Analog Suicide

I really should be fast asleep, but it looks like the insomniac is going to win this battle for the moment…too many thoughts tumbling, I suppose….including this little vocal part that hit me in the car today. Brought home, sang into Rode Podcaster and smacked Universal Audio’s Space Echo on it , mainly because I…Continue Reading

The morning greeted me with pelts of rain, hammering away on the window in my sister’s house, which has since given way to beams of sun slicing through the clouds. We’re up in Raleigh, NC, returning our rental car and visiting my sister. I’m musing heavily over our impending road trip, having spent the early…Continue Reading

Over the past several months (since the John Foxx tour, in fact), we’ve been in such a state of lovely flux that I left this blog snoozing a bit….but I now, with this a big move to LA imminent, am excited to blog daily again. I’m thinking that I’ll use this blog as more of…Continue Reading

As the NAMM festivities as still curled up in bed 8 hours behind my current time zone (or just going to sleep), I watched with slight, sweet envy all the things that are on the horizon for us this year. I always keep a keen watch on Sonic State during NAMM-time for their wonderful, tech…Continue Reading

Happy New Year, all! And with the beauty of a new year comes mountains of gorgeousness in the shape of the new tiny- but-super-mighty Moog Minotaur! Yes, I’m excited. Since drooling over the Taurus 3 pedals at MoogFest this year, I longed for something with the all enveloping bass minus the mass – and behold!…Continue Reading

Our dear friend from SonicState.com, Andy Macreeth ( also the DP on our upcoming short film, ‘The Silence’) caught up with us at XOYO on the last night of our tour with the wonderful John Foxx & The Maths. I’m famously awkward on camera if I’m talking, but Benge & John are ever fabulous, funny…Continue Reading

It’s been a few days short of a month since we landed in LA, ensconced in my favorite neighborhood, the Los Feliz hills near Griffith Park. Much has happened and managed to run through my fingertips & into Logic, though I have been more & more quiet on the blogging front…apologies as usual! I am…Continue Reading

Hello from lovely LA, and apologies for the rather much needed hiatus! There are many things that I need to share since I last posted, including our smashing time at MoogFest 2011 (which I will share details about in a bit) but I’m back in LA to write and reqroup – no better place to…Continue Reading

Well, my attempt to cover this in proper tour diary, on the spot fashion was thwarted by the lack of decent internet connection – but here are a few bits that really shine in my memory! Maf & I had a wonderful time, and are deeply grateful to all who came out to spport the…Continue Reading

Goodness! We’ve left Cardiff till next year, and have been a bit sleepless. I’m feeling every muscle melt into the mattress here in Liverpool, willing myself to shake my tail feathers off to soundcheck. Liverpool football fans raising hell in the bar below….. I’m after all the Beatle spots, but not sure we’ll have time…Continue Reading

The collaboration you read about here has hatched! Listen now, via the Quietus’ Soundcloud link to the lovely tune John Foxx, Benge and myself crafted in May, “Where You End And I Begin”. The song is included on John Foxx & The Maths’ new album, “The Shape of Things”: John Foxx And The Maths featuring…Continue Reading

As promised, and a few days late, here are some nice tidbits from Thursday’s gig – not a bad b-day at all! John Foxx and the Maths were indeed wonderful, and I had loads of cupcakes and wine. Blissful. Here are a few photos: In Bristol playing Thekla on the 20th – who is coming?…Continue Reading

Indeed – tomorrow is the deadline for our dazzling Rocket Wife Remix contest! In August, the wonderful Bob Moog Foundation, Maf & myself launched “The Rocket Wife EP – A Benefit for the Bob Moog Foundation”. We have since received a beautiful crop of remix submissions and can’t wait to listen back to your splendid…Continue Reading

Stirred awake, super restless… After a semi dramatic day of ironing out a bit of Ableton issues (lovingly & quickly solved by their support team, thankfully) I ran through my set to the point where it was coming out of my eyeballs (this is healthy for me). Now, off to recalibrate myself on the yoga…Continue Reading

I’ve returned to the blog-o-sphere! I’ve been well under the radar working on my set for the upcoming John Foxx and the Maths tour – and so excited! The tour begins tomorrow in Lemington Spa at The Assembly, a beautiful, newly refurbished venue that is renowned to have a sweet sound system and a capacity…Continue Reading

It’s just been announce that Tara will be creating a horror score for Night Vision. So as you’d expect, there’s lots of analog synth fun to be had. NightVision is a horror experience. It’s not a movie, it’s not a book, a comic or game! It’s a new type of horror experience, played out on…Continue Reading

“The Rocket Wife EP – A Benefit for the Bob Moog Foundation” has arrived! We have carefully and lovingly created this very special 3 song EP to benefit something that is deeply dear to my heart, the Bob Moog Foundation. They have several wonderful causes that they are working toward, one of which resonates with…Continue Reading

I’m sitting in a rather sweet country house in Wales, watching a mild, cool summer day swirl around me…I’ve brought along my studio to piece together my upcoming live set and yes – focus on the finishing touches of a sweet new project we’re launching tomorrow! As we cross the path into autumn and summer…Continue Reading

Yes – I am a grateful user and lover of all things Universal Audio & Izotope! Though I’m no engineer-extraordinaire, we have been using our UAD cards & luscious LA610 preamp/ compressor faithfully since first purchasing our G5 in 2005, at the dawn of my adventures creating & producing music on my own. And the…Continue Reading

Wonderful news, yes! As you may have read a hint of previously, I will be accompanying John Foxx & The Maths on their UK Interplay tour in October! Here’s the rather sweet poster from John’s blog…are you anywhere near these cities?? Come see us! I also wanted to add a few more really juicy clips…Continue Reading