Patrick R Thomas is a Swansea based multi instrumentalist producer/composer/mixer/sound designer who has created and produced music under a slew of pseudonyms over the past 20 plus years. Fundamentally his musical foundation is as a drummer and the breaking down and building up of rhythm using live instrumentation and electronic elements. Under the name ‘Skull Honours’ (named after a childhood hiding den he and his schoolmates created) he has released 18 assorted albums and eps that showcase his diverse musical tastes ranging from lo fi garage rock to ambient electronics. Thomas’ work draws heavily on nostalgia and imagined genres. More recently Thomas has defined his latter work as encountering ‘‘the spectre of an unresolved past that we are compelled to revisit, and the ghost of a future that never was but that haunts us with the possibility that it might have been’. Taking this approach with his latest work Thomas has said that His forthcoming project was inspired by a chance encounter via the internet with a pdf of a 1970s sound engineering magazine and within it an article about ‘Rosser Electronics’ who built bespoke sound desks out of the Dylan Thomas/BBC building in Swansea. The company was then tasked with creating and installing the communications systems for the Nato headquarters in 1967. Imagining an alternative past for the company where they are tasked with locating the source of a mysterious audio signal within an abandoned Nato Building in the midst of a cold war. Taking his musical cues for this new project from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Cinematic thriller Soundtracks and sample based Lo Fi Electronica. The project also showcases Thomas’s skills in sound design, audio editing and instrument creation with the musical source material for the project being used to create a number of sample packs and virtual instruments available to download and use. Patrick utilised the free sampling engine ‘Decent Sampler’ created by the musician David Hillowitz to build a sampled Fender Rhodes and a vintage Kawai organ.