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theenddd

25Feb08

aw shit. “krakatoa” masters and snazzy artwork were sent off to the manufacturers this past week. we should have them piping hot in our hot hands in a few hot weeks. sadly, this brings this blog to its conclusion. bye.
 CD release show though!
Fri. April 18, 2008
The Death Set, Fake Fictions (“Krakatoa” release show), Coltrane Motion
at [...]


 edit: ha ha, i didn’t see that sarah had already written about all of this, oh well
 oh wow. suddenly after the weekend we are almost done with the album and ready to send it off to be produced.
friday we went and hung out while our cd was mastered. it was interesting and boring at the [...]


Yes, Master

28Jan08

UPDATE! (by Sarah)
Friday night we hung out in a fabulous little mixing room in the basement of a cute bungalow (Ben & I coveted the house and Nick the studio).  We wanted to be present for the mastering. So we sat side by side on a couch behind our wonderful Masterer, watching him turn dials [...]


art less

23Jan08

“krakatoa” is being mastered on fri. jan. 25. it could have been done sooner but we wanted to go hang out while it was being mastered and see what kind of wizardry will be done.
i decided to take a two-week break from the album prior to the mastering session. i deleted it off my ipod [...]



^^^ next album?
 ”Krakatoa” is still in suspended animation, but you have to plan for these unplanned delays. I remixed a couple of tracks yesterday, muscling up the fuzz bass on “No Attraction” and cutting off the dumb intro to “Which Eight” or whatever it’s called. Trying to get the rest of the FF cru to [...]


ketchup

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 [...]


So yeah, we wrapped up the vocals.
My least favorite FF song these days is Esperanto. (And my favorite, just so you know & just so we keep things cheery, is ALWAYS whatever song is newest. I’m so much more into creation than repetition.) I don’t hate on that song. It’s just that once [...]


We snuck in to the practice/recording space and finished up recording on Sunday. Did vocals for Satisfaction, Esperanto, Soiree, Lasers + Mirrors and Retrace Yr Steps, and guitar solos for Satisfaction and Esperanto. Sarah might post later so I’m not going to talk about vocal recording or being done that much, except to say that the [...]