Updates...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
The compilation has been mastered; I’m just waiting for the upload of the digital version from SAE. Some updates on that front: the name of the album is now “unsuspected sounds.” This is from an Edgard Varèse quote I’ve always liked. The entirety is thus:
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
He said this in an interview you can find in the book Classic Essays On Twentieth-Century Music. The majority of the content is fairly precious from our lofty position in the year 2012; you need to constantly remind yourself of technological context, else these guys come off as incredibly pretentious.
In any event, the cover art is done, as well. I created the front piece using a Processing sketch written by Stefan Goodchild (who also, you may remember, did the portraits for the Pioneers Of Electronic Music t-shirt series we did a couple years ago.) This sketch created a circular motif from the audio waveform of the entire album and pooped out a vector that I could lay right in to Illustrator un-altered. I’m just waiting for final approval of the audio from the mastering, and sequence notes from the mastering engineer, and I’ll order the jackets and labels and start the pressing process.
I have unilaterally decided to give the proceeds from the album sale, assuming there are any (I am killing one of my credit cards to pull this whole thing off), to the Breast Assured Foundation. Because, after all, this is an Analog Industries compilation, and I can’t speak for other on-line communities, but around here, we’re with boobs.
In other news, just finishing up the Tattoo 64-bit update; barring unforeseen circumstances, that should be up Monday. After that, just Ronin, Fuzz+ 2.2, and PulseModulator. Then we can get back to the business of making plug-ins. If we still remember how, that is. Our next product is almost certainly going to be a percussion instrument; I’m doing the design now while Adam polishes off these last couple updates.
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Way to hang with boobs. Boobs need support, and I'm ready to help.
bb
CR, my hat is off to you sir.
I'm with boobs.
I'm with boobs.
...we're with boobs. A punchline many years in the making.
My cap, too, is doffed.
I'm with boobs.
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I'm with boobs.
Congrats, when Medicare gave my Mom the runaround with her Breast Cancer a charity fund stepped up. Awesome...
I'm with boobs.
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Some of my relatives and friends has had cancer. Some still lives today and some does not :-/ This is something most of us can relate to I think. I'm with boobs.
Oh, grats all that are on the album and good luck :-)
I'm with boobs.
I'm with boobs.
I'm gonna strongly recommend you call this release "Unsuspected Sounds, Vol. 1."
- c
One step ahead of you. Already baked in to the cover art.
I gotta say, I was driving around listening to it today, and it's an interesting sequence. Making an album that has two sides, and thinking about the way this affects the flow, has been an informative exercise. Normally, when one is assembling an album nowadays, one can just do a single flow, but a vinyl album needs two logical acts, as it were.
This album represents not only a core sample of the AI readership, but really a cross section of the entire electronic music experience. If you were forced to pin one of the roughly 150 sub-genres of e-music on each of these tracks, you'd have to use 10 different ones, as no two are alike enough to warrant using the same one. I suppose one could say that the Goldbaby track, my track, and the Anodize track are all of a similar "abstract techno" bent. However, the other seven are quite disparate.
We have an ambient kind of groove-thing with the Ancient Young track, and the straight-ahead (yet masterfully programmed and mixed) deep house of Jukebox. I don't even have a word for the Russian Corvette track. This track is something that Tom Waits would have made, if Tom Waits released albums on Warp instead of Anti. Pauk is Pauk, a genre unto himself. The Bitmud track is electro-rock in the vein of Dirty Vegas, I guess, although more dirty, less Vegas. The Sabama track, stylistically, is of the same mind, although much different. That track's bassline has been stuck in my head for weeks. And Milkfish? I don't know where the fuck Wade comes up with this shit. I honestly don't. There is not, as yet, a name for what he does. I know there sure as fuck isn't a name for the chords he uses in the bridge.
In any event, all the artists but one have approved the master; I assume I'll hear from the one tomorrow at some point. But it looks like Roger hit it out of the park on the first swing, so we don't have to do a recall, and can move on to the next phase, which is getting real shit made.
-CR
I'm probably going to do an album for Milkfish. It's weird stuff to work on but comes naturally and rather easily (you'll notice I've moved away from spending 300 hours a track on drum detail - y'all make plugins that do that for a brotha.)
Also, approved, sorry. Had company in town. But it rocks in my car and everywhere else. So much amazing material on there!
Can we pre-order or can we only order after the vinyl is ready?
I'm debating that. I'll have the reference acetate on Thursday, and assuming I approve that, then the digital master is set in stone, and there's no real reason I couldn't put it up on the Bandcamp site and start the ordering.
Otherwise, it's a 6-week wait until the vinyl is shipping.
Thoughts?
-CR
Can we get a presale link so we can start re-stocking your funds?
The import taxes where I live are prohibitively high (not to mention the tender caresses that parcels suffer during international shipping), so I'm not considering buying the vinyl. I'd still like to buy the digital release, though. Other AI readers might be in a similar situation. If it's ready, why wait? You'll get some money back earlier.
There's the inevitable piracy, and the digital release will make that easier. However, those who want the vinyl won't be swayed by mp3, IMHO.
Idea for your next product: Screw percussion. Team up with Little Labs and produce the world's first component for component physically modelled Re-Amp™ emulation. You know, to use in your insert chain before your amp modeling software.
Just saying.
@RGiskard: there won't be a digital-only version of this album until the vinyl is gone.
@jwcase: I'd rather stab out my own eyes with a rusty corkscrew than do a component-level clone of anything. Not to mention that by the time audio gets to the plug-in, impedance has already been dealt with. The whole purpose of the ReAmp doohickie is impedance matching.
-CR
I'm with RGiskard, although I've no problem with CR's logic on this.
Being a child of the 80's was great, but I have no interest in owning any record player equipment. For nostalgia purposes, my still-working Atari 2600 will have to suffice.
ok totallty OT, but I thought of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9YZVpS1P_I
much love.
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