What a fun week. I've been in the studio most of my waking hours (which admittedly, haven't been that many - this rainy weather makes me sleep in) and I think we've mixed down six tracks in the past few days ("we" including Jondi & Spesh, JSJ, and Momu). Jerry and Spesh and I finished our new track "Aeolian," another monster track - it clocks in at a deep/discoey 125 but is filled with wall of sound stuff that should fill the room quite nicely, definitely has a similar feel to Deep Love 9 and Ghost of You in terms of production, but breaks some new ground in the way it integrates voice. Also we totally redid "Motion Sensor" which had been sitting untouched on the hard drive for about a year. The bassline is much more aggressive now - that one should be a stomper too. So those are off to Marcus at Renaissance today, we'll see what he says.

In terms of Jondi & Spesh we finished "Back Alive". We brought Alysoun Quinby back in to sing (she's the vocalist on both Jondi & Spesh "The Sway" and Momu's "The Dive") and of course she sounds totally fantastic. I wrote the lyrics in my hotel room in Bern the night before my dad went into surgery - that's what they're about, if you didn't know that you might think it was some knife/death/sleep fetish thing (but I guess that's ok too). As an aside my dad is recovering well and is now back home - thanks everyone who asked about him and offered their support. They only let him eat fish and vegetables at the cardiac rehab place so he ordered a pizza and beer for his first dinner back at home. So there's a breaks mix of Back Alive that isn't too shabby either, just Mark and Spesh with copies of that one for the moment.

Then of course there's "The Answer." Excuse me for patting our own backs but what a stonker. We started with a sketch I did in Geneva on the iBook, filled it out with lots of meaty parts, and then Spesh busts out with some lyrics (I thought he was just checking his email, again, but then he says "hey dood, I've got some lyrics for that song). I read the lyrics and didn't have any idea what they meant but I really liked them. So we found a melody and Spesh laid down a temp vocal track. It didn't sound half bad. We brought in Nathan to the studio to really sing it, and he sounded pretty good, but we kept going back to the temp track and it just fit with the song, so after eleven or twelve takes Spesh got the notes more or less right and we're sticking with it. Now we're thinking it might belong on the al-bom (which, by the way, we actually got a concrete offer on, finally, but please don't ask us about the release date yet - [if you like you can choose a release date and visualize/pray/attempt to manifest it yourself, and that will probably be about as accurate as us guessing - in fact, we highly encourage that approach, our preference would be sometime this year]).

As for the Momu stuff I'll save that for thisismomu.com whenever we launch it, I think I've made this post long enough even for those of you who are still reading. I'll just say that we've got a stack of cd's with remix parts that will keep our to do list full for awhile, but all the original tracks are fantastic so we're looking forward to all of them. Currently working on "Brindivan." But we also want to squeeze in a little time to work on our epic civil war commemorative track "Antietam" which promises to be very very strange.