For the quiet sections of iO I needed a calm track. Something ambient that didn't get annoying after the fouth or fith time round. This turned out to be a pretty tricky task.

This track is basically as close as I got to what I needed. It's ambient, it doesn't really go anywhere and it's almost impossible to spot when it's looped. It's alright but it's not as good as the Hectic track I made for. So, if I get a chance (and I go back to iO) I might yet replace it.

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Outsider is one of H.P.Lovecrafts many short stories. In many ways it's typical of his style. A running commentary (in the first person) of a mans journey through a series of carefully described 'indescribable' events that ultimately end badly for him. The horror. The horror!

I quite enjoyed making this track using a freely available reading of the short story as a base (and inspiration). It's worthy of note that this is one of the first tracks where almost the entire drum beat track was constructed a single beat at a time (rather than from sampled loops). This was mainly because I wanted something a little odd and couldn't find any examples of it. if it's not obvious, I'm pretty happy with this one, even after all these years.

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There are two main reasons I could never be a proper musical artist.

First of all I'm too fickle and whimsical to stick to a single style. Someone listening to one track might decide it's something they like only to find every other track I've produced to be nothing like it.

Second, and more importantly, there's no way I could argue that what I do now for my own amusment is anything like actual music creation. I can't play a real instrument (aside from a bit of drumming and I'm not really sure that counts) I can't read or write music and I have no knowledge of music theory

but hey, it never stopped punk rock

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This was one of those nice tracks that just fell together easily, all the components came to hand as I searched and the places I put them just sort of worked first time. It's a great shame that these days such occasions are very rare.

I'm beginning to think that the time really has come to give up on the manipulation of samples and learn to use a synth and some proper music skills. like it's that easy

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Having completed Ferrari Challenge to such a high standard, we got the opportunity to include all the other exciting high performance cars that don't feature a prancing horse on their bonnet.

Supercar Challenge was basically all the bits that never made it into Ferrari, plus lots of new stuff. Lots more cars, more tracks, better multiplayer, better renderer, more game modes, more downloadable content and crucially (for me) better visual effects