Yep, I arrived on October 5, 1995 in Japan for the first time,
with a suitcase full of books and a Fender Stratocaster.
Now with a japanese business and more guitars than I can easily count,
Back in Tokyo, I feel the time has come to turn a corner and to start again.

twinetrax has been working hard on a remix for skabo maestro, and it has finally paid off. early october will see the release of the remix of skabo's 'intro' as the final track on his tenth anniversary CD, with 80 page booklet. we'll be back in tokyo at the end of this month, and get working on the next remix for skabo's 'pump it up!'

Last week the wife of the director of AVEX TRAX came by to see the studio.
What a nice surprise! All of a sudden on a Thursday evening when I was working
on a closet door in the warehouse, and M had the contents of ten drawers out for
reorganization, the call came in... can we come around in 5 minutes?
Sure! We'll just throw everything in the bedroom in a huge pile for now....
And we made it through! She held little baby T and listened to some techno.
What a nice lady!

yeah, well in the end I decided to use the trax as is, and do premixing.
so the mix goes throught the deck in three phases for added phatness.
business cards are on their way. time to go out and find some action.

working since yesterday on this hip hop anthem from serbian maestro S.
It is a great workout for the studio because these two remix candidates
have already been released and it is possible now to compare with the dry version
as I edit. a snafu came up in the form of 16 stereo instead of mono tracks,
and I spent about 4 hours with my finger in the dam, suffering from waves of phase distortion before finally deciding to hard pan and channel surf with automation, so there is a bit of back to the drawing board, but the results are now coming back positive, and I have inspiration to challenge the original track in the next week