I’ve been rather quiet about what I’ve been working on musically lately. It’s not that I haven’t been busy, it’s that I’ve been too busy trying to do a lot of things and it’s been exhausting me to the point where I don’t really feel much like posting about it.
Things on the record label front have been busy; we’re working on preparations for our first round of real releases and also listening to material by artists we might sign after the first round. We have some events planned that I can’t talk about just yet.
As far as my own music, just tonight I worked on some drum tracks for a new song. I’ve been liking my Fuzz pedal lately and I incorporated it for what will be the chorus for this song which [K] refers to as Provocateur I’m trying not to talk about the tracks on this project too much as I want this to be a surprise when it comes out. While my style is in there, the material is a 180 from work I did with Deviant. You’ll hear what I’m talking about when the first single drops.
There are some other big changes coming up with the label within the next six months (not involving signings or releases). You’ll hear more as the time approaches.

Spent last night in the studio with a certain young lad. We recorded some vocal overdubs that turned out rather nicely, especially after a little bit of studio experimentation. Two tracks completely recorded and mixed, hopefully next Friday will yield a third.
On Thursday I had Mad Wax over and we finished a track that we had started in our previous session. Next week we’ll clean up the mix a bit and start a new track. Pretty hopping club tunes.
I think the cable jack on one of my guitars needs to be fixed, the connection kept shorting out last night. I opened it up today and tightened some things, hopefully that fixes it because I’d rather not have to replace the jack on this one already.
After our little session I went out for a few drinks, dropped by ol’ Netherworld to say hi to everyone. Despite a slight hangover today from the well rums I was able to record some piano for a trip-hop style tune I’ve been working on. The piano sound itself turned out a bit dark, probably because the strings and hammers on it are old so I threw a little EQ on the track to brighten it up. I had picked up this piano originally from the CU music conservatory, it dates back to the 1920′s I believe. It’s got a sticky key here and there and should probably be tuned again but it’s nice havinig a real piano around. I really can’t stand the sound of fake piano modules in recordings.

More absinthe inspiration tonight. It started with a drumbeat that I noodled with for awhile. Grabbed myself a glass or few of absinthe and hammered out a sexy bassline to accompany it.
Most definitely the beginning of a good song, I can feel a vibe off of it that gives me shivers. Think Portishead.

A new digital mixing console will be added to my recording studio shortly but it’s going to eat up all the desk space that I have now. Where am I to put my beverages and notepads? I’ve also had a problem lately with my mic pre-amp rack units being too far away from my desk so if I need to adjust compressor or gain levels when tracking I have to kneel by my mic-pre which is away from my desk while trying to keep an eye on the incoming levels on my screen. So because of all of these reasons I’ve decided to build myself some new studio furniture. I don’t have any building plans to use for reference, i’m just sketching it out on paper and then doing it. I cut my carpentry teeth on making my own isolation booth in 2004 but this desk is going to be slightly more complicated. I plan on putting in an angeled rack mount enclosure into the desktop itself. If the rack rails are even off by a little, the equipment won’t sit properly in it so this is going to require precise cutting and measurment.
I begin construction this weekend.
On a sadder note, I heard on NPR today that planning experts in New Orleans estimate that the city will probably only be 1/3rd it’s original size when rebuilt.

A cluttered studio makes for a cluttered mind.
I need to finish cleaning it out and throwing away all the junk I no longer need. I’ve noticed it’s a lot harder to meet those composition deadlines when you stepping over CD cases to get to your mixer.