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Holiday Snaps

Io Town

Ive just got back from a trip to the French Alps skiing with Pete. We found this amazing little town called Avoriaz 1800 [that's how high it is in meters] which is a skiing only town. It's got no roads - only ski runs! The really cool thing is it was built in the 1960s and 70s [actually there's still buildings going up now but using the same crazy designs] and its like being in a 1970s sci-fi film set on the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter

Heres a little film I made on one of the lifts. The music is from a 70s library album, a track called 'Pulsion' by John Saunders

Out of Office

Craig is a Liar

I know everyone says Craigslist is full of scams, but sometimes I like to check out what amazing bargains he's got going just for fun. Today you can buy all the lovely things pictured below for about 1/10th their normal value! So I decided to contact all the sellers and guess what? They all live on Shetland [the UK's most remote Island]!

Wasting Electricity

Emerson Lake and Palmer were once famously described by John Peel as 'a waste of electricity'. However, that was one thing I didn't agree with him about because when I was 11 years old they were my favorite band. I still know every word, keyboard part and drum fill on every album off by heart. So I was watching a short film about their first ever gig at the IOW festival in 1970 today on Sky Arts, and there was this new clip of Keithy-boy that I had not seen before. So I recorded it on my iphone (sorry for rubbish quality)

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Look at this cute little item on ebay US today - a very early product by Yamaha called the EM-90A. Its a 6 channel mixer with a built in drum machine and spring reverb! I would definitely brighten my tonsillitis-gloom by buying this for £50 if it was in the UK...

Interplay Time

We finally have a release date for The Maths album - 21st March 2011, on Metamatic Records.

Above is the final artwork for the cover, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook

As this is my official studio blog and I like lists, here is a list of the equipment we used on the record:

Arp Odyssey
Arp Omni
Arp Sequencer
Crumar Bit 01
Crumar Multiman
Crumar Roadrunner
DBX 119 compressor
EMT plate 140
Fairlight CMI
Formant Modular
Hohner Pianet T
Ibanez AD80
Korg Monopoly
Korg MS20
Korg PS3100
Lexicon 224
Linn LM1
MCI 416b console
Moog Minimoog
Moog Modular
Moog Polymoog
MXR flanger/doubler
Oberheim Xpander
Paia Phlanger
Roland 100M
Roland CR78
Roland RS202
Roland SH101
Roland space echo 201
Roland TR808
Roland VP330
Sequential T8
Sequential VS
Serge Modular
Simmons SDS5
Studer 900 series console
Ursa Major delay
Yamaha CS30
Yamaha CS80
Yamaha Rev1

Blair House Project

Here is a beautiful hillside residence, in Hollywood just above Mullholland Drive. A steal at around £450K. From this website

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Pinball Wizardess