Mark Jasper

Last night was fun. in a nice warm field in Hailsham. System sounded great and all the crew were awesome. What more could you want.

Brief break from paternity to help out with . Absolutely brilliant couple of days. and / .esq on the first day at 1 Guinea Street (sadly no pics).

And then second day was at - all proving that kids comedy can be funnier than adult comedy.

Great couple of days. Hopefully there will be many more!

When I was 15 I wasn't that bothered about music. I liked it in the same way as I liked red dwarf and microwave lasagne. I liked queen, but that was kind of it.

I heard in utero because another kid made me a cassette with In Utero on one side and Terrovision How to Make Friends and Influence People on the other.

After I heard Nirvana, everything changed. I just became obsessed, listened to all their albums, formed a band, wore different clothes, grew my hair. Red dwarf disappeared (I still ate microwave lasagne). From that point on, I was only really ever interested in music.

Listening yesterday to the 2013 mix of In Utero I wondered how much when I was fifteen, I was inspired by the actual music and how much I was inspired by the sound. That big thumping bass drum, how you can hear the moving air of the speakers on the guitars, how the vocals just sit. On our last album in utero was one of my main mix references.

He would have hated that speculation. He always hated the idea that he had any influence on a record coming to be. I always took that as a mix of false modesty and holding himself to a standard. Making a virtue of providing a service for the musicians and being an invisible part in the beauty of recorded music.

When I started making records, he became one of my biggest influences and in my own way I tried to hold myself to the same standards because that is what I fell in love with in the first place. Making that beautiful music happen.

Thanks for my bands, my living, my life but most of all thanks for all the music, Steve. RIP.

New Sugar Rush song recorded by me!!

Sugar Rex, by Sugar Rush! / ME REX 2 track album

New songs from members of Earth Rod/Thee Ludds. I mastered them.

'Falling Over/Say Yes' Single K. H. mirth is a band from Leicester, formed from past members of Thee Ludds and Earth Rod. K. H. dwell on the flatline of midland weird, distracted by the suburban grim and the municipally psychedeli

NEW DISJOY that I recorded and mixed... honestly this band are so good it's ridiculous:

Human Pandemic, by DISJOY 5 track album