Fugazi – Red Medicine

I don’t have so much to say on this one,  it isn’t “the first” anything in my musical journey (well, it was the first Fugazi album I bought/heard and it is one of the few albums that came close to the “Wow, what is this” feeling I described in my Rust In Peace post … [...]

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Desert Island Discs

There is a famous show on BBC Radio 4 called Desert Island Discs. On the show someone in the public-eye, from all walks of life – polticians, actors, artists, muscians, scientists, businessmen and so on - talks about their life and career puctuated by a selection of eight pieces of music they would want with them [...]

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Constrain Yourself

Making great music is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman digitial electronics … if you constrain your design correctly beautiful things can happen, constrain your design badly and you’re doomed to failure. When it comes to music suitable constraints could be the choice and number of instruments involved …  I much prefer [...]

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