forgotten robots

last night in the depths of whatever it is you want to call it, i told richard about how me and devon were listening to a bunch of switchgear tunes last week. she has a bunch burned on to CD and she put them on without telling me who it was.. and i was like “damn.. this is good .. what is this.. i know this..”
and then and there on msn i realized that me and richard have written two songs together and.. so i pulled them out. one of them was almost complete — it was just in need of an ending and some polishing and bits and bats. so i got on it — the first time i had really done any work on any music since i have been here in north vancouver. i plowed through it, making adjustments and tweaking — and adding a whole new arpegiation complete with unique instrumentation. i loaded on a stack of new effects to various parts and voila. there it was!
i sent it to richard and he put it through some massive compression unit he’s got over at his studio, and then he sent it back to me. huuuuge. i sent it to justin, he likes it so much he wants to do a remix of it (!) and made a couple helpful suggestions which i used on the second stab at it. i axed a bunch of reverb and i also put in two new percussion units which just slaaaaaay and the song is tite now. we don’t have a name for the tune yet but i think “forgotten robots” is kind of a neat one, since we almost forgot about it. i sent it to richard and he engineered the compression on it once more, giving it a similar feel to my Nine Inch Nails remix in terms of ducking and such.
that felt really good to finish off a tune in the new place. part of the reason i felt awful yesterday was because i was thinking about how my new place was so perfect for making music, but i had not even attempted to make anything. rad.
update, 5:00 PM: maybe forgotten robots should be our alias? we don’t have one..
update, 5:01 PM: i should mention that richard = switchgear. that makes this a bit more significant!