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Spider Griffin

... positive reality...

About Me



Spider Griffin’s music covers several bases: New Instrumental / Ambient / Electronic / Experimental; each album has a different vibe.

My albums are unavailable from CDBaby and iTunes for the while; I’m busy remastering them: • This Solid Land • Thematic • Hidden Temple • Experiment Deluxe • Quantum • Club Katrina. Albums I am working on at the moment: • Techtonic • Night Driver

MYSPACE FRIENDS: • All who enjoy my music. • Everyone interested/involved in: music / writing / theatre / film / design / animation

"...welcome to the machine..." Pink Floyd
"...the analogue machine..." sg

Peace, love and happiness...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/5/2007
Band Website: on it's way...
Influences: (In no particular order): • Vangelis • Pink Floyd • Art of Noise • Tangerine Dream • Ennio Morricone • Brian Eno • The Beatles • Kraftwerk • The Future Sounds of London • Jean Michell Jarre • Aphex Twin • William Orbit • Tomita • Klaus Schulze • Hawkwind • Matching Mole • Startled Insects • Ryuichi Sakamoto............many more artists and bands covering ambient, progressive rock, jazz and electronic..............

"Dragonfly 3" shellac & pigment by Krista Wallhagen

As well as an electronic music composer, Spider Griffin is also an author.
Slugg, A Gothic Tale and Filbert’s Mindrooms can be previewed at
Lulu.com website

Sounds Like: a journey.....

Record Label: spiral gyroscope recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HISSING IN THE TRACK "ROUTE A"

Being a stickler for detail (well, sometimes!) I thought I’d point out that the hissing noise which sounds now and then in my track Route A shouldn’t be there.So why is it there? Cos I&rsq...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:42:00 PST

SNOWING IN MARCH

Yup, snow here in the UK, March 23 2008. Now that doesn’t happen often...Positive VibesSpider G
Posted by Spider Griffin on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:49:00 PST

SPRING-CLEANING MY PAGE/FRESH TRACKS

I've redesigned my page...hope you like it!I'm adding fresh tracks as well; as you see/hear, there's only one there at the moment (8 Feb 2008), the others will follow over the course of a few weeks......
Posted by Spider Griffin on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:12:00 PST

MYSPACE BAND THEME TUNE COMPETITION

The latest MySpace competition, in association with Penguin Books, is to write a theme tune for the audiobook version of Sebastian Faulks' new 007 novel, Devil May Care. This will be published on 28 M...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

FREE DOWNLOAD OF MY NOVEL FOR A LIMITED TIME

Hiya all..........For a limited time (perhaps a month or two) I'm allowing one of my novels to be as a free pdf download.The title of the book is The Possession of Alastair Slugg. It's a page-turning ...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:57:00 PST

NEW (OLDISH!) ALBUM RELEASE SOON

I'm putting together my eighth album from tracks I wrote during the nineties at some time.It's Techno and it's called "Club Katrina"(I haven't finished Techtonic yet really, but I do tend to jump from...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:20:00 PST

NEW MYSPACE FRIENDS and COMMENTS

Hi to all MySpace friends new and oldThought I'd better mention this: I am notoriously bad at writing back to new friends as well as comments: so if you haven't heard from me but you see I've recently...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:24:00 PST

CD ARTWORK NEW DESIGNS and RE-MASTERING

I've gone back to the drawing board (well, back to the iMac G5) and started to redesign all of the CD graphics for my seven albums:" This Sold Land " Thematic " Hidden Temple " Experiment Deluxe "...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:03:00 PST

FIRST MUSIC VIDEO

I've just uploaded my first video; an animation to accompany the track Hidden Monastery. It lasts only 19 seconds: it's a test file really, especially considering that the music track is over two minu...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:14:00 PST

FILM MAKERS NEEDING COMMISSION/ROYALTY FREE MUSIC

Any film/video maker (amateur to professional) who finds any of my tracks suitable for any film project can use them free of charge.This offer is vaild only until July 01 2007, as then the majority wi...
Posted by Spider Griffin on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:34:00 PST