Schtuff

I was able to work at a more leisurely pace this weekend on various tasks including mixes.  My work week last week was near hell; the previous week was just as awful, if not worse.  I've basically been near collapsing after my work days and it's quite incredible that I've found any energy at all to actually work on music related stuff in the evening.  A quiet weekend without major commitments and/or house chores is just what the doctor ordered.

I finally got around to looking at the CD text for "...Miss You Most...".  I actually went to the website and sent in a request to have the album info updated about 1-2 months ago (I lost count).  I just never got around to re-checking it.  Well, I did just now and it wasn't updated, which was pretty much what I figured.  I found an alternate way to upload the info directly from Windows Media Player and that's actually uploading as I type this.  Fingers crossed that this approach works.  It's really annoying to put in your own CD and see both your name spelled wrong and the album title cut off in the middle, and therefore meaning something slightly different.

Mixing was pretty interesting this weekend.  I did a ton of work and decided to start over on all three tracks for the "Mirror Land" EP.  It's unofficial right now if that was the correct approach but I'm remaining hopeful.  More on that later in the week, once I've evaluated the tracks.

I will say that "Two Step", my Throwing Muses cover song from long ago, is sounding fantastic, in my opinion.  That's great because I know I thought it sounded like pure cr*p for many mixes, and then I decided to do a bit of re-recording, including the guitars and main vocal (I did it probably about a year and a half ago), and it seems like it was the right approach.  If all of my mixes sounded this good, well, I'd be in business.  It kind of suggests to me that I wasn't compiling my songs well in the past and that very well could be part of the issue with the "Mirror Land" EP.

I also believe that "The Effects of Connection" is ready to be sent to Peele for mixing since I finally got around to working on that a bit.  I'm highly curious to see how that goes.

If nothing else, I should have at least 2 tracks ready to go by year's end.  I have more time off coming up so I'm hoping to hit both the Defrost Nixon mixes as well as return to the "Lost Weekend" remix.  It's also on my agenda to start putting together "Sorry, I Forgot to Mention This", the new Jazz Machine album.  Lots of fun stuff afoot.