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2nd August 2021

Have managed to get my ageing MIDI controller to work better in Cubase. Have started writing music again but it's initially coming out very differently from the old ChillinBuzz stuff and even the soon-to-be-released Binary Carousel material. So... I have decided BC would be better as a band project in the long run. I'll write CGBTs for now and if I can build a band around it, overwrite each computer track with a real instrument. Definitely would be a band in the style of bands like Air, Portishead, Massive Attack, a bit of Pink Floyd & Jean-Michel Jarre. My influences even go as far as Depeche Mode, Alison Moyet & Yazoo, Aphex Twin, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Deep Purple, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli (check out "Limehouse Blues!")... It's a huge list. I listen to Massive Attack and Portishead a lot, along with Madness - a personal fav - and quite often old DMusic stuff, sadly not enough of that era was saved.

So... ChillinBuzz is very much in retirement now. He moved from The Asylum and over the Rainbow Bridge into the Red Sky Of Eternal Digital Chaos. People still call me Buzz, that's cool. However, 1997 to 2014 was a great music writing experience. Since the birth of Binary Carousel in 2014, it's been slowly consuming the nametags and folders. MrChillin lasted a while too but now everything is BC70, BC105, BC-001, etc.

I think you mentioned something about a band... - Being based in Gloucester (UK), you'd be (un)surprised to know there are very few, if any, requests to start bands like this. Making songs online I have years of experience with but it's difficult or impossible to assemble a live band from that, which is always my ultimate aim. But nothing ties me to Gloucester in the long run, so I don't rule anything out. I'd be looking at a six-piece outfit: Vocals (and possibly an instrument), Bass (and possibly bass sequencer), Guitar (with plenty of old and new sounds), Synth (all the strings and synths that require two good hands and several working fingers!), Drums (an acoustic/electronic kit would be perfect). I bring to the table decades of writing experience, sequencing, piano/synth parts, samples/loops, lead/rhythm/bass guitar experience (although I'd only play backup guitar now and not for a whole gig), plenty of studio experience (but I leave the production & mastering to someone else!), can also possibly add percussion or even harmony vocals in places but my main focus is on the electronic/keyboard side of things these days.

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10th July 2021

Last year was a write-off and there are still lingering consequences from that lost year.
A lot of negative issues. A lot of negative people. Still, I carry on.
Moving sometime soon, after that a new routine. I miss making music.