Welcome. Here you can listen to the latest Tim Halbert tracks/experiments in the comfort of your own chair.

The vast majority of the music featured in The Workshop is either short and incomplete (in which case it probably won't be finished) or long and complete (in which case it probably won't be commercially released). Either way: sit back, relax, enjoy.

All featured clips are in MP3 format and are copyright © 2006-7, Tim Halbert. All rights reserved. A private license agreement must be arranged for use of these clips in commercial media. Feel free to write to me (e-mail address is at the bottom of the page) if you have any further questions.

CDC
For b3ta: one xylophone sample with ten reverse boxes working in tandem.

Boomshine 2: Unused Ambience 1
I processed a vast amount of demo material for the Boomshine sequel, most of which was dire in comparison to the dynamic soundtrack I've finished working on. Here's something nice but irreverant which didn't make the cut.

Boomshine 2: The Beginning
Bit of a sneak preview, this - the orchestral opening to the new game.

Lepidoptera
Daft Punk meets some more shabby synths. Looks like someone still hasn't dropped those blasted sawteeth, and those drums are seriously out-of-date. Vocoder's alright, though. But buy yourself some fills, yeah?

The Handler: Barry Beats (Loop)
The Handler: Swings and Roundabouts (Loop)
The Handler: Uncle Charlie (Loop)
When presented with the demo for this game, it came with a few neat little bass guitar loops a friend of the developer had knocked together. I don't have the originals on me, but to cut a long story short, I jazzed the living censored out of them and this is what remained. This is a sweet little game. I cannot insist this enough. So I won't.

This summer, I've finished the soundtrack for the Boomshine sequel, which is going to be released a little later than planned. The main project now is the new album, Radius, which looks like it's going to consist of eight tracks, all of which are already either down on paper or partially completed. Rather than being a compilation of popular tunes, this CD will intentionally flow better and be a slight bit more serious. Expect a release in the New Year!

Sore Tooth
Noisy synth pop, in which I (that's me) play with distorts and filters and things. And it is interesting.

Lamp
Quietly epic cinematic ballad. Cellos sound a bit like Lost. (For which read: "don't tell me what I can and can't do.")

The Fruitless Electrocution of Frederik Ångström
More noisy synth-pop, but partially (that's only partially, mind) more inspired. The number of snares in the four-measure section kit fills starts at five and increments each section. And, erm, that's about it. Still, though.

An Interlude
An interlude. Actually, this is more of a loop than an interlude. *jumps to 12th on Trading Standards hitlist*

Excremental Intermission (Tribal Mix)
One of you, perhaps just one of you, perhaps, just perhaps, just, will surely appreciate this... Oh dear! I didn't finish it. Never mind.

Sales of Do Not Listen rocketed, mainly in part to the unparalleled success of Boomshine, which has clocked up over sixteen million plays at time of writing. There are not many copies left of the limited edition CD, so hurry if you haven't bought it already! Main project in the pipeline now is the music for the sequel, which is being tiptoed about very carefully for perfectly acceptable reasons.

The album itself broke the digital New Age download charts at the beginning of Spring, screaming up to the dizzying heights of #42. In singles, Excremental Intermission reached #35 and remained on the charts for ten days. A big thank you to everyone for their continued support and messages of encouragement, and especially to everyone who went to the trouble of buying it. Your gold is being promptly re-invested into the production of more quality tunes. More soon!

Secretary
I began the new year by going back to this old experimental chestnut I'd left lying around. It's the same horrific theme repeated over and over again but each time sounding worse and worse on the ears (if such a thing was ever possible).

Only the Green Pen Works (Ringtone)
Feel free to put it on your phone, or whatever it is you young people do these days.

Glucklichesraketespiel
A game with a rocket that never materialised. 70s.

Paris
Another homage to Deus Ex, except this one even uses some of the original MOD samples from the game itself. The extraction process was pretty difficult. The tune is the lead-in to the Paris theme, the Paris conversation music and a bouncy crap-a-thon bollocksing up of the theme tune. As a subtle in-joke, 33% of the snare drum is actually James Capper saying 'jizz'. Can you tell?

Walkaway
"Because sometimes you just have to learn how to!" - dreary. This has the potential to get longerer and longerererer, but I think we've all learned our lesson, really, haven't we?

Cada Borde de Plata Tiene una Nube
I really think we should stop seeing each other like this. I'm already in a long-term relationship, and this isn't right for either of us. Don't cry, though, love; check out this hot new sustain pedal!

Hammersmith
Loungey, nu-jack-swing style inspired by an imported Garfield soundtrack CD.

Excremental Intermission (Boomshine Mix)
The title track from the new k2xl game Boomshine, a tribal remix of Excremental Intermission from the debut album. This took several iterations and borrows a percussive leaf out of the book of Spawn (a different game that fell by the wayside), the music for which you can probably dig out from the archive if you're interested. If you liked this, you'll probably like most of the other songs on the CD. Here's the sheet music: (BMP or PDF) if you and a friend fancy playing it on the piano.

I spent most of the first 2 months of the year promoting the new album, which has been an overall success. Such has been the album's surprise good fortune, a follow-up album is most definitely not out of the question, although it seems likely it will take a more serious tone than the first and may even be made freely available to download as opposed to being released on CD.

Currently, I'm doing the majority of my writing for k2xl as well as additionally beginning to branch out into stage music, although it must be made clear my professional working career does not currently - and probably will not ever - contractually involve writing music full-time, and I expect it to remain this way. We do not know, however, what the coming months will bring, so sit tight and keep watching this space.

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