Monday, February 27, 2012

February 27, 2012 "Let Us Never Dance Of This Beat Again" [Second Mix]

I feel as something is still amiss in the first half of this song. If you can tell me what it is, I like you. If you make it to the second half where I'm happy with everything, I love you. and either way, we're all in love with this reverb patch i wrote, right?


Thursday, February 23, 2012

two-fer-Wednesday

I've not only been slacking on Drone-a-Day, I've also:
- just not doing it at all for most of February and end of January
- been straying from the concept (ie; beats)
- and not archiving it properly here. Oh well.

Here's Wednesday's entry, which should have been named "Middle-Aged Retooling Tai Chi Tortoises":



And Thursday's, the title of which, "Be my J.O. buddy, nah just marry me" comes from something a recently married friend of mine said, when confused as to how he could take his relationship to the next level with his lovely bride.


Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Eno said repetition is also drone...

..but then, my beats are more like lead instruments anyways, sinners in the hands of a learning god, having to remember his place, or at least where the one is.


Monday, February 20, 2012

Drone-A-Day...pResumed. 2/20/2012


as a warning...there are beats. so this isn't really a drone.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Why Drone-A-Day is paused for a sec

So, I have gathered a couple of listeners I have never met by this project, and I'd like to say hi and thank you for your ears. And of course, just when I get you listening, I stop. This was for quotidian reasons- travel delayed by weather, being a full time single dad for a week, and one non-q reason, which is that all my music making time lately has been taken up by mixing and working on the steelydanfielding record. (for those not in the know- sdf is my working title for a record i made in Manhattan with some friends back in October)
Anyways, I got to a place with all the tracks I recorded with the SDF project that I'm comfortable with, and now I need to go deeper into production than I ever have, because I think this is the best music I've ever made.
I feel "guilty" I am slacking off on Drone-a-Day, but I really must learn how to use these mastering plugins. It's not even a matter of finding reward in what I do, it's just going to the well of give-a-fuck that's hard sometimes. The answer of course is finding another gear inside, learning to make music in the day as well as night.
Aaaaannnnddd...I think I'm going to open the parameters of Drone-a-Day up a little. The texturescapes may just have beats in them going forward. Ok, enough talking, gotta go actually DO this now. Thank you for your indulgence.

np: Aphrodite's Child- "Break"