***Note: This is an 8 track album, nearly 70 mins in length. Only track samples are viewable - the full album tracks will appear as a bonus when you purchase the album (which is why you see 16 tracks not 8). Cover artwork is included.

Recorded at E-Live 17th October 2009.

"As a folk musician, I can usually travel anywhere with my accordian over my shoulder & some Guinness in my bag with a minimum of fuss. But as a synthesizer player, this is very much not the case. I know there are artists out there who are confident to take to the stage armed only with a laptop & a USB keyboard, but I can't bring myself to get that minimal. I think the trade off is that you would have to pre-prepare a lot of stuff & just trigger it as and when (this seems to be how Kraftwerk operate live). I like to think that I never quite know what I'm going to play next either the notes, or the sound - even which keyboard. For this reason, I have traditionally gigged a lot of gear. For live improv this is definitely the case - for the Narcosis gig & my Jodrell Bank appearances I brought almost everything I had in the studio which still worked.

It is not always practical to spend 6 hours setting up, and an alternative live format is to do 'greatest hits karaoke'. This would mean a small number of keyboards (say 6) and a backing tape of some kind.

When I travelled to Oirschot for the first time at easter 2009 as part of John Dyson's band (to headline Groove's e-day event) I took my smallest ever rig: D50, DW8000 and a PC running Arturia's MiniMoog. John had hired a mini van in Sheffield and we all travelled to the Netherlands together on the Hull ferry. All I had to do was get to Sheffield (which involved the ferry from Belfast to Liverpool in my own van). We had a great time, and my playing a short (but exciting) opening solo set for John lead to Groove asking me to play a full set at e-live later in the year.

So now the logistics were: van to Belfast, boat to Liverpool, van to Hull, boat to Rotterdam and van to Oirschot. It would be a long, arduous, and expensive haul. Then Ron Boots suggest that I just fly in & use his gear. I'd never considered that. How would it sound like me?

I've a Moog & a D50 says Ron - come and stay with me for a few days to settle into the gear. I admit to being worried, but realised that the other option was not tenable, so said 'yes', and packed a rucksack with a few effects pedals, a few memory cards & my iPod. As I later came to realise, by using backing tapes, my music already sounded like me, so all I needed was a fairly convincing 'icing' and it would be fine. I managed to get Ron to find me a DW8000 (thanks Bas) too, and I used Ron's Nord Electro for 'Tron, Hammond & Solina sounds. Rehearsals went really well, and it really was a no-stress gig. The only worry I had was that the Prophet 08 is no substitute sonically for my old Prophet 5 -and it is apparent on the second track of this disc. Apart from that, I had a ball! The reception from all was amazing and I found myself feeling a bit sorry for Brendan Pollard who had arrived with a removals van full of vintage museum pieces....."

Stephan Whitlan, October 2010