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[kirkoid-music]

Alone (Demonic Mix) - January 2022

After a very long break I finally got back into music making in 2022. I had started messing around with a few samples in Lockdown in 2020, but didn't get around to finishing anything.

This was a track I worked on a few years earlier, with different vocals. I was never totally happy with it, and that hung around in the back of my mind for years, I had unfinished business with this track!

So I revisited it and found Kara's wonderful rendition of Alone by Edgar Allan Poe on ccMIxter. It was a perfect fit. I did think about adding the original vocals back in, with one on each channel à la The Murder Mystery, but decided against it as I had messed around with them so much trying to mask them, and couldn't find the original.

The demonic voice in the background is actually a slowed down sample of speech from a well known Sci-Fi movie. At one point it reveals itself.

Reviews for Alone (Demonic Mix) on ccMixter and Looperman:

Deeply cool groove.

Hey Kirkoid! It’s great to see you here! I really dig your dark, hypnotic mix with those crisp, catchy drums. Thanks so much for including my vox.

Wow, what a fantastic intro my friend. Great track. Well done, Maj.

Cool, it is retro and future at the same time. awesome!

Really creative work and like Maj said, the intro was pretty awesome. Well done. I hope all is well. Bear

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Hang All In (The Re-Whistle) - February 2026

My entry in the ccMixter Show Some Love event.

Built around an organ sample, I initially struggled to get this one going, in part because I was going on holiday and had a much shorter window to play with. However, one evening, I found my beat.

Reviews for I Was Very Tired on Looperman:

Hey Kirkoid! Excellent choice of ingredients. Organ sounds great. BBs guitar fits just right. Well mixed my friend. Keep them coming.

Really cool song. I like it!

Reviews for I Was Very Tired on ccMixter:

Cool.

Love the eclectic mix and electro-dub vibes!Nice smooth chilled track, love those strings. Nice build throughout.

Nicely done.

Great Work, very clean! love it!

The organ sample really is the perfect foundation. you’ve made a wonderful track revealing new layers of sound and melody at each turn. Powerful when that rhythm section kicks in! The vocals are super cool, digging the guitar solo. You’re so talented! Fabulous mix.

Groovy!

Smoove

I seldom say this, but…coulda been longer! Much enjoyed.

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I Was Very Tired - October 2025

My entry in the ccMixter 21 Secret Mixter event.

I love a good drone, so when I was matched with JansMusic and saw the first sample was called Intro Drone, I knew I had my sample.

The vocal came from FreeSound, I've long liked spoken vocals that rise in and out of the music, allowing only fragments to be understood, and this vocal is perfect for this purpose. I love the sense of ennui it conveys, and snippets like "I was really glad to go to the tea party" are magnificent in their randomness when heard in isolation.

There is a bit of ReBirth in here, but it's way back in the mix, padding the sound. The loop that took me from searching to finding my sound in this case was the guitar sample.

Reviews for I Was Very Tired on Looperman:

Hello Kirkoid, thoroughly enjoyed this track, like the spoken narrative part....meshes beautifully with the easy steady music accompaniment....nice work

Great atmosphere you got here!!! Hats off, Danke

V surreal and original -great background track for an evening in

Reviews for I Was Very Tired on ccMixter:

Nice! I like how various sounds flow through the stereo field!

love the eclectic mix and electro-dub vibes!

Excellent, the spatialization of sound is one example, great work and beautiful atmosphere.

I love what you made here. It reminds me to one track from the slave to the rhythm album with Grace Jones. You added a bit of Andy Wilder darkness.

Right?! A good drone is hard to resist. I love where you took this. Very cool.

The drone is the glue for this journey of discovery that winds through rhythmic direction and sound. I love the loop!

ccMixter Ed Pick Review:

Kirkoid sets existential ennui among a hypnotic electronic chill groove with a rich bottom end that invites movement, even if you’re feeling very tired.

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Come Inside, the Imagination is Shining - June 2025

My entry in the ccMixter Imagination Shining Secret Mixter event.

Created using my usual methods, layering random samples until something fits, the style here is unlike my usual offerings, especially the lack of percussion.

The samples I found to fit the vocal sounded great, but they were of low quality and had a lot of clicks and pops in them that I found hard to clean up.

Eventually I decided to embrace them so I added vinyl sounds from Freesound and went completely lo-fi on the backing track, which was an interesting contrast to the quality of the vocals

Reviews for Come Inside, the Imagination is Shining on Looperman:

Beautiful, gentle vibe. Simple is good I'd say. Fav from me. Cheers Zoot.

This is very relaxing the vocals are very good all in all good job man :)

Sweet and dreamy as already written, but it's a fact. Excellent vocals that are beautifuly put together with the instrumental part. Best regards, Anthony

Nice track here! very chill and peaceful

Super brilliant! Real lo-fi ... hats off, Danke

Reviews for Come Inside, the Imagination is Shining on ccMixter:

Nice chilled track for a Sunday morning. Nice work Kirkoid.

The way the loops work against the vocal adds a great dimension to the track

A completely different Snowflake song! Nice..

Lovely backing . A very engaging intimate mix.

Wow, what a lovely surprise this warm Sunday morning. I’d completely forgotten about this pell. You’ve given it such a hopeful, insightful glow. What productive vision you have — the transition to the piano section is pure brilliance. Thank you for this gift!

Sweet and optimistic, love the backing, expertly crafted

The first time I listened to this, it reminded me of Spiritualized. I’ve subsequently come to appreciate it as its own very good thing. Kudos.

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Persistence (Resilience) - October 2024

My entry in the February 2025 ccMixter Resilience Secret Mixter event.

The track I was remixing had a rock vibe, so it was fun to try and take it in a much more electronic direction whilst remaining true to the original sounds.

The vocals were a last minute addition from Looperman.

Reviews for Persistence (Resilience) on Looperman:

Hello Kirkoid, quite enjoyed this track with all its many sounds and add-ons and electronic fills and you name it...the vocal fills are great as well. You've put together an interesting and well done track.

A very interesting track - love the vox at 1.37 Held my attention throughout Kay

You have produced a full song, with excellent sound and great flow. I specifically liked the most the third part, possibly because of the awesome power chords of the guitar. Great work here My best wishes, Anthony

Reviews for Persistence (Resilience) on ccMixter:

Well crafted hypnotic track. Great use of light and shade. Love the pulsating synths. Good work.

GREAT !!!

Clever vocoder beginning, but I enjoyed the full track, you sampled not only metal drums sounds, but also the full pack from Sparky - nice!

Love what you've done with this! A real journey through sounds

thoughtful arrangement and professional production. that synth melody is hooky! wonderful attention to detail at every turn. fabulous ending!

Got me moving. Got me grooving then had me pausing to notice what was happening next. Yes!

Funky electro groove with a playful parade of sounds. Your segues are fantastic, and the builds are well rewarded :)

ccMixter Ed Pick Review:

Put on your headphones, lay back and groove to this chilled electronic journey produced by Kirkoid featuring Sparky. Each sonic turn will enliven your soul with creative energy.

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Slow Down (Emerald Tears) - October 2024

My entry in the Celebratory Secret Mixter on ccMixter, held to celebrate ccMixter’s 20th, Emerald Anniversary. To honour the Emerald anniversary, I revisited many of the tools, sounds and sample sources I was using twenty years ago (it took some coaxing to get some of the software to work with Windows 11) and created this piece using several samples from a track by my allocated secret mixter.

I didn’t join ccMixter until 2007, but I was making music back in 2004. In fact, I made three tracks that year, and two have them have donated samples to this track (the other is totally NSFW and is built around an obvious ABBA sample).

When I look back over the past twenty years, peering back across time, I feel a bit dizzy, as if I’m looking down from a great height. The years seem to pass faster and faster, so yes, slow down.

Reviews for Slow Down (Emerald Tears) on Looperman:

goooooooooooooood

Very cleverly composed. It is obvious you care about what you do and the results. Do you remember the songs Popcorn and Magic Fly? When I heard those songs as a kid they were immediately captivating to me and so is this. Kudos to you for pulling all of these elements together so well. Kay0s

Reviews for Slow Down (Emerald Tears) on ccMixter:

Thanks for this great remix, Kirkoid. I really like what you’ve done with it - a really nice “full” sound to the mix.

I love the twenty years of blips and blops mixed in this nice track. Tangerine Dream on steroids.

I like this mix of electronic sounds, the frequencies mix well, and it’s very clean, I ask for more..

i love the way you wove your early decade sounds into this celebratory mix that uplifts my heart. your tones, combined with sparky’s, have that something special. this mix is extraordinary! (and i agree, the years are going way too fast!! I’m trying to learn how to slow down my inner pace so this track is really speaking to me…)

Awe-some! Super diggin this faceted techno rock :) It’s got everything—beautiful synth arps (both bass and accompaniment), a parfait of leads, and a spread of drums holding it all together! Mmm, remix parfait :)

Thanks for sharing your approach to composing and arranging this track. I definitely went on a journey with you. Thanks for being an enduring contributor to ccMixter and being part of this special secret mixter.

ccMixter Ed Pick Review:

Take an expansive journey that pushes forward while simultaneously admonishing us to slow down and take our time. Kirkoid’s secret remix of Sparky is a full soundtrack 20 years in the making.

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Glaciers of Triton (Kirkoid Mix) - April 2024

My entry in the Branching Out Secret Mixter event on ccMixter.

I took a single stem from a track and built an entirely new track around it.

On reflection, it's a perfect companion piece for Leviathan.

Reviews for Glaciers of Triton (Kirkoid Mix) on Looperman:

A beautiful track that takes you away from the dreary from the cloudy day to the sun over the hill Kay0s

To me it has a very cinematic feel to it, sci fi movie material. Sometimes a low bpm works with these soundscape ideas. Well done! Wayne

I was just transported to another realm entirely. Amazing sound selection and direction. If Bladerunner had a third installment coming out, this would fit right in :) - EX:AN

What a main groovy and mood!!! Very cool sounded soundtrack music. Fistbump, Danke

Reviews for Glaciers of Triton (Kirkoid Mix) on ccMixter:

Yes, it is a development of his track, when he uploaded he meant to provide some samples indeed, having lossless flac samples is beautiful!

Wonderfully immersive synth-hop, the chillbience is strong with this one :)

you’ve built hypnotic intrigue with each new section of your stellar production, telling an expansive story through sound.

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Ocotillo (Kirkoid Mix) - April 2024

Having done a Robot Trilogy, maybe I’m now doing a Plant Trilogy, with this being number two following March of the Seedlings.

Reviews for Ocotillo (Kirkoid Mix) on Looperman:

Wow, ok! I can definitely say I've not heard much of anything else quite like this before. I mean that in the best way possible! Music is the truest art form man.

Outstanding track in all respects ... hats off, Danke

really good song bro, great concept, love that spoken vocal its very calming, minimal drum and soft melody, really nice listen

The invitation of sky, the kindness of wind... I'm a botanist so I can relate to this! Beautiful track, calming and peaceful. Uplifting too. The plant itself doesn't look like fun if you had to go through it lol.

Wonderful "Schraeg" The talking voice is a great instrument. I really like it.

Reviews for Ocotillo (Kirkoid Mix) on ccMixter:

Wonderfully marvelous backtrack for this spoken word, love the pacing. The reversed samples help keep the energy up as it flows along :)