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Celestium Blog : 002

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Welcome to my second ever blog, in which I will summarize the making of my 9th studio album "Absolutely Unacceptable How Dare You". In autumn of 2023 my studio was a dusty mess of old technology and unloved synths. A good friend of mine was visiting and he said "can we get all this stuff working? I love shit like this" ... and so we began to evaluate what was working and what wasn't. Out went the 25 year old 486 computer that had Windows 98, Logic Audio Silver and SoundForge on it. I bought Ableton and installed in on my laptop. An even older Alesis mixing desk also failed to come alive, and so I bought the very brilliant Mackie Onyx 16, which can also record to an SD card. The once brilliant Spirit Absolute 2 monitors sounded muddy and unusable, and so I replaced them with the stunning Adams Audio T8V's. The display on one of my synthesizers (Roland 505) was no longer working, so I bought a generic replacement and replaced it with the help of a 30-minute Yo...

Celestium Blog : 001

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23rd June 2025 Welcome to my first blog anywhere ever. I can't see me writing so many of these, but certainly if anything interesting happens, on my continuing Celestium adventure. In this first blog I'm going to summarize my music life as briefly as possible. Born in 1961, had absolutely no interest in music until 1974. Partly due to parents subjecting me to their mostly awful taste in music, and partly I'm guessing due to autism, which for me includes getting obsessed with things, a lot. Mostly Lego as a kid. In 1974 everything changed. One lunchtime at school, it began to rain and I dove into the nearest classroom. It was the music room, and playing on a turntable was the most incredible music I'd ever heard. Nothing else was like it. I asked what it was. I was handed an album sleeve. Autobahn by Kraftwerk. I was none the wiser. I asked what instruments they were using and was told synthesizers. Even more none the wiser. The following few years I spent all my spare c...