What I've learned from...

...Serge The Summer Dog (aka Ruffian aka Rough Stuff): Never jump onto my owner's desk thus knock a bottle of cider onto his laptop that is being used to do the entire Hypefactor album. I know all the music is backed up on 3 different
external drives, but dang, I don't wanna live my life in the cage (and not the cage reffered to back in the day). Note to puppies: away from the desk. OK?

Meanwhile...

The loop editing/tightening is just about done, except the epic THEY'VE JUST and it's now time to put all these airtight music parts (drums and loops) back into the main song files. We don't have any arranging to do, but the sheer size of this album makes it so that Brandt has to be careful putting stuff together. Also, it has been decided, to keep the record consistent, Charles will be brought in to re-play the remainder of the bass lines he hasn't performed on. Right now, the record is down to an amalgam of he and I playing rythmn tracks, sometimes in different parts of the same song, and it just sounds awkward. Again, ego is not the issue here, (and believe me I'm more than content playing F-bass and singing), it's what is best for the song and Charles is quite simply the best bassist we have. This period of the record, easily the most frustrating, has also been in the most educational and we're learning many things we will need to avoid when it comes time to to the next record.

Has anyone heard of the Scandanavian band Radio Department? Not too shabby shoegazing stuff that evokes Slowdive and MBV without being a ripoff. They're someone to watch.

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