Michael Lee Taylor (Solo, Rogue One, A Force Awakens, Jupiter Ascending) is a sound recordist and boom operator for film and TV. A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, United Kingdom. Michael forged a career in London, working in the sound department on films and TV Dramas. Whilst also finding time to work as a sound mixer on documentaries, commercials and corporates. Michael now lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and continues to work in the sound department.

This episode of AuroraCast features Michael Lee Taylor as a special guest.

Grant Borland hails from Michigan, USA. He can be easily defined as a musical storyteller and composer for Film, TV, Game, Advertisement and Trailer. Grant began writing cinematic music back in 2015 and has never looked back! He has composed music for various forms of media, some of which we unveil during this interview.

This episode is a special one! Firstly because despite talking for years over various social media platforms, this was the first time Mike and Grant spoke face to face... Secondly, this is AuroraCast's debut international interview which is a big deal for us!

We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank Grant for getting involved! Until next time buddy.

This episode of AuroraCast features Grant Borland as a special guest.

They say Brighton is full of creatives and we are starting to see just how true that is! A bit like Mike and Preston... Mike and Preston also go back around 15 years, initially meeting while both working in the games industry in Brighton. While conducting these interviews during the COVID-19 lockdown, it felt only natural to get in touch with Preston to see how his music career is going and we were pleasantly surprised.

Preston creates Electronica, but to break it down you could call his music Instrumental, Downtempo, Electronic, Techno, Electronica, Breaks, IDM and more! His latest Release is Replanar (Remix Album) is fresh onto the shelves... Preston is an avid Ableton user and supporter of Bandcamp where you can pick up all his releases. In this AuroraCast, he talks us through his approach, his setup, details some of his philosophies and gives us a ton of links to check out...

We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank Preston for getting involved!

This episode of AuroraCast features preston.outatime as a special guest.

Les defines the word awesome (and has done for many years now). He is a multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, bass and currently learning drums and keys. He is an incredibly active musician playing in multiple bands alongside entertaining his musical side projects. Les is currently playing Bass for Deathwish and Lightning Strike, Guitar with Two-Tonne Vice while working on his own doom, black metal, ambient and soundscape projects.

In this Skype conversation, we run through Les's current guitar setup, talk about amps, pedals, cabs, amp modelling, working in and out the box, playing live. DAWs, plugins, mixing, his introduction and journey into music, making his own guitar, future endeavours and generally have a catch-up!

We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank Les for getting involved! Until next time buddy!

This episode of AuroraCast features Les Plumridge as a special guest.

This time on The SWIM, we are joined by historian/gamer Joey Keep to talk about the Assassin's Creed franchise - including discussion around the original games, the best games, and of course the worst games. Then, we talk about the future of the series ahead of Valhalla's debut (due at the end of 2020), and to round off we play a quick round of The Wikipedia Game!

This episode of The SWIM is hosted by Lex MacEoghain, Jack Taylor, and Joey Keep.

(Recorded on Thursday 11th June 2020).

Joel is a DJ/Producer, playing Drum & Bass, Breaks, House, Funk & Hip-hop. Mainly producing Drum & Bass, although crossing over into other genres... Mike and Joel go back around 7 years, initially meeting while both working in the tech industry in London. Joel is responsible for introducing Mike to Drum and Bass, taking him raving for the first time and showing him the world of what it means to be a DJ...

In the episode conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown, Joel runs us through his current production and DJ setup, talks us through his journey into music, his vinyl collection, performance, family and gives us an insight into his future plans for both H1GHL1NE and his upcoming planned podcast! We also talk through some of the pros and cons of the COVID-19 situation from a human experience perspective. Until next time buddy!

This episode of AuroraCast features Joel Minney as a special guest.

Today on The SWIM, Lex has some indoor footwear-related follow-up, we then discuss old cars, new cars, electric cars, and Formula 1.

This episode of The SWIM is hosted by Lex MacEoghain and Jack Taylor.

(Recorded on Sunday 31st May 2020).

In the third instalment of Droplet Who, Clancy and Jack talk about Cold War - the 2013 Matt Smith story that reintroduced the Ice Warriors back into Doctor Who after 38 years.

(Recorded on Monday 25th May 2020).

After both Michael W. Bell and Steve Hope-Wynne (SkyQuaker) were kindly interviewed by the mighty Dav over at RadiAsian Radio, it only felt natural for us to return the favour via Skype during the COVID-19 lockdown.

We spoke about pretty much everything, so much so we are probably not going to be able to list them all in our allotted space; but for a start…. Microphones, studio gear, fighting evil, studying, frequencies, tunings, good and bad record labels, 5G, books, philosophy, personal approach to music, history, books, background, university, studying, self-improvement, instruments, audio frequencies, synths, food, family and even drug dealing ice cream vans!

This episode of AuroraCast features Davinder Bedi as a special guest.

Here in the U.K. - like most of the world - we have spent the last 3ish months in lockdown. With the likelihood of us emerging becoming more and more imminent, we sit down to discuss, once and for all (hopefully) what this time has done to and for us.

This episode of The SWIM is hosted by Lex MacEoghain, Jack Taylor, Michael W. Bell, and Patrick Coll.

(Recorded on Friday 15th May 2020).