‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER

*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]

GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.

GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.

“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”

ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)