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Andy Hughes Tribute - 07.01.2009


I got some devastating news this week. My friend Andy Hughes sadly died at the weekend. He was someone who had an enormous influence on my musicality and my studio engineering. Furthermore large sections of the UK music community won’t know what a luminary they have lost - a completely overlooked producer / arranger / programmer / writer of class and flair.

I met Andy in 2002 when he was helping set up my fathers new studio in 2002. I had gone along for the day with the sole purpose of meeting, in my opinion, the most talented guy from the orb as he was showing Dad how to use his new logic set-up. It would be true to say I was in awe - Orblivion is one of my favourite ever albums. Not only did I learn more that day about being a professional musician than my entire time at University - I also met a kind, fun and inclusive musician. Towards the end of the afternoon we made a song together and then went off for a Nando’s.

A couple of weeks later Andy called me and invited me up to his studio in Brixton. It was incredibly exciting for me to visit Andy’s studio - next door to the Basement Jaxx (who he introduced me too) showing me lots of Mac music tricks that I still use on a nearly daily basis. I would play him something I had been working on and he would offer advice - and then he would blow my demo out the park with his latest and greatest steaming out the studio monitors like champagne on crystals.

The strangest thing happened what turns out to be the last time I saw Andy - I was waiting in the car for my girlfriend to finish work in Soho and was chatting to some people who were smoking outside their office nearby. I decided to give Andy a call as we had seen each other just before Christmas and had discussed starting a film and tv sync catalogue. As his phone rang - who should walk round the corner but Andy fishing his phone out his pocket to answer my call. He was actually on his way to have a meeting with the people I had been chatting too!! An insane coincidence made doubly bizarre that at the time I was living in Brighton and Andy was living in Rochester! As it happened he was early so we had half an hour in the car playing each other some stuff and making plans. He really liked my Psychogenic material and I don’t mind telling you I’m still chuffed (and will always be) with his comments on that. Andy played me some of his latest which as ever bounced out the speakers with sparkle and wit.

Much of Andy’s best stuff remains unreleased - most probably still sitting on his hard drive so I will be making noises at the funeral of some way of cataloguing his work for posterity. I’ll miss you mate - if your reading….

Andy Hughes Suite

The Will: Stream - Download
The Endeavour: Stream - Download
The Dance: Stream - Download
The Mirror: Stream - Download


Splitsound Suite - 06.01.2009


Splitsound Suite

Splitsound Suite I  stream - download
Splitsound Suite II & III  stream - download
Splitsound Suite IV & V  stream - download

Hi everyone, stayed up very late last night writing this. Interesting metre, hope you enjoy.

Its scored for Piano, Strings, Harp and Percussion Section.

All comments welcome. Score to follow…


He Shoots - He Scores - 08.28.2008


Following my slightly negative article on rubbish theme tunes I thought I should balance this out a little with some props out to Jonny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood, and James Newton Howard for Michael Clayton.

I absolutely love Greenwood’s work on There Will Be Blood which I read is made of works he recorded for the BBC based on the music on Pederecki. Well worth a listen and the most original score I have heard for a long long time!

And its not like all tv themes are bad - I love the new channel 5 cricket theme! Samit Patel et al being given the chance to shine!!


Psychogenic - 08.13.2008


Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes;
having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

The following may or may not be true. Fragments from
broken dreams. Time surrenders all knowledge of escapism and iconoclasticism.
The body becomes a vestage for the soul. The dark mind shivers its life free
from its physical constraint. The Psychogenesis can begin. We will never know
the dark mind. Certain objects fuel our desire. People and places visit our
thoughts. We must leave these places in the past. In the realms of possibility
our souls become intertwined with our spirit - that part of us untouched from
memory. We call this place The Other Side.

Rest now child for your journey will be long as we
travel back through time’s drifting sands. Our dreams become our souls realm,
itself now fragments of broken dreams. Like a river you flow through me. Like
a light, you are my sky. I see you in my hopes and dreams. I see you on the
tv screens. I see you in the broken light. I see you on my satellite. A teardrop
in an open sea. We complicate whats meant to be. A teardrop in an open sea.
You don’t know what you mean to me.

Rest now child. Our sleep is where we meet in the recess of night visions.
We are the lies. Believe your eyes. Theres no suprise. Look to the skies. You’ll see the dark mind take the form
of a megastructure - the conflagration will be your new dwelling. You take the shawl of your conciousness to your
breast…you feel its warm lustre. You hold it like your new born child - you wash its mothers birth fluids.
You bless it from the tenets of your religious beliefs.

But you now question your beliefs and take refuge in the deep, vast comfort of that which we do not fully understand.
The bridge is now open. The rivers of chaos are tamed. I throw myself overboard - into a great sea of you. I am the river; you can run through me.
We are now Psychogenetic - our essence joined in the union of an earthly matrimony. My tears are your tears - your fears are my fears - your laughter
is my laughter. We share a mutual destiny. You are part of the dark mind. Rest now child. Rest.

Sweetly - whats my name? Sweetly - and surrendered. Whats inside? I’m all around you. I’m all inside you.
I strip your shawl of conciousness - I strip your willful mind - I replace the tenets of your faith. I cleanse you - I cleanse your mind. You are renewed
at the alter of the dark mind. Your new world is one where there is no shade. No debt to your society. No need for anxiety or strain. Your new domain will treat you well.
It requies only your trust. Only your disposition. Only your belief. Your unconditional trust. Our tears are your tears - our fears are my fears - our laughter
is my laughter. We share a mutual destiny. You are part of the dark mind. Rest now child. Rest.

The psychogenic process is nearly complete. Your time in the dark mind will not be open to revision. Any doubts you have will now have to be
surrendered to the process. Your new psychogenic soul will automatically render these thoughts void. Your mind will become one with the dark mind. Your body will be
harvested for reusable proteins. There is no physiological origin. This void is your destiny, your birthright. Your death. Sweetly - whats my name? Sweetly - and surrendered. Whats inside?
I’m all around you. I’m all around. Rest now child. Rest. Your time of process approaches.
Your life-blood flows into the dark mind. Your contract with us is now completing. You will be welcomed to the dark mind. We will celebrate your ascension.

We speak from the heart. We speak as one now freed. We assimilate. We are cleansed of difference from our brethren. We our evolved of deference to our brethren.
We are neutered now - we have no sexual allegiance. Welcome to the dark mind child. Wake now child. Wake in the dark mind. Forge your future in this better place. The first step is your greatest
as we enter into our new freedom. There is no need to fear - we see everything. We correct all that is wrong. The soul will, like a river, forge its twisting path to our sea of nirvana. We are a river.
We can flow through you. Our tides become the emotional balance of our eco-system. Our memories become like pebbles on our bed. They travel with us on our course. They erode.

We speak from the heart. We speak as one now freed. We assimilate. We are cleansed of difference from our brethren. We our evolved of deference to our brethren.
We are neutered now - we have no sexual allegiance. Welcome to the dark mind child. Wake now child. Wake in the dark mind. Forge your future in this better place. The first step is your greatest
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Music and Lyrics: Jack Pickett
Concept Development: Gus Pickett and Elizabeth Tree.
Be Lucy is a remix of P9FM’s Be Lucy available at electronicscene.com
Recorded in London, Amsterdam and Brighton on Apple Computers. 2003-2008
Press Contact: Toby Kidd, Destiny Media.


New K-Radio Site - 05.18.2008


To celebrate the upcoming 2nd birthday of K-Radio (the internet radio station I founded) - I’ve launched a website providing information, downloads and a forum for people to chat on.

K-Radio Website

Special thanks to Lizzie Tree for the design and concept. Make sure you check out Delta Dempsey tomorrow night on BBC3 as its her first costume design credit! You can see more of her design work here