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So we've been a bit busy in the studio. Two projects: Recording a singer songwriter Mike S 'Unsung Heroes', and doing a remix of a Dntel track. Dntel is a member of Figurine, The Postal Service, and is one of the founders of microhouse. While i'm not fond of the name, i do dig some glitch, and find some of the early microhouse stuff to be great to work to. Isolee in particular has some fantastic stuff and is a favorite of mine. It reached #3 for all of Metacritic in 2005 - pretty surprising for glitch techno.

Recording Mike was a lot of fun. We did all the tracks live, and it only took a few takes. Our live/recording room is pretty wet and bouncy with the 10 meter ceilings, so i decided to mix in some stereo ribbon mics in a secret configuration for a bit of a live/ambiance sound. The vocals are through a tube condenser mic, which i've heavily modified (surprised it works still!). He's got 4 more tracks which we're in the middle of working on. They're freakin awesome. Mike has such a great voice.

Here's the first track Beautiful

The Dntel track is a bit of a downer. The original is about a washed-up rockstar, unhappy with friends and life in general. We only took the vocals from the original and added everything else. Listening to it again, i'd change 1000 things... What's that saying? 'Art isn't finished, it's abandoned' ...? This is like that i guess. Brie did a great job on all the keyboards, my guitars however are a bit nasty...

Dntel 'Dumb Luck' AdamandBrie_mix

Next up: Finish Mike's tracks. Get him a tidy demo together. Then continue some AdamandBrie remixes, as well as some stuff from another project called 'Viscount' which is.. well.. i'm not sure exactly how that is going to turn out yet... and isn't that all the fun?