As of Febraury 2010 Eris has left Noir du'Soleil to focus his attention on other projects besides music.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his time and support as a live member of Noir du'Soleil and I wish him the best of luck in his future!

It's been a week now, so it's time for an update on how successful I was at fixing my studio computer.

Well after 2 new hard drives, 1 new graphics card, and a fresh OS install I'm finally able to make music again... and I must say I'm having a great time doing so (more info on that soon I hope).

There is still one problem though. My monitor randomly turns blank. I supected it was the graphics card, but I got an old monitor out to test (I forgot how heavy those CRT monitors were, I almost broke my neck getting it down off a bookshelf in my house). Sure enough the same issue occurred after some time. $45 later (clearly I'm a big spender) I had a simple, low-profile, graphics card and after installation all seemed well. Until today the problem started again. Now I don't know what to do - it must be an issue with the motherboard right? (which would not suprise me at all actually, since it was a cheap one when I bought it and that was 3-4 years ago)

Oh well... I'll figure it out somehow. On the plus side - it's great to be able to work on new music, and I'm so lucky I was able to retrive all my old raw audio data (although I wasn't able to salvage the drive it was on).

In other news I had a great time DJing at Sin Nightclub in Perth on Saturday night! Thanks to all who came out - and thanks to all who stayed up partying with me too =D