07-06-10 – So *That’s* the secret / The Office

Hola mi compellas!   I have no idea what a “compella” is, just thought it sounded like it fitted there.   This past few weeks entailed…

- Finishing the 7 day Liquid DnB song
- Starting to make the next 7 day song
- Getting £500 worth of stuff to review for free!
- Acquiring independant funding
- Buying an office (well, the furniture for one from ikea)
- Starting to paint said office
- A cancelled YAWA gig
- Making a new song for Loki (BTW that’s the secret project)

Thirsty?

I made a liquid drum and bass song for the 7 day song in may, which has been recieved really well.   There’s one synth in there that divides people, but I like it so I’ve kept it (makes sense, right?).   It’s already hit over 2000 views on the first and last in the series, which is really cool.   It’s also the first time I’ve done something you can relax to!

Hell yeah!

I’ve been commissioned to make a G Funk song for the next 7 day song!   So I’ve been working hard on that.   I think I’m getting closer to something nice and G whilst still remaining a nice and high production quality.   It’s a delicate line to tread between dirty and just crap.

Free stuff!

Because I’m Dave from boyinaband.com, I’ve been sent Melodyne’s Editor and Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2 for review-y goodness!   I’ve had a quick look at both and they are just amazing.   I can’t wait to try them out on a real track.   I’ll be doing SD2 first for the review/tutorial, since I received it first, so that should be coming up later this month!

Funding!

I finally secured some funding from an independant source!   You might have heard of it, can you guess?    But yeah, this means I can go ahead and buy all the high quality gear needed to start my business in earnest!   I’m looking into an audio laptop, a video desktop pc and a reeeeally good camera amongst other things.

Office!

I also realised I should probably have a desk for the aformentioned desktop, so I went out and bought an office!   With the help of interior-designer Rachie and super-pimp Scratch, I trapsed around Ikea and bought a tonne of stuff (and ate a tonne of meatballs).   I’ll be putting together a changing-rooms-esque video of the conversion of my studio into an office which I can throw onto biab for some cool footage

Paint!

As part of the office conversion procedure, I’ve had to completely strip the studio bare and paint it brilliant white (Apparently there are different types of white, who knew?) so it’s nice and bright, but also so the green screen footage doesn’t have any coloured tinges to it from the paint.   It’s half way there with one coat done, just need the second and potentially a third if it’s too patchy, then things can start moving in!   I even roped in Kirstie to help with the clearing out of the room and painting preparation when we were intending on “chilling” (Sorry Kirstie, we couldn’t've moved that table without your inhumanly super strength though!).   We did go out for a nice meal prior to that though, so it’s not all bad.

YAWA!

Poor ol’ Zak was ill on the day of the gig so we had to cancel it, not much you can do in a situation like that!   Hopefully we’re having a get together in the near future to get back on track with our organisation!   I feel like I’m not quite sure where we’re headed at the moment.

I’ve had some ideas for new songs for the first time in a while though, which is good news for sure.   They sound awesome in my head – the most prominent one being a robot-human dependancy story where a robot who uses a human for a power source (yay, matrix!) ends up being infected by one particular human and ends up destroying itself from the internal conflict of not wanting to use the human, but needing to complete its primary mission of saving the world.

In my head, that comes across musically as painful dubstep.

Loki!

Yeah, the secret project is Loki, a band put together from Jordan Fish’s mates.   I’m the producer for said band and I’ve put together a bunch of tracks for it.

It might seem strange for me to join a new band, but considering Jordan Fish lives with Gareth from Pendulum, you can see he’s well connected.   The plan is to become a production outfit and make waves in the music industry.   I’m really excited to see how things go, this could involve working alongside some incredible producers so I’ll keep you posted when some definite stuff happens!

Until then, go to www.myspace.com/helloloki to listen to some of the demo tracks I’ve thrown together.

Next week on Dave’s Blog

Well if all goes to plan, I should have…

- Started making the G Funk 7 day song tutorials
- Start making another private tutorial or two
- Have a YAWA meeting
- Painted and set up the office
- Organised my routine for le bidnizz

In fact, it involves a hell of a lot of tidying which you probably won’t notice, but it’ll make my life a lot more streamlined!

Here’s to finding out what happens next!