I must admit, I've been somewhat self-absorbed of late. Lots of time lost in my University study, on artificial intelligence, zero-gravity and behavioural engineering. Lots of time lost in the great outdoors. Some time "at sea". All the time, in the music.

I'm not willing to settle for substandard, and there just seems to be so much in the world, at the moment, that is just plain substandard. A good effort I'm, sure, but a good effort nonetheless by the feeble. We have given birth to the /new digitalis/ { a natural super-cession of early digital technology } because we have taken the ideals of those digital pioneers, and we have used it to spread our reach, the reach of humanity far and wide. Many of those early digital pioneers are now lost to history, but their message was simple: accept no boundaries.

It has been the recent development of the music that has let us down the most. When we entered the digital age, we promised ourselves that it would be like nothing that had ever gone before, and we knew it could be true. Perhaps all that's happened is we've grown cynical. Explorers /in a world where there are no limits/ { the digital domain } we suddenly grasped for a handhold. One of my greatest friends said to me recently

"When I first understood the techno I had heard, I thought I knew how it was going to develop. It was a sound that was more than just a message. It was the sound of a place. The sound was a place, and the perfect extension to that sound, the only extension worth even listening to, would be another place... but it lost its way, like someone wandering in a desert, the music is now following its' own tracks."

I'm firmly of the belief that it's not that the right music isn't out there, just that its not being played in broadcast media. I've scoured the internet, poured through overseas catalogues, send untold emails to the original artists to get it for myself, and there's just no way I can stand idly by while the radio waves and the mp3 sites are filled with formulated junk. The good music has to be played.

It has been over a year since our last communication, and I'm not going to let that kind of time span elapse again until I know the music is on the right track. I've thought long and hard about how I can broadcast this music. It must be placed firstly in the hands of people who realise its value. If you're reading this, then possibly you're one of those people. It used to be that if you were at a rave, then you were one of those people, only that I've seen plenty of people at raves recently who I just don't trust { more on this soon enough }. So I'm just going to have to try anyway I can. Through this medium, over any broadcast medium I can get my hands on.

Keep your eyes and ears open...

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