Can’t get enough vuvuzela?

Now you can get a 375MB vuvuzela sample pack for Kontakt. Why anyone would actually buy this I don’t know.

The first track from Trent Reznor’s new collaboration with Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross “How to Destroy Angels”.
Listen to a stream of “A Drowning”.
Also, if you haven’t seen these yet there are a bunch of studio videos up here: howtodestroyangels.com

If the midipad app pans out I’ll definitely get an iPad. It’s like having a Lemur for 1/4th the price.

Some advice for those of you engaged in creative endeavours. Courtesy of Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod.

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Finally got around to uploading some photos of the studio. Most of the summer was spent doing the construction. There are still some items left like sound treatment and equipment upgrades. For those in the know, the Mackie board does not touch the recording signal path, it’s strictly there for live and composition. Recording all goes through some nicer pre-amps.

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For those of you near Vancouver, my friend K Phanie is releasing her first EP, “Glory Of The Singles” on October 20th.

She’s a very talented up and coming singer/songwriter that I had the pleasure to collaborate with on one song off her EP.

You can see the CD release party details here

If you can’t attend the release party, you should still pick up the EP when it comes out.

On the recommendation of a co-work J. and I watched a Bosnian movie called Fuse on Thursday. I thought it was very well done especially if you are familiar with the conflict over there. J. thought it was a little slow.
Went out to Vinyl on Saturday with my buddy Wax to check out DJ Sneak from Chicago. It was fun to get out and do something different than the norm.
Laid down some tracks for an upcoming Royal Dead recording last night. May possibly be one of the last sessions in my temporary area before moving into the new studio. Our final building inspection should happen on Thursday and I’ll spend all Friday hauling equipment into the new space and hooking things up. The construction and planning has been going on for so long now, since the end of April…I’m stoked that I will finally be able to move in.

Les Paul just passed away due to complications from pneumonia.
The everyday person may not know him but many musicians have been impacted by his guitar innovations.
He was 94.

Looks like yet another setback for the much anticipated LinnDrum II drum machine.
In an update on his blog, Roger Linn gave an update on the current status of the joint project with Dave Smith:
We’re still hard at work but regrettably won’t be able to meet our earlier estimate of a 3rd-quarter 2009 ship date. The recent changes in the economy have caused us to rethink our design, which had become too expensive. One problem is that Dave’s customers and my customers had different views of what the product should be, so we had been working on a more elaborate design that we thought would please them both. Then the economy tanked. Oops. The other issue is that Dave and his team have been having such success with their analog synths that they’ve been spreading themselves pretty thin trying to work on both projects.
So given these circumstances, we’d prefer not to state another release date estimate at this time, but when we do we promise to post it here along with any other information we’re able to release. Also, given that Dave and his team have their hands pretty full and that a beat-oriented product is more of a Roger product anyway, we’ll probably be selling it through Roger Linn Design instead of from both companies as we had previously considered.
I’d personally love to tell everybody all the details of the product design, features and price as we did with our initial designs of the product, but there’s that pesky problem of keeping the information from our competitors. So we need to keep tight-lipped for now and regrettably can’t answer any questions. Thanks also to those who have kindly asked to place advance orders. However, we don’t feel it’s right to accept orders until we are able to release the price or more information about the product.
The Linndrum II was originally called the BoomChik and was first announced back in February of 2007.

Another landmark of New York City is disappearing.

The world famous Manny’s Music, which has been open since 1935 is closing down.
I’ve spent a few hours myself playing on some of the guitars in that store, I’m sad to see it go.