Here’s a little snippet I made this morning with my Machinedrum. No effects, no editing, no processing. I updated to firmware 1.50f and it works much better now. I took it to Taylor’s studio to test it out. Sounds pretty good imho actually. Take a listen:
Trent has done it again. He just released Ghosts a few months ago, and the ink is barely dry on the limited edition box sets. He’s just released two singles in the past month or so (Echoplex, Discipline) and today just released another entire album online. For free of course, and without a record label. The album is called the slip.
Go download it and check it out. I haven’t listened to it yet asides from the singles. Downloading now myself.
I am shocked at how fast he’s able to move and release things now (being free of heroin/drugs and record companies helps!)
My personal guess is that this upcoming tour will be the biggest and best that NIN has ever had. I’d say that they are mainstream music already, but what he is doing is really helping break down barrier even more and bring more people into his music. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
Update: In downloading it I’m noticing that Trent is doing a few amazingly smart things. First he’s requiring your email address. He’s also allowing for lossless and higher than CD quality WAV downloads (24bit/96khz). And he has a simple sharing thing to email it to friends. Simple, but surely effective and smart.
He is also using bittorrent as a distribution method for all but the smallest downloads. This is a clear illustration that bittorrent is not always used for piracy, and that ISPs/Campuses should not block/filter/throttle such legitimate services.
I was going through one of my hard drives today and found some music that I had recorded, mostly in 2006. I’m excited about going into the studio on Sunday and wanted to share some of the tracks with you. Few of them are “complete” and most are just short snippets and ideas that I had. I’ll try to make commentary below where I can.
I made this when I was messing around with Scuplture in Apple Logic
I have no idea, but it’s fast and cool. I need to reuse this soon.
This is from right after I got my drumkit (for sale now!) and started messing around micing it. It’s sloppy and was only one take. I got better thankfully.
I can’t remember exactly, but I love this. Need to work on it more later
A few layers of acoustic guitar. Fun imho.
Likely using a JP-8000 on this? No idea.
Honestly don’t remember this, but it was in my personal mix folder so I’m hoping it’s mine
This is a remix I did in 2005 for some guy. All I got was the vocal tracks and a few random other tracks. No drums, etc… didn’t hear the original for several months. Think I got the gig when selling some equipment (god knows what I sold) and he liked my rig. Could have been better, but it’s fun and reasonably mixed
Something I did super quick. It doesn’t have enough harmonic movement imho, but it works. Not a favorite of mine
Ever get a keyboard and think it sounds cheesy? Ever wonder what happens if you fully embrace that and go with it? That’s what happened here.
No idea again, but it’s freaking cool.
I wrote and played this all on drums and minimoog. Nothing else. It was for some Emerson film students. The film was some acid trip about someone waking up only to find their house was a ship and sirens were coming in for some weird fantasy scene. I didn’t get it, but the music came out ok. The music is sync’d with the film, and thus goes with it more than a click.
I wrote this in several iterations. It’s the reason the paint is thin on my desk from bashing things on it for a snare sound. Could have been better, but i liked the general idea. I need to learn to write lyrics.
I was applying over a year ago for this job and they needed to have something showing that I could record a song with vocals. I had only my voice to deal with so I did a cover of “True Faith”. I’m not a good singer and had to put it together in one night. Beware 
Something of me playing bass and drums. No idea.
Enjoy!
Some days I almost forget the 5 years I spent in music school and it seems a distant memory. I still of course play regularly but I forget about the wealth of knowledge that I picked up and somewhat assume that everyone is walking around with a massive musical education in their heads and that it is not simply ingrained into everyone. It’s just something I do and no longer have to think about consciously.
I have too many musical ideas in my head however and really need to get them out at some point. Go play in a band again, write a symphony, or just make noise for thousands to hear. So what’s been actually happening with me musically lately? Sadly not incredibly much when it comes to recorded music. I think that Logic Pro has been killing my creativity. I don’t think I’ve actually recorded anything decent on it yet and I’m considering switching back to Protools. Logic is technically so much better, but Protools just had a tape-deck like workflow that just instantly worked nonstop. I recorded so much stuff in PT and almost nothing in Logic, regardless of it’s power. Plus, over the past while Protools has gotten significantly better. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens on this front. The only thing I hate is Digidesign’s audio interfaces. They sound horrid and I hate them.
I’ve been messing with alternate tunings lately. I have one of my guitars tuned in Open D, which is rather fun. I recently put on monsterous .11-.70mm strings on my 335-copy and tuned it down to B, but slowly brought it up to C. It’s beastly and I need to re-intonate it as anything above the 4th fret gets really screwed up sounding (esp 3rds).
I am still plotting a way to get a polyphonic sustainer system going. Rich thinks it’s not possible. People have tried and failed. I don’t care and I want one on my mustang. The mustang is feeling that it needs some upgrades and love. I think a Bigsby system is in order rather soon.
I am going to work a bit on my x0xb0x tonight and finish up a few lose ends. Might add in CV/gate inputs to it. Some day I’ll put new LEDs on it for some prettier colors, but for now the red works. I’m kinda burnt out on working with the C64 and Prophet 64. It’s a great idea, but I honestly got so many more killer sounds out of the Sidstation. Time to build a Midibox Sid as there’s no way in hell I’m paying a grand for a Sidstation.
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