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Being old and such, the Christmas presents don’t pour in like they used to… thus I easily caved in to an impulse buy temptation and bought myself an early Christmas present, the new(ish) XioSynth 25 from Novation. Tiny (468 x 68 x 190 mm), light (a mere 1.4 kilos!), and with a built-in USB audio [...]

Having been deathly ill with the dreaded sore throat / laryngitis / hacking-cough-preventing-sleep combination, and also having not been hard-core enough to obtain this season’s hottest super toy known affectionately as the “Wii!”, I have had ample time recently to re-discover the wonders of surfing the internet whilst consuming insane amounts of chicken noodle soup. [...]

Today was spent laying down drum and bass tracks for an upcoming recording project, a collaboration with Edria‘s Cyrus Julian. HUGE thanks to Shawn Poh (formerly of Astral) for doing a fantastic job as our “session” drummer! Thanks, Shawn!

I had some thought in my head that seemed very prominent and relevant just an hour ago, but I completely forgot what it was. Oh well. Maybe I’ll remember it soon… argh… Anyway in lieu of that thought here’s my current one… which is not so interesting and goes something like “It’s cold! Clean socks [...]