Great feeling of success today: I put one of my tracks onto minidisc last night in a near-finished state, and today it sounds great! I go off in the middle somwhere. Trouble is I don’t know if that’s cos the music is hypnotic or because it fails to hold your attention. I have a feeling it’s the latter so I will play it to a few people this weekend and gauge the reactions. Reason and I are getting along pretty well now, I used a stereo phaser to draw the bass right out. The didj and thumb harp and drums are a little muddy but I think that will come with practise. I also had a melody line that I was trying to do without a keyboard, just the mouse. In the end I made four phrases on the matrix and just used the patch change to arrange the part. I decided it was too repetitive so I deleted the whole track and exported the song to .wav. When I came to check it out to minidisc I discovered I had left the matrix running, so I got the first phrase of the melody repeated over and over all the way through. It was getting late so to save getting involved in it any further I hit undo to restore the whole track and exported again. I’m glad I did that. The melody needs more bedding in but it adds quite an identity to the track. In this track I hear influences from glastonbury circa.94, ‘ambient dub volume II’, jah wobble/the orb, DOH i’ve just realised how close to towers of dub it is… something off the radio around early 2002 and goldfrapp. The overall effect, while not quite cutting edge, has integrity and a little innovation in there too… time will tell what others make of it… problem is it’s not much like much of my other stuff, maybe I’ll have to do a norman cook and have a bunch of identities depending on the style of the music I’m pushing at the time.