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2015-2020
Dise was a "stage name" of mine that I used during 2015-2020. As explained on the homepage, my method of "making" music under this name was the Ampify Launchpad app, simply using samples. The originality is bare minimum. However, I still consider the albums I produced under this name products of mine, because each album represents an era of my early life. Whenever I revisit them, I get flooded with memories of when and where I was making them.
I had originally used SoundCloud as a distribution method, but in late 2019 I began distributing to all the major music stores - Spotify and the like. Due to SoundCloud's limitations, and the fact I changed my original Dise account to my new personal SoundCloud profile where I post demos, I re-released and archived all the Dise music on my Bandcamp page in mid 2021. The links to the contents below will take you to either its Bandcamp link, or its Spotify link.
For the record -- apart from Launchpad, I designed all my album, single & EP graphics myself [I obviously didn't take the stock photos].
ALBUM - RECORDED 2016-2017 @ MULTIMEDIUM & THE SOUNDCHAMBER
Yes, I really did name the first Dise album after the app I used -- I thought it was cool at the time.
Before the production of this album had really started in March 2017, I released two fake EPs on SoundCloud, really just as a test. They were titled And I'm Driving and 2016. I made them to see how SoundCloud's album system works, as you can make a playlist and set it as an album or EP with a release date and a P-Line. Perfect.
Obviously, production of Launchpad didn't take very long at all. I started in March 2017, basically as soon as I got the app, and it finished the day I 'released' it. It consists of 14 tracks, with a few more in the deluxe version.
Release date: April 12, 2017; anniversary version released April 12, 2020; republished to Bandcamp mid 2021
My favourite tracks: Walking Down the Street, Launchpad, Shortie, Sequence Pt 2, Launchpad Anniversary
ALBUM - RECORDED 2017-2018 @ THE SOUNDCHAMBER 1&2
In December 2017 I released an EP called 2017 featuring a few tracks. It was shortly after then I started using a different app to experiment with making music called Music Maker JAM. My favourite things about this app were that I had more creative freedom with mixing and manipulating samples from different packs, and it was available on Windows [meaning I wasn't constricted to my phone]. To tie-in with this album I released a mini album in November titled Christmas 2018, and in December 2018, I released 2018 - a 2-disc mega-album with disc 1 being full of my best tracks of that year, and disc 2 being completely new tracks. I republished this on Bandcamp in 2021 but with only a portion of disc 2 due to copyright issues, as some of the songs I used in the SoundCloud version I didn't fully own.
Release date: December 23, 2018; republished on Bandcamp 2021
My favourite tracks: Crossfaded, you're a big boi ain't you, What It Means, 540, Acid's Redux, Medley Prototype 3, Chill, What It Means II
ALBUM - RECORDED 2018-2019 @ THE SOUNDCHAMBER 2&3
The Tide, my fourth Dise album, is probably the best thing I've done under the Dise name. When listening, and in retrospect, it's the only one I enjoy throughout -- and there's only one reason for that. I spent the longest time producing it. Production started actually in November 2018 and ended just before release in February 2019. Although I had completely returned to my iPhone through Launchpad [& and new app called Blocs Wave], I put more effort into mixing and manipulating the elements of different libraries than before. In January 2020 I started writing a script for a short film titled "Daydreamer" and I thought it would be rude not to create the soundtrack. Life got in the way and I didn't end up producing a film until 2023, but the tracks snuck their way into The Tide.
I always look back to my time making this album with happiness. I also made an EP which is an excerpt of this album titled 'City Scapes' -which is always a vibe to listen to. There's also a remix of Gunshotta by Machinedrum in the album.
After The Tide was released, I immediately went full-focus onto the band I had formed in late 2018. Me, Harry & Andrew - we three electronic producers staged The Phenomenon. The Phenomenon used many of my own production techniques on the iOS apps in its early days.
Observent listeners will note that the samples in Silhouette were repurposed for Sky Classic Crowd in the album Sky Web EPG 3.
In between The Phenomenon's Music for the Dark Ages among Dodge Cube & Heatwave, I kept working on the Dise project, and immediately on a fifth solo album titled 'Out of Service'. It was meant to poke fun at British culture, with many tracks named 'Premier Express,' '1 Million Pound Flat', 'Holidaymakers', 'Double Decker', and 'Freddo'. There was also 'Rock Mania' and 'Live Lobster' (whatever that means). I can't remember why, but I just stopped this album. Most likely because right after Dodge Cube for The Phenomenon was done in June 2019, we immediately started work on The Phenomenon's second album which was called 'Introducing Old Tech to Generation X' at the time (renamed to 'The Phenomenon 2' in November 2019).
Some of the 'Out of Service' demo tracks were released in May 2020 under 'paraDISE: The Mini-Album' and is the final ever Dise release.
Release date: February 10, 2019; republished on Bandcamp mid 2021
My favourite tracks: Welcome, Strobe, EDM Acid's Redux 2, The Tide, The Tide 2 (The Ride), Silhouette, Gunshotta (Dise Remix), Berlin, Nurburg, Nurburgring
RECORDED 2019-2020 @ THE GROOVEBOX
During production of The Phenomenon 2, I began to slowly make the funds and find spare parts to build a basic music studio. This consisted of an old HP Pavilion Windows 8 PC from 2013, running Ableton Live 10 Standard, no VSTs, 90s samples, and of course, the iPhone prevailed. As I was slowly gaining equipment I was teaching myself Ableton. To this day, I think I've watched only one or two video tutorials on Ableton -- for that reason I recommend it to beginners and professionals alike.
As you may read on The Phenomenon's page on this website, production of The Phenomenon 2 basically fell apart as of January 2020.
Out of anger I had basically produced The Album. It started in January and ended in.. March.
By February 2020 I already knew that it was time to take my hobby in music more seriously and starting studying Music Theory. My basic and generic lessons in and around Ableton and a new app I was using on the iPhone, Groovebox, served as sessions for The Album.
I had a few other names for the album such as The End of It All, however, I decided to call it The Album because I thought it was a good ultimatum, as I knew that The Album was going to be the last album I would make under the Dise name. From this point forward, I started using my real name for releasing music.
I made some terrible decisions during the making of this. In retrospect, I shouldn't have released this. I should have released Out of Service as a deluxe edition of The Tide and let Dise go out with something decent.
Release date: April 2, 2020
Favourite tracks: Herrington (Remastered), Sinful, Daydreamer Finale, Out of Service (Roberts Mix), Emotional Darkness
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