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Well I must say it has been a powerful and challenging month…better make that 6 months…okay the entire past year. My will as well as all those around me has been tested, the limits of exhaustion have been met and surpassed, tough decisions have been made, and emotions have been raw. As a result creativity has had a way of coming in waves. First crashing so hard it is hard to keep riding, than rolling back leaving me with the sometimes confusing decision of where to go next. Right now, however, all things are starting fresh and in this I have absolutely no doubt. I may have proclaimed myself an atheist, but I still believe in synchronicity, and that patterns and coincidences do exist and they can lead us in the right directions if we pay attention. This is my own version of “everything happens for a reason” which I don’t believe is exactly the case. What I do believe in is logic and the possibility of order when the combination of people, nature, and machines work together in harmony. It is in these situations that humans are capable of what seems impossible, and it is in these cases that coincidences and “signs” seem to pop up all around. Recently has certainly been one of those times.

With that being said, I’ve been hard at work finishing up the debut Progtronica album. We have a cover, most of the tracks are done, and I’m just deciding whether I want to add some of the new things I’ve been working on. Here are my two most recent video/tracks, both with a different feel and tempo then where my comfort zone usually resides. This has not been a time for “comfort zones” anyway.
This first one is called “Five Four on the Floor”, a house track in 5/5 with a kind of Brazilian feel. I’m mixing 7 tracks in Ableton Live using the Novation Launchpad while playing the drums live. No post production on this, fully live.

This second one is a live remix of my recent track “Candle that Burns From Both Ends”. On this one I decided to film it outside at sunset with no power cables used at all. The controllers are running off the computer’s battery through USB and I’m hearing the sound from a boombox. Ableton Live Anywhere!