HNY

Further "evidence" of my guru status. It's what I did tonight.

http://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/everything

Have a good one, let's make the next always better, xx, buy the novel, go on, hmm, new year's resolutions, disperse inertia, get fitter, find a way to get the novel noticed without committing major crime. BTW the photo I used for "the secret of everything" is the tree where I almost died as a kid. Dunno if I got more or less deep after a monster whack on the head. You'd have to follow another reality strand and see if it made a difference, whether that one, well, let's not give away the plot of the third novel too soon. Heh. :)

Did three new tracks, including this

http://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/underside

Fun evening of beer and smokes. Same again tomorrow possibly.

Excellent curry, Dan had a great magic trick in which he handed me the deck and didn't touch it and yet still my card came up. He's getting really good.

Did two more urban tracks today to add to the two I did yesterday. Music by numbers and I feel numb doing it. If this approach makes me money I'll come to hate it. Maybe I already do.

Blimey another Headshock afternoon of recording and hanging out. Could be we got more quality material, hard to imagine. Two effects units failed - that Eventide I got which has been iffy from the start. Hard to imagine no signs at all until it passed to me. The Roland delay also went, bloody hell! Spoilt my trautonium playing.

Had a strange email exchange with some guy from analogue heaven, probably an American, seemed very immature anyway but he was sounding like he wanted to kill me for giving away some free music but taking the name of christmas in vain. Or something. Hey ho. :)

And now, a lovely quiet night with Pat. Bliss!

Philosophy is great for letting you off, just like religion.

Yep, on the Tullamore Dew whilst tweaking latest Headshock recordings. Potentially "The Jar is The Star", another 40+ mins of very addictive material, very organic, really direct and with a few tweaks, sounding very releasable. Just done CD, gonna do Tim an MP3 of my changes.

Worked a little on new novel but laid off the chemicals for today. Had fun, looking forward to making more music - violin plus trautonium!

Changa

A freebie track from me which is essentially two Synthi improvs laid on top of each other and mixed with a tiny amount of arrangement.

http://paulnagle.bandcamp.com/track/changa

Recorded some more cool Headshock stuff today.

Another freebie, limited time on this one, a Headshock track

http://soundcloud.com/timchik/headshock-2012-christmas

ho ho ho

Octatrack love/hate day

Well it was love right until the moment I accidentally cleared the current part. What the hell is the use of that function anyway? Still not sure what button combination I did - all I was trying to do was name the part and Func + Clear usually clears the part name so you can enter a new one. I must have hit some other combination though because it wiped all my samples, machines, the base parameters for everything and with no sign of an undo. It asks for confirmation when you're about to change the trigs for a pattern in the loop slice menu, which is one confirmation too many, but doesn't ask for confirmation when it's going to wipe two hours of fucking work.

You can tell I'm pissed off, right?

More of a rant than a blog but this machine really does drive me crazy some days. It could be so much better and friendlier, even with its many, many key combinations. But almost everything it does it backwards - to my thinking anyway.

Shutting up now. Hopefully the save I did earlier will still have most of the machine settings and I can recover some of the later patterns and add them manually somehow. Can't be arsed thinking about it now though, still angry which ain't the time to fix anything.