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Sketch#18 (Alpha Mound – “Symmetry” State Charger edit)

November 9, 2019collaboration, live sketch, state charger

Alpha Mound and I first collaborated on his Tide As Currency remix EP earlier this year. I was inspired and definitely wanted to try my hand at reworking some of his material. Upon re-visiting his …

Sketch#17 (Decide one way or the other)

November 3, 2019live sketch, state charger

I’m about 25 years late as Slabco isn’t accepting demos any longer! But I’ll tell you what, I would love to do an entire project based on weirdo samples, old drum machines and …

Sketch#16 (Tough Solar – “Heavy Skeleton” State Charger edit)

November 2, 2019collaboration, live sketch, state charger

I’m working on a EP of Tough Solar edits; this being a live work in progress of “Heavy Skeleton”. I’ll save all of the history and factoids for the release but you should …

Sketch#15 (Hawk Excuse)

October 3, 2019live sketch, state charger

There’s no time like the present to connect a bunch of hardware together and make some lazy, hazy music! Hot off the heels of my sketch last week, this one puts me a step closer to the sounds …

Sketch#14 (Too Much Moves)

September 28, 2019live sketch, state charger

After a long summer break from making music, I’ve relocated my gear back to my basement lair. There’s an Ikea dining room table down there fully extended with the optional leaves; it …

Crete scenes

June 26, 2019photography

So I’ve been in Greece on the island of Crete; a beautifully sun-kissed fantasy land with a slowed-down, loose culture that made me smile. There was this sort of open-ended “If you like …

Sketch#13 (Tape loop and Digitakt)

June 2, 2019live sketch, state charger

I’ve had the project of making longer tape loops on the backburner for a while now. I was stuck, confined to thinking I needed to figure out how to spool the loop within the cassette’s …

Kick Plate and The Corner Guards

May 14, 2019mike downey (solo 2005-2010)

In line with my habits of clean housekeeping comes Kick Plate and The Corner Guards. This is a collection of compilation appearances and EPs I released solo between 2006 and 2010. I tied up the …

Sketch#12 (Digitakt 1)

May 5, 2019live sketch, state charger

There’s this ever-changing question about what tools do I need to do the job I’m here to do. I’d been going back and forth with myself about just how many effect pedals I needed …

State Charger: Painted Kites release notes

April 24, 2019state charger

July of 2018: I’m upper deck on a charter bus between Linköping and Gothenburg. My family and I comfortably winding our way to Sweden’s best amusement park. I have the, what I thought …

Sketch#11 (Carbon Twos)

April 5, 2019live sketch, state charger

Lead vocals by me via a tape loop. I missed my chance to fade the vocal out and expand on the instrumental but when I was recording this (all live, don’t forget, no edits) I was only …

Tide As Currency (Alpha Mound remix)

March 28, 2019collaboration, state charger

Back in January I met fellow Swedish artist Alpha Mound via Instagram. He was quick to produce a short, but sweet, remix and video of one of my latest live sketches. I’m impressed by people …

I’m currently creating under the moniker State Charger …

… which is a series of audio experiments living in the space of ambient and lo-fi electronic. RIYL improvised looping, meditations, field recordings, tape. I have a couple releases on bandcamp and frequent updates happen over on Instagram.