I NOW REGRET NOT RECORDING EVERYONE’S SET FROM THE MIXER. I BLAME PTSD.
Click the image below for a ZIP file of the four songs I played at The Great Depression on the weekend. I recorded, mixed and mastered them today.
CHIPCHURCH SHOW AT THE GREAT DEPRESSION FT FUTURNARI, FAUXHOUND AND NEVER.
Last Saturday night at The Great Depression XXXX and XXXY hosted Futurnari’s last show in Christchurch before he skips to Melbourne. I started things off with the most down-beat performanceless charade of my life. My favourite part of my set was when I said “I had to balance how much I wanted to watch you [...]
FUTURNARI – DNA COMPUTING
Futurnari has released a Sega Megadrive (16-bit for the hip kids) EP entitled DNA Computing and it’s there <- for free. The piece (I like to pretend it’s one 9:55 song) builds in intensity and complexity, climaxing with this: If you don’t think it’s long enough try the repeat button on your media player. You’ll [...]
SO THIS IS AN EMAIL THING THAT I SENT A DUDE WHO WANTED A 600-ODD WORD RAMBLE ABOUT WRITING LYRICS
I wrote most of the TF stuff really fast like a song a day kind of thing. Ever hear about MGMT just singing sounds over their music and then writing the lyrics to the sounds? I sometimes do that kind of thing. I think it’s important to have some kind of melodic idea. I wrote [...]
BUY LOW SELL HIGH I’D LIKE TO MEET YOUR WIFE BUY LOW SELL HIGH
Cute graphics, evil story. You know the drill.
RAGE I CAN’T STAND THIS KIND OF BULLSHIT. I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW MY WARRANTY WORKS – I’M PRETTY SURE I SENT THE RECEIPTS AND SHIT TO APPLE FOR A MONEY-BACK THING… SNEAKY SNEAKY.
So the other day I was computing stuff as per usual and then: Service battery? People who know me and have seen the way I treat the charging/discharging of my computer might describe it as “obsessive” or “pedantic” or something else synonymous with anal-retentivity. If you click on the warning you get this: Well, my [...]