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I’ve long had a bit of a weakness for late-70s/early-80s “electropop” (think “The Man-Machine”, “Metamatic”, “Dare” and so on). In recent weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Caustic, the “Reason clone” electronic music environment app, on my iPhone (largely to prepare for what I hope will be my next “proper” recording project), and have created a couple of tracks with the app to help me “learn the ropes”.

Song 5 is another one of these practice pieces: yes, it’s a pastiche of 1980-era British synthpop (and if you really want to pin me down with that: more specifically, of the album “Metamatic” by John Foxx, which is a favourite of mine). I admit I rather enjoyed imitating Foxx’s deadpan vocal style from “Metamatic”, not to mention his JG Ballard fixation in the lyrics (which he now readily admits to, along with many of his fellow-travellers from British electropop of the time)!

I programmed most of the backing track in Caustic on my iPhone 6S (with a KORG NanoKEY 2 keyboard connected - this is a rare example of a completely fretted-instrument-free song of mine!), and aside from about half an hour lost due to forgetting to save my work (no autosave in Caustic

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Lights are turning
Drivers learning
Buses only
Up this one way street
CCTV
Cameras see me
Rubber burning
Up this one way street

Dodge the bollards
JG Ballard
Wrote the highway code
For this one way street
A nowhere road
The wrong postcode
Don’t crash too hard
Down this one way street

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from .​.​.​As It Goes: Songs From FAWM 2017, released March 2, 2017
Played and sung by TA Walker

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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