April 2005
The Archives
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Guitar
Guitarist Forum Boogie
Over the past couple of days I’ve been experimenting with FL Studio, a pattern-based music production package. I downloaded NS-Kit, a free acoustic drum sample pack, from Natural Studio, and started making simple drum loops and layering some weird synth noises over the top. I eventually exported the whole thing as a .wav […]
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Linux, Software
Yoper Linux
I am typing this post from within Yoper, a new distribution of GNU/Linux which I have just installed on my laptop. I’ve been using Linux in university for the best part of two years now, but I’ve never found a distro that I’ve really got on with for use at home. Fedora and […]
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Gigs, Reviews
Porcupine Tree
I went to watch Porcupine Tree at the Manchester Academy 2 last night.
The support band were Anathema, a Liverpool band who sound like a cross between A Perfect Circle and Vex Red, with a bit of doomy metal thrown in as well. Rather good.
Porcupine Tree were stunning. They played quite a lot from their new […]
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