What Hum??

Ahoy there!!

Fingers crossed, the annoying hum might be a thing of the past. Or at least it has been lessened significantly.
So, guitar overdubs can begin in earnest. Plenty of guitar synth parts have been laid down already, so things are finally beginning to move along.
Took about 15 cracks at one rhythm part on Instant Jedi - must lay off the afternoon caffeine. While I am still awake to work, it has left me a bit jumpy.

Had the usual 4 Weetbix with Rice Milk and Cheerios, and one black coffee.

Snippets!!!

Shalom friends and fans,

For your listening pleasure, and because Myspace now allow you to post 10 songs at once, I have uploaded 2 of the small pieces of music that will appear in between some of the longer songs on the next CD.

Synthyer is only 7 seconds, but I lke it.
Techno Bert vs The Klezzies is longer, but not much.

Check them out here

Represent.

Today I had Apple and Feijoa Crumble for breakfast. And PB on toast.

Pondering The Significance of Foodstool

Some of you fine folks might be wondering why there is a picture of a stool over by my profile information. If you aren’t wondering, stop reading now.

Well, that is a snap of my beloved Foodstool. Why the name, Matt? I’m glad you asked. My dinner plate used to sit atop this wondrous creation, as our coffee table is a bit too low to the floor for me to eat comfortably.

It also doubled as the stool in my low budget bedroom studio. Now, I’m not saying that genius musical ideas flowed from this stool directly, but ideas were fleshed out and developed over many a night sitting on it, hunched over my guitar and PC.

Such was it’s value in this creative process, I decided to name a couple of songs after it – Foodstool 82 (available from iTunes), The Progressive Adventures of Foodstool (also available from iTunes), and the upcoming Son of Foodstool.

So whatever happens in the future, Foodstool will be immortalized in cyberspace.

So, in summing up, I say thank you Foodstool for being, literally, one of my biggest supporters.

By the way, I had Weetbix, rice milk and Cheerios for breakfast.

Overdubbage!!!

Kia Ora Whanau!!!

Been doing some guitar and guitar synth parts over the last few days, going well besides the annoying hum that has returned. Can't find the source, but once I do, things will go even faster. Need to work on my chops a bit, as one or two of the tunes are significantly faster than the demo versions. Down-up-down-up-down-up. So to speak.

On a different topic, I had 4 weetbix with a sprinkling of Cheerios this morning. Washed down with some black coffee. Nearly mid winter here in Aotearoa, so porridge season is approaching.

TTFN.
Mattyahoo ben Dovid.

Recording Update

Hello

Well, we got 2 songs done on the Wednesday - Henry Kissinger Must Diet, and It's Thirteen, then we went back on the Monday after and did another 2 - Mr Weiner Pants, and Instant Jedi.

The recording went well, Kev played his arse off, so now we have 4 songs ready for massive overdubbage.

Thanks to Rob Mayes from Failsafe Records for his Drum Engineering skills.

Links to rough mixes will be up shortly.

Since I am in control of this blog, I thought I would also keep you fans up to date with what I had for breakfast. This morning I had 4 Weetbix with rice milk and 1 slice of toast with peanut butter. Mmmmmm. And a cup of black coffee. No sugar.