Below after 2-3 hours of researching through my digital archive (derived from web history notes, old receipts (5842 pdf scans), old downloads, part memory and tracing my old 1997-2004 e-mail archives, these are the most precise Time of purchases I could gather. Many of them where to the actual date, but I omitted that as the month and year would suffice.
A solid purchase and upgrade run going on from 1997 to 2008, about a decade's worth.
This research below has an recent relation to my re-discovery of all my music albums - now becoming an planned target of AI generated Music Videos a.k.a. Cause I'mma AI slopper yes I am! project - just for the heck of it!
Creative Soundblaster AWE64 GOLD
-September 1997Roland TB-303
- September 1997Boss Metal Zone MT-2 (Distortion unit used for TB-303)
- Received free somewhere during 1997-1998Roland JP-8000 Synthesizer
- August 1999Mackie 1202VLZ Mixer
- August 1999Event 20/20bas Studio Monitors
- August 1999Midiman Audiophile 2496 soundcard (later replaced by ESI Juli@ below)
- December 2000Yamaha A-5000 Sampler RACK
- March 2001Roland PC180A MIDI Controller
- During 2001Yamaha RM1x Groovebox
- January 2002Novation Supernova II Synthesizer
- February 2002Novation Drumstation 1 RACK
- February 2002Behringer Autocom Pro MDX 1400 (Comp/Gate/Limiter/Expander/Enhancer) RACK
- August 2002ESI MidiTerminal M8U
- December 2003TC Electronics M300 (Reverb/Echo/Delay) RACK
- January 2005Quiklok BS-342 (For the Event 20/20bas Studio monitors)
- February 2007Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro Closed Studio Headphones
- February 2007Yamaha MG 16/4 Mixer
- June 2007Yamaha HS10W (subwoofer)
- June 2007ESI Juli@ (24-bit 192Khz ADC, 114dB, and DAC 112dB soundcard):
- January 2008Summary:
Looking at the dates and years, it's clearly apparant that even if I had stop making music during 2005, new Headphones, new Mixer and new SubWoofer along with a new soundcard purchased - at least indicated that I might get back to composing music on physical gear in the future.But, with so many other projects (including buying a house and refurbish it for 18 years+ along with getting married and having a daughter + a gadzillion other projects the time is not there) - the free time after day-time work since I was 17 years old is the cause of that :-)
It is now, during my planning of my own "Oakvalley RetroLab" that the physical studio and all gear is planned to be put back together, after beeing packed down into boxes all the way since I moved to my new house in Summer of 2008.
Fun Facts
- Did you know that I actually sent a couple of tracks from my two finished albums (The End of The Highway and The Bakka Baou Project) to Armin Van Buuren (Dutch DJ and musician) back in 2009?I started listning to his online radio show "A State Of Trance" in 2001 and I'm still listning to that even to this date (2026) every week :-)
Anyway - I never heard anything back from him - guess the mail is just slow. I'll wait some more then!
- Did you know that I also sent demo tracks to Warner Music Norway and Universal Music Norway too during 2002 and 2004? I never heard anything - but this is in Norway, so the mail "should" been faster, haha. Well, I'll just keep waiting some more then.
- Did you know some of my tracks was played on "NRK-P3 / mPetre" back in 1998/1999? Of course you do - they responded right away!
The Bakka Baou Project - Commercial Coverage
End of The Highway - Commercial Coverage












