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Hi, Y'all may have noticed I haven't been around for a while. I've been busy re-engineering my work life (I now have a terrific job as a senior C# developer at a company that is, amazingly, located a mere 15 minutes away from my home out here in the sticks) and it has been just too much work and distraction to filter all the tool-related messages from this list in order to read to the stuff that interests me, which is news of my many good friends here, music to listen to, and musical philosophy. Oh yeah, and book recommendations. But I couldn't stay away forever. Whether I'm looping or not, this place seems to be my musical home. And now that I've filtered everything with Echoplex or Repeater in the title, and I use gmail so I don't actually have to wait for downloads before deleting (and plus, the list seems a bit less active), well - maybe it's manageable again. I do lunch at my desk a lot, and that seems like a good time to list-ening. Also, I've been away because I've temporarily stopped doing thing the hard way (i.e., unaccompanied live looping) in order to concentrate my limited musical time on producing a few recorded pieces (and on my jazz duo gigs, which require quite a bit of practice to do well). I haven't recorded to a grid or a beat since my computer was a 386 - man, it's easy to edit stuff when you do that and there are meaningful measure markers! Wow. So I've produced a couple of pieces I'm quite happy with, that show off the wildman guitarist side of me. They were both produced as part of an assignment to create a cross between hip-hop music and rock guitar for a radio show theme (it's still undecided whether the one that actually sounds like hip-hop will be used - the other one came out sounding too African for that use, but it's cool anyway). So, if you get a chance, I'd love you to listen to Tuffer at http://warrensirota.com/Brian/Tuffer.mp3 and Afrique at http://warrensirota.com/Solostuff/afrique.mp3. Also, if I've missed any cool recent music from you, feel free to send me links off-list. Best wishes, Warren warrensirota.com