Change The Filter Change Reality

Tao, pinch me please, let me know this isn´t just a beautiful lucid dream. I remember many years ago when still working for the man, up early one morning frantically forcing my breakfast cursing the time, loathing the thought of having to go to (to quote Bill) "a job which did not inspire me creatively in any way shape or form" when I could have spent that valuable 10 hours creating music. The TV was on as the days mass media corporate sponsored and approved messages were being regurgitated and suddenly after a flick to Channel 4 a voice grabbed my attention and Jinny´s.

I looked at the TV increasingly mesmerised by the words, who was this guy? He was rapping accapella stylee but this was no East or West coast shit. This was spiritual, trippy, far out, positive uplifting and English. But the guy had such a voice, like liquid chocolate. And yeah his rap wasn´t rap like Biggie, Snoop etc it was more of a Terrence McKenna rap. But the voice, the words, the message;, hit home like a thunderbolt on steroids. Then after a far too brief a time we were back to News Land and Jin & I stared at each other and I´m sure the words "What the fu*k" were uttered incredulously by one or both of us.

"Who was that?"

"Barefoot Doctor.... " frantic search for words.

"Unbelievable"

Who would have thought that a few short years and a move to the most amazing island and a million coincidences later he´d be our good friend and I´d be producing music with him? I remember thinking I´d love to sample that guy and yet today there we were. No sampling required. Live & Direct. Is it a coincidence that the length of audio fit perfectly with an instrumental track I´ve had ready just waiting for a killer vocal. I´ve stopped believing in coincidences, all is now. Quantum physics and all that.

It´s sounding fine, the track that is, a couple more hours work should finish it then off to Ibiza Global Radio we go. Produced and Mastered in Ableton Live 8 so far, usually Logic handles the main work but not in this case. I´m really liking Live 8 so far, the midi editor is a hell of an improvement and it runs as slick and processor un-intensive as ever.

Still can´t believe it.

Thanks Tao.
Love to all
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Ibiza Life

Well kittlings, it´s been a long time coming. One of the joys of living in Ibiza is the amazingly relaxed lifestyle, the downside - well it´s sooooooooooooooooo relaxed (tranquilo) that things take time. Even simple things. The internet. Something I / we took for granted. Well it´s back. OMG nearly 2 years of waiting and it finally arrives. Living in the "campo" (countryside) is breathtaking but web access is not what it should be. But now, ah, deep joy :)

Connected again and loving it. So much to say, lots & lots of news and views. Stay posted Von Hash is back :)

It's a Wonderful Life

For Spencer

Sitting on the beach in November. Surely this can't be right. A deserted beach at that, yet the temperature is still 70º and the sea is like a beautiful turquoise mirror. The sunlight dances across the tips of the slowly breaking waves and the only link to my previous life is the voice in my ear. I'm drawing spirals in the fine golden sand as we talk, the smell of the sea - the enticing aroma I now class as the scent of home - washing over me. I laugh as he, in his inimitable style recounts the tale of a recent meeting between himself and the person who "introduced" us. Spencer always makes me laugh, he's always had that ability and I guess he always will have. I told him recently - and it's a fact that had only occured to me a couple of days beforehand - that he'd managed to stick with me through two of my life's most stressful events. Events that sent people I'd assumed were friends running for the hills. As I feel the soft sand move easily between my toes I realise that all that is so far away now, it really is a previous life. I still have moments of doubt - who doesn't? But now, here on my dream Island with the sun sat way above me in a perfect blue sky and the sound of the sea gently adding it's rhythmic soundtrack I feel happier than I've ever felt. I look to my right and the gorgeous soul I call Juanita is smiling back at me. It doen't get any better than this...

Here's to you Spence..
Love & Miss Ya

Migz