Hail Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Today is tomorrow's yesterday. Just ask Shelley
Today is tomorrow's yesterday. Just ask Shelley
Whilst the world holds its collective breath as the Great and Powerful Oz ascends the throne, we whistle past the graveyard, knowing that this too shall pass.
Mix 8/13 came in. Coming on strong this one.
Cellar Dweller Monte ganked a copy of Heavy Weather cos he didn't want to wait. My persuasive arguments about waiting availed me nought. Mind you, he bribed me with a shiny flashing LED. I'm a sucker for that stuff.
Record it, mix it, finish it, release it, what are you waiting for.
We may not even have time to release this stuff as singles before the whole thing is done.
Of course, it's entirely up to us. Hmm...
For the first time in a while I miss Roger, our erstwhile Virtual Manager. He'd know what to do.
He was last seen operating a Plastic Extrusion concern in Bù tài kěnéng chénggōng Economic Impoverishment Zone whilst awaiting arraignment on charges of substituting Shar Pei milk in baby formula.
Good times.
It's already January 20th here. The future is somewhat less apocalypsey than predicted, but news takes forever to get down here anyway, right?
Stand by for further transmissions!
SC9 mixing process moving rapidly.
Maybe a little too rapidly. Is there such a thing?
Oh. Apparently not.
On the one hand, YAY, on the other, um...the artwork is nowhere near finished.
I've already started messing about but I thought I had more time.
KC Gold took a loooong time to get sorted out.
Perhaps this is just the universes way of evening out the average production time.
Sydney got so hot we prayed for a storm, just to take the humidity away. It's the first cool night in days. I like the alliteration. Grammar could use a tweak.
4am was a good time to be awake in the stifling heat.
Watching re-runs of Das Boot.
I had forgotten how much I liked the soundtrack.
That prompted me to listen it to it via youtube, which prompted me to listen to some excellent remixes, which led to a remix of one of my fave movie soundtrack items by Tangerine Dream.
That's prompted me to reach out to someone to remix one of our tracks.
Yeah you heard me. I have previously mentioned Harmonica + Heavy Metal (still working on that) and now I've got a ping on for some EBM. I've asked some total random dudes to have a go. We'll see if anyone in Poland is up for some technocellar, dubstorm, housecellar or wtf. Yeah. Crazy.
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AJ's initial mixes are arriving so close to a finished state that this is moving slightly faster than I had anticipated.
Oh.
We're in an interesting Age for Music/ians.
When to release tracks is up to us. Ditto on how, where and so on. There's no one else to make the decisions. #selfpropelledartist.
I was expecting a leisurely stroll towards finishing this album and months to agonise over this sort of thing
Our good mate Val once told me 'fer chrissake STOP releasing so many damn albums' :-)
The Stormcellar Marketing Department (yes we have one, yes it's me) agrees, sort of.
Mind you, the marketing department pretty much went to lunch some time ago, leaving me with a voice message saying 'let it all ride on number 22' and I haven't seen me since.
I occasionally send myself marketing suggestions and interesting tidbits I read online from my secluded Billionaire Bunker.
The theory used to be that you spaced out releases. Prince was reputedly obliged to hold back many releases to avoid over saturation. LOL. Prince. Oversaturated. The Very Purple One.
Respect.
By comparison, Miles Davis used to churn out what he wanted, when he wanted. I think.
That's two very different ways of going about it.
As I write this and think about it, I realise we're going to release what we can, as often as we can.
I'm glad we had this talk :-) Cheers for the help.