I just left this on my friend Richard's blog when he discussed the "copying CDs is stealing" issue. I've been struggling with this for many years (one reason why I haven't made a CD in a while, I'm morally unsure of what it means anymore), but I'm slowly getting to a place where I think I am starting to understand this fully...

"Illegal downloading ( Read more... )

Frankfurt Musikmesse is the biggest music instrument trade show in the world, by a very long way. Twelve halls of everything from tablas to grand pianos. I've been coming here nearly every year for about twenty years, first as a customer, and then as an exhibitor. This year I could definitely feel the economic woes hit - it used to take me about ( Read more... )

Thanks to the fabulous 18Thanatos some video from the Heerlen show is now online, and looking good! Start here…

Heerlen - Nightfall

Thursday afternoon ( Read more... )

Hey look, you can buy all the music you already own again, this time without the DRM you didn't ask for in the first place...


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If you missed BIMFest, you now have a chance to see just how fabulous we were. 18Thanatos18 has posted a couple of songs on YouTube for your viewing pleasure…

Datakill
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Enjoy!

BIMFest was a blast! Big thanks to everyone there who helped make it such a great show... We really rocked the house.

Am sitting in the VIP lounge at Eurotunnel waiting for the train to take us to Belgium and BIMFest! They have free wi-fi, so am catching up with Net stuff while gorging myself on the free smoked salmon and coconut yoghurt. Ah, it's good to be a rock star again ( Read more... )

Am at CXHQ for the second weekend in a row, getting ready for the festival we are playing in Belgium next week. It's going well, though most of today was spent installing software on our new computers, which is always a horribly tedious task. We also added a rather wonderful 600W B&W subwoofer to the studio's main monitor system (an old but lovely ( Read more... )

If you're a Front 242 fan and/or Music Technology geek, you'll love this masterclass.

I particularly like the way Daniel very pointedly puts away the Red Bull shit on the table and starts drinking water...