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Currently as of 25/5/25: I am DJing every Friday at around 11pm time on Heavy Resistance Aberdeen which is a rock and metal Twitch DJ Stream, with Mark Chalmers and friends.

Audio and music has always been a big part of my life, which I used to actively pursue in the evenings while working in software/IT.

  • I have DJ’d semi-professionally, with stints in club residencies, mobile DJing and Twitch DJing, for over a decade. I also produced and released several electronica albums.
  • I have done paid freelance work on sound design and studio building.
  • I studied the core parts of a Bachelors degree in Sound Engineering and Music Production, as a distance learning course while I was working full-time, at the excellent Point Blank Music School in London. I have also done a lot of self-study in music theory, sound design, and audio engineering.

I am not currently putting as much time into music as I would like any more, because now I’m in my 40s it has been difficult to keep ‘burning the candle at both ends’. However I still enjoy playing my synths, live music, and listening to music on my custom listening setup.

Albums and EPs Released

My ‘Socialist Synthesis’ project is what I release most of my music under, it’s an experimental/electronica/ambient/soundscape project.

On Spotify I have released a couple of singles under ‘Socialist Synthesis’:

I have released an EP under a collaborative Machines Move Mountains’ project with Ellis Breen. It is experimental/electronica/downtempo:

I have released several albums and a few other tracks on Bandcamp under ‘Socialist Synthesis’:

I have released a few tracks under the ‘Concrete Spectre’ project, which is is industrial/EBM/techno:

DJing and Professional Music Industry Portfolio

This is my professional portfolio for the audio and music industry: