On my feet again after two days in bed with a fever – probably just a change of seasons thing, and rather now than in two weeks’ time when Em. and I will be visiting my family in South Africa.

Out of sympathy, my streaming service also came down with something and I was unable to play my regular Substance show today. Here instead the Azure show I recorded yesterday. I wasn’t feeling too hot when I recorded it, so I wasn’t expecting too much. But listening to it again now, it’s no worse than usual ;^)

I’ve been using Ryan Gruss’ The Art of Brushes to death for these sets, so I’m very pleased to see he’s just released a second volume of the same. Variety coming right up!

Enjoy Live Online #80: Station

This recording was made at The Azure (Second Life) on September 25th, 2010.

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After long lusting after a proper smartphone to replace my Nokia 5320, I got myself an Android based HTC Aria over the weekend – call it an early birthday gift to myself. And I’m loving every second of it. I’ve already set it up as a fantastic e-book reader with the Aldico App. I also discovered a great app called eStroke to help me learn to write Chinese characters. I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship :^)

By the way, if you access this website from a mobile phone, you will now be redirected to a mobile-friendly rss-based site.

Enjoy Live Online #79: Mirror

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on September 19th, 2010.

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Enjoy Live Online #78: Drift

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on September 12th, 2010.

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With the master for Further East safely delivered to the label, now would be a good time to upgrade my software. I’m expecting my upgrade to Propellerhead Reason 5 at any time. Looking forward to getting up to speed with the new features, and am especially excited about the new sampling feature and the Kong drum designer. The Blocks feature also looks very handy, allowing you to experiment with the structure of a song with the minimum of fuss. Hmmm, I see Ableton has also updated Live to 8.1.5 (I’m on 8.1.3) – eager to see if the weird little issue with some channels dropping out unexpectedly is resolved.

Enjoy Live Online #77: Odyssey

This recording was made at Substance (Second Life) on September 5th, 2010.

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