I got up early this morning and headed off to the Maruzen presentation. I got things set up and hung around to watch one of the other publisher’s presentations. Oh dear. This is the culture shock again, but the teachers just looked dead, there weren’t half as many as expected, they weren’t getting really simply…

It was raining today. Plus jet lag ( I’ve never arrived back here in the morning, it’s usually the evening). Plus guys at the station trying to talk to me in English, which I had no idea at all what they were saying and they refused to speak Japanese. Plus people barging by in the…

It was probably a bit optimistic hoping to get the new album done for this week! The actual mixes of the songs were done really quickly as most of the tracks hardly needed any changes from what I did in Spain, so the music is all fine. But there is so much new stuff in…

Spain was good, but it was way colder than expected!! The plan was to sit out on the balcony drinking Sangria whilst doing the new album. In the end it was the coldest winter they’ve had in years with even snow falling!! So that means I am a little behind schedule! This week I’m back…

I always figured that to write genki music you have to be in a sunny place! CD4 was written on a beach in Thailand, and people always ask “Where would you like to live?” and I say “Tahiti or the Caribbean!”. It sounds like an expensive dream, but the thing is that when you live…

Spent most of this week getting ready for Spain and making sure that all the stuff that I have to do here is done. I also finally managed to get some amazing sounding soft synths. It’s been tricky finding anything that sounds as good as my hardware synths, but doesn’t sound over techno and I…