Electronic Music 411

i'm minisystem. i like analogue hardware. i like vinyl records.

my album madingley is out now on noise factory records

this is my new website.

i also have a myspace page

My Gear

analogue keyboards, modular synths and drum machines. some new, most vintage. macbook pro (because some FUCKER stole my powerbook). cubase.

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My very good experience with Dave Smith

Tags: repair, prophet 08, dave smith, service

I have a Dave Smith Prophet '08. I bought it a couple of years ago, shortly after it came (Click here to read the rest)

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techno

Tags: techno mix

my boy is now over two months old and i'm back at work, which means not much time has been devoted to making music. i did manage to finish a techno m (Click here to read the rest)

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a synthesist is born!

Tags: babies, synthesizers

we had a baby last week. his name is jasper. he's kind of a lily white boy despite having a south asian grandpa. hopefully he'll get his mother's a (Click here to read the rest)

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the last year or five

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just about 11 months since my last blog, which wasn't even music related anyway.

i've been coming here more often over the last month or so and s (Click here to read the rest)

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strange bedfellows

Tags: arms trade, scientific publ

off topic:

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was browsing through my lady's medical ma (Click here to read the rest)

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future music?

Tags: future music, review, england

any UK-based em411er's read future music? someone messaged me on myspace to say there's a review of my album in it, which i didn't know about.

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minisystem - madingley

Tags: noise factory, madingley, minisystem, album

my album is released today, october 23, on noise factory records

its a collection of techno- (Click here to read the rest)

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my new happy place

Tags: studio, basement, happy, wet, pants

it took me about 2 months off and on, but i finally have my studio set up in my new place and it is almost at the point where i can make some music ag (Click here to read the rest)

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Windows on a Mac. HOLY SHIT

Tags: windows, mac, macintel, shit

i got my new macbook pro today to replace my stolen 1 year old g4 powerbook.

its pretty slick. because cubase won't run on a macintel, i got a (Click here to read the rest)

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my laptop was stolen :(

Tags: theft, tears, aggravation, rosetta

had our first break-in yesterday. kicked in the basement door, ran upstairs and stole my powerbook. left my wife's tibook, which was another floor up (Click here to read the rest)

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the prhi22m is the most awesomest.

Tags: backbreaking, studio, prhizzm, moving, sweat

prhi22m (aka prhizzm) helped me move my studio into my new place tonight.

he strapped a (Click here to read the rest)

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I'm on a compilation! and news!

Tags: moving, noise factory, inlaws

Noise Factory Records has just released their third sampler and a track from my forthcoming alb (Click here to read the rest)

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the panic studios

Tags: mastering, panic, jdg, cookies

this guy called john mcCaig mastered my album.

not only did he do an excellent job rescuing questionable source material, the CDs came with really (Click here to read the rest)

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interesting new modules

Tags: modular, modcan, sampler

there are a couple of new modules in the works at modcan that bruce has introduced in the modcan yahoo group.
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best studio addition EVER!!!

Tags: anal retentive, ocd, studio, dust, cleaning

i lost the drive to keep all my gear covered a long time ago. all my precious synths and drum machines were getting pretty dusty.

i brought a synth (Click here to read the rest)

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