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Such an amazing four days. Highlight for me was Trash80's set. I don't think I've danced so hard since.. since goth clubs in Perth!
Everyone was in top form though! Amazing!

Was so awesome meeting everyone (well, not EVERYONE, but a lot of people), apologies if I kinda spaced out and/or forgot anyone's names/etc, I was so overwhelmed by actually being social at a gig!

I can't believe how well I played at the pre-party, considering I had only been rehearsing for two days beforehand.. After only barely touching the guitar in the few months since the EB Expo last year.. Thanks to everyone who came along, it was awesome!

Post-party was great too, DJs in the beer garden and rockabilly/thrash/punk bands and a short burlesque show in the front room! The thrash band was amazing, Slayer levels of tightness!
.. probably shouldn't have had so much to drink though. I think the NES breathalizer inspired me.. I never did get a chance to challenge my original score!
Now, I sleep for many hours.

Holy shit. Pre party was awesome. I think that's the most i've jumped around while still being able to actually play guitar. I'll definitely need a mark knopfler style headband next time though.

EXCITED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybjcmknjCOY

I'm thinking of taking over "My Beautiful Laundrette" further down Brunswick St either earlier in the day or the previous/next day, with a portable soundsystem for some laundrychip action, would anyone be interested in joining me? We could do amazing chip battle sets..

I never bothered reading about theory, 90% of my musical knowledge was picked up by ear. My dad taught me a small amount (some guitar chords, and the minor pentatonic scale) but besides that, I learned everything through trial and error over the course of about 10 years.. Hah, maybe reading about theory could have streamlined that process a little, though I like the path I've taken, it's resulted in a distinct melodic style (that I can't seem to avoid)..

Most of my pure electronic stuff is composed entirely 'in-medium'. 90% of my leads are programmed in Buzz, I'm confident that I'm at a point now where my programmed leads are almost more expressive and dynamic than the ones I play on guitar. That said though I'm working on getting my guitar synth chops up again to the point where I can play my leads entirely live, with the same amount of expression as on recordings.

As for chord progressions though, most of my best ones were composed through trial and error in Buzz. My guitar chord progressions are mostly pretty standard sounding. Piano on the other hand - I can come up with some interesting stuff that way, but I don't have access to a piano anymore, which is a shame! Well, unless you count a Portasound, but the small keys annoy me.

I also just discovered sunvox, I really want to start composing with it almost exclusively. With the exception of live guitar leads, of course. My aim is to play an entire set from an iphone/ipad with guitar synth. I know it's not very chip but sunvox can generate some very nice chippy sounds!