Digital Dan

Nerve Noise Showcase

Dan — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:41:36 +0000

Last night I played with the rest of Nerve Noise at the Olbury Wells “Summer Celebration of Music” along with 18 or so other acts, showcasing past and present music talent who have attended Olbury. If you were in the audience, thank you for being the best audience ever. This was our first gig in 10 months and even though the preparation has been tight over the past 3 weeks, it all paid off last night in our 15 minute showcase of 3 tracks. We opened with 2 originals from our EP, Sentinel followed by Mist, finishing with an arrangement of the Tetris theme. We’re hoping to get a video online very soon. If you’ve liked us on facebook, you’ll be the first to know when it’s released!

You can find out more at nervenoise.com

I’m now finalising our second EP ready for recording so I’ll keep you posted with our progress.

Toypop is awesome :D

Dan — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:00:11 +0000

So last Thursday I was sent the complete tracks to Shifty Sarah‘s ToyPOP EP masterpiece that has been getting tons of hype on soundcloud recently, and in a sleep depriving 8 hours, I mixed and mastered them on my studio monitors, car, clock radio and poundland headphones. Totally worth it as it has since received more radioplay on BBC Radio Wales and hasn’t left my car all weekend. It’s such a unique style of clunky toy instruments blended together with colourful piano and glockenspiel melodies with captivating vocals which are so catchy, they’ll be stuck in your head for ages.

Listen to the whole thing on her soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/shiftymusic/

Introducing Digital Dan

Dan — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:59:14 +0000

Who Am I?

You’re visiting the online e-portfolio of Dan Bradley. A music composer/producer/engineer from Bridgnorth. Dan’s has done work for various local bands and short films over the past few years, and is always undertaking new and exciting projects.

This is the showcase of all the work I’ve completed since 2005. I’ll be blogging about all the projects I’m involved with and all my work will be showcased here.

– Dan Bradley

Silent Rhapsody

Dan — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:27:28 +0000

Silent Rhapsody is an acoustic ensemble with Gemma Wilson-Brown on vocals, Katie Munday on violin, Jamie Davies on guitar and myself on keys. We’ve got an EP in the works. You can find out more at our website.

http://www.silentrhapsody.com

Here are the highlights from our latest gig which was in Broseley:

Here’s one of the songs from our upcoming EP:

Nerve Noise

Dan — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:30:07 +0000

Introducing Nerve Noise

Nerve Noise began as an experimental instrumental project with no name. Just many years of sitting infront of a piano and collecting ideas, choosing the best and then putting them together and has now evolved to become something more than that. Nerve Noise is a combination of lead catchy flute melodies, backed by distorted guitar and synth. We’ve played several support gigs in 2010 and will be returning Summer 2011 with even more material.

Please visit www.nervenoise.com for more details. Here is our EP below:

Electric Kite

Dan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:30:36 +0000

In August 2009, I began working with Electric Kite. Over a period of 5 months I recorded, produced and distributed a 6 track EP (4 original tracks, 1 intro and an acoustic version) which received high acclaim locally amongst the local youth independant music scene. Electric Kite have since performed on the Bridgnorth high street as part of the Bridgnorth Music Festival 2010. Videos are on their facebook page at facebook.com/electrickite

The EP

Vocals: Zoe Bignell
Guitar: Jamie Davies
Bass: Alex Newton
Drums: Matthew Shilling

During the final stages of the EP production, I filmed some of the process aswell as some random video from practices and gigs etc. Below are the two parts!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Bryony Thomas

Dan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:29:37 +0000

Singer/Songwriter – Bryony Thomas

Bryony Thomas is a solo singer/songwriter who I had the opportunity to work with in 2009 and early 2010 on a couple of studio demos. Bryony has since left for university and will no doubt be making appearance at more open mic nights in the future. For now, you can listen her studio demos below alongside 2 acoustic recordings with her brother Gary Thomas.

Matthew Norton

Dan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:29:05 +0000

Matthew Norton is a solo singer/songwriter who I began working with in 2010, starting the production of his debut demo EP. You can find him on SoundCloud.

Matthew began playing guitar in 2004 and in 2010 after appearances at several open mic events, has began to progress with acoustic music on the side of numerous band Matthew is involved with. He has been playing all around Shropshire and has had several appearances in Derby.

He is influenced heavily by Jesse Lacey of Brand New and Kevin Devine.

Gemma Wilson-Brown

Dan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:28:29 +0000

Gemma is a solo singer who I’ve been recording with frequently over the past year. She recorded her first demo with me back in 2007 and is the lead singer for Silent Rhapsody.

99 Ways

Dan — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:27:57 +0000

99 Ways was a progressive/alternative rock project with a metal influence in some of the later material that had been worked on. It all began when Craig Walker invited Dan Oliver, Tim Wakeley and Carys Mumford to work on demo material. Joined later by Dan Bradley on keyboards, 99 Ways went on to produce 3 demo tracks. The songwriting process undertaken was long and very time consuming as the band’s members had many different influences. A key influence was Dream Theater.

Unfortunately, no demo EP was ever released as the recordings were unpolished and after the cancellation of the band’s first ever gig, the project disbanded with it’s members continuing their side projects.

Playing above is all the demo audio we recorded, including the times we just hit record on the mixer so I apologise for the shocking audio quality of some of the recording above.