I have a new single up for Bandcamp Friday.
https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-a-snake-thank-you-very-much
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:08 (three weeks ago) link
love to hear a la lechera update, especially when it involves gongs
― ivy., Saturday, 6 April 2024 00:58 (three weeks ago) link
meanwhile, our bassist finished the album art today and it's so good. (front and back cover are here.) we're doing a very very small run of vinyl, realizing a dream of mine even though it's so expensive and we'll prob never do it again
― ivy., Saturday, 6 April 2024 01:10 (three weeks ago) link
that's hot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:18 (three weeks ago) link
By chance I came across instructions on Reddit earlier this week about how to recover data from broken HDD’s via HDDSuperClone. I had a go last night on my main production HDD that broke catastrophically (or so I thought) right in the middle of a few key projects in 2008, which I refused to bin just in case.12 hours later and I’ve managed to rescue almost all of it. It’s like a time capsule, all my dubstep masters I thought were lost together, hundreds of ‘320 dubs’ I never burnt, flyers for all my gigs, clips of my tracks on Rinse / the Breezeblock etc. Tbh it feels like a dream, I genuinely thought all this stuff was gone forever and now I have all the stems and Ableton projects etc to actually remaster and commission some modern remixes etc. Happy af right now :)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 6 April 2024 08:31 (three weeks ago) link
Amazing!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:29 (three weeks ago) link
that rules so much willl!!!!
― ivy., Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:40 (three weeks ago) link
That is wonderful!!
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:59 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, that's great!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:12 (three weeks ago) link
excellent news!
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 April 2024 10:01 (three weeks ago) link
Lol Ivy 5318008
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:39 (three weeks ago) link
my new band finally has a name and thus an Instagram page (I guess this is pretty much required now)
anyway, Field Hospitals with a brief snippet of a song
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5hHBAXvlda/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 22:47 (three weeks ago) link
that sounds freakin great!!!
― ivy., Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:07 (two weeks ago) link
Sweet! I've been shedding to record a tricky jazz version of the Zelda dungeon theme this weekend, with a band that does not have a good name.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:25 (two weeks ago) link
thanks ivy and Jordan!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:29 (two weeks ago) link
coming up with band names is the worst, we settled this by online poll with the 4 members, ranked choice balloting lolI feel like it's maybe a decent name but at least not actively bad where it could hold you back
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:31 (two weeks ago) link
Omg — please don’t make me talk about the band name spreadsheet. We have a spreadsheet and we still can’t agree on something. I’d share my side of the story but it’s too long — the lack of decisiveness is making me lose faith :(
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:37 (two weeks ago) link
Nice UMS! That sounds great can’t wait to hear the whole thing
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:57 (two weeks ago) link
Its so hard to find a name that isn't taken these days unless it's something like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (which IIRC is taken).
I think if you can get just the name as an IG handle you're on the right track.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:53 (two weeks ago) link
it really is the hardest thing, I do recommend setting up the poll thing where everyone picks their three favorites in order, it forces a decision
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:04 (two weeks ago) link
actually ivy, Faith/Void is such a great name I'm jealous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:06 (two weeks ago) link
the path to a great band name is to steal it from a friend who is never going to form a band (his original idea was “faith void split” and i’m glad we ditched the “split”)
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:49 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah it’s a great band name
All I’m doing these days is “new set, new songs”. Was distracted for three weeks in rebuilding my rig to make it multi-channel. It was a productive dead end. Solved the problem and realized I didn’t like the results as much. Tore it up and went back to stereo
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:40 (two weeks ago) link
Interesting! I'm in the final stages of obsessive mixing for this drums-only record I'm working on (a collaboration with my main early drum teacher, which is a really nice thing). Getting to like "v14" for some tracks. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though, just tweaking a few more tracks. I had a big breakthrough the other day when I remembered the existence of parallel compression/processing (exported five tracks of drum kit that I had processed to death down to one, brought it back in, took most of the processing off the original tracks, and blended the two).
Meanwhile I did this session, it was basically a sight-reading/first rehearsal/recording session deal. It had been a long time since I've been in an "everyone recording live" situation. I wish I had been able to play a little more freely, but after a couple takes you don't want to be the one who fucks it up when it's going ok. I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFC3kAXjKg
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:42 (two weeks ago) link
I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one
real!!!! you sound fantastic tho
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:59 (two weeks ago) link
meanwhile i'm going through a very intense unwound phase so i've decided to learn a bunch of unwound songs on drums. discovering that my drumming goal specifically in my band is "play more like sara lund"
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:01 (two weeks ago) link
great goal ivy. i did not realize that i followed one of your bandmates on letterboxd (and previously on twitter/bluesky when i was on there)
sounds hot jordan
― na (NA), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:04 (two weeks ago) link
Hornado!!
Great drumming jordan
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:37 (two weeks ago) link
Thanks guys <3
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:04 (two weeks ago) link
The other tune on that session was an intricate arrangement of the Zelda dungeon theme, curious/apprehensive to hear how that came out
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:39 (two weeks ago) link
i really want to hear that!!!!
― ivy., Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link
album has been distributed to stores/streaming services. first single out 5/1. so nervous i feel like my body's gonna turn inside out and also so happy omg
― ivy., Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:01 (one week ago) link
Congrats!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:18 (one week ago) link
Congratulations!
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:08 (one week ago) link
Zelda, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM-YRSZFlw
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:48 (one week ago) link
I keep thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_/_Void_Split
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:37 (one week ago) link
i have a solo show coming up, that's good. Looking forward to it etc.
at the same time, the band i was invited to join may 2021 and has taken up three years of my time/effort/money/creativity and has never formally recorded or played a show just dumped me via text. the pretense was that our schedules were incompatible and they couldn't make the progress they wanted to make (????) with my schedule. i just -- i am pissed they wasted my time, money, effort, and creativity. if i weasn't good enough you could have told me years ago, and if i was -- is this seriously how it ends?
WHATEVER i have other fish to fry
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:44 (yesterday) link
nooooo i'm so sorry ll. what dicks!
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:58 (yesterday) link
i only wish i had left of my own accord -- the truth is that my life has been pure chaos since i met them (employment tumult, abundant family issues including death of a parent, a pandemic, etc -- little of which I told them details about and rarely did it interfere with our rehearsals) and it was going nowhere. but i figured it would be better for me to continue playing regularly and i enjoyed it most of the time.
i just cannot believe i was blindsided like this. it's shocking. UGGGHHHHHH
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 00:06 (five hours ago) link
Also thank you for responding and your accurate assessment of their behavior.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:12 (four hours ago) link
it’s a day of bad news bc i stubbed my toe on my drumkit right after practice and i think i broke it???
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:26 (three hours ago) link
Booooo Foot probs are the worst
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:39 (three hours ago) link
but before i forget or pass out tonight, here's the new faith/void single, which will hopefully be on streaming services tomorrow, idk i find music distribution very confusing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLZvBRNfyE
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 03:29 (one hour ago) link
Video is private, but excited to listen. I heard “End Of The World” (R.E.M. original) in a public place and thought “I would prefer the Faith/Void version thanks”
― Drowning in TG, he sent me Discipline (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 04:09 (one hour ago) link