Fifty one years old, just had my first release on vinyl - picked up from a track I posted on soundcloud and chosen to join a drum and bass compilation album by a lovely guy in Germany (Mindcolor Music)

Received two copies today, on beautifully thick vinyl, with one labelled just for me. Nice to see the kids eyes go wide. I'm a huge music fan and this kills me. I've been making music since I was about 17 on my Amiga and it's been a lifelong hobby. I really am feeling humble. Huge love to all the folk on here who encouraged me to keep making music, whether you ever did that or not.

Peace and love from Scotland



Here's the track. Posted it here before, but I didn't intend for this to happen, so I'm not even that happy with it! Remade the Uranium pad on the JD990 (the chord is all over the Internet, uses a Mellotron patch from the vintage synth board), Akai S1000 doing a (non-Splice!!) Amen and Jupiter 6 doing the big synths. 101 doing a few bleeps. S1000 also provided the sub. JX8P the strings nearer the end. Sean Costello provided the effects via Valhalla DSP. Mastered myself and that's probably the worst bit - not got the punch

Epic mate - in multiple ways!!! Tune is really nice too.

Pleased for you. enjoy the experience

very inspiring read..

in 2023, age doesn't matter anymore. Different ball game now..

Legit stoked to hear this. Well done.

Well done, nice tune... though if your data is important to you, I'd update your vinyl HSM to one with computer chips and stuff!

My dayjob is all HSMs and hypervisors, don't you worry about that

Really appreciate the nice words everyone. Thank you. This is a great community - I mean that

And it’s a small world man 😂😂😂😂 chances of that happening hey

Are you on the compilation as well??

EDIT: Scrub that, I just got a message from my old pal that works with you - brilliant, what a night

Cool I look forward to the next concept album "blue/green failover after problematic upgrade of VMWare Server in Canary Ring that resulted in unexpected propagation of tub girl across regions. Next update in 4 hours."

No but we know a certain person it seems, unfortunately I have to work with him everyday 😂😂😂

Congratulations! Nothing beats the feeling of having your own music on vinyl – medium-wise I mean, there are other great feelings as well

We've never had a multi-Region failure and our stuff is much better than that vmware stuff

He introduced me to SOOOO much new music over the years, I love it when life comes together!

Congrats, and thanks for the inspiration! 🤘

Nice! Congratulations

Congratulations mate, it’s a good track.

Congrats matey! Great track, too

Can you fix the link to the track? I wanna check it out

The link works fine - what's going wrong?
https://soundcloud.com/nebpor/hsm-uranium

Appears to be something with the SoundCloud embed and certain browsers. I never see links using the embedded feature on the forum. Sometimes, I don’t even know there’s a link. If I do know, I can quote the post, then in the editor copy the link.

Nice track man, well done !! 51 is young so plenty of time yet to keep 'em coming

My most heartfelt congrats! Beautiful track and keep em coming!

Thanks again for the kind words, and for the avoidance of doubt this was never about me trying to spam the track, it really was a heartfelt “keep doing what you enjoy doing, as at the end of the day what makes you happy is a worthwhile passion” kind of post!

Excellent track. Thanks for sharing.

Hey, could you point them my way? I would love to hear my drum & bass stuff on vinyl... heh. Great tune!

Dope track! I would sit and listen to a whole album of this. Keep going!

Huge congrats dude!! I’m turning 49 tomorrow, so hopefully there’s still a chance I can release something before I die haha. First I have to close down my business and send the kids off to college, that’s all.

Congratz, getting on vinyl, in a compilation, and all that.
I really like the track, and the genre.

Loved the part about the kids' eyes going wide too.

awesome, glad to hear! i really like that understated 101 throughout (just enough) and the JX8P "strings".