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13Dec07

oh dang we fell into a time warp.

Well, the initial mixes of Krakatoa were pretty much done on the cusp of December. I just pushed my way through it and put my head down and got it done. There were a couple of things that had to be delayed, namely the sound collage that was planned for the end of Soiree, which I ended up assembling digitally last week, and we also found that the bass on No Attraction cut out for about half the song. Not really sure why but I’m guessing someone stepped on a mic cable and unplugged it while we were recording.

So we took about a week or so to live with the initial mixes, and I think we ended up being pretty happy with most of them. We sent one track to a mastering guy who was recommended to us and he sent back a free sample that sounds LLLOOOUUUDDD (ie good). Then last night, I remixed Radical Movement to make the vocals a little quieter, then we rerecorded the missing bass part on No Attraction, but I had the genius brainstorm that it should be a fuzz bass part so we hooked the Danelectro up to the Rat and it sounds so sweet. Finally, Sarah and I put some last-minute vox on TV Snow, which she said sounds like Royal Trux somehow.

Next, we assemble all the tracks for one last listen-through, decide on an order and whether we want to cut anything, then send it all off for mastering. Meanwhile we work on getting our shit together re: packaging and design, which Ben has taken over, fortunately.

Krakatoa is tentatively scheduled for a spring 2008 release on Comptroller Records.

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