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I was the second person to ever register for this forum. The first, really, after its creator enabled registrations. It has been over a decade since that day -- April 18, 2003 -- which was significant; two weeks later, I was hospitalized in preparation for surgery to repair a dissected descending ao...

You may have noticed that I removed the question mark from this sentence. That is because I figured it out. It's about energy. More specifically, it's about natural gas. If you want to know more, go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_disputes, and then compare this with wha...

I had written tons of stuff here -- but upon re-reading it, I realize that I'm digressing all over the place. Let me sum things up this way: If Russia invades Ukraine, bad things will happen. Putin would be committing some serious blunders, and would risk more than he would gain from such a move. Th...

C Minor: No death penalty in Ukraine. It was abolished about 15 years ago. :) - Sammy P.S. I read about the Romanian Revolution. I agree with you, and I hope that others in your part of the world heed your admonitions. P.P.S. Just got done watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. She had a guest on (whose n...

Apparently, Yanukovich was last seen in KHARKIV (i.e., Kharkov) (!!!) and then fled the country -- could be in a (get this) MONASTERY in Bosnia. (Go back in history a few years, and you'll find that Milosevich tried something similar... without great success...) In other news, someone on the SineVib...

Well, according to Al Jazeera and BBC News, there has been a breakthrough in Kiev. If things are as they seem, then your country appears to be back on its way to real Democracy. (And thank goodness that America and her allies didn't, you know, send in the Tomahawk missiles... ugh...) According to wh...

What is going on in Kiev right now has become the most important thing in my life.

- Sammy

Iceman: I'm so happy to learn that Artemiy does not live in Kiev. I wonder whether perhaps he used to live there, because I seem to remember him saying that he did. But that is no matter -- as long as you are still alive and able to communicate, then he's probably okay too. Artemiy and I have had so...

Hey Artemiy:

I hope that you're okay. I haven't spoken to you in a long time, and the news reports that I've been seeing over the past couple of weeks look disturbing, to say the least.

We musicians must stick together.

Take care.

- Sammy James

From the PR dept. at Pedestrianrecords and Sammy James: Sammy has been busy working on a new four-song EP. This time, he decided to create something different -- instead of the usual sample-based synth stuff, he has created sounds, from scratch, using FM8. Frequency Modulation synthesis is considere...

You can now hear the entire album from start to finish without interruption.

https://soundcloud.com/#sammyjamesmusic ... f-generica

http://www.sammyjames.com/samples.html

Enjoy.

- Sammy

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I'm just throwing these out there for now. My EP, Harborlights, will be available in a few months. You can get some full-length, unmastered mp3 previews by visiting this link: http://www.pedestrianrecords.com/artists/SammyJames/samples.html Scroll down on the page to where the "More Samples&quo...

We are pleased to announce our first addition to the Pedestrian Records family since Sammy James began the label way back in 1998. Deep Chinappa, professionally known as Deep C, has joined Pedestrian. You can find him here: http://www.pedestrianrecords.com/artists/DeepC By Monday, February 6, 2012, ...

I'm dazzled (not really). I'm completely befuddled (really) as to how so many manufacturers shirked their duty to bring us our yearly blitz of new products at this year's NAMM. Where was Roland? Hiding out in booth 1112, or what? Jeez Louise. This entire industry is going downhill so fast. I'll tell...