Having thought long and hard about my social networking weapon of choice, I’ve decided to come over all of a-Twitter. If you’re similarly disposed, do join me there. I’ll post updates from the studio, let you know what’s going on in the day-to-day and, for followers of my music technology career, give you the inside scoop on the lovely new gear which seems to come my way each month. Visit me here. Hope to see you.

Throughout August, I’ve been co-producing and mixing the new album for the legendary and lovely Calm Of Zero (formerly Echobelly). The songs are great and the album promises to be a corker. It’s high time you lucky people got to hear a bit I reckon, so here’s the first of a couple of teasers I’ll upload over the coming days. Wrap your ears around this stomper…

There are times when a job comes in which seems almost too fun to be true and so it was with sound designing Purple Ronnie’s website, which I’ve just finished on behalf of ad and design agency Lateral. As well as designing the background ambiences for each of the website’s scenes, there were over 100 spot sound effects to make too. Getting paid to belch into a microphone? Who could say no?! Check out the site here: http://www.purpleronnie.com/

Here’s the latest slice of tasty pop pie from Cayte and me. We had fun with this one - a Latin-infused hip-shaker which comes to the boil just in time for a Saturday night. As ever, your thoughts are most welcome. Hit me up…