12/01/2024

Goodbye Annie Nightingale

Goodbye to Annie Nightingale I’ve just heard the saddening news that Annie Nightingale has died today after a short illness. Alongside David Bowie, her good friend, January has now deprived me of 2 of my favourite people. I always loved Annie because she had that same crate-digger mindset that John […]

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30/12/2023

Blank Canvas

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Blog, General

Blank Canvas With the onset of a new year, I always look forward to that feeling of future potential. I was forced to look at my PC and it dawned on me that it’s just not a “spring chicken” anymore. Time for a change. For the last 14 years I’ve […]

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11/12/2023

Rogue Data

Rogue Data by Carbinax Flensic 2.0 is a very old friend. I have no idea why, but I love this track. Actually, I do know why……….it’s the mystery. Sometimes tracks take on a life of their own, and have their own inpenetreble persona. If I could sum up Flensic 2.0 […]

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23/11/2022

Cult48 – Intricate Cyphers

I released Intricate Cyphers on November 4th 2022, which, at the time of writing is almost 3 weeks ago.I should have dropped an update about it here, but I tend to suck at routines, and do things when I get around to doing them. It’s who I am, and I’ve […]

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13/07/2022

Cult48 New Album — “From The Ashes”

“I’ve never heard anything sound so much like Boards of Canada that isn’t Boards of Canada! – Igloomag, January 2021(igloomag.com/reviews/cult48-underground-signals-from-an-unknown-place ) “nothing has sounded quite so BoC since BoC themselves, just adding fuel to the fire of just who is getting this beautiful sound out there. To not only emulate with […]

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15/06/2022

My Cult48 Tracks

In order to go forward, I need to lay out a bit of detail. I’ve alluded to the fact that about 80% of the Cult48 music, was created by me.  I made 17 of the released tracks completely on my own. 100% Carbinax ( in stealth mode ).Those tracks are : […]

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02/05/2021

Mantis 2.0

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Blog, General

I started Mantis a long time ago. From what I can gather, it was sometime around 2004, so it was originally a 2ndMOUSE track that appeared on a really early ad hoc album that was kinda thrown together in those really early days when giving away a free track was […]

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19/04/2021

Lion Eyes ( Half A Scissor Mix )

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Blog

Carbinax has been quiet for a long time. For various reasons.Paradoxically, there’s never been a time when I’ve been more enamoured with the process of making music, and I have been making a LOT of music, and then just kinda storing it, instead of actually releasing it.I think I know […]

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09/02/2021

500

Wow. It’s been a while.I haven’t posted anything here in months, and it’s clear that I struggle with routines and  just never been one for being regimented and adhering to a rigid structure. I completely understand the necessity for that, and I have the biggest respect for those that can, […]

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23/09/2020

Carpe Diem !!

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Blog

I’m currently siezing the day by avoiding Covidiots and working on a mountain of tracks. Not exaggerating. If minutes and seconds were feet and inches, my tracks laid end to end would probably equal the height of Everest. I’m working on over 400 simultaneously. Yes….all at the same time.  To […]

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