Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Skev's Tunes

I used to be in a couple of electronic bands back in the day. We started as The Red Branch being a bit synth-poppy in the mid-80s, and became iNDUSTRiE with a harder edge in the late 80s/early 90s. We thought we were great, and in some ways we were - but we existed and strived between the age of analog, early digital synthesis and into sampling, and then fizzled out before the age of the internet, easy home-recording and digital file sharing. We never recorded anything formally, but a few tracks survive having been mastered from a four-track where we bounced tracks around to create enough multi-layering.

In more recent years I occasionally played about with a DAW package (FL Studio) and a load of free software synths on my PC. I upped the ante last year and upgraded the DAW to access more plug-ins, bought a couple of other software synths and much more recently, since Dec 2024, I've acquired some relatively cheap hardware synths and an audio interface. So far in 2025 I have been a lot more productive creating a number of new tracks. I've also reworked/remixed/remastered what I'd done up to then.

Newest tracks at the top ....











And these are old The Red Branch / iNDUSTRiE tracks including the original versions of Now It's Dark and Captivity.







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