I walked into the studio last night to find most of the LEDs on my Drawmer compressor lit up. This was odd as there was no signal being sent to it. A quick check through the mixer confirmed my fears, a loud hum was being produced by the unit! Damn! It's broken!

Not surprising for a 14 year old piece of gear that had seen the inside of many clubs as part of the recording and touring sound system for a handful of bands. The compressor was given to me by the owner of the last record label I was signed to.

I had always heard that a quality compressor was essential to getting a pro sound, but I was skeptical at first. Sonically, it didn't sound like the Drawmer was "doing" much after installing it into my rack. It's only after the thing broke that I realised what a nice transparent piece of gear it was. I'm halfway through a new track at the moment, and after bypassing the now broken compressor I now really appreciate what a difference it makes!

You never really miss something until it is gone. Next stop, the repair shop.

Just found out my track "Swap Meet" was included in another DJ set by Toronto's DJ Shagz.

The audio has been taken down due to a overload of traffic. Over 21 Gigs of data were downloaded from his site in the last week alone! There has been a lot of positive feedback as well on the set from people all around the globe. It's great that a lot more ears are being filled with Shagz sweet mixes.

I finished a new version of the second collaboration with Cooley & Lusk last night. The boys are loving it. Now waiting to use a fancy vinyl record washing system at a friends house to clean up a few discs for sampling on the next track... I'm not sure how well it will work, as some of the records are pretty grimy!

Had a great session last Monday night with Cooley and Lusk. It's amazing what we got done in a few hours... I don't think we even got into the studio until about 8:30.

It was one of those nights where everything seemed to go well. Samples chosen off different records were in time or close enough in key to slot into the track we were working on. Ideas flowed quickly, and things took shape right from the start.

I've only had a few hours since then to do a bit more production. It's coming along nicely though.