sim Hutchins](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2016/01/05/zeros-ones-meets-sim-hutchins/) - It feels like Sim Hutchins has come out of nowhere, and in a relatively short space of time has made some lasting ripples in the London art house music crossover scene. Signing with established indie imprint NO PAIN IN POP earlier this year he’s already released his debut album, featured on their renowned Bedroom Club
- [Zeroes and Ones Meets: Phonat](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/12/16/zeros-ones-meets-phonat/) - Currently residing in sunny Los Angeles, Michele Balduzzi (better known as Phonat) is signed to OWSLA imprint by way of London oddball electronica outfit MofoHifi. Having made a name for himself by constantly making people second guess his next musical endeavour – flirting with fidget, disco, breakbeat, downtempo, drum'n'bass, hiphop and everything in between – Phonat is
- [Bebop Classics: A Guide to Bebop Jazz](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/12/14/bebop-classics/) - New York in the 1940s saw an explosion of musical creativity: small ensembles playing heavily reharmonized tunes, often at a flurried pace, and relying very heavily on improvisation – this is the music we know now to be bebop. Two of the main pioneers of the era were Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, known for their blistering
- [The 9 Top Synths to Stand out From the Crowd](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/11/20/synths-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd/) - A while back I started writing the following piece for Equipboard but for one reason or another it never came to be. Despite the click-bait-y subject matter it's still a half decent list, so I thought I’d publish it here and adapt it slightly to fit more with what we do here at Zeros and Ones.
- [Breaking the Fourth Wall: A Brief Guide to Quartal Harmony](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/11/06/breaking-the-fourth-wall-a-brief-guide-to-quartal-harmony/) - Quartal harmony is a system of building chord structures on perfect fourths. It’s been used by classical composers such as Stravinsky, Debussy and Bartók and innumerable jazz musicians like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans and Chick Corea to name but a few. The reason this harmonic device is so popular is for good reason: chords built
- [The Joys and Sorrows of Hardware Modification](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/08/19/the-joys-and-sorrows-of-hardware-modification-1/) - For the last couple of weeks I've been butchering my perfectly functional Native Instruments Audio 2 DJ soundcard. The end goal is to place it inside my portable audio rig, which is a combination PC and MIDI controller currently at the Jack Skellington stage - all bones and no skin. The point of this endeavour
- [Reaktor 102: Developing Our Synth](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/05/13/reaktor-102/) - In the first instalment of this series we looked at creating a monosynth in Reaktor, from the absolute basics through to creating oscillators, MIDI inputs, a basic ADSR envelope and filter before finishing with an introduction to macros. If you’ve not read it, I’d recommend familiarising yourself with what we talked about: Reaktor 101: Getting Started Today
- [Levels (APC40 remix): VU Metering in Hardware with Remote Scripts](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/19/levels-apc40-remix-vu-metering-in-hardware-with-remote-scripts/) - The APC40 is a great controller, but it does basically one thing: launch clips. Hans Petrov decided to improve on this diminutive feature set by writing the APC_64-40 remote script in Python to add new control modes for the clip grid, faders, and encoders. When Live 9 came out, the closed-source API for these scripts
- [ReWire with Logic, Ableton Live and Reason](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/16/logic-ableton-reason-rewire/) - All DAWs have their idiosyncratic nuances that make them great for some things but not so much for others. Lots of producers may have grown up using one DAW and switched to another later down the line. Some stick to one and others flit between several. One extremely useful development by Propellerhead and Steinberg in 1998 was
- [Celling Out: Reaktor's Wavetable Synth Oki Computer](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/04/15/reaktor-oki-computer/) - Native Instrument’s Massive is probably the de facto go-to wavetable synth these days. Lately it’s had huge success off the back of the later waves of dubstep, particularly the abuse of the Modern Talking and Brutal Electro sounds found in it. Massive is great for lots of things – the performer LFO and effects are great and
- [Reaktor 101: Getting Started](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/03/30/reaktor-101/) - Reaktor is an incredibly powerful digital semi-modular by Native Instruments. A lot of producers might have it as part of the Komplete bundle, but few I’ve spoken to have even scratched the surface of its potential. Admittedly the interface can be a little overwhelming: although I purchased it as a standalone many years ago, it
- [Dig Your Own Crate: A Guide to Becoming a Human Record Collection](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/02/16/sound-like-a-sample/) - Sampling is such a given in modern music that we probably don’t give it much thought these days - lifting a musical loop, breakbeat or even spoken word sample from someone else’s record is almost second nature to producers and has been commonplace since the explosion of sampling in the early 1980s. However, these samples
- [Getting started with TouchOSC in Ableton Live](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2015/02/11/touchosc_live/) - TouchOSC is an app that allows control of our DAWs from our iOS device such as an iPad or iPhone via MIDI or OSC messages. It comes with preset interfaces for Ableton Live and Logic as well as having the functionality to design your own. The website’s documentation is fairly comprehensive but is quite long. In addition,
- [Getting started with Max/MSP: Resources and Tutorials](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/08/08/getting-started-maxmsp-maxforlive-best-resources-tutorials/) - I started learning Max/MSP a few years ago around when Ableton and Cycling '74 collaborated to release Max for Live, a fully-integrated way to add visual programming and DSP to the powerful Ableton Live DAW. I'm a software engineer by trade but to be honest that training helped me little or none when it came to learning
- [Hacking APC40 Hardware Control with maxforlive](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/11/18/hacking-hardware-control-maxforlive/) - One of the great things about Max programming is that you almost never have to start from scratch. For my latest project, I essentially frankensteined two of my favorite patches together to make an unholy new device, the APC Mono Sequencer. It's built on top of Live 9 Mono Sequencer device, made by Cycling 74
- [Resonate Good Times: Fun with Ableton's Resonator](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2014/07/08/fun-abletons-resonator/) - One of my favourite plug-ins that comes bundled with Ableton Live is the Resonator. It’s a strange beast but essentially it’s a bit like oscillators that can be tuned independently and that react to the volume of whatever you put into it; it also has controllable decay, a dry/wet blend and a rudimentary filter. What’s
- [Compress to Impress: The Top 10 Free and Cheap Audio Unit Compressors](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/09/24/compress-to-impress-the-top-10-free-and-cheap-audio-unit-compressors/) - Outside of EQ there isn't an audio effect I reach for more often than the trusty compressor. Coming in all different flavours, shapes and sizes, no two compressors are the same and it's one effect I find I can never have too many of. At the heart of it, compressors work by reducing the dynamic
- [Making a Hardware Synth Controller in Max4Live: Part 2](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2018/09/02/making-a-hardware-synth-controller-in-max4live-part-2/) - Time for the second installment of this tutorial series, showing you how to make a fully fledged editor for your hardware synth; using a Waldorf Pulse as an example. Last time we looked at sending our first CC messages from Max4Live and referencing them to automate our sounds in Ableton. This time we're going to
- [Making a Hardware Synth Controller in Max4Live: Part 1](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/12/13/making-hardware-synth-controller-max4live-part-1/) - Max4Live opens up a world of sound design possibilities for any hardware synth, as well as giving you the opportunity to automate and save parameter settings in a track. Maybe you need a big resonant filter sweep before the beat kicks in, or you want to engage the arpeggiator at sporadic moments. If it's possible
- [Sidechain Compression in Logic](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/09/18/sidechain-compression-logic/) - This is the second instalment in an informal series of Logic quick-reads, following on from my previous article on sampling drums in EXS24. Today we're covering the topic of sidechain compression. Compression is a huge topic in on itself and it really deserves its own space on this site, and while understanding compression in its
- [Zvuk9: New MIDI Controller on Indiegogo](https://alijamieson.co.uk/2017/09/26/zvuk9-new-midi-controller-indiegogo/) - We are currently in the midst of a golden generation of MIDI controllers. No longer are you confined to various guises of MIDI keyboard or MPC-styled drum pads. Push, Maschine and Launchpad have really led the way with the new style of triggered MIDI pads but with Ewis, MIDI pedalboards and all sorts of knobs, sliders

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- [resonator](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/resonator/)
- [compression](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/compression/)
- [max/msp](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/maxmsp-2/)
- [apc40](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/apc40/)
- [ios](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ios/)
- [breakbeats](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/breakbeats/)
- [bill evans](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bill-evans/)
- [miles davis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/miles-davis/)
- [chet baker](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/chet-baker/)
- [stan getz](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/stan-getz/)
- [talkbox](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/talkbox/)
- [vocoder](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/vocoder/)
- [kraftwerk](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kraftwerk/)
- [steve reich](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/steve-reich/)
- [Kevin Saunderson](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kevin-saunderson/)
- [Reese](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/reese/)
- [drum’n’bass](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/drumnbass/)
- [jungle](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jungle/)
- [trace](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/trace/)
- [modular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/modular/)
- [reaktor](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/reaktor/)
- [ed rush and optical](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ed-rush-and-optical/)
- [roy ayers](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/roy-ayers/)
- [ramp](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ramp/)
- [robert glasper](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/robert-glasper/)
- [radiohead](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/radiohead/)
- [kid a](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kid-a/)
- [the prodigy](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/the-prodigy/)
- [liam howlett](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/liam-howlett/)
- [sampling](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sampling/)
- [korg ms-20](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/korg-ms-20/)
- [arp 2600](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/arp-2600/)
- [Roland TR-909](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/roland-tr-909/)
- [erykah badu](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/erykah-badu/)
- [4hero](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/4hero/)
- [wavetable](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/wavetable/)
- [rewire](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rewire/)
- [slash chords](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/slash-chords/)
- [moog](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/moog/)
- [buchla](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/buchla/)
- [doepfer](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/doepfer/)
- [make noise](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/make-noise/)
- [eurorack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/eurorack/)
- [Native Instruments](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/native-instruments/)
- [jill scott](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jill-scott/)
- [shoegaze](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/shoegaze/)
- [kevin shields](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kevin-shields/)
- [my bloody valentine](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/my-bloody-valentine/)
- [m83](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/m83/)
- [ulrich schnauss](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ulrich-schnauss/)
- [RL Grime](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rl-grime/)
- [NAIVES](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/naives/)
- [remix](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/remix/)
- [disco](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/disco/)
- [herbie hancock](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/herbie-hancock/)
- [wayne shorter](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/wayne-shorter/)
- [mccoy tyner](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mccoy-tyner/)
- [mastering](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mastering/)
- [bebop](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bebop/)
- [charlie parker](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/charlie-parker/)
- [george shearing](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/george-shearing/)
- [dizzy gillespie](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dizzy-gillespie/)
- [phonat](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/phonat/)
- [owsla](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/owsla/)
- [mofohifi](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mofohifi/)
- [photek](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/photek/)
- [dom and roland](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dom-and-roland/)
- [the winstons](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/the-winstons/)
- [no pain in pop](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/no-pain-in-pop/)
- [sim hutchins](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sim-hutchins/)
- [ambient](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ambient/)
- [lo-fi](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/lo-fi/)
- [blade runner](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/blade-runner/)
- [ridley scott](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ridley-scott/)
- [vangelis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/vangelis/)
- [soundtrack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/soundtrack/)
- [frequency modulation](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/frequency-modulation/)
- [tuning](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tuning/)
- [intellijel](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/intellijel/)
- [pittsburgh modular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pittsburgh-modular/)
- [kool and the gang](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kool-and-the-gang/)
- [will smith](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/will-smith/)
- [Oliver Cheatham](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/oliver-cheatham/)
- [daft punk](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/daft-punk/)
- [grand theft auto vice city](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/grand-theft-auto-vice-city/)
- [jan hammer](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jan-hammer/)
- [mahavishnu orchestra](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mahavishnu-orchestra/)
- [malekko](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/malekko/)
- [audio damage](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/audio-damage/)
- [lexicon](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/lexicon/)
- [eventide](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/eventide/)
- [ebay](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ebay/)
- [korg](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/korg/)
- [roland](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/roland/)
- [yamaha](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/yamaha/)
- [alesis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/alesis/)
- [4ms](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/4ms/)
- [rebel technology](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rebel-technology/)
- [kenton](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kenton/)
- [aphex twin](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/aphex-twin/)
- [r&s](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rs/)
- [dx7](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dx7/)
- [open sound control](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/open-sound-control/)
- [erol alkan](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/erol-alkan/)
- [counterpoint](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/counterpoint/)
- [John Conway](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/john-conway/)
- [Game of Life](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/game-of-life/)
- [granular](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/granular/)
- [harmonic series](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/harmonic-series/)
- [pythagoras](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pythagoras/)
- [bach](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bach/)
- [oscar peterson](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/oscar-peterson/)
- [ahmad jamal](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ahmad-jamal/)
- [bud powell](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bud-powell/)
- [apollo records](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/apollo-records/)
- [selected ambient works](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/selected-ambient-works/)
- [stranger things](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/stranger-things/)
- [netflix](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/netflix/)
- [s u r v i v e](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/s-u-r-v-i-v-e/)
- [polyrhythms](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/polyrhythms/)
- [lost in translation](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/lost-in-translation/)
- [serge](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/serge/)
- [max4live](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/max4live/)
- [Queens of the Stone Age](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/queens-of-the-stone-age/)
- [Eric Valentine](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/eric-valentine/)
- [miami vice](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/miami-vice/)
- [mal waldron](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mal-waldron/)
- [thelonious monk](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/thelonious-monk/)
- [vulfpeck](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/vulfpeck/)
- [recording](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/recording/)
- [hip hop](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/hip-hop/)
- [j dilla](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/j-dilla/)
- [Giorgio Moroder](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/giorgio-moroder/)
- [Zvuk9](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/zvuk9/)
- [Indiegogo](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/indiegogo/)
- [2049](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/2049/)
- [house](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/house/)
- [air](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/air/)
- [million machine march](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/million-machine-march/)
- [jenni sparks](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jenni-sparks/)
- [Kaoss Pad](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kaoss-pad/)
- [public enemy](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/public-enemy/)
- [Bernie Worrell](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bernie-worrell/)
- [Bootsy Collins](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bootsy-collins/)
- [George Clinton](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/george-clinton/)
- [de la soul](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/de-la-soul/)
- [snoop dogg](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/snoop-dogg/)
- [Afrika Bambaataa](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/afrika-bambaataa/)
- [kanye west](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kanye-west/)
- [9th Wonder](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/9th-wonder/)
- [pharrell](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pharrell/)
- [neptunes](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/neptunes/)
- [Lex Lugar](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/lex-lugar/)
- [Paul Lansky](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/paul-lansky/)
- [justin bieber](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/justin-bieber/)
- [deadmau5](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/deadmau5/)
- [joey dosick](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/joey-dosick/)
- [Biggie Smalls](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/biggie-smalls/)
- [thermein](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/thermein/)
- [rave](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rave/)
- [french house](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/french-house/)
- [20jazzfunkgreats](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/20jazzfunkgreats/)
- [oberheim](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/oberheim/)
- [linn](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/linn/)
- [drum machine](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/drum-machine/)
- [funk](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/funk/)
- [Roland TR-808](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/roland-tr-808/)
- [sequential circuits](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sequential-circuits/)
- [external hardware](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/external-hardware/)
- [metering](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/metering/)
- [erroll garner](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/erroll-garner/)
- [guitar pedals](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/guitar-pedals/)
- [guitar](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/guitar/)
- [ravel](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ravel/)
- [classical](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/classical/)
- [contemporary](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/contemporary/)
- [inner life](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/inner-life/)
- [marvin gaye](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/marvin-gaye/)
- [soul](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/soul/)
- [motown](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/motown/)
- [larry levan](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/larry-levan/)
- [Jocelyn Brown](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jocelyn-brown/)
- [paradise garage](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/paradise-garage/)
- [tiktok](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tiktok/)
- [warp](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/warp/)
- [rephlex](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rephlex/)
- [ambient techno](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ambient-techno/)
- [techno](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/techno/)
- [ray keith](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ray-keith/)
- [terrorist](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/terrorist/)
- [renegade](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/renegade/)
- [post-disco](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/post-disco/)
- [dub](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dub/)
- [808](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/808/)
- [linn drum](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/linn-drum/)
- [rock](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rock/)
- [distortion](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/distortion/)
- [maths](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/maths/)
- [time signitures](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/time-signitures/)
- [odd meter](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/odd-meter/)
- [irregular time signatures](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/irregular-time-signatures/)
- [2/4](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/2-4/)
- [3/4](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/3-4/)
- [6/8](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/6-8/)
- [9/8](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/9-8/)
- [7/8](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/7-8/)
- [5/4](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/5-4/)
- [backbeat](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/backbeat/)
- [dave brubeck](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dave-brubeck/)
- [ariana grande](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ariana-grande/)
- [Michael jackson](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/michael-jackson/)
- [ant man](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ant-man/)
- [dj snake](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dj-snake/)
- [cs80](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/cs80/)
- [prince](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/prince/)
- [tom tom club](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tom-tom-club/)
- [chaka kahn](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/chaka-kahn/)
- [ac/dc](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ac-dc/)
- [Paul McCartney](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/paul-mccartney/)
- [Stevie Wonder](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/stevie-wonder/)
- [Davie Bowie](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/davie-bowie/)
- [The Cure](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/the-cure/)
- [Fleetwood Mac](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/fleetwood-mac/)
- [Roxy Music](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/roxy-music/)
- [303](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/303/)
- [acid house](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/acid-house/)
- [sh101](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sh101/)
- [E-mu Drumulator](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/e-mu-drumulator/)
- [new order](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/new-order/)
- [eurythmics](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/eurythmics/)
- [blue monday](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/blue-monday/)
- [subtractive synthesis](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/subtractive-synthesis/)
- [analog](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/analog/)
- [dillinja](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dillinja/)
- [dom & roland](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dom-roland/)
- [zomby](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/zomby/)
- [vex'd](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/vexd/)
- [special request](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/special-request/)
- [Theo Parrish](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/theo-parrish/)
- [tech-step](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tech-step/)
- [ed rush](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ed-rush/)
- [nico](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/nico/)
- [breakbeat](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/breakbeat/)
- [arturia](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/arturia/)
- [filter](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/filter/)
- [john b](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/john-b/)
- [tech step](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tech-step-2/)
- [pads](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pads/)
- [triads](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/triads/)
- [inversions](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/inversions/)
- [augmented](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/augmented/)
- [diminished](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/diminished/)
- [overtones](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/overtones/)
- [hertz](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/hertz/)
- [Equal Temperament](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/equal-temperament/)
- [harmony](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/harmony/)
- [fm](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/fm/)
- [squarepusher](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/squarepusher/)
- [broken beat](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/broken-beat/)
- [joe jackson](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/joe-jackson/)
- [Neue Grafik](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/neue-grafik/)
- [Kaidi Tatham](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kaidi-tatham/)
- [pedal point](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pedal-point/)
- [inverse pedal point](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/inverse-pedal-point/)
- [prophet](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/prophet/)
- [thom yorke](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/thom-yorke/)
- [jonny greenwood](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/jonny-greenwood/)
- [Questlove](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/questlove/)
- [James Poyser](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/james-poyser/)
- [john coltrane](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/john-coltrane/)
- [impressionist](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/impressionist/)
- [sonata](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sonata/)
- [modulation](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/modulation/)
- [neo soul](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/neo-soul/)
- [altered scale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/altered-scale/)
- [melodic minor](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/melodic-minor/)
- [cadence](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/cadence/)
- [turnaround](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/turnaround/)
- [perfect cadence](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/perfect-cadence/)
- [plagal cadence](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/plagal-cadence/)
- [Imperfect Cadence](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/imperfect-cadence/)
- [Secondary Dominants](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/secondary-dominants/)
- [Interrupted Cadence](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/interrupted-cadence/)
- [two five one](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/two-five-one/)
- [ii V I](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ii-v-i/)
- [Neapolitan](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/neapolitan/)
- [Picardy Third](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/picardy-third/)
- [polymeter](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/polymeter/)
- [ableton](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ableton/)
- [drum rack](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/drum-rack/)
- [rhythm](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rhythm/)
- [major scale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/major-scale/)
- [minor scale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/minor-scale/)
- [circle of fifths](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/circle-of-fifths/)
- [relative major](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/relative-major/)
- [relative minor](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/relative-minor/)
- [the crown](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/the-crown/)
- [spitfire](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/spitfire/)
- [kontakt](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/kontakt/)
- [labs](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/labs/)
- [orchestral](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/orchestral/)
- [expert sleepers](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/expert-sleepers/)
- [midi](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/midi/)
- [sync](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sync/)
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- [diy](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/diy/)
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- [mozart](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/mozart/)
- [chopin](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/chopin/)
- [Ennio Morricone](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/ennio-morricone/)
- [guitar rig](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/guitar-rig/)
- [amps](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/amps/)
- [Diana Ross](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/diana-ross/)
- [Alicia Keys](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/alicia-keys/)
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- [Common](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/common/)
- [Big Sean](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/big-sean/)
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- [augmented sixth](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/augmented-sixth/)
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- [pulp fiction](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/pulp-fiction/)
- [big band](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/big-band/)
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- [easy listening](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/easy-listening/)
- [surf rock](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/surf-rock/)
- [makam](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/makam/)
- [Dick Dale](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/dick-dale/)
- [The Del Tones](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/the-del-tones/)
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- [Rebetiko](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/rebetiko/)
- [Tsifteteli](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/tsifteteli/)
- [Double harmonic major](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/double-harmonic-major/)
- [Hijaz Kar](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/hijaz-kar/)
- [logic](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/logic/)
- [delay](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/delay/)
- [sequencer](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/sequencer/)
- [reverb](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/reverb/)
- [creation records](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/creation-records/)
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- [moan](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/moan/)
- [Chemical Brothers](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/chemical-brothers/)
- [Bernard Purdie](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/bernard-purdie/)
- [logic gates](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/logic-gates/)
- [triggers](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/triggers/)
- [boolean](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/boolean/)
- [Animodule](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/animodule/)
- [alm busy circuits](https://alijamieson.co.uk/tag/alm-busy-circuits/)
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