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  • Giggin’ tomorrow

    Giggin’ tomorrow

    Will play tomorrow late evening with Sombra Del Mar band in Batumi. For the first time. Wish me luck. We start at 21:30. Sinori Pub, 14, Marjanishvili str. Come to see us and listen to some real rock’n’roll!

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  • To MDB or not to MDB?

    To MDB or not to MDB?

    Just read somewhat a troubling news that My Dying Bride seems to have parted ways with their vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe. Or, rather, they are coming out of their hiatus (which saw them cancelling all the shows in 2024) next year and doing at least one festival with Swallow The Sun‘s frontman Mikko Kotamäki. It is,…

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  • Joined a cover band

    Joined a cover band

    Joined a cover band as a keyboardist. The Beatles, Joe Cocker, Pink Floyd, Stray Cats, etc. I guess 20 years ago I’d object doing something like this out of pride – and illusions. Now it’s just another job to sustain myself in emigration. And by all means, the good and honest one.

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  • Struck Gold. Sort of…

    Struck Gold. Sort of…

    Finally looked a bit more dilligently into a bunch of SBI files on my hard drive, and discovered a ‘golden lode’ – a number of timbres from Dune II: Building a Dynasty (aka Battle for Arrakis), the ‘mother of all real-time strategy games’. SBI stands for Sound Blaster Instruments: those are tiny files of instructions…

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  • Going live tonight

    Going live tonight

    Will improvise some dark ambient with my #blacksidedsun project later tonight. If I get lucky, I’ll be able to record some stuff too. Not sure yet, though.

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  • Phi Mu Labs: Origin

    Phi Mu Labs: Origin

    Here goes the first demo for two dual packs of patches for Yamaha DX7/TX7 and all of their ilk provided those are 6-operator+ synths, hardware or software. I’ll make them available later this year, separately and with Korg wavestate version of these timbres.

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  • Didn’t quite plan it, but…

    …Dialed up yet another double bank for DEXED. Also should be loadable to any hardware or software FM synth capable of reading Yamaha DX7-compatible SYSEX. Surely, the demo will follow soon. Probably these sounds will be offered separately from Phi Mu Labs 2 pack for Korg wavestate. Although I’m still thinking what’s the best source…

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  • Giggin’ on Halloween

    Giggin’ on Halloween

    Will play keyboards with a quickie band, performing some bluesy-rocky stuff. Not much of a deal. In fact, expats musicians are largely playing for their kin, locals ignore such events for a few reasons. Shame, really. Also, shame that it’s mostly about playing covers, not some original music – people largely want to hear what…

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