Segue

No river too wide. No valley too low. No mountain too high. And so on. As I stand here in this photo, inviting my own scorn at myself for being one of “those” kinds of musicians that wear their own band’s t-shirt designs, there is a fair amount of activity taking place beyond these misty peaks. I’m currently on holiday, and doing some travel writing, in New Zealand. As I hike and climb mountains, ski and jump off of bridges and all of that, there is an equally exciting amount of things happening back in the studio.

First up, the Segue remix of “Guise” for Vitreous is out soon, and straight after that will come a Segue original track. The night before I ran to the airport I was up late furiously rendering out the stems and sounds for three great remixers, two of which are familiar collaborators both locally and overseas and one of which is a great up and coming talent. While Im off sauntering around the snow and falling off of cliff faces, they are busy at work flipping “Coming Around” with their own unique sound, while the final mixdown of this classic Segue live set track awaits my fresh ears on return.

There are some other remixes and collaborations awaiting me when I get back, which takes the sting out of ending a holiday a little, but Im keeping one ear to the ground while im travelling also. Literally in the case of some amazing field recordings we made while hiking around the Hooker and Tasman glaciers recently. If you’ve ever heard the incredible scope and scale of ice crashing, crunching and smashing itself to bits, then you might gather I’m both excited and perplexed at the idea of cutting some samples out of stuff like this. Which is for another time. For now, back to it!

Tags: New Zealand, Remix, Vitreous

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