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New William Breakspear tune incoming! A sneaky sneaky edit of Zapp, Roger Troutman and Kraftwerk along with original beats, punchy bass and a big dollop of wonkiness. https://soundcloud.com/william-breakspear/computer-love The FLAC can be downloaded from William...

Just a quick update on where I'm at... furlough continues for me so I'm trying to set up some ways to progress my Brooks Audio, William Breakspear and Slim Blue projects. One of the big things is the Ableton / sound tutorial series. It's going well, I'm just waiting...

Something which has been really inspirational for me during lockdown has been Ill Gates' Producer Dojo, and particularly "The Weekly Download". This is a series of tutorials which he has been producing for several years, initially on his own, then increasingly with a...

So as lockdown / furlough continues for the next X amount of time, I'm wondering how to spend that time in the best way, outside of maximising my time with my family & working on the house / garden! I have realised recently that one of the things that gives me...

Now I'm furloughed from my job at d&b audiotechnik for an indefinite amount of time, there are some studio projects I'm working on... firstly updating the ergonomics of the space, then on to some new William Breakspear and Slim Blue projects. We're also bringing...

Matt Smith, Head of Sound/Project Sound Designer for Houghton Festival, caught up with Bill Brooks, d&b Education Application Support on Instagram Live on Thursday 14 May 2020.Matt and Bill discussed the sound design for Houghton Festival, how the festival...

My isolation diary... Weeks 1, 2 and 3 have been really just adjusting to life at home, switching hats from education mode for d&b audiotechnik, to childcare days & finding interesting family activities, to studio sessions. The latter hasn't really been...

Drew this block schematic some time ago as an illustration for my dad’s small home recording setup, based around a toneport. He kindly sent it to me.

Got sent a video from my dad who lives over in Cologne. No idea when I'll get to see him in the flesh again, but at least we can jam over the internet.