I’ve just finished compiling an album of some of my musical efforts from the last five years or so. It’s a released under the pseudonym of Pyro Stunts which comes from a teenage fascination with improvised pyrotechnics. The album is called Flame Retardant and it’s a 10 track electronic mish-mash of genres such as breaks, dub, dance and reggae. I wanted to get this one out the door so that in future I can focus on dubstep and dancehall only.

Many of these early tunes have been on myspace at one time or another. I used TuneCore to effortlessly upload all my tracks onto iTunes, ShockHouse.com, Rhapsody, Emusic, lala, Amazon, Napster amiestreet.com and groupie tunes. They’ll be online is four to six weeks time apparently. In addition to these, I’ll be uploading to other mp3 sites such as Amplifier which is the 100% NZ music site.

For the album cover art, I used an HDR photograph that is discussed here. Pretty much everything else in the image was produced using processing. It’s an open source image based programming language based on Java.

It’s great that in 2008 all the tools are available for artists to create and distribute their own works at little or no cost. Click on to one of the music retailers above to preview the tracks. Enjoy the sound of Pyro Stunts in 2008.