slowburn

Oblivion With Bells by Underworld, 2007

After The Night Falls by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd, 2007

Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome by Parliament, 1977

Mago by Billy Martin and John Medeski, 2007

La Cucaracha by Ween, 2007

Fyuti by Bola, 2005

Mezzanine by Massive Attack, 1998

Little Green Lights And Four Inch Faders by John Tejada, 1998

Progress is being made, some days good progress, some days just a little. I’m headed up to Seattle for the weekend to visit my brother’s family and temporarily drop the hermit routine. I’ll have about three weeks left when I get back to finish things up, so time is starting to get tight. The drums still need a lot of work, I have set up an okay base for them but they just sound boring. The songs overall need to be less upfront and more subtle. I need to draw more attention to the key parts while keeping others in the background, start implementing all the ideas I have to make each song unique, work more with the stereo field and reverbs, and add strange sounds at certain points along with the drums to increase tension and release. I also need to make sure I spend time enhancing the parts I like rather than just fixing all the things that bug me. At least I still don’t hate it, which is good…

Reference mix playlist, aka the Slowburn Cheat Sheet, version 1.0:

hummin
bola, “forcasa 3″
air, “la femme d’argent”
cocteau twins, “cherry-coloured funk”

puppy
autechre, “bike”
metamatics, “liquid gel”
mouse on mars, “saturday night world cup fieber”

lemonz
gui boratto, “the blessing”
booka shade, “body language (interpretation)”
trentemoller, “evil dub”

bubble
herbie hancock, “chameleon”
parliament, “give up the funk (tear the roof off this sucka)”
bomb the bass, “bug powder dust (k+d mix)”

laguna
global communication, “5:23 (maiden voyage)”
higher intelligence agency, “skank”
ulrich schnauss, “knuddelmaus”

rollover
fila brazillia, “bumblehaum”
the orb, “earth orbit one – little fluffy clouds”
orbital, “attached”

lurp
pink floyd, “on the run”
future sound of london, “smokin’ japanese babe”
david morley, “stuntman”

flicker
irresistible force, “nepalese bliss”
spacetime continuum, “funkyar”
plaid, “new family”

upbeat
aphex twin, “pulsewidth”
boards of canada, “roygbiv”
sly and the family stone, “spaced cowboy”

tea&toast
brian eno, “2/1″
aphex twin, “cliffs”
biosphere, “the things i tell you”

Solid State Survivor by Yellow Magic Orchestra, 1979