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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.

Yoiks and away.

AJ has started the proper mixing on SC9. 

Track by track, the ninth album will come together over the next few months.

This will be the first time we have mixed remotely...no hang on...I forgot...Robert Rebeck mixed Push Me Away in Kansas whilst we were here in Sydney.

Ok that's the 2nd time then. Much to look forward to as we whittle away at it.

The fun of the work continues, with much to be thought about and figured out.

Mr Wizard wants to release singles. One of the tracks from the project is already out, 'Better off without you', so I guess, we've started on that.

As part of the mid west triptych, I've been wondering about how to structure the final installment.

Each album has its own flavour, and SC9 will be released as a stand alone, but it's got me thinking about its relationship to the other parts.

Releasing all three albums as one release is definitely on the cards. It tells a geographic and musical story of the places we've been, the things we've seen, the music we've heard and the people we've played with.

It's artsy as fark. 

Ok, so yeah.

However....how does it fit together? Do we adjust the order of all the tracks to Geographic/Date/thematic, leave it as the same collection of three albums or add to it or...

I am not spending sleepless nights worrying about it. I am really enjoying the idea of figuring out what we mean by this work. 

Maybe we just like to work. And that's ok too.