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Who is general failure and why is he reading my hard drive?

over processed samples of a failing hard drive, and of the artemis 2 mission o_O

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a bit of a hodgepodge amble across the flat... er... through the gulch... er... over the ridge after i picked up my slide

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First one I sang on.

This one took a little while, I started with the guitar part on Monday, playing with the different autotunes, and then improv-ed a song over top. Which was both done on paper, and then a couple of improv performances -- my best was singing in the factory and then promptly forgetting the lyrics when I went to record it on my phone and swearing into my phone a lot over the noise of the factory in my frustration. Anyway it's all chorus, but I sang. I did I made a song with words. When i went to record the vocals, I was also trying not to wake anyone up, so I had to sing very quietly. I had hoped people would leave the house, but nope.... Maybe next time I'll record the vocals in my car so I can be as loud as I please. So mostly done on headphones and my soundbar doesn't seem to like some of my choices, but well I got things to do. I used a small rode mic I had for doing lego videos. Used a lead pop vocal, and then two extras so I could set a bit of distortion back up vocals.  Also took Continuous Nonlinearities suggestion of playing with the drums seriously, so I did.

**I had hoped to get home early to do another record of the lead vocals, but yeah, did not make it. So there it is.

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Lyndon Laney, an amplifier legend, died this week, I started a funeral doom song on Monday, and got the Laney GHR50 out, and by Wednesday heard he had died. I hope I didn't kill the guy who made Tony Iommi's amps!

But a spooky coincidence at least lol

Slow, reverb drenched and some lonely long drawn out parts, Funeral Doom stuff is a really odd genre, and I always looked at it as fully extreme death and black metal, but just slowed down to the low 60's in bpm instead of 180.

It was very hard for me to play, you can hear me rushing the beat a lot, especially in the solo, it’s harder playing this slow than it is to rip at 200bpm!

I hope I did the Laney Amplifier Legacy some respect today!

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after uploading a longer track last week, and mostly doing longform pieces this year, my goal was to make a shorter piece for this week.

I began with downloading some free samples of random things, loosely asssembling them, putting way too many fx on the samples and playing freaky guitar to it (with very light overdrive, jazz amp modeler, through a wampler terraform stereo modulation pedal), took the crazy fx off of the samples, then played some hydrasynth using the broken bass preset, added in a vst instrument: Dexed, the best yamaha dx7 emulator and one of my favorite virtual synths. you'll also hear some subtle latin percussion weaving in and out of the mix giving it a multi-dimensional vibe.

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Got the el cheapo jackson 7 string out to join M8 headless on this one. Break slices for djenty drums work too well. Lots of potential in this recipe for all sorts of shit. I was planning to make this so much more melodic, classical, scaley type shit but the groove metal just took hold. Solo could have been cleaner and flashier but I am pleased with tapping into that dimebag van halen type groove sound, albeit no where near as technical.

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Another week of crushing beats and chewing bubble gum. Would any one like a stick of gum? :)

Made on the M8. The beats were recorded from the Korg EMX (Old Blue).

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I happily stumbled upon this track and it built itself pretty quickly. The mix of hard electronic sounds and some more organic reminded me of the cartoon Gandahar, hence the title.

If you have not had the chance to see it, it's one of these weird French cartoons of the 80s, similar to Les Maitres du Temps or The Fantastic Planet (Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal cartoon style). Here is the trailer:

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Wanted to do a continuation on one of my previous tracks. I really like this one and the way it came together. As always, another week another beat, I hope whoever listens enjoys!!!

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wanted to build some atmosphere for one of the locations in this larger project rather than any sort of narrative song idea to try to get out of the rut of the last few weeks and this week went pretty well. There is room to develop this track further into a longer 10min piece but happy with where this is at for now.

trying to not chase perfection and just enjoy the process to get back into a better creative process again and this week has been fun.

thanks for listening.

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