Author Archives: Richard Graham

Acid!

I was in a good mood today and after playing around with the synths and stuff in 15 minutes 3 really cool songs just popped into my head – excellent! But ideas are no good in my head, I’ve got to get them recorded. I started off with Cubase, but it is just far too…

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Nice computer

Things have been going a lot better today, it’s nice to be able to breath. I also got all my music gear set up and it’s fun being able to jam around and play all these funky new sounds – great!!! I also had a load of business stuff to do, and all the emails…

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You can tell it’s Winter

You can tell it’s getting cold now, because no sooner did I try to get to sleep last night than my asthma started. This always happens in the winter in Japan and it’s not fun! : ( It didn’t actually help that my girlfriend had decided to tidy everywhere up so there was dust flying…

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Serial Numbers

Got my new computer today – yeah!! The thing is that until I put all my stuff on it, it’s not that much fun!! The first impression was “eh… it’s huge and noisy!”. It seems like computer technology has gone downhill over the last 2 years, with machines much bigger but only slightly faster than…

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The New Maruzen

This new Maruzen store has to be one of the prime real estate locations in the entire World, it is literally right in front of the main entrance to Tokyo station! My presentation was at 11:20 and in the beginning there weren’t that many people present, and I was a bit worried that the typhoon…

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Typhoon!

Today I met with yet another publisher! This one also happens to be a mate, so it was great to just chat for ages about all sorts of ideas. One really cool thing that came up was a Junior High School resources section of the site, which could be interesting. Plus a million and one…

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