meanwhile, our bassist finished the album art today and it's so good. (front and back cover are here.) we're doing a very very small run of vinyl, realizing a dream of mine even though it's so expensive and we'll prob never do it again
― ivy., Saturday, 6 April 2024 01:10 (five months ago) link
that's hot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 April 2024 02:18 (five months ago) link
By chance I came across instructions on Reddit earlier this week about how to recover data from broken HDD’s via HDDSuperClone. I had a go last night on my main production HDD that broke catastrophically (or so I thought) right in the middle of a few key projects in 2008, which I refused to bin just in case.12 hours later and I’ve managed to rescue almost all of it. It’s like a time capsule, all my dubstep masters I thought were lost together, hundreds of ‘320 dubs’ I never burnt, flyers for all my gigs, clips of my tracks on Rinse / the Breezeblock etc. Tbh it feels like a dream, I genuinely thought all this stuff was gone forever and now I have all the stems and Ableton projects etc to actually remaster and commission some modern remixes etc. Happy af right now :)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 6 April 2024 08:31 (five months ago) link
Amazing!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:29 (five months ago) link
that rules so much willl!!!!
― ivy., Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:40 (five months ago) link
That is wonderful!!
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:59 (five months ago) link
Yeah, that's great!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:12 (five months ago) link
excellent news!
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 April 2024 10:01 (five months ago) link
Lol Ivy 5318008
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:39 (five months ago) link
my new band finally has a name and thus an Instagram page (I guess this is pretty much required now)
anyway, Field Hospitals with a brief snippet of a song
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5hHBAXvlda/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 22:47 (five months ago) link
that sounds freakin great!!!
― ivy., Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:07 (five months ago) link
Sweet! I've been shedding to record a tricky jazz version of the Zelda dungeon theme this weekend, with a band that does not have a good name.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:25 (five months ago) link
thanks ivy and Jordan!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:29 (five months ago) link
coming up with band names is the worst, we settled this by online poll with the 4 members, ranked choice balloting lolI feel like it's maybe a decent name but at least not actively bad where it could hold you back
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:31 (five months ago) link
Omg — please don’t make me talk about the band name spreadsheet. We have a spreadsheet and we still can’t agree on something. I’d share my side of the story but it’s too long — the lack of decisiveness is making me lose faith :(
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 April 2024 00:37 (five months ago) link
Nice UMS! That sounds great can’t wait to hear the whole thing
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:57 (five months ago) link
Its so hard to find a name that isn't taken these days unless it's something like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (which IIRC is taken).
I think if you can get just the name as an IG handle you're on the right track.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 00:53 (five months ago) link
it really is the hardest thing, I do recommend setting up the poll thing where everyone picks their three favorites in order, it forces a decision
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:04 (five months ago) link
actually ivy, Faith/Void is such a great name I'm jealous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:06 (five months ago) link
the path to a great band name is to steal it from a friend who is never going to form a band (his original idea was “faith void split” and i’m glad we ditched the “split”)
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:49 (five months ago) link
Yeah it’s a great band name
All I’m doing these days is “new set, new songs”. Was distracted for three weeks in rebuilding my rig to make it multi-channel. It was a productive dead end. Solved the problem and realized I didn’t like the results as much. Tore it up and went back to stereo
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:40 (five months ago) link
Interesting! I'm in the final stages of obsessive mixing for this drums-only record I'm working on (a collaboration with my main early drum teacher, which is a really nice thing). Getting to like "v14" for some tracks. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though, just tweaking a few more tracks. I had a big breakthrough the other day when I remembered the existence of parallel compression/processing (exported five tracks of drum kit that I had processed to death down to one, brought it back in, took most of the processing off the original tracks, and blended the two).
Meanwhile I did this session, it was basically a sight-reading/first rehearsal/recording session deal. It had been a long time since I've been in an "everyone recording live" situation. I wish I had been able to play a little more freely, but after a couple takes you don't want to be the one who fucks it up when it's going ok. I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFC3kAXjKg
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 14:42 (five months ago) link
I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one
real!!!! you sound fantastic tho
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:59 (five months ago) link
meanwhile i'm going through a very intense unwound phase so i've decided to learn a bunch of unwound songs on drums. discovering that my drumming goal specifically in my band is "play more like sara lund"
― ivy., Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:01 (five months ago) link
great goal ivy. i did not realize that i followed one of your bandmates on letterboxd (and previously on twitter/bluesky when i was on there)
sounds hot jordan
― na (NA), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:04 (five months ago) link
Hornado!!
Great drumming jordan
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:37 (five months ago) link
Thanks guys <3
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:04 (five months ago) link
The other tune on that session was an intricate arrangement of the Zelda dungeon theme, curious/apprehensive to hear how that came out
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 17:39 (five months ago) link
i really want to hear that!!!!
― ivy., Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:00 (five months ago) link
album has been distributed to stores/streaming services. first single out 5/1. so nervous i feel like my body's gonna turn inside out and also so happy omg
― ivy., Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:01 (five months ago) link
Congrats!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 20 April 2024 21:18 (five months ago) link
Congratulations!
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:08 (five months ago) link
Zelda, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM-YRSZFlw
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:48 (five months ago) link
I keep thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_/_Void_Split
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:37 (five months ago) link
i have a solo show coming up, that's good. Looking forward to it etc.
at the same time, the band i was invited to join may 2021 and has taken up three years of my time/effort/money/creativity and has never formally recorded or played a show just dumped me via text. the pretense was that our schedules were incompatible and they couldn't make the progress they wanted to make (????) with my schedule. i just -- i am pissed they wasted my time, money, effort, and creativity. if i weasn't good enough you could have told me years ago, and if i was -- is this seriously how it ends?
WHATEVER i have other fish to fry
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:44 (four months ago) link
nooooo i'm so sorry ll. what dicks!
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:58 (four months ago) link
i only wish i had left of my own accord -- the truth is that my life has been pure chaos since i met them (employment tumult, abundant family issues including death of a parent, a pandemic, etc -- little of which I told them details about and rarely did it interfere with our rehearsals) and it was going nowhere. but i figured it would be better for me to continue playing regularly and i enjoyed it most of the time.
i just cannot believe i was blindsided like this. it's shocking. UGGGHHHHHH
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 00:06 (four months ago) link
Also thank you for responding and your accurate assessment of their behavior.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:12 (four months ago) link
it’s a day of bad news bc i stubbed my toe on my drumkit right after practice and i think i broke it???
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:26 (four months ago) link
Booooo Foot probs are the worst
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:39 (four months ago) link
but before i forget or pass out tonight, here's the new faith/void single, which will hopefully be on streaming services tomorrow, idk i find music distribution very confusing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLZvBRNfyE
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 03:29 (four months ago) link
Video is private, but excited to listen. I heard “End Of The World” (R.E.M. original) in a public place and thought “I would prefer the Faith/Void version thanks”
― Drowning in TG, he sent me Discipline (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 04:09 (four months ago) link
it is *not* on streaming bc i’m an idiot. the youtube embed should work now tho
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:36 (four months ago) link
Sounds great ivy
― Heez, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:57 (four months ago) link
wow that sounds great ivy! excellent chorus, the whole thing is very hooky but slightly off kilter in a great wayLL - that sucks so much, I'm really sorry to hear about that, is that the same band that didn't have a name? sounds like they needed someone to blame for their own inaction. bands are such a hotbed of passive aggressive communication
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:12 (four months ago) link
Yes! I’m not a pass agg person or communicator and I’m still in shock tbh. I can’t believe I spent 3 years playing w these people who have so little respect for me.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:48 (four months ago) link
https://faithvoid.bandcamp.com/album/weird-chills
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:55 (four months ago) link
Congrats again ivy, I didn't know you were the Neil Peart of the band (drummer/lyricist). And sorry LL, that's really annoying, good riddance. More and more I'm amazed that any band with more than two people is actually functional.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:59 (four months ago) link
lol no shit, i had a meltdown in the studio once where the guitarist and drummer clearly weren't digging our singer anymore and kept trying to "jason newstead" her my mixing down the vocals in the studio
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:22 (four months ago) link
by mixing