Choking On Dry Bread - 070515

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Great fun today! Got most of the dubbing-up done in CE5. Tracked a metronome part using the Behringer Xenyx 1202, which I may (or may not) use in various places through the track.

I just need to work on the vocal parts and a few other bits and pieces tomorrow.

While the levels will be similar to ...FLY, it looks like the mastering set-up may have to be somewhat different, so while I might have a go at mastering tomorrow, it will only be a provisional jobby.

Possibly inspired by this track? I'll admit to nothing...

Regards,

djp

Another re-release...

I mentioned recently that my Reverbnation store is closing down and that I need to migrate some of my archival releases from Reverbnation to Bandcamp. Well, here's another one...



TANTRUM EGO was my first album, which I released in 1999. It was rough and ready and recorded under difficult circumstances on crappy equipment, but I think it still sounds great, and there are some fine songs (if only lyric-wise) on the album. I seem to recall that the album was mixed/mastered the night before I was due to take the family off on a camping holiday in France. I was up til 2.30 in the morning doing the business. As it happens, my PC kept breaking down during the rendering process, so I never got to hear any of the tracks in its entirety while mixing. I'm surprised it sounds anything like palatable in that case.

A certain Mr. Dave Gregory from XTC said some nice words about the opening track, Every Bump In The Road. I was well-chuffed. Possibly one of two highlights of my "career" so far - the other being one of the tracks from HELLHOLE getting mentioned in dispatches by Tom Robinson last year...

In 2000, I did a sort of "companion" release, called MUTANT OGRE (it's an anagram, innit...?) which featured a couple of remixes (one done by the mysterious DJ Arse) plus me singing one of the TANTRUM... tracks in Italian. Geddowdahee, as you might say. Also included on the album were some recordings taken off an answering machine, where I'd asked a number of people to ring my phone and leave some messages which I'd scripted for them. No Oscar-winning performances (sorry, guys...) but all done in a spirit of fun.

In releasing TANTRUM... on Bandcamp, I decided to "enhance" it by bundling-in the MUTANT... tracks. So now you know what way my mind was working back in the day...:-).

I can tell you're not surprised...

Regards,


djp

Stiltwalker In The Wind/Gomorrah - 050114

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Busy morning today.


STILTWALKER

Prepared a rough stereo mix of the work to date in CE5 and copied it on to my Tascam 2488. All ready for tracking bass tomorrow...


GOMORRAH

A new track, and not one that I'd planned to do at all, but the other day the following quatrain(?) came to me by way of inspiration...

 

GOMORRAH (draft lyrics - excerpt)

 

 

Baby's going back to Gomorrah

She's leaving on the morning train

I'll take her to the station tomorrah

I wonder will I see her again?

 

 

(c) 2014 Daniel Prendiville

 

 

As I said, I wasn't planning on doing this track at all, and I certainly hadn't intended writing lyrics at this stage of the process, but when inspiration comes, it comes and should be welcomed.

 

As it happens, I'm jotting down whatever useful phrases I come across these days for potential use as lyrics. Even the odd phrase that might appear from time to time, totally by accident, in these blogposts. This is not how I usually approach lyric writing - normally I just start with a blank page and an equally blank mind, but I would then come up with the lyrics to a song in one go. Then again, D(O)UB(T) isn't about songs as such...

 

I recorded a metronome track (75 bpm) in CE5 using the Behringer Xenyx 1202 and transferred it onto the Tascam 2488.

 

I plan to recycle a bass line that I'd used on my track The Survivalists' Guide To Hardwood Flooring...

 

 ...which featured on my 2008 album, RAW MESH.

(Sorry I couldn't imbed the track properly in this post. Bloody Reverbnation...)

I hadn't liked what I'd done with the bass line at the time, and so I plan to make amends this time out. I hope to track the new bass line on Wednesday.

That's enough to be going on with for the moment.

Regards,

djp