Monday, November 12, 2007

Psy Dubstep Trance?!

So I've been getting really into the Dubstep sound, the dark and Grimey UK dance music that has been blowing up the past couple years. This, along with Psytrance, should keep dance music interesting for at least the next couple years. So I had an idea, what about mashing up Dubstep with Psytrance? They are almost polar opposites in terms of production approach, but their tempo range is the same (Dubstep being just a couple ticks slower on average), so I figured it would be an easy proposition to lay a couple tracks over each other. In short, wow! What a cool/complex sound they create together! I haven't heard of anyone doing this before, but I wouldn't be surprised if it catches on with DJs, and ultimately producers may start creating tracks that are the spirtual children of both Psytrance and Dubstep.

Still moving forward with my DVD production despite the troubles mentioned in my last post. I've decided on a name for the disc: Adventures in the Rainbow Vortex. I'm having trouble deciding on music content for the disc, if any. If I use commercial music, I'll have to first get permission, and I'd probably pay them something for every copy I sell. Ideally I'd like to team up with a Psytrance label looking for some extra promotion.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

personal emotional crap

today sucks. I'm still confused over the whirlwind of the past few days. My emotions were tugged tired, to the edge, and i felt like i had no choice in my actions. I felt like I was suffocating as I was faced with the reality of my only option...I lost a best friend. How did it happen? Like many things in the Universe, Love has simple mechanisms, but very complex interactions. I could write a book on it. In fact, in the amount of time I've spent in disorder from this dissonant situation, and never really getting anywhere with it, I could have made a lot of awesome stuff to help the world.
So I tried to distract myself with recording some VJing. I have a big gig tomorrow night so I planned on recording a live set tonight and playing back the render tomorrow night when i want to take a break. My computer crashed 30 minutes into recording a live set, rendering the whole thing unsaved. This happens a lot when i'm trying to record. I think it is bugs in the Arkaos event recorder. Pretty frustrating, which makes me wish i simply had a way to record my output to a DVD recorder or a camcorder. Good thing I have so much money. Ha. Money. Very funny.
I think today is just crapped, and I shouldn't try to do anything lest I want to get myself killed.