A little bit longer. This week I will let my brother do the talking, since we made this track together (and in particular, he’s responsible for the tension-inducing chords in the run up to the breakdown):

The whole tune – and in particular the interaction between the main synth line and the descant line – seems to speak to the way life’s challenges require us to hold on just a little bit longer that we think they will…

Just when we think things are easing up, something else – some new depth of challenge – comes along… but the resources, and hard wired drive to hold on are always there to meet it.

We both hope you enjoy this one as much as we do.

Toby and Barny.

Synthwave – not my favourite genre of electronic music but I enjoy it now and then.

I do, actually, like some of the early aspects of the synth sounds in synthwave, and I especially love working with early synths. Synthwave itself is probably a tad too poppy for my production tastes.

So: when I was given the opportunity to remix this piece, I took out some of the guitar parts and replaced them with the sounds of purer synths. I would say that much of the essence of this track remains with Michael, so in this respect it’s a faithful remix that doesn’t deviate too much from the original. But I do hope something of my own flavour – which if you’ve been following along all these weeks you my know something about! – does shine through.

And in any case, it’s often a good thing to work with different styles of music, if for no other reason than that it tells you about what you really do adore.

You can here more of Michael’s work over on Bandcamp. He’s based in Glasgow, UK. Here’s his original version of Control: