So i've been working on some new music with a drummer for the last few months, and two weeks ago we started recording some more involved demos at my house. It's been the first really solid project i've worked on since I moved to Portland, and really my first serious collaborative effort in years. So while I'm not super duper in love crazy excited with everything we're playing, it feels really really good to be working on something and have some direction for my creative ideas.
I had something different in mind when i started this project, but it seems like we're at our best when we're being loud and aggressive; a total one-eighty from everything I've been working on myself in the last two years. We decided to just start tracking songs and overdub the other parts ourselves until we find more people.
these were pretty quickly thrown together, so i know there's a lot of fine-tuning we could do. but i feel pretty good about the material considering how short of a time we've been playing together. it's all pretty lo-fi, and we haven't really scratched the surface of adding bass and other instruments (potentially piano, other keys, horns). recording and mixing when you're working with all live instrumentation is b*tch. i'm used to mixing like 70% programmed/electronic sounds with some guitar, vocals, minimal percussion. so this is all new territory for me.
let me know what you guys think of these takes. unless of course this just isn't your style of music. then feel free not to let me know. :icon_thumright:
(UW doesn't seem to want to upload my attachments so here's a link)
http://soundcloud.com/dan-mazuz/sets/early-demos
I had something different in mind when i started this project, but it seems like we're at our best when we're being loud and aggressive; a total one-eighty from everything I've been working on myself in the last two years. We decided to just start tracking songs and overdub the other parts ourselves until we find more people.
these were pretty quickly thrown together, so i know there's a lot of fine-tuning we could do. but i feel pretty good about the material considering how short of a time we've been playing together. it's all pretty lo-fi, and we haven't really scratched the surface of adding bass and other instruments (potentially piano, other keys, horns). recording and mixing when you're working with all live instrumentation is b*tch. i'm used to mixing like 70% programmed/electronic sounds with some guitar, vocals, minimal percussion. so this is all new territory for me.
let me know what you guys think of these takes. unless of course this just isn't your style of music. then feel free not to let me know. :icon_thumright:
(UW doesn't seem to want to upload my attachments so here's a link)
http://soundcloud.com/dan-mazuz/sets/early-demos