What is an iLok ? An iLok is a thumb sized piece of plastic to insert into an usb slot to ensure that you can NOT use your expensivly bought software…

In my case the dongle is still working for most of the software secured with it but every week a new plug in ceases to function. Which means that i have to mail the iLok to the states and wait weeks before i can go on working on any of my existing songs…

On the other hand i am forced to begin new songs from scratch which leads to even more stuff to select from… But it will further delay the final production… Guess it will be october then…

here is a cut of a little classic trance piece i am working on right now…

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and once again i have to add: the purpose of showing “footprints” rather than fragements of the finished product later this year is to give an insight into the process - to show how ideas, sounds, melodies, arrangements grow, evolve, are exchanged to get a final piece of music that is worth to be called a “song” rather than a “track”…

One really annoying thing in the 90s was the cutting of the beloved 6min+ clubmixes to Radio/Video-Mixes of about three minutes… But in advertising you only have seconds to evoke emotions…

So, after working on some Audio Logo layouts i thought about STRETCHING a 20 second layout for a TV comercial i did last year… And here is how it sounds for now…

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