The making of: Heaven Is Oblivion S2

I’ve recently been doing a spot of educational work and last February performed a guest lecture to music technology students at Confetti Studios in Nottingham. As a demonstration of shifts in the music making process I made a new version of 1996′s Heaven Is Oblivion single – here follows an explanation of how the chorus section [...]

Music software review: G200KG Rovee VST Plug-in

Click here to listen to my review of Rovee 1.0, an impressive vocal manipulation plug from G200KG software. which happens to be free. As you’ll gather I’m a fan, so I suggest you head over to G200KG and grab yourself a copy.

PC Correct?

Despite a frightening episode of temporary blindness a couple of weeks ago, which was how you’d imagine it only more boring, I’ve been feeling loads better lately. My chest still bugs me but there have been no prolonged life stopping periods of pain so far this year, so the guys at the Pain Clinic decided [...]

New Order: Original Masters

When I was awarded my first recording contract in the early 90s I was shocked at how the music business still encouraged childish images of rebellion and pretentious attitudes from artists, because I thought that had all been killed off. Not by the then current rave culture but by New Order, surely the best band [...]

Grand Theft Intellect

I was recently contemplating selling my Nord Rack synth – I rarely use hardware modules nowadays and have spent well into four figures on soft synths, including a Nord Lead emulator from Polish software company Discovery. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite an exact emulation (Discovery’s website is amusingly contrary on the subject, claiming the software is “not a [...]