The Journey of a demo (How a demo from 1995 can turn into a 2017 masterpiece)

In 1995, I was sitting in my studio in Brisbane, Australia playing around with my new synthesizer, the Korg Wavestation.

My wife was pregnant and i was imagining what was going on behind the bulge in her belly. I wrote and recorded an ambient demo based around these thoughts and recorded it to a 4 track cassette and promptly put it onto the shelf.

link to Aftertouch Me (The Bulge)

Fast forward to 2017, and my then embryonic daughter Madeleine was now 21, and had just given birth to her first daughter Macie. I had since digitized the cassette into my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and I placed in on a timeline and started adding layers and beats and developing it into a tapestry of sounds.

This ended up being the desolation mix of the newly named 7th Heaven, and was included on my 2017 release "Fresh New Idea".

link to 7th Heaven (Desolation Mix)

A producer colleague of mine Primorph heard the track, and asked if he could do a remix of it. So I provided him (in Wales) with individual tracks (stems) for him to work with.
A couple of months went by, and the track he sent me was everything i could have hoped for and more. It became The Primorph Mix, and I released it a a 2 track single late in 2017.

link to 7th Heaven (The Primorph Mix)

After all of these years, this little piece i had played with on a hot sunny day in Brisbane, has been through 3 totally different stages, and appeared on 3 different albums. Perhaps I should have named it Phoenix, as its risen from the ashes on many occasions.