very hot day today - end of september ffs!

well well, dreadzone were fab once more. This evening we watched another dreary film in the twilight series. No more, that's three and I'll never get that time again. Nowt fecking happens!!!

I finally understand the whole less is more thing. More sunshine equals less work.

Still, who's complaining!

Off to Dreadzone tonight, not Hawklords as I wrongly wrote on my calendar. Good job Tony reminded me or I'd be heading towards Liverpool like a total eejit. Which I am, of course.

More glorious sunshine. Sap is rising. Dunno how high it might get.

Looks like a decent day. Got a new track started last night, today probably not much time as I have Les and then Colin's PC to fix. Hey ho. :) Should have this evening to work.

Have a shortened version of Christiania and a version of Flyby done, still not sure about the latter. Have I polished a turd, then rubbed off the polish afterwards? Listening to one of Picko's wicked production jobs on Haunted Doobie and wishing I had even a tenth of his composition/performance/production chops. I should really have learned to play something by now... :(

I think the interview went well, I restrained my usual windbag nature despite having a little pipe before I started. Hadn't thought about 1983 for a long time...

A couple of days with little work done. Friday was tree hacking, Friday night was spent with Pat and Mickey Blue Eyes (horse with collic), well until around 6am Saturday. Spent a little time in the afternoon half-awake so decided to work on hardware - standardising my Octatrack tracks/parts/banks and starting to lay out stuff properly. Lots of work and a Bank Copy command would really help. Also as I'm triggering lots of events from Cirklon, have asked Colin to let us set a default note per instrument for P3 tracks, so I don't have to keep transposing +32 for each one.
I have to be awake for an interview at 01:15 tomorrow morning. Let's hope it's possible or at least I can make some kind of sense. Avoiding chemicals though or I really will talk shite!

Very attractive lady doctor got to play with my willy today. It gave neither of us much pleasure. However, it was a total joy compared to the next stage in which a camera wends its way up there. Hey ho. SOS out and three reviews in, which is good. Fairly pleased with the Octatrack one, really needed a few thousand more words so the style could loosen up - but too much to cram in. Should give those interested a fair idea what to expect though.

Sometimes when the muse won't answer you, demand that she replies! Turns out the muse rewards impertinence (although that doesn't mean she likes complying). Anyway, demand and sometimes you are rewarded with a gem - but always with something. So using the muse as an excuse just won't wash with me. Started one I like. At last! Checking Geist where I hope to find the right drum loop...

Hmm, drum loop ain't right but track is started.

Watching Shamless, first time in ages. Character in it called Jesus O'Toole. Class name.

OK, haven't prepared anything as such but have tinkered with the Octatrack all afternoon, mostly stand-alone this time using the Virus and KP3 to provide sample sources, effects sends, extra looping and resampling etc. All clicking together nicely. Getting a few more ideas on how to improve the Octatrack and speed up workflow but won't bombard them just yet, let's see how the weekend goes.

Have to call in at mum's on the way though, she has a new telly and can't get the ariel connection to work. Will sniff around for some extra leads/adaptors etc. and see what I can do. Will take binocs in case sky clear.

Busy couple of days. All 15 tension tracks done and edits too, just those to master then I can get the lot uploaded. Also did the Tuttit review yesterday, will have a last run through and polish tomorrow before getting it off.

Should be ready for Thursday and the Lakes, even if I don't prepare anything (as usual).

Winding down for a bit watching Bill Hicks.

OK, busy weekend doing the tension edits and also should get Tutti review done then the decks are clear for the Merz Barn project. Also spending some time setting up Octatrack patterns ready to sample creatively into. Octatrack plus synth (SH-101 or Virus haven't decided) should sort my parts nicely. Neat but powerful. Should practice though if I get time.

Survived Portugal. Funny these posts all starting to seem the same. Can I afford a week in the Lakes doing Dada music? I really should be working, should get those library tracks done - tweaked three today and would like to work more on several more that are just "OK". I don't really want OK tracks out there, they all have to be good.

And I need to look at getting my novel to that guy. Time!!