The name of the game is thwarting obstacles.

Hardddrive has been a problem, yesterday I went and got a 250 gig Western Digital EIDE drive to put inside a USB enclosure I bought the LAST time I was having HD troubles. Straight up isn't working ... I'm thinking that after work I can return it and drop maybe another bill and get like a nice new working external with firewire ... It would be even nicer to pick up something with additional USB and FW ports on it as well ...

In other news, sampling is on my mind. There is a nice new MPC 1000 sampler in the mail with my name on it and I want to fill it with nothing but goodness. Some of the things I want tons of samples of right off the part are:

'Garagey drums' (I would like to take the H4 and some trashy drums to a big garage or warehouse that has really metallic reverb in it and throw shit around and tape it) PS. I have 2 whole cassette tapes from the first time I was trying to capture these sounds up in Portland, but now knowing what I know ... we can do it better

'8 Bit Death' Anything and everything bitcrushed. Commodore 64 Chip samples, Nintendo Samples. Ian McC (ahmys boy) has a grip of old genesis games in which you can navigate to a 'SOUND TEST' menu right in the game and play all the sounds and music sepertatly ... so infinitely sampleable. There is also a VST plugin called PEACH thats an 8 bit style synth that sounds GREAT... however it will only run on a PC. I'm trying to hunt down some one with a PC that runs music stuff so I can ask them to sample some stuff off of PEACH for me. Gabe whos Andy's new assistant at Gadgetbox has a PC..

'NASTIEST GUITARS' distorted distortion. Reamped reamps. BIG fat multilayer detuned chugs. Hi-pitched searing, synthetic squeels. Glitch processing ... like if Cephalic Carnage was hanging out at the Glitch Mob's house tracking JUST guitars. This is most likely going to be stuff I need to book a few days worth of studio time for. Probably track stuff at gadgetbox ... chop is up in Ableton ... spit it back out into an amp or a pedal or just direct and see what happens.
-See: Nine Inch Nails' album Broken and Cephalic Carnage's album Lucid Interval ... I would love to be a part of the team and makes compositions HEAVIER, NASTIER, and BRUTALER than these AND.... something new .... something glitch ... something not glitch ... something thats pretty and delicate ... something with contrast. Whatever it is, it should be a meaningful reflection of its participants.

'MOST DIFFERENT DRUMS' yea ... I don't really care about the straight up hip-hop sound at all. I realize I must abide by its feel and structure somewhat in order to support friends like Mikey, Ry, Jesse, Killa Kate, y mas. BUUUT... thats not my shit. I'm not street, or ghetto, or thuggin. I'm rollin on a huffy bike. My life sounds and feels different from anyone elses and the way to express it is not with stock drum beats and samples. Its a collage of old and new with colored ink dripped onto the lens then photographed, photoshopped, flashed, arkaosed, glitched, reamped, remixed, resdistributed, relaunched, retouring, rerocking the notion into everyone that 'Yea. We our us, and yes it's important to get off our ass and do something meaningful about it."

But yea, the drums. I suppose more and more drum recording experiments are going to have to go down. I am fond of when a person plays drums in the big room and then another person bangs on that open headed blue bass drum. It makes such a clean tone, it can really add A LOT to the beat when its really on point. So yea .. expiriment,
Mikey one night recorded me tweaking on the pro-one and then we took the cassette deck out into the big room, played it back loudly through a bass amp and then just SHREDDED DRUMS over it. I recall it sounding very sick and it being very 'connected' to playing back to my original keyboard tweaking.


I have to get on point and get to Dharma's now.
We need to rip and import all the youtube bookmarks we got.

http://youtube.com/aboxintheyard I have Hyde Gallery show playlist.

also the new battery for the GL-1 made by Rayovac is shitty and dead ... new battery can be got from Batteries Plus in scotts valley.

peace