Blurb.

Emerging from the ether of the early 90s Falmouth Art School pocket [Cornwall, UK] Paul T Cobbin became Captain Wardrobe. Primarily a guitarist - i picked up computer based music programming knowledge in the mid 90's then while working as a session musician for several bands/collectives & studios in North/East London.

i have also been maintaining a music webspace [Renegade Pharmacy] via declarepeace for many years releasing via free streaming, an eclectic mix of ambient / electro / digi-dub / breakbeat & experimental breakcore & powertronics, as well as solo projects with a more industrial tech-pop sensibilty. i also make my own artwork. [why waste a 'formal' art education?]

EXPERIMENTAL IMPERFECT DISTORTED TIMELAPSED AMBIENT

tHE mAN iN tHE mOUNTAIN: derived from a previous project title: The man in the net bed along - simply put - i used to live in the UK on the dole - now i live up a mountain in North Cyprus!

I sat down & recorded some guitar noodling in different tunings, then in Ableton timelapsed it to sound very slow and droney, picking different parts and pitching higher or lower adding fx arpeggiators etc. then when i was happy with the soundscape - i overdubbed a new guitar over this.

for those of you who like mashing distortion and delays / reverb in an ambient way, tracks 1-3 are distorted guitar based - much more raw.

Episodes 4-5 are based on Keyboard recordings... again, made by manipulating recordings of a Yamaha PSR-78 cheapo keyboard through master fx & other send channels on Ableton Studio.

Time-stretching recordings utilising Grain delays / frequency shifters / dub delays / max reverb washes, many times until the drone reached maximum medititation levels.

Each track on this sampler is the 1st track from the first 5 mAN iN tHE mOUNTAIN albums