Now is not one of those times. Sometimes I get the idea that theres absolutely nothing else that I can write (beat wise) while still remaining original and entertaining. I think we're up to 15 beats for the new RPG CD. (either 15 or 14 depending on shit canning)

Tonight was one of those nights that I had to basically force myself in to the studio. That rarely goes well. Absolutely fed up with patches and funny 80's synth quirks I got in to Reason and started playing with Subtractor. Sort of a 'how much damage can I do with 1 OSC kinda deal) and end up writing this really busy bassline (which later becomes a lead...thank fucking god for digital and octave buttons. I'd die in an all analog studio (sorry, sorry))

After hearing 'Read a Book' (fucking awesome) on YouTube about 30 times I went with something a little bit more traditionally hip hop like. Hopefully this track appears on the next CD and I can write about it later. It's still imprisoned in Reason and destined for bigger and better.


In other news! I'm once again working with Tara from ColorFreak Photo, this time on a neato way-too-artsy project I've got sorta code named 'GreenGirl'. Hopefully something really awesome comes from this (so far, so good. could rock faces, fo sho) and I can post a link to some finished work soon.

(how much shit can I cram in to one post?)

RHYME TORRENTS 6! ....well, 6.1. The remastered version. Seems everyone on RT6 is totally behind the idea of getting the disc professionally mastered and, when time allows, I don't mind doing a little work for Nerdcore pro bono style. Some MP3's are up tho I've yet to get someone to commit to doing all the ID3 work (i really hate that shit). Perhaps I'll get the rest of the tracks rendered out and someone will begrudgingly name all the little bastards. Until then, you can check out this terrible link to the MP3's (the tracks are just numbered, please check out Rhyme Torrents 6 for a track listing.

MADNESS! about sums it up.

I'm not even sure where to begin, so, I'll begin at the beginning.
We set our booth up Friday - not your typical con booth, either. Black lights, a 19" flat screen with a Dreamcast hooked up playing Capcom vs SNK all weekend, all sorts of neato geeky RPG T-Shirts, GOTO 10 on sale, and Web Freshness VOL. 1 BETA 5 on sale for $1! Hard to beat!

Within minutes we were spotted! RPG Superfan (I believe, a name IP handed out sometime Saturday), tracked us down and was actually aware that RPR has been down for a few days and was even a fan of Yellow Alert! Pretty amazing. The show Friday Night kicked ass. Saturday was just a long string of awesome I got a chance to talk again with Jay Edwards and got him and Dana (shake) to come to the show for a bit Saturday evening. I caught a few minutes of Jay's new film, Stomp, Shout, Scream! (which, from what I can tell, kicks fucking ass) and traded our CD for the DVD copy, will be checking it out this week! (also, pretty damn surreal to be trading business cards with THE Jay Wade Edwards). IP got to act out a scene with Dana Snyder (IP doing his spot on Meatwad impression) and we got it recorded on Trish Monster's cell phone. I'm sure we'll get some audio of that up asap.

The wrath of the SuperCon Security! At some point, IP and Spork were being rushed out of the...er...room...where the booth was, whatever it may be called, when a security dude told the one doing the rushing 'Don't fuck with them! Thats RPG!'...hah! awesome. Strangely enough, we met Chris Gabel, writer of the now infamous Critical Beat review entitled "Rocket Propelled Genius". That dude is cool as hell and seemed to enjoy our show.

I finally got a chance to talk to the members of Select Start! Hopefully, something amazingly awesome will come of that in the near future! Stay tuned for that. Zombies Organized once again rocked faces off all in attendance as did Peelander-Z! (a crazy Japanese man threw up the horns and told us we rocked. ....thats awesome.)

Anyway, it's 5am, I'm down to two smokes, and this internet connection is shaky at best. Stay tuned for more awesomeness in Gainesville in August!

Finally. I think I've figured out whats buggin me about this track. Bad EQ on one friggen drum loop. Sorta made it sound all muffled and whatnot.... theres a lot struggling to get heard in this song below 500hz or so. nightmare. furthermore, everything I've written for this track in the last 3o days (jesus christ, has it only been 30 days? feels like I've been working on dork party on and off for a year, at least) seems to be basslines, bassline, more basslines, and the occasional harmony type part. what i really need, is to come away from that friggen 60's psychedelic distorted bassline and write something brand new - same key, same groove, different bassline. i think its somewhat working. tho, you would assume I'm stoned if you could hear what im writing in there. weird synth patches (thanks to the nord lead, again. i gotta move that synth, really. i use it entirely too much) through massive delays. (dotted 8th, 2 measure decay)

heres the deal with this song. its going to be 9 minutes song (not a lot i can do about that, there's literally that many vocals) - my position on beats is that each bus or for more important tracks, each track should be interesting on it's own. i.e. i can solo any bus, or any track, listen to the song and be entertained. that bassline im using right now is basically a 4 bar loop with one variation in 8. that gets old after about 35 seconds. not good. ive got all the source for it, but working with that line, and back in reason for that batter, is a real pain in the balls. this song is a production nightmare for two reasons. 1, its got CT syndrome. 2, it's got scary syndrome. i wouldn't have imagined in my worst nightmare that one song could combine both of those.

EMasterPiece Theater Lesson Of The Day:

CT Syndrome. Noun. CT=Crimson Twins. A 7 or so minute track on the GOTO 10 album. The bassline for the song is literally one note. Creating something interesting to listen to from one note is already insane enough, much less for 7 minutes.

Scary Syndrome. Noun. A ten minute track on the GOTO 10 album. Production spiraled out of control on this monster. I was in sub mix hell. There are nearly 200 tracks on Scary with enough FX and plugins to bring even our MOTU interface to it's knees. At one point, I couldn't even get soloed tracks to play. This led to busses like 'lightning', 'strings', 'chor vocals 2' and such to be in their own acd file, rendered, and bounced in to the main acd. tweaking anything meant re-rendering giant files without the ability to hear how shit was going to sound in the final mix.



Anyways, back to dork party. I'm dying to get this thing done, I know a lot of people would like to hear it and I feel like I'm stalling.

rendering is boring. I can't begin to explain how often I'm sitting here looking at a status bar. Sometimes making music is really not very glamorous at all. On the bright side, got the track for Betty Rebel out the door and just received mCRT's vocals for CrappyCompy.

Rocket Propelled Geeks - GOTO 11 preproduction scheduled to begin this Thursday.

Another insane weekend....I get the idea normal weekends won't be something I'll be participating in for a long time. Saw EPP, KK, CRT, and a new rapper along with the Killer Robots at Dukes in Orlando...Awesome show!

Dork Party is neary arranged. What a fuckin monster that track is. Also, just now starting preproduction on GOTO 11. (working title) Finally got some vocals in for CrappyCompy collab - compared to Dork Party, this thing is nice and easy to work on! Nothing more then vocal EQing at the moment.


Been getting really good responses to The Undead Ballad. Kelly Morgan's mesmerizing vocals could turn any track in to gold. All I've got to do is press the red button.

And we're off! New bloggey crap on the website...

Anyway, hopefully, I'll be able to keep this crap up to date. Right now, I'm bouncing between pre planning GOTO 11 (working title), the WriteaChorusForus track, and the most epic nerdcore collab track ever, Dork Party. Looks like Dork Party is gonna get done before the rest of this other stuff is. EQing 13 or so rappers isn't easy, and dare I say, was the hard part. It's all up to arrangement and a bit of chor work at the moment.

As of right now, Dork Party is comming together somewhat like this: intro, KonArtis, TCP, Chozo, CHORUS, blank blank blank....seems they flow well together. We debuted that piece on Yellow Alert last week and I haven't heard any complaints yet...so....I suppose, keep movin forward. Fingers crossed! I feel right now my only job is to not destroy the track.

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