September Momentum

I'm happy to report that I'm back on the listening / reacting train with a new system, so you can be assured if you're sending me music that I'm listening to it (as for promo pools, I'm still working on that one). The trick for me is downloading tracks right when they come in, and listening in batches. Flagging emails to download check later doesn't work, because the back log builds up too quickly and gets overwhelming, and I then I spend time clicking on dead links a month too late. Listening immediately doesn't work either because I don't always have time when I'm checking my email (or I don't have my headphones handy).

There is *so much* dance music being released every day. I can see why some DJ's hide out in a subgenre ("You know, I *only* listen to German techno composed with sounds from the original Atari 2600 game machine" etc.) as that's one effective way to filter out lots of music. As you can see from the playlist below (Sep. 2008 Jondi & Spesh present Loöq Radio), we're more in the generalist category.

Some comments on the tracklist ... "Ice Worlds" is a really fantastic track, incredibly beautiful (though it's pretty mellow - I suspect it would clear a dance floor faster than a super-burrito fart) ... "Feels Good" by Discolupe has some cheeky exercise samples and is just FUN ... the James Talk Remix of NuWav is one of those deceptively simple tracks that packs a huge punch - it's HARD to pack that much energy into a track without getting too head-bangy or cheesy ... "Axel" from IB's label Magnolia Recordings is subtle but wonderful ... Yellowcake (that's me) remix of Silencefiction's "Lipstique" is doing well on the dance floor ... and everything else is "the good stuff" too.

01 Sebastian Davidson - Ice Worlds [Out of The Box]
02 Louse - Axel [Magnolia]
03 Nikola Gala - Blueberry - Stryke's Deep Blue Mix [Plastic City]
04 Alex Schmitz - Beat Goes Boom - LMP Mix [Bomb Squad]
05 Discolupe - Feels Good - Phunk Investigation Remix [Oven Ready]
06 DJ Dao - Minimal Dolls - Original Mix [Morphosis]
07 Felix Stone - NuWav - James Talk Remix [Polytechnic]
08 Silencefiction - Lipstique - Yellowcake Remix [Looq]
09 Mashtronic - Converted [Mashtronic]
10 Roke DJ - Transitions - Alex Guerrero Mix [Beat Freaks]
11 Fady Ferray - Beirut - Original Mix [Frisky]

To break up this giant block of text, here is a picture of Spesh from Darren & Steph's wedding, Kia is checking out his cool yellow shoes:

Other music stuff -

Release dates on Loöq:

Silencefiction "Lipstique" on 9/22
Momu "Window" single on 10/6, with remixes by PQM, Jason Knight, and Jondi & Spesh
Momu "Momentum"" album on 10/22

Studio update:

Jondi & Spesh - really pleased about our remix of Window, mentioned above - for some reason I just started playing it out even though we finished it awhile back - anyway I'm pleased with the way it sounds. I've been studying The Mix Engineer's Handbook and I think it may be beginning to pay off in mixdown land.

Scott Carrelli and I have a great sketch in progress which will be the follow up "Moyer & Carrelli" release to "Maximum Fine"

Kevin Knapp and I have a new track in progress for "Slow Poke" which will comprise our 2nd EP, following up on "Broken Line"

Working on some new sketches with cello and live drums, not sure what pot they're going into yet.

Enjoying the new Cubase update (4.51), and Kore 2.

Other stuff:

My friend Stephanie Morgan started a blog about having less stuff:

http://100lessthings.blogspot.com/

Kia and I used her system, getting rid of 10 things a day from our house for 10 days, and had so much fun we repeated the whole process three more times. That's 400 things we got rid of! It sounds like a lot but it's not that hard, especially if you live with someone or more than person, to divide up the task and each find a few items every day that you wouldn't mind throwing away, giving away, or recycling. I don't think we ever spent more than five a ten minutes a day, and our house looks *way* less cluttered. Kind of like our house lost some bodyfat and "leaned out."

What else ...

I finally joined Facebook (as "John David Moyer" - real name) and it's fun. A huge time sink if you let it be, but so what. I'm taking a self-imposed month off of video games so no Scramble or Tiny Adventures for me. Your nudges will go unanswered until Oct. 1.

My daughter Tesla Rose is getting big and learning lots of skills (like drawing skills, tetherball skills, nunchuck skills). OK, actually more like rolling over, and grabbing spoons. For a parent, it's amazing and fun. For other people, it's a baby doing baby stuff. She's cute and we love her.