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I’ve uploaded the Lamb remix I did for their competition. Unfortunately I missed the deadline for it but I’m putting it online regardless. It’s on the music page and on soundcloud.  Enjoy and share!

It’s been  a while since I’ve posted something…. I’ve been really sick, a lot, these last 2 months. I’ve been trying to master everything out and add some extra production tweeks to add some interesting additions from the original tracks as I wrote them. I put that on hold for a while and have been working on a remix for Lamb, an excellent triphop band. They are running a competition that I’m submitting for. I’m close to being finished.

I wanted to wish everyone who celebrates the holidays to have a great time. If you’re like me and you don’t celebrate, then I hope the holiday assholes don’t impact you that much and if you’re working, enjoy the extra pay! Remember everyone, drive safe and sober.

CIR news, there hasn’t been any recent updates. My health has not been good for the past 2 months. I’ve been sick twice and my psoratic rheumatoid arthritis has been acting up quite a bit. I’m hoping to get back to work shortly but there are some things that I have to move around and unpack, so music work might be put on hold a bit longer while I’m more sore and swollen then usual. We’ll have to see how much doing these chores impact me. I have to put a track list together and mix down all older tracks and make some subtle production additions to the more recent ones. So the disc will be slightly different then the tracks that are online. No musical changes, just some fx and production changes.

Happy Holidays or have a good week!

I’ve finally finished Veelas remix. After a few months of just waiting then slowly finishing the mixing, it is finally ready. I’ve put it up on the music page.

I also finished a new track yesterday called Line Them Up. It is also available online for downloading.

I’ve changed the way tracks are downloaded from this site. Now you don’t have to click through each track to get to the actual song link. All the direct file links are on the music page itself. It takes away a few clicks and makes the music that much easier to get.

As for a complete disc..I have to check to see what the time count is at with this track finished to see where I stand on a complete disc. If I have to finish off something else that is in the works or if it’s all good right now with all that I have complete. I should have enough new music to replace some of the older weaker tracks. I’ll have a look at the situation this week and will see where I stand.

I wish everyone a happy Halloween! Be safe and drive sober! There’s no need on ruining probably the biggest night of the year for the industrial scene by getting stopped at a ride check and losing your license. Be smart….and safe.

Other quick news…. I moved back into Ottawa. I’ve brought up all my computer and music stuff and have it sitting in the spare room to be  setup. Moving has really hurt me this time. My hands are so swollen you can’t see my 2 small knuckles. Me knees and feet are pretty bad too. So, as you can guess, it’ll be a little bit until I’ll be able to work on music again. Not only do I have to recover from bring up 1 load of things…. I have to set them all back up! I’m not going to push myself and bring my pain levels any higher then they are already. Anymore and it’ll become very hard to keep in check.  That’s the good and bad news.

What a slump I’ve been in. I’m just getting back to “normal” pain levels after the spring move and fall and I’d have to say that it’s depressing to realize that it’s not all that much better then 3 months ago. My hands swell just as bad and my feet are pushing at least 2 times a week now. It’s just a big rut that I’ve been stuck in after trying to push myself to work on music this year and try and actually finish off my disc. I’ve been figuring out a lot of personal stuff lately, new medication, added diagnosis of psoriasis on top of rhuematoid arthritis and the need to do a drastic move to medication that costs a small fortune to have has actually pushed me to make some choices that I’ve been dancing around the edges of for a few months already. It’s time to take a step forward in the direction I actually want to go, rather then being pushed by external forces.
This week, somehow with how I’ve been feeling, I managed to finish off the Veela remix that I’ve been wanting to since I submitted it. I just have to check the last render on 1 more set of speakers and I think this will be the finished version. If not, it won’t take more then a handful of renders with minor volume shifts to get it right. Aside from that, I have……. 6 tracks that I’ve been picking away at for around 2 months, with one of them being something started this week. I have to “replace” 2 older tracks with something new to have a decent disc length and I hope it will be soon. After that, I might go back and remix some of the older tracks I’m going to be “keeping”. Jairus did a great job but there are some subtle things that I want to add to them but that won’t take long at all. I just need a week of feeling semi decent to get all of those done.
I’m not sure how long this is all going to take to finish up. I’ve already past my “done date” a few times. Hell, I wanted to put something out to labels 3 years ago. I’m glad I didn’t. This year I hope I’ll have everything ready. It’s hard to set a time and have health issues come up and fuck up all my working time or leave me too depressed to do anything.

Anyway, I should have the remix updated tonight and I might put up a clip of something I’m working on as a early Halloween treat. I’m really hoping I can put something new online for it as well. Leslie is putting on a Dark Carnival and I’d like to actually do some promotion.

On to something completely different. I’m going to be starting an industrial radio show! Saturday nights from 11pm to 1am I’ll be playing in the valley. If I’m not live, I’ll pre-record a show for them to play that week. It will depend on how I feel if I’ll make it out or not. I’ve worked out the details regarding this arrangement and it’s alright. All I have to do is hand in my paper work and pay my membership fee and I’ll be back on the air. I’ll post a link to online streaming of the show for anyone interested.

Happy thanksgiving my Canadian friends! Have a good weekend doing whatever you are doing. At the very least, enjoy the holiday pay! If you’re out and about, please drive safe and sober!

cheers

The site has been down for a bit, I think and I just recently checked it and noticed. It’s all fixed, obviously since I’m posting this. It was something that I didn’t even think would happen when I was cleaning up my web host account.  I haven’t been feeling the greatest and haven’t really been working on much of anything. I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to do with myself over the long term. Life unfortunately has got in the way.

Ontario elections are coming up and I hope anyone that’s in Ontario and reads this goes out to vote. It’s important, no matter who you vote for. Even if you just spoil it, it is important to go! So either hit the advanced polls or on October 6th, make sure to vote!

This morning, Jack Layton died. It’s a real loss to Canada and Canadian politics. He was a great leader. I hope that the NDP can move on successfully from this and continue his work on making this country whole again. I hope the new leader can inspire confidence in Canadians so that they can become our next government. His last words to the public can be read in this letter HERE I wish his family the best.

In CIR news… I’ve been not feeling well for a while now so nothing really has happened. I’ve been listening to all the tracks that I’ve done trying to get a track list together but I haven’t finalized it yet. I think I might go back to the mixes and change some of them a bit. I still think that I’ll have to do one more new track for the disc as there are about 3 that I want to for sure cut. I’m not 100% sure if cutting those tracks puts me over 50 minutes or not. I was hoping to have about a hours worth of great material to have on a release. I really was hoping that I’d have it sorted out before the end of the summer but here we are just about at the end and I’m not that much further along. I’ll seriously prep this before the end of August and will post up again.

There have been some developments in regards to a few collaborations and a joint project that I’ve been busy sorting out. It’s had me side tracked since late July. Since these ideas have been given to me, I haven’t really worked on any CIR material or thought much about the disc other then listening to all the tracks…often….but thats it. I can’t really say much more about these two things yet because they aren’t finalized but when they are, I will.

Happy Dominion Day to all my fellow Canadians out there! Downtown Ottawa is going to be a mess tonight with the royals in town and the normal celebrations. There is an industrial show at Swizzels on Queen St tonight if you’re in a crunchy mood. Finally something for all the rivet heads out there! If you’re going out, don’t be an asshole and drink and drive. Take a bus, which are free after 10, taxi or carpool with someone sober.
Stay safe, drive smart and party hard!