10/23/06 11:00 PM
Aaron (formerly one-fifth of Marianas, a great designer, and a weekly tennis chap of mine) is now officially the first member of our group to actually put some music out into a public forum in a new band. Humland made their live debut the other evening with a soaring batch of songs (the tracks on their aforementioned myspace page don’t really do them service) that work the intricate post rock tip nicely. They even played a cover/reworking of the Marianas track “Good God Damn” (off our Summering EP) that was quite surreal to hear as a non-participating audience member.
And speaking of A.M. (after Marianas) projects, Ryan and I are indeed still working on our little project. It is coming along slowly but surely, with several evenings per month looking like this in my living room…
November 8th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Is that a sampler next to your mac? What sort?
Can we get more pastel colors on that keyboard pls? thx.
:-P
November 8th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Yeah, it’s a middle sampler sorta thing called a Trigger Finger (made by M Audio). It works pretty well in a live setting, as well as on the fly adding some percussive elements to looped rhythm tracks, etc.
The other keyboard (one on the stand) is an Alesis Micron. It doesn’t actually have any pastel on it, my flash just washed out the red end caps and slider backs. It’s a really kickass little keyboard, with loads of really great analogue sounds.
We have one song that’s 170 bpm and several others that are 140 or higher. Can you dig it?