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HOMMAGE A DIDIER SINCLAIR :

I was wandering around my apartment early on today and saw three things that brought some wonderful yet bittersweet memories racing back - one was a black Amnesia Lighter (made for the launch of the club that is now Mix Club), the other was a stripy Sonia Rykiel outsized cabas / handbag and the third was a collection of english language manuals for Logic 6 Platinum music software - all of which were given to me by Didier Sinclair.

The lighter was a 'present' given when we celebrated New Year 2006 in his apartment (I smoked then and was (as usual) without a lighter. He gave me (and my boyfriend) this souvenir but also told me that I should give up smoking. I did give up smoking eventually, but until March that year the lighter was very much in use). The second was my birthday present December 2005 - one that I have used non stop and still use to carry my CDs and costume changes etc to Mix Club when I play. The third was given to me just before Didier's illness took a turn for the worse - we had had dinner together and we talked about my starting production. I said that I was completely lost due to the manuals I had received for all my software being in french. For sure I can understand french but it doesn't help when you are learning a new technique to have to use a dictionary just to know what the terminology means. I have Logic 8 - but Didier was sure that these manuals would be equally as helpful for the basics. He was right of course.

Three months have passed since Didier decided to leave us and rock the party in Heaven instead. I know it may seem very after the fact mentioning this now but the truth is that I still can't believe that I have lost my friend. Every time I visit FG I get the urge to say 'hi' to him in his office (as was my habit - every week for nearly four years), every time I listen to Coldplay, Daft Punk or Madonna I think of him, any time I watch Desperate Housewives or Lost I think of him. Every time I hear the word 'Enjoy' - i think of Didier Sinclair.

Enough has been written in the press and online about Didier's passing so I will not repeat the details here, all that I will say is that he left us too soon and that even though I know that none of us will ever have a choice when our time will be up, after the dignified way that Didier fought and yet continued to live humbly and positively right up until the end, I can't help feeling that in one way life has been, once again, extremely unfair. On the other hand, Didier Sinclair has left a lasting impression on me, not just on the way I see life as a DJ and hopefully one day soon a producer but also in the way that I see life itself.

I will never forget him.

I WON'T TRANSLATE THIS DIRECTLY INTO FRENCH BUT HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS THAT SAY KIND OF THE SAME THING

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Des mon arrivée à Paris, Didier m'a pris sous son aile: c'était une collègue et un mentor avec qui j'ai beaucoup appris et beaucoup aimé travailler. En privé, c'était quelqu'un avec de coeur, avec une générosité sans limite et un joie de vivre immense, c'était tout simplement un ami que j'ai adoré et qui me manquera.Je ne lui oublierais jamais.

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