GAMING - Scenes from a Deserted City (2020)

"Glaswegian producer Alan Bryden's Gaming project falls somewhere between electro, IDM, and the kind of synth wave that Com Truise has made his own. Crisply mastered by Radioactive Man, 'Scenes From A Deserted City' is compelling stuff, nodding as much to '90s techno as to CPU's more futuristic artists. Tracks such as 'Otago Lane' bubble and pulse with colourful synth life, whereas 'Night Drive (Through Gavonhill') brings that familiar musical metaphor to bear with a four-four beat and intricate bleeps. 8/10" DJ MAG

"The name that Glasgow's Alan Bryden has picked for his new 'braindance' project is definitely apt. In a literal sense, there's a lo-fi sensibility to the likes of 'Night Drive' and 'Urban Decay Sale' with clear parallels to computer game music. But there's also a relaxed, playful vibe to 'Abandoned Suburbs', 'Night Drive' that's hard not to love. Play on." ELECTRONIC SOUND

"Playful music between Minimal Electro, Bleep and Techno delivers the project Gaming of the Glasgow producer Alan Bryden on his debut album "Scenes From A Deserted City". The instrumental tracks have a strong retro flair and combine the already evoked by the project name field of Games music with sci-fi soundtracks and influences from 90s techno, braindance and IDM. In spite of the sometimes buzzing, mechanical and rhythmic nature of the music, it has a lot to offer Stretch a chilled character. Created with analogue as digital devices, softsynths and Modular Technique, "Scenes From A Deserted City" is an album that has much to explore between frayed loops, computerized, often abstract arpeggios, and all kinds of Bleep sounds." BEAT MAGAZINE, DE (in English courtesy of Google Translate)