Month: May 2004

here is a picture (from last night) of nigel tasko, melixxxa, peter beatty and damien norris. this is, more or less, noble house and the alien mental association. they were responsible for a whole slew of great underground massives on the west coast, having brought in such DJ’s as Sasha, John Digweed, Dave Seaman, Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Jerry Bonham, etc etc. Huge.
there may be more, finally, in the works.

It was a bit of a late night last night. I started by going to Steve’s (broken wrist) to watch the Flames burn the Sharks. Then I went down to Hush to meet up with Leah and talk to Brent but talking to Brent didn’t happen. I was due at QV’s by the time Brent arrived so I left for QV’s to meet james pezguy where we then plotted away for an hour and a half or so. It was great to catch up with him. he definitely took the initiative in us hanging out in a flatteringly honest and inventive kind of way:
http://www.cheezy.net/blog/archive/000199.php
I don’t like to go out on week nights any more as I like to start winding down by 10:30ish at the latest these days. Ocassionally I’ll go out later than that, and last night was one of those nights. It was Braeden’s birthday party down at Hush and so I hung out and enjoyed the company of some friends that I only see when I go out. Which .. is unfortunate.
tonight i will make music and by tomorrow i will have slept the good sleep.

so here you go, something different. everyone posts pictures of themselves when they’re happy and feeling great. here is one of me and matt when we’re feeling spent from .. i can’t remember what. this is a picture from december.
i recently joined an online community as a newbie. i have not been a newbie for anything in a long time. pretty cool! it’s a trinidad and tobago message board — a pretty active one too. within a day of making an introduction post i received 10 replies. not bad at all!
i have been making some sick beats lately. it’s all about the huge snares now. panning, slight reverb, compressed. lovely.

the radio show was a sketchfest last night, even though it was fun, mostly on-time etc. i think i played a total of 7 records, which when you consider the amount of time i put into putting together records and music, it’s pathetic. i played charles paul’s new “chompers mercy kill” remix of magnetic last night, which is a really awesome tech-trance bit (not really tech-trance but it’s the closest thing i can think of) and it mixed quite smoothly. think nathan fake-ish.
i did more work on dreamcache last night. i finally removed the ducking tamborine. wtf was i thinking in the first place? it works well (actually) on magnetic but i never intended to keep it in the track.. it was more of a space-filler that i used until i figured out what i really wanted. this is more like it.
so i burned it to CD last night but unfortunately i burned a data CD of the audio track. i didn’t end up playing it (obviously). next show..
this weekend means more work on the pacific front logo concepts and meeting up with justin and charles to jam on our idea.

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hey here ya go. this is something we can all participate in!
basically what you do is.. post a comment with a memory of me in it, and then post a similar post on your blog. leave a link to your blog in your comment, and i’ll reciprocate if you make a similar post on your blog! how about that? eeeasy! come on, you must remember one thing about me.
you can participate even if you dont have a blog. just leave some sort of memory of me in the comments section.
idea borrowed from the geekgirl.

but now i am back..
what did you expect?

fading now
holding out
the innocent way
lucks run out
left this hole inside of me
crying out
screaming down
cause it echos within
the cat is out
no more secrets left to keep
the feeling is gone
we’ve swallowed the sun
one by one
the moment has come
the feeling is gone
we’ve swallowed the sun
and waved good-bye to us again
staring down
tears run down
and land at your feet
broken clouds
a canvas torn for all to see

so i decided to buy the mixer i have been renting for the last 5 months. it feels good because i applied my rental payments to buying it. it’s a solid piece of machinery with interchangable parts. it’s relatively simple, has no effects, but it really sounds great and fundamentally is superior to most mixers. it’s been about 6 years with that Radio Shack special so this really is a quality piece. i need a second video card for my extra monitor that craig graciously donated (minus $20) to the AFK cause.

speaking of which..

my collaboration with charles is awesome, but we need to revisit the track since it’s been weeks since we worked on it. it’d be nice to finish it and get it out the door and then work on a new collaboration that we talked about today. it involves one other person — a 3 person production team. i think if we’re smart about planning it and divvy up the work properly it could be really be super awesome.

i ran the pacific front concept past jordan today and he loves it. that’s good because we love it too. he gave me some more ideas for logos, something which myself, braeden and justin have been batting around for the last few days.

pictures from resonance: year one are now online and appear to be pretty popular since i posted them yesterday. over 500 views of the gallery in under 24 hours. rad.

i am doing more work on prominence, a track that anand originally wrote the melody and droning synth for a year and a half ago. i’ve done a bassline, percussion, and other bits. it needs some more transitions and elements but it’s a solid framework for now. chrissie is contemplating doing vocals for it. we’re not sure if it’s the right track for vocals but we’ll see!

i am giving dreamcache some polishing touches and i am really happy with what i have done to it. there is serious stereo field action now. yes!

i haven’t heard anything back from anyone other than chris fortier on magnetic. i am seriously giving thought to taking it off the market and putting it up as part of Pacific Front’s release schedule. the coming weeks will be determine its path.

that’s all for now

i was waiting for a reason to post this picture of jessica. well, now she’s given me a reason.. jessi’s starting writing again, and i have to say she’s one the best writers i have ever read. take a look.
so visual.
i feel like i am reading a book when i read her writing. she has such a neat way of putting things.

a vector map, a map made of vectors, tiny mathematical points in a connect-the-dots-style game of mahsive fun. I CAN MAKE THIS 150 FEET TALL NOW AND IT WONT PIXELATE!@#$$%.
awesome awesome awesome awesome man!

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