In 2020 the world was deep unto the pandemic and I found a TV enthusiast community named Old Digibox. For its recreation of a classic electronic programme guide, they needed background music and along I came.

Sky Web EPG consists of old unfinished demo projects from my files during 2019 which were restored and re-recorded for the purposes of this album. Due to this, the actual production of the album took about two weeks as the songs were already written, but only needed to be arranged. Additionally, projects that were originally created for Dise: The Album and The Phenomenon 2 were re-used (Fresh Bridge -> Sky Bridge, Boombox -> Sky Boombox, Lo-Fi Night -> Sky Lo-Fi Night).

If I had to describe the overall sound of this album, I'd call it "spacey."

As soon as this was finished we wanted more, with catchier tunes, so as soon as a sequel even came into consideration, so did a trilogy.

Release date: June 18, 2020 [Bandcamp version was released May 20, 2020]

My favourite tracks: Sky Eclectic Attraction, Sky Bridge, Sky Boombox, Sky Ocean, Sky Primetime

Although still a somewhat rushed process, Sky Web EPG 2 had more time to be produced and therefore came out the best in the trilogy [at least in my opinion]. Contrary to its predecessor, SWEPG2 consisted of mostly original songs. Recording of this album began a week after the first was released and continued throughout the summer of 2020.

SWEPG2 has a much more varied sound, some tracks original, a few made "Dise-style" with heavy sample usage. With media composing in mind I tried to cover every base with this release by packaging it with electronic, dance, downtempo, and ambient beats. As an example the album opens with Wanderlust which is essentially a trance track, and then transitions to Gritty Decision which when I showed to my friends all say it sounds like "porno music," a point they retain to this day [and one I no longer deny].

When recording was being wrapped up around mid September 2020 it was immediately delivered to The Phoenix Project Audio (DBA "Bryson Records" at the time) and promoted. I even gave my Bandcamp page a facelift, which truthfully I've never done for another album release.

Release date: October 14, 2020

My favourite tracks: Sky Wanderlust, Sky Gritty Decision, Sky Found Sound, Sky Cine, Sky Rotten, Sky Minimon, Sky Leftfield, Sky Braintree, Sky Chelmsford

As well as producing the Sky Web EPG trilogy, late 2020 was spent trying to find a unique enough style for my own personal projects, with hopes of creating the first original album since Dise or The Phenomenon. As of January 2025, the last proper album I did was The Album under Dise which is strictly disappointing.

Partly compiled simply to get more releases onto stores, The Formula consists of miscellaneous recordings from mid-to-late-2020; some sampled, some original. I was trying a somewhat gritty sound but it wasn't quite there.

This EP is named "The Formula" because the compilation of tracks here were quite literally an experiment, to see if this was something I'd be okay going forward with in my discography. It wasn't, but I see no reason to have it deleted from my discography. I'm not The KLF.

Release date: February 12, 2021

My favourite tracks: Opening, New Objective (Demo)

Producing the Half-Life: Zombies Ate My Neighbours soundtrack, even to this day, has been a huge process. At certain "milestones," Rafael and I agreed to release excerpts of the soundtrack in yearly albums (a goal we haven't been able to keep since then) to showcase some of what we had made so far.

The first of two "showcase albums" is entitled Scapes of New Mexico (The Musical Prelude to Half-Life: Zombies Ate My Neighbours) and was released in mid 2021.

The trend of SONM is hardcore punchy beats from the game. These are used during action set pieces, particularly when the player deals with a swarm of enemies, or a generally cool moment. Most of the works in this album are from mid 2020, with the exception of 9mmAR and Run (Demo) which were recorded in February 2021. There's a few ambient setpieces here, particularly at the end with Zeke Alone.

Release date: May 17, 2021

My favourite tracks: 9mmAR, Korg, Run, Scapes of New Mexico, They're Coming (Remix)

In August 2021 my individual style was developing further, and I took an even more keen interest in 90s synths, and early 90s breakbeat. I wanted to emulate the style of creating that music with a Roland W-30 sampling workstation system within Ableton Live 11, and Now It's Your Turn was the result.

The sound of NIYT was inspired by Phoenix by The Prodigy, though not "emulated" very well. As a songwriter I avoid copying, but I let other works set the mood.

It marked the start of an actual project, entitled "The Second Coming," as if that genre of music had made its return. TSC was to be a one-time thing and I knew after completing a record like that, I wouldn't make one like it again. Oh, the irony.

NIYT furthermore marked the start of monthly EP releases that were planned to lead up to the release of the album, though this didn't last very long.

Notably, one of NIYT's B-sides is Graveyard Shuffle 2. Graveyard Shuffle is a frankly awful track made years and years ago by a bandmate of The Phenomenon and we thought it'd be funny if I did a sequel to it.

Release date: November 20, 2021

Notable B-side: Sheer Stealth

Initiated for a January 2021 release, having started production immediately after Sky Web EPG 2, Sky Web EPG 3 took a lot longer than I had anticipated; in fact, an entire year longer. Due to personal circumstances, early 2021 created a major roadblock in terms of the making of this album and early 2021 was a time I nearly quit music as I was suffering depression. 

Fortunately I escaped that roadblock and became motivated to create music again. By April 2021 Sky Web EPG 3 had about 5 or 6 tracks from late 2020-January 2021, but I wanted it to have the same amount as Sky Web EPG 2. Furthermore I almost cancelled this album due to the delay but felt compelled to complete the trilogy nonetheless. The rest of the album was written and produced in Q3 2021.

During its initial late 2020 production, Sky Web EPG 3 was going to have different album art different to the conventional "text-over-gradient" one. At the start I wanted SWEPG3 to be way different but for the sake of continuity and consistency I created a more traditional album art for it instead, which ended up being the final.

In terms of style, Sky Web EPG 3 is conflicted. It begins in a similar vein to its predecessor with the chillout track Classic Crowd, and a little more downtempo with Mellowness. However it goes a bit too energetic and hardstyle with War and War Games (which are excerpts from a game soundtrack I was working on). Perhaps SWEPG3 should have been given more time so I could hone its style and let the trilogy go out well, but a year's delay had already passed and I wanted to see a 2021 release date; not a 2022 date.

At its ultimatum, Sky Web EPG 3 ended up with only 9 original tracks. The last three are alternate versions of tracks from Sky Web EPG 1 & 2. In late 2020 there were plans to create an "Alternate Mixes" version of the SWEPG duology but they were scrapped. "Sky Eclectic Attraction (Remix)" and "Sky Bridge (Remix)" are remnants of "Sky Web EPG (Alternative Mixes)."

I'm glad I had got the trilogy finished in time, but wish Sky Web EPG 3 wasn't such an outlier compared to the duology.

Release date: December 12, 2021

My favourite tracks: Sky Classic Crowd, Sky Mellowness, Sky Descent, Sky Fight Night, Sky Bridge (Remix)

Following NIYT was Fixation. Regarding the production of this EP, there's nothing massively notable to mention since it was just pushed out there. Fixation is more of a filler piece while I was working on a bigger track named Control, and Wrath was also being recorded [with plans for a lyric].

Fixation itself is a very basic track comprised of a TR-909, TB-303, and a chordal synth. I had released this on SoundCloud in 2021, and it picked up quite a few likes and positive comments (it has since been delisted).

Release date: December 13, 2021

Notable B-side: Molotov Party

Control was one of the more "hardcore" tracks I recorded in late 2021. The original version was a long piece at 13 minutes long, and I consider it to consist of 3 movements;

1. The intro, consisting of the kick and 303 pattern

2. The build-up, where the "zappy" bass synth kicks in

3. The finale, with the electronic guitar

Obviously this version was too long to even be in the album so before its January 2022 release, a trimmed version was recorded named '21 EQ. Right before release, my guitarist Rafael recorded his own version of the track with his guitar added in. That was chucked onto the EP as the '22 EQ version.

Ironically this was the last of the "monthly EPs" due to personal circumstances out of my control.

Release date: January 18, 2022

B-side: Rok-Bearer ('94 EQ)

A considerably late release when you realise this was recorded in late 2021 alongside Control. Wrath was meant to be part of the TSC EPs and I can't remember why it took so long to come out, but it got out nonetheless. Wrath is the final TSC EP.

Lyrics and vocals were planned for this track but never recorded, so it had to live with an instrumental version.

Release date: March 13, 2023

Notable B-side: Control Jam

I spent late 2022 and most of 2023 working on this compilation. This release celebrated 8 years of my music career and one would surely ask, "why 8 years, instead of 10?" Because I like weird anniversaries.

In total, 8 Years: 2015-2023 has 59 tracks. Due to this the album had to be split into 5 parts:

1. Dise (2015-2020)

2. The Phenomenon (2019)

3. Best of Sky Web EPG (2020-2021)

4. Phoenix Soundtracks (2020-2022)

5. New Tracks (2023)

Although I consider the fact that I haven't really been able to do a proper album since Dise in 2020, the first 4 parts of 8Y are a compilation and part 5 is a new album with new tracks. However, it is tethered to the rest of the release so I don't consider it fully so.

Furthermore, due to pesky metadata issues, the entirety of 8Y is only listenable on my Bandcamp. Stores have parts 3-5 individually.

I'm proud of 8Y and I designed the tracklist to show my musical evolution as accurately as possible. My only slip up was with part 1, where I didn't include much tracks from Launchpad (2017), which is important to me because it was my first ever LP.

8 Years: 2015-2023 isn't just any standard compilation though, as some tracks were restored and re-arranged as "8 Years Versions," including a couple of tracks from the Dise era. It was nice going back to those old projects which hadn't been opened in years, and leaving them in a better state than they were in before. Herrington and Emotional Darkness, tracks from "The Album" of the Dise-era, got 8Y versions and were supported with a store release under the single: 8 Years: Herrington / Emotional Darkness.

Release date: January 16, 2024

My favourite tracks: Emotional Darkness (8 Years Version), Scapes of New Mexico (8 Years Version), Xenian Product (8 Years Version), War Games (8 Years Version), Dimensional Rift (8 Years Version), Genesis, Rok-Bearer (8 Years Version), March (Demo)