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Random thoughts from a lowly musician

You know it was a good night...

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...when you spend the following morning wandering around forests in a very spangly jacket. Mind you - awesome wedding, and surrounded by lovely people. 

And I love that jacket. 

Seriously.

Filed under  //   Desire HD   Natural World  
Posted May 21, 2012 by Mike 

The most useless (but wonderful) manual in the world :). #Charango

How to tune a Charango... o_0

Wonderful wonderful wonderful - but completely impractical if you _actually_ need to tune a Charango. Tearing hair out :). Incidentally, if you do need to tune a charango, the most accepted tunings we've found is - GG, CC, Ee (think string an octave down), AA, EE. (apparently starting from the G above Middle C)...

(download)

Filed under  //   Charango   Columbia   Instructions   Music  
Posted May 2, 2012 by Mike 

Keep Running - and the Album Artwork is nearly upon us...

Very excited - we hear that the finished album artwork may be dropping into our hands at some time today! Which means we're really close to getting the actual cd out there. To the lovely people who have bought it - we think you'll love them.

If you want to pre-order the CD, pop over to http:// riddler-music.bandcamp.com/ and you'll get the digital download immediately when you buy it.

In the meantime, something to keep you going mid week...


Filed under  //   Album   Bandcamp   Believe The Machine   Lee Richardson   Riddler   Stuart Dixon  
Posted May 1, 2012 by Mike 

Today's recording session featuring the mighty @YamahaUK SPX90...

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This patch is the most fun you can have with your clothes on #FACT 

BTW - CDs very soon on way to all of the lovely people who have bought our album so far (http://www.believethemachine.com & http://riddler-music.bandcamp.com). We know you're gonna like this :). Saw the final drafts for the front cover this morning. SEXIMIFY!

Filed under  //   Album   Bandcamp   Believe The Machine   Desire HD   Reverb   SEXIMIFY   SPX90   Yamaha  
Posted April 24, 2012 by Mike 

Today's weapon of choice from @Roland_UK #JX-3P

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This thing is a joy :).  Just need the programmer for it now...

Filed under  //   Desire HD   Roland   Synth  
Posted April 23, 2012 by Mike 

There's a small hairy man underneath my desk...

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...and his name is Oscar Peterson. He's run an extremely long way today :). Woods, Streams, Parks. I think he wants a cuddle...

Filed under  //   Dogs   Oscar Peterson   Staffordshire Bull Terrier  
Posted April 20, 2012 by Mike 

You'll never take my organs @jaffne #defensiveface

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... Unless you wait a while,  and there are no major immuno - compatibility issues :).  Then you're welcome to them. Avoid the liver ;).

Filed under  //   Desire HD   Drawbars   Hammond Organ   Organ   Roland   VK7  
Posted April 15, 2012 by Mike 

Behind the scenes photo of our shoot with @RosieEmerson yesterday...

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Sorry, it's not much, but that was an amazing day and we really want to keep this under wraps for the moment. But Metropolis, be warned... Liese looked utterly stunning :).


Rosie is seriously amazing, and you'd be artistically better off if you checked her out - http://www.rosieemerson.co.uk - absolutely stunning. A thousand thanks to her and her team. This shoot was for the cover of the CD version of Believe The Machine which should be released on or around the 1st of May - you can preorder it from Bandcamp - http://riddler-music.bandcamp.com, and of course listen to it there and on Soundcloud -  http://soundcloud.com/riddlermusic/sets/believe-the-machine/

Filed under  //   Album   Art   Believe The Machine   Rosie Emerson   SEXIMIFY  
Posted April 6, 2012 by Mike