Limiting yrself to crap setups can be sooooooooooooo liberating. I've recently doen a couple of gigs where there was no way I could take loadsa stuff down - did one with just the electribe synth and sampler and a TR707 shoved through a bizarre £25 XIX rack effects box I got in Soundcontrol. Also deliberately didn't practice the set as a whole so it was quite fluid. And y'konw what - it worked. And gave me a whole new set of ideas, the best bit of which is I'm getting towards having a stock of tunes I can do 3 versions of, depending on how much kit I want to lug about: An Acid version, a hard minimal version, and a full on hard dance/techno version.

I'm also trying to ditch software at the moment as everything was sounding a bit clinical ans I just started being right lazy in terms of throwing in loops when I should have written something.

It's frustrating in that it takes a while to set up - And I reckon until I can afford a bigger/better mixer I'm gonna have to go back to software to mixdown finished versions of the live ideas. But I've gone bvack to using my RM1-x to sequence - there's a lot of power there and lots of room for experimentation.

And trying to use different sounds - been mucking about with guitars and sitars and wierd stuff - kind of like PWEI or Senser turned into 160bpm techno. Getting some very refreshing ideas thats almost a blend of techno/psy/thrash...

Only major problem now is trying to work out a design for some kind of casing that I can lift things out of the bedroom studio in blocks to take to gigs... ...and that I am very soon going to have to find a bigger house!!!