April 26, 2004
I'm Gonna Rock Right Now.
I’ve got a little treat for you guys. Actually, a very little treat. Check it:
Curse the Darkness – “Starving Heart”
This is me – I produced, wrote, engineered, and mastered it. It’s strictly demo quality, and the levels are a bit low, but you get the idea. It was made using a Roland MC-808 (that’s the sampler, not the drum machine), recorded to a Tascam 4-track to add vocals, and then dumped to a PC. It’s that last part that I’m ridiculously excited about - after a few years of having it languish on a four-track, I’ve finally got a way to get my music out for people to hear without messing with somebody else’s studio or whatever. For about the next week, I should be posting a track every day over at my blog, so stay up on it.
Thanks to M for helping make this possible.
Update: Sorry to any who had trouble downloading this, I forgot to change the access settings on my web folder.
Glad that you're using your computer for it since that's why we built it. I don't really have much to say on the track other than thanks for sharing it. Doesn't really sound like your voice. I like the lyrics' rhythm and the samples, but haven't listened enough to say anything about the lyrics themselves.
Yeah, I was also initially thrown off by the voice, but then it became clear it had something to do with the production. Like Mallarme, I need to go back and listen to the lyrics again, but it's really cool that you made this motherfucker and put it up.... Astounding, fool.
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting that both of you should comment on my voice sounding different . . . It's good, though, the change is definitely intentional. Despite what people used to say back in the '80s, it's more than just talking fast - I'm working on shifting my vocals to be a little more forceful.
And yeah, that endpiece is a little . . . um . . . over the top. It definitely won't be in any final version. I wrote the last few verses in about five minutes and it's not the direction I want to go.