And then as I grew up, you know, I started to appreciate my culture and where they're from and so I decided, like you know, I don't like what's out there, so why don't I try doing something to change it too?

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Then I grew up and realised that they're really just 40-odd identical channel strips, which do nothing more magical than the volume and tone controls on a home stereo.

ENGADGET: Music Thing: Frontier Alphatrack

Back then, in the early '90s, before I grew up and bought a sofa, I was fiercely idealistic.

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