So I'm house-sitting. I never fail to amaze myself when I look at my hierarchy of needs and what is required to establish a comfort zone.

I bought a Roland D-10 Multi Timbral Linear Synthesizer on E-bay. It's about 10kg of 1988 in keyboard form. It's about the oldest thing around that can wired up with midi and play drums and upto 8 other instruments simultaneously.

Roland D10

A few days ago we were recording some stuff. It's not like it's sometimes portrayed on film/TV with the whole band playing at all at once. It's technically possible to do it that way if you have an enormous budget and an army of technicians but for the most part it's much easier to concentrate on one part at a time. First one records the drums, then the bass, then the rhythm guitars. This then give a nice firm foundation for lead guitars, violins, synths and whatever complicated stuff to be recorded on, and then we put the vocals in.

[img_assist|nid=343|title=...so spank me and call me eldrich....|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=367|height=640] Tomorrow I'm going round to see a few friends and there is the prospect of music being played. Ok, the intention is for all 3 of us to play instruments, whether it's music is debatable. Anyway, I have spent the last few hours collecting kit together. The intention is to sequence at least the drums, probably some synths too, leaving me with hands free to either pilot more synthage or to play good ol' fashioned electric bass.

I think the e-mail address for the myspaz where I quietly leaked my creations to absolutely no-one so I'm going to dump my infernal noise right on the blagosphere.

Black & White - Lonely Android Version (demo)

Lost teenagers are nothing new, but are quite often the sole purpose of blogging. I've just got my hands on AFI's first two albums again, and it's a huge trip down memory lane. Very Proud of Ya is a 37 minute hand grenade of outcast fury. File 13 and Advances in Modern Technology still push the same buttons in my head they did when I arrived in Doncaster, on a mission to form a band and destroy myself.