The hits keep comin’! Beats upon beats! Gritty like a shitty sandwich!
Lucky Timelock (22.3 megabytes)
1. My Decade of Action
2. Trespasser on the Chandelier
3. Sinking Sands Hotel / 100 Countdown
4. Madcap on the Spot / Tired of Action
5. A Knife Falls in a Forest
6. Knife Splinter
7. Hey Everybody Pay Attention Listen To Me
Getting back into my primitive zone on the MPC. Had the idea ages ago to dig up all my old, old piano recordings and chop them up for samples but I hadn’t put it into practice until a couple of days ago. I was working too quickly and excitedly to pay too much attention to exactly where everything came from, but listening back I think all the piano tracks were from the excellent recordings made of my two farewell nights at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh in March 2006, right before I came back to Hobart. All the background chatter gets to be a little bit distracting when listening to the unadulterated concert, but I find it really adds something to the texture of the samples in this context. Even the clack! of the dropped cutlery audible on track 5 (hence the title) finds a purpose at last.
No idea what use I’ll make of the MPC in the long run. There’s a lot of producers I could be trying to emulate, but I don’t have the appetite to be a crate-digger, the patience to master computer software, or the far-out multi-level genius to learn a whole bunch of different instruments and record all my own samples. I don’t even know how I managed to stay focused long enough to do that Tiger Choir remix when it’s so much more fun and satisfying to just tap everything out live like I do on all these tracks. Actual programming makes me exhausted. Maybe it’s just gonna have to be one of these things where I need someone to give me loosely-defined tasks rather than having to start from scratch ideas-wise. Anybody want me to do a remix? Any rappers need some weird, loose, unattractive beats?
Lately I feel as though I’ve isolated the last of my unexamined creative fears; now to work on getting over them. Tossing up rough shite like this for very very few people to listen to is a step along the way.