In this section, you'll find pictures from my insane techno studio, as well as photos from live-pa shows at raves, clubs and house parties. I'm lucky to have a very talented photographer for a girlfriend - Erin is always taking photos, and my live shows and gear collection are often a source of subject material for her. I'm also always looking for more, so if you've got photos from a MUX show, drop me a line and let me know.
The set at Sparky went *awesome*... lots of people came out, even though it was a Wednesday night. The place went off, my music was well received, and Lace is probably the nicest promoter I've ever had the opportunity to work with. Nice big dancefloor, excellent lighting, and a *wicked* soundsystem made for a hugely fun set.
DJ Lace (notorious live-pa pioneer of VUTAG fame) started throwing a clubnight featuring live-pa performers, and I was chosen to perform at his night. Lots of folks came out and danced - it was held at the Caprice nightclub on Granville street, pretty nice digs for live-pa techno. :D
Some more pics, prior to the Feb 25th show at the Caprice. The first pic is taken from up above - if you look carefully at the top left, on the top right hand corner or the yellow rack is a small silver box - this is a green laser that Erin bought me for my birthday! She is so cool. At night, I turn on the lasers (shining through the rotating starball thing) and the blacklights and jam. People wonder why I don't bother going out to clubs much anymore!
The second pic is the tabletop of the live rig - notice that the Alesis MMT-8 sequencer has been faded, as has the Yamaha SU-10 sampler - both were replaced just after Christmas, when my new Akai MPC-1000 (also a gift from Erin, she spoils me terribly) arrived. I'm completely in love with the MPC - it is the logical upgrade to the older gear on so many levels. My set has already grown leaps and bounds as a result. ALSO - notice the three shiny parts sticking up at the back? Those are the new strobelights - modified by me with some help from Lyle the Junglist Electronics Guy, they are shells from el-cheapo strobelights from the rave store in the mall, gutted, with everything inside replaced - new custom circuitboards and no more xenon strobe tubes - these babies are using six ultra-bright white LED's each, and are triggered using 5ms 5v trigger pulses from the SDS-800! I can sequence them from Logic Audio, or from the MPC - loads of fun!
The last pic shows my desktop workstation, and cable management center. Though it's not visible in the pic, the 10' 1/4" patchcords are draped over a $3.99 plastic water hose hanger; sharp bends in cables lower their lifespan a LOT. I'm comfortably situated between two skylights, which, on sunny days, puts the sun directly in my eyes from about 9:00am-9:30am and again at 4:00-4:30pm. Way to put your secret underground laboratory in an ATTIC, Drew. Dork.
Sheesh. And people ask why I don't own a car at age 28.
Got to play a show called "Iterative Sessions" in Richmond, Virginia for our friend Chris Thomas, aka 'x5rings'. Wow, what a wild weekend - those Virginians can party! I went with the idea that US beers were all Budwieser and Coors, but had those preconceptions promptly smashed flat by Chris and his crew. I don't remember a good chunk of the weekend. :)
The event was great, though I think MUX techno was a little too hard for the audience... I had a few dancers, but it seemed like the crowd was mostly used to house music. Oh well.
So I took a couple of pics just for fun, for desktop backgrounds on my PC (1280x1024) and my laptops (1024x768). :)
The first pic is the desktop background image. It shows the back of the modified Simmons SDS-800 - clearly visible are the MIDI jacks, one of which is in an expanded hole that used to house the (attached, ick) power cord, and the other was drilled new. The new power connector is a standard PC type (Why doesn't all gear use these? You hear me, Roland? What were you thinking?!?) mounted in what used to be the power switch. You can also see the orange "MIDI activity" oversize LED mounted in what used to be a headphone jack, and over on the right you can see the silver 1/4" jacks, four new trigger-outs. :)
The next pic is the laptop background - an overhead shot showing the Simmons, Alesis MMT-8 MIDI sequencer, and some FX pedals.
The third and last pic shows my Roland (er, *cough*, Mazda) SH-101, newly fitted with the Synhouse MIDIJACK. I'm pretty happy with the performance - it would be nice if it could do legato glides, a la TB-303, but I can do those manually, so no big problem. Certainly a big improvement over sequencing the SH-101 using CV/Gate from the Waldorf Pulse Plus!
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