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After a brief hiatus from creating new Progtronica tracks while I’ve been mixing and mastering the debut record, a new bomb live track has dropped: “Candle That Burns From Both Ends”. This track is dedicated to the past 2 weeks of craziness involving a massively busy schedule, a properly extreme Las Vegas hiatus with no sleep followed by a surreally extreme traffic jam in death valley. While staying at the Hard Rock Hotel (highly recommended for partying fun in Vegas) My wife and I met up with Dj extraordinaire Tatiana Alvarez late at night and talked music until dawn. The conversation inspired me to delve into the land of 4 on the floor house beats, something I love to play, but rarely compose. This deep dark House boomer is what came out. In the original video below I mixing 8 tracks on Ableton Live using the Novation Launchpad while playing drums live on Roland V-Drums. I whipped this video out in a daze over the course of a past weekend and it is meant as just a rough cut. I usually like to commit something new to finished recording as soon as possible, and then refine it later after I’ve had some personal distance from the creative process. Later I refined the tracks and remixed it live outside using no power cords. The result is the featured video on top of the post. Booty shaker no doubt.