Death Bop

Weekly update....in bullet point form!

-My internship at Spaceland Recordings is DONE. I finished all of the metadata stuff two days ago and now just have to finish remastering these fugazi tracks and maybe do a widget for a band every once in a while. It's remarkable how good the timing was for me to be doing these things while taking Communications in the M.I.- in fact I'm going to be employing a lot that I've learned/ have been doing in my final paper for that class.

-...a continuation of the last paragraph...for Comm. we have to write a marketing plan for a death metal/ be-bop band. Here's my angle- since they're all virtuoso players there are two intersecting niche markets to specifically target- The Prog Rock community and the adult swim community. In talking to a lot of my prog friends they told me that if a death metal, be-bop band was in existence they would be seriously down. This same group is responsible for popularizing other bands like Primus, Dragonforce, Maximum the Hormone, etc. who are ridiculously talented musicians, but write tunes off the beaten path. The direction I'll be taking is to get them individually placed or sponsored in skill magazines for drummers, guitarists, etc. while attempting to get songs as title tracks for adult swim shows. There's a lot more, but that's the general idea.

-Mastering on Marc Payne's album starts today which should be sweet. I've been working a lot with my room over the past few days to make it a better listening environment. My ultimate solution was to create a equalizer preset on the master bus that makes the sound as accurate as possible in the sweet spot- I'll then remove it when I bounce the mixes. I'll keep everyone updated about how this is going, but for the time being you can listen to his tracks at www.myspace.com/marcpayne (check out "me, myself and I")

-Mariella and I have solidified our plans to record a cd this summer and have been working on some material which I'm really excited about. A lot of crazy time signatures, breakdowns and tasty riffs...plus a dance beat in the middle. WHICH reminds me.

-The Closure in Moscow albumette finally came out and it's incredible, seriously one of the most progressive, unique cd's I've ever heard. And in addition, the production is fantastic- recorded at Interlace over in Hillsboro like all of the Rise and Equal Vision stuff nowadays.


Eh, too tired to think of anything else. Back to bed maybe? Garver, I hope you enjoyed this post you crazy, crazy, facebook stalker. Lates!