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Happy Temazepam Tuesday! I’ve just shuffled out of a 14 hour coma.

Stealing a page from the Sundance Channel, i’ve decided to include an interview series between myself and the remixers that have participated in the upcoming album. That means that you’ll be hearing the perspectives of Hecq, Set in Sand, Jfrank, and Dirty Fire Project on their remixes, their outlooks on music, and probably something about pandas.

None of these interviews have been coordinated yet, but i’m thinking of either recording them via skype [since 3/4 of them are on the other side of the planet] or just doing them in an instant messenger and posting them here.

What do you think? Would you rather read an interview or hear one?

Somewhere in the process of this blog, if and when it ramps up to the visibility levels i hope it does, i’d like to compile the questions that you, the audience have for myself (and my inner children) and post the answers here for you.

I planned on having a couple of bits of music for you to hear, but the wordpress blog plugins folder is not as robust as it should be yet. Later this week you’ll be able to start hearing some bits of tracks right in the blog.

For now, here’s an excerpt of track 7 of the upcoming album, entitled ‘beside you through the wires, forever’ and it serves as a tribute to all the people whom i’ve grown close to that i never would have met if it weren’t for this beautiful tangle of networks that wrap around the globe.  I had the idea of communication, binary bits bouncing along light beams and the pulses of loved ones coming in sync as i was writing this.  This track was also remixed by Dirty Fire Project, hopefully we can get them to talk about their version later this month.

Beside You Through The Wires, Forever [clip1] - mp3 link, right click->save as [in windows] or left click if you’ve got the right players installed.

jeez… that link text is dark isn’t it? Something i’ll be fixing asap.

Comments welcome~!

1 am on a Monday Morning.The Perfect time to launch a blog? Perhaps not… perhaps…

The point is it’s about time. This blog will document the time spent, primarily, on writing and finishing my upcoming album for Xynthetic Digital’s XDR line — meaning itunes, beatport, and other digital distributors will handle the actual album rollout — entitled ‘From Unity To Segmentation’.

In itself, the album covers quite a bit of ground, and I don’t quite know how to sum up the backstory outright. I guess i’d describe it as a study on how one’s motives deviate, how they split and bend and sometimes curl up back towards ourselves like twisted little mirrors from a larger frame of purpose. Whether or not you’d ever know that by hearing the album alone remains to be seen [heard] but the concept for the album started somewhere else completely before it split and curled up back towards me until i surrendered the very thought of conceptualizing, making crystalline that single phrase that now enshrines the title and every meta-meta-meta thing within it.

So what’s next? I want to share with you bits of the album, some things i’ve done in the process, some pictures of my studio… everything that will hype the whole thing and maybe give a little bit of myself that you might relate to in the process.

Enhancing my capacity to exchange ideas with you, to have some input during the writing process of the album is one of my personal goals for this blog. As it gets rolling i hope to see in the comments [plenty of links to pandas?] but even more links to differing mindsets, other perspectives that might compliment or help me further trace my motivations before the album is finally delivered to Xynthetic and released.

Starting this week this blog will start to fill with content related to the album, along with the first sketches and some other things. How about you, though… What do you think should come of this?

Does this request completely demystify the whole idea of an artist as a reclusive weirdo or amplify it?

Why is blue?

I’ll close out this first post with the first desktop wallpaper/desktop. It comes in two sizes, hover the mouse over each image to see which is which.