Disco Peril is sitting at #8 on the Kiwi FM top ten. Sweet! Now if only we had a practise room so we can capitalise on this at Camp A Low Hum...
EDIT: I'm watching the first episode back of The Daily Show, without the writers supposedly - and it's as funny as ever!
The past couple of days I've been working on backing tracks for a potential live-luna-spark thing - I'm thinking with prerecorded drum machine and synths, with live lead keys/synth/acoustic guitar. I've always thought it'd be naff going on stage with almost everything pre-recorded - in the few times I've played luna spark live with Rob, I tried to keep the pre-recorded stuff to a minimum, usually just having the drums and playing bass and guitar live. If I'm going to do it by myself, that's not possible, so yeah. But I've seen a few people recently who had loads of pre-recorded or pre-programmed stuff, and if the music's there, it's not all that bad - Disasteradio in particular only plays the lead lines live, most of everything else is just prerecorded - not even sequenced, haha. At least that's what I've been led to believe.
So if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for anyone without a whole band at their whim to play these songs (which don't really suit KittyHawk, at least at this stage). Trying to keep it simple.is difficult though! I'm so used to recording that I'm always inclined to make the tracks as fleshed out and varied as possible... My initial idea was simple drum machine, basic bassline, then with added live keys - instead after three tracks, I've got complex structures, armadas (armadae?) of programmed drums, basslines I could never hope to play live manually, and overall they sound almost ready for vocals and mastering! Ah well...
Who knows if I'll ever get to bring it live anyway - if not, I suppose I'm in the midst of recording a new album, made up of songs I've already done and new, synth-poppy stuff. In addition to Still Panic.
I've made a bunch of 'Special Edition; Scud Of Freedom CDs, which include mp3s of the past albums and some 'exclusive' demos, email/comment if you want one. Probably will give them out at Camp.
This blog entry wasn't meant to be this boring, honest!
TOP 5 ALBUMS OF THE WEEK! First of the year.
1. Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. R.E.M - Around the Sun
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II
5. Dave Gahan - Hourglass
EDIT: I'm watching the first episode back of The Daily Show, without the writers supposedly - and it's as funny as ever!
The past couple of days I've been working on backing tracks for a potential live-luna-spark thing - I'm thinking with prerecorded drum machine and synths, with live lead keys/synth/acoustic guitar. I've always thought it'd be naff going on stage with almost everything pre-recorded - in the few times I've played luna spark live with Rob, I tried to keep the pre-recorded stuff to a minimum, usually just having the drums and playing bass and guitar live. If I'm going to do it by myself, that's not possible, so yeah. But I've seen a few people recently who had loads of pre-recorded or pre-programmed stuff, and if the music's there, it's not all that bad - Disasteradio in particular only plays the lead lines live, most of everything else is just prerecorded - not even sequenced, haha. At least that's what I've been led to believe.
So if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for anyone without a whole band at their whim to play these songs (which don't really suit KittyHawk, at least at this stage). Trying to keep it simple.is difficult though! I'm so used to recording that I'm always inclined to make the tracks as fleshed out and varied as possible... My initial idea was simple drum machine, basic bassline, then with added live keys - instead after three tracks, I've got complex structures, armadas (armadae?) of programmed drums, basslines I could never hope to play live manually, and overall they sound almost ready for vocals and mastering! Ah well...
Who knows if I'll ever get to bring it live anyway - if not, I suppose I'm in the midst of recording a new album, made up of songs I've already done and new, synth-poppy stuff. In addition to Still Panic.
I've made a bunch of 'Special Edition; Scud Of Freedom CDs, which include mp3s of the past albums and some 'exclusive' demos, email/comment if you want one. Probably will give them out at Camp.
This blog entry wasn't meant to be this boring, honest!
TOP 5 ALBUMS OF THE WEEK! First of the year.
1. Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. R.E.M - Around the Sun
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II
5. Dave Gahan - Hourglass
Current Music: C4
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