Gotta Boogie

Welcome all, today's audio installment involves a little swing, a little dance, a little moonlight romance. Our latest recording is a bit of a dancy swing number, (for those who thought that all we could come up with were stalking songs..)

Yes, firstly I should mention the feedback that I got from Man on a mission, most was fairly positive, though the guitarist's flatmate found the lyrics a rather creepy. Well I agree they don't make a great bedtime story, but I cant see anything too scary about them, they just describe what is inside everyone of us either on the giving or receiving end.

This latest recording though has turned to the bright side. Billy and I got together and tidied up some previous recordings earlier in the morning before Dave and Wayne turned up. We wanted to start something fresh, Wayne had an old bass run which sounded quite groovy which he showed Dave who quickly embellished it with his own style and quick finger action. We needed drums, so as is becoming quite a chore now, I sifted through some of my loops, and found nothing that was swingy enough, so we settled for a pattern from one of my VSTI's, addictive drums, which worked well.

With drums and bass down, we could see this was going to be a groover. we added some nice acoustic rhythm guitar and then a lead solo which was emphasised by a key change (always works a wonder). Vaughn was our guest lead guitar god for this one hopefully he will join the team for regular recording sessions, as he is quite an incredible guitar player.

We deliberated over lyrics, and we soon agreed that the theme was about a guy who takes his girl out dancing, gets all exited, gets tired and worn out yet all his girl wants to do is keep dancing. Typical scenario hey guys? I am a bit of a dictator when it comes to lyrics ( as the guys are probably well aware now ), but we were all happy with the results.

Billy was chosen to sing the song, we recorded his vocals without too many problems, and then added our group vocals later (I decided to remove these the next day and redo them myself and adding a few clones to get the same effect, only in tune and in time).

I also played around with an effect called Melodyne which I used to tidy up the timing of the guitar solo, but found that I need to be careful with this one as it tends to crash my recording software at times.

I also added some piano parts to the song today, which filled it out a little.

As usual you can download or stream it from the link below, and please leave your comments.

Put on your dancing shoes and enjoy !

Ecca

Boogie With Me

Cistern of the Down

Hi folks, welcome back to the blog that just keeps on giving....
Not much has been going on over here over the last few days, which is sort of good because I need some time to organise this little space of mine. The tidying up has been going well, the places looks half decent now that I've found a spot for most things.

As I have nothing new to post up of my material, I thought I would share a tune with you which I put together about 2 months ago. The idea for the song came to me as I was travelling home from a party for a Friend of mine who had moved bush some years back and was doing a week back on the Coast visiting friends and such. As I was travelling back from this party, the phrase 'Never leave a nugget in your sandbox' came to me. I love bemusing little lines like that one of favorites has to be 'Never butter your toast with a feather' but that's another song yet to be written.

I started thinking around this Nugget in the sandbox phrase, and surprisingly enough, the lyrics started to flow. as soon as I got home I wrote them down as I knew there was no was I was going to remember them the next morning.

It took me few days before i got back to the lyrics, and attempted to put some music to them, I had a basic idea of what I wanted, I knew the chorus would be a repetition of the inspired phrase, and I felt that the rest of the song deserved a hard hitting riff or anthem to keep it pumping. I sorted through my sample CD's for some metal crunching guitar sounds and hard hitting drum loops and before too long I came up good.

The vocals were recorded, and as always were mixed with a pitched octave down version. The chorus vocals were processed through a 4k filter to give a phone voice sound. I should also note that the amazing guitar solo was produced using liquid instruments VSTI (guitar library). In fact no live instruments were used to product this song other than my keys, a host of VSTi's and samples.

Download or stream the song from the link below, and Enjoy!

Cistern of the Down