Aisle 9 Music

30/08/2024

Happy Friday everyone!! My remix of ‘I’m A Rebel’ with and .o.n is out today. Really hope you enjoy it.

Tell me what new music you’ve been listening to. Did you release anything today? Drop a comment and share it below.
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26/08/2024

20/08/2024

Just hit 10K monthly listeners on Spotify today for the first time. Definitely feels like a milestone, although it’s probably going to be a bit short lived 😂 But I just wanted to thank everyone who has supported and listened to my music over the last few years. I am so grateful to you all. And to all my friends in Synth Fam, you’re the best. ☮️💜🎹🌊

13/08/2024

Tonight at 6pm EDT, The State Of Synth returns after our summer break. We'll be speaking with Lucy Dreams about their upcoming tour!

Nightride FM. It can be. It's inside the room.

Tune in live and join the chat here:
https://nightride.fm/chat?station=nightride
or here:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uYfxDF_QR94

You'll hear music from our guests, as well as Shirobon, Aisle 9 Music & Out Runner, KRISTINE, Cosmo Cocktail, The G and Radical Bicep (Lisa Marie Perkins).

20/06/2024

Do you love the energy and buzz of city life or do you crave the peace and quiet of nature?

Music ‘Distant City Lights’ by the amazing

07/06/2024

🌆✨ Just dropped my new single “City Of Dreams”! ✨🌆

Immerse yourself in the neon vibes and pulsating beats of this synthwave journey. Let the music take you to a retro-futuristic metropolis where dreams come alive.

🔗 Hit the link in my bio to listen now!
🎶 Available on all streaming platforms.
📹Video available on YouTube

Let me know what you think in the comments! As ever I really appreciate all your support, it means the world. 💜

06/06/2024

Thanks again for featuring my new single ‘City Of Dreams’ on your show.

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01/06/2024

Apathy here:

We're ready to go with Z-GR! Radio's Episode 14, and it's incredible! Not joking...this lineup was already insanely great, but when we added the Premier of Featured Guest Aisle 9's upcoming single release 'City of Dreams' to the mix, it took things right over the top!

If you haven't heard Z-GR! Radio yet, do yourself a favor and get in it! If you're coming back for more (we LOVE you!), we're kicking things up a notch, no lie!

Friday, May 31 7PM PST - NEWHD Los Angeles
Saturday, June 1 9PM PST - NEWHD New York

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29/05/2024

‘City of Dreams’ my new single will be out on June 7th. I am so excited about the release and I am also delighted to be the featured artist on Scot Apathy’s show on Episode 14 of Z-GR! Radio. They will be doing a pre-release premiere of the single too. Please Scot’s post below.

Episode 14 of Z-GR! Radio is coming up, and we've got something SUPER COOL for you this week!!!

Aisle 9 is our Featured Artist, and we'll be doing our first-ever Pre-Release Premiere of his June 7 release, 'City of Dreams'!

Full Details:
newhdmedia.com/aisle9

The track is FANTASTIC (true story...I've heard it!) so make sure you don't miss this week's show!!!

Aisle 9 Music

11/05/2024

Watchet harbour looked stunning tonight. So incredible seeing the Northern Lights here in the UK

16/04/2024

Welcome to the 7th record in my weekly series “The Vinyl Aisle” - looking at some of the records that have had the biggest influence on my own music.

To find the Vinyl Aisle’s Spotify playlist pop to my link-tree or the see today’s story post.

I really love to hear your own ‘vinyl stories’, so do drop a comment and talk about the music you love, past or present.

Today’s record is from 1992 - the album ‘456’ by UK dance act The Grid. Named after a famous type of multitrack tape made by Ampex. This really is a beautiful warm record. It still sounds so good today.

So what do I love about this record?

Lots of things but I definitely loved the warm synths, the use of guitars ( not that common in 90s dance music) and the laidback grooves and sampled breaks. There’s a lot of guest vocalists and musicians too.

The stand out track for me has always been the opener ‘Face The Sun’ which features a beautiful solo by Cobalt Stargazer from on guitar and on the second track ‘Ice Machine’.

The warm sound of the synths and lots of lovely use of filters on this album are just another thing that really added to my enjoyment. Many an hour was spent just sitting at home listening to this whole album.

I was making a lot of music at the time with my best friend and spending a lot of time hanging out with him in the 90s trance scene in London. We were learning about synths, sampling, mixing and sequencing. Using a studio set up he had in a spare room in his flat. A lot of great memories from back then, and this album really brings it all back to me.

08/04/2024

Welcome to the 6th record in my weekly series “The Vinyl Aisle” - looking at some of the records that have had the biggest influence on my own music.

To find the Vinyl Aisle’s Spotify playlist pop to my link-tree or the see today’s story post.

I really love to hear your own ‘vinyl stories’, so do drop a comment and talk about the music you love, past or present.

Today’s album is “Protection” by Bristol trip-hop pioneers . Released in 1994, this studio album featured guest vocals and instrumental contributions from a long list of other artists including the wonderful Tracy Thorn and . It was produced by the legendary and features the amazing mixing of

So what do I love about this album?

From its stunning 8 minute minimalist opener - Protection, right the way through to the end of synth masterpiece Heat Miser this album is the perfect mood music. I spent many a night settling back into its quiet smoky comfort, always intently listening with it in the background, firmly held in its gentle grasp. There is so much depth, musicality, atmosphere and rhythmical inventiveness here. A distinctly urban record that has such an organic feel. Their music sounded to me at the time, like nothing and no one else. To be honest it still does..

As Tracy Thorn said after receiving the demo of Protection, without any melody or vocals on it.

“This is minimalism. I do minimalism. I get it. And yet, it was being done in such a different format I had to listen to it maybe 10 times with complete bewilderment before I suddenly went, Oh, I know how to do this.”

The wonderful lyrics she wrote still really resonated with me too, having recently lost my Mum to su***de. I know the lyrics referred to her partner’s illness.

This girl I know needs some shelter
She don’t believe anyone can help her
She’s doing so much harm, doing so much damage
But you don’t wanna get involved
You tell her she can manage

02/04/2024

Welcome to the 5th record in my new weekly series “The Vinyl Aisle” - discussing the records that have had the biggest influence on my own music.

To find the Vinyl Aisle’s Spotify playlist pop to my link-tree or the see today’s story post.

I really love to hear your own ‘vinyl stories’, so do drop a comment and talk about the music you love, past or present.

Today’s album “Strange Cargo III” from ‘93 was actually never released on vinyl 🤣, it’s by . Orbit was originally part of 80s electronic band Torch Song, but is best known for his incredible work on Madonna’s “Ray Of Light” and for his breathtaking electronic version of “Adagio For Strings” by Samuel Barber.

A composer, multi-instrumentalist and studio magician extraordinaire, this is the third in a series of instrumental albums he created under the Strange Cargo moniker.

So what do I love about this album?

For me it’s the ultimate 90s melting pot of electronic and organic elements, a cinematic, instrumental and song based masterpiece. Definitely not an album for the purist, mixing world music, trance, pop, dub and hip hop quite freely, as Orbit tries to pull you deeper into his world.

I remember as Steve and I put this album on and ‘Water From A Vine Leaf’ started, how Orbit’s Juno pads, ambient piano melodies, found sounds, fxs, textures, and hypnotic grooves instantly transported us both. I found myself hopelessly lost in some far off jungle, watching the sunset over vine covered Mayan ruins, exploring the shores of some ancient Inca paradise. This was even before folk singer Beth Orton finally drops in with her elfin tones.

This album is such a journey; a beautiful trip through the dub inspired fields of “Time To Get Wize” and its glassy guitar outro, on into “A Touch Of The Night” with its short orchestral coda. Next ‘The Story Of Light’ with its spacey intro travels us towards ‘Deus Ex Machina’ and its reverses, rippling arpeggios and verb drenched backgrounds, as we edge ever closer to the perfect finale where ‘Water Babies’ provides a much needed ambient reprise of the opener.

28/03/2024

Just thought I’d take this opportunity to wish everyone, especially all my synthwave fam, a happy Easter / Spring weekend. I will be back in the studio on Monday and open for business as usual. It’s been a pleasure recently to work on projects for , and .am.colugo . Here’s wishing everyone success with their upcoming projects. Looking forward to working with .music on a remix very soon. Also looking forward to creating and releasing some new Aisle 9 music and doing a collab with my very talented buddy on vocals.

If you want any help with your mixing and mastering or want to book a remix, then please feel free to drop me a DM.

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24/03/2024

Welcome to the 4th record in my new weekly series “The Vinyl Aisle” - discussing the records that have had the biggest influence on my own music.

To find the Vinyl Aisle’s Spotify playlist pop to my link-tree or the see today’s story post.

I really love to hear your own ‘vinyl stories’, so why not drop me a comment and talk about the music you love, past or present.

Today’s album “Parallel Lines” by Blondie is a new wave classic from back in 1978. Recorded at the Record Plant in New York, by UK pop producer Mike Chapman.

So what do I love about this album?

I didn’t get a copy of this until the early 90s, then I just couldn’t stop playing it.

“Parallel Lines” encapsulates the look and sound of 1980s new wave. There’s rock, pop, disco and even experimental rolled into one. There’s an undeniable edginess and punk energy, despite how an innovative and well crafted the record sounds.

Apparently a really hard record to make due to the band’s lack of musical ability, and their ‘f**k it New York attitude’, despite Frank Infante being a great guitarist, Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri being great writers, along with Debbie Harry who clearly had a unique and superb voice.

The synths on this album make it for me. Influenced by bands like Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder’s work with Donner Summer “Heart Of Glass” still stands out as a dance floor classic.

The opening drum pattern from a Roland CR-78, also sent a trigger pulse to synths creating the classic stuttering keyboard line. Jimmy Destri using a Roland SH-5 to add the extra ambience. Then there’s even a brilliant middle 8 in 7/8.

Lyrically “11:59” might be my favourite. It’s full of incredible lines:

“Pumping like a fugitive in cover from the night
Take it down the freeway like a bullet to the ocean”

18/03/2024

Welcome to the 3rd record in my new weekly series “The Vinyl Aisle” - discussing the records that have had the biggest influence on my own music.

To find the Vinyl Aisle’s Spotify playlist pop to my link-tree or the see today’s story post.

Today’s album “Oxygene” is from 1976, the work of seminal French electronic music composer and pioneer . Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album went on to sell over 18 million copies.

The young Jarre was heavily influenced by classical and jazz artists, especially the composer Pierre Schaeffer and his ‘musique concrète’ but also by the visual artist Pierre Soulages. Soulages’ paintings used multiple textured layers, and Jarre realised that “for the first time in music, you could act as a painter with frequencies and sounds.”

So what do I love about this album?

I first borrowed it from the library on cassette. Yes that was actually a thing back then in the mid 80s 🤣!
It felt like a bridge for me between my Dad’s world of exclusively stuffy classical music and the ubiquitous 80s pop. My parents didn’t even mind me playing it which was a bit of a revelation.

I didn’t know back then how remarkable this fairly minimal instrumental concept album, made on a tiny budget in not much more than a well–equipped home studio, actually was. Recorded using just one 8-track tape machine, all played and triggered manually (pre-MIDI sequencing), using only guitar pedals like the EH Small Stone Phaser, and a Revox Tape Machine and an EMT plate to generate all the effects processing, reverbs and delays.

Yet ‘Oxygene’ strangely still sounds fresh and futuristic today. It marries the artificial, the high tech and the innovative with the real, the handmade and the organic. As Jarre says he was obsessed with constant variation and nothing is exactly the same, he didn’t want it to sound robotic.

Even the cover strikes me as revolutionary now, depicting the polluted Mother Earth in the form of a skull, something that seems even more relevant today than it would have in 1976.

13/03/2024

Tonight 9pm EST on The State Of Synth, we are chatting with Full Eclipse about the upcoming eclipse!

Nightride FM. Wear glasses.

Tune in and join the chat here:
https://nightride.fm/chat?station=nightride
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfxDF_QR94

You'll hear tunes from our guest, as well as Jimmy Synthetic, NINA and Radio Wolf , Cassetter, Johnatron, Bronster Bridge, and Aisle 9 Music !

Shout-outs to Girlfriend Records and Business Casual !