One of the things a blog should be about, and certainly for a band, is sharing some raw ideas. As I write a few different things for a few different publications week in and week out, I think I’ve let the original fun idea of a frequently used Segue blog fall into routine and a form of uniformity. Thankfully, I had a nice dose of inspiration on Friday night, heading out to catch the dual joys of Berlin Sessions at Bar Soma and Jody Wisternoff at Moon Bar. At the latter, Kris had a DJ set after Jody and ambitions to be entirely sober for it, and at the former it was great to catch up with the Logic lads and appreciate how far Nick and the crew have taken Bar Soma. So it was an interesting night. Kris dropped some originals, I lost my voice, various friends were escorted out of various venues and the usual collection of unprintable antics. I came home and threw together this little idea, before sleep overtook me and I eventually woke up wondering why I couldn’t speak anymore. I’m thinking it’s a voodoo curse. Or just talking loudly over loud music. In any case, here’s what I woke up to. It’s not a track. It’s an idea. And it’s about time to start sharing them more:

The name is literally the first thing I saw. Not being in much of a state to ponder deep and meaningful names at the time, and indeed, as per the picture above, being entertained at the time by a dancing Isobot robot in front of a rather moody lamp. Which is about all I really have to say on the matter.

First up a couple of snippets from the pre-masters of Reset and Forever. Kris and I worked on these ages ago but they got lost somewhere between here and the label, and we lost track of progress of the releases. Crazy I know, but it does happen. Thanks to the magic of internets and interwebz and even innawebz, these will be up on Beatport once Smashbang Records work their mastering magic and everything sounds sweet. For now, here’s a taste of whats to come.

Forever teaser

Reset teaser

Next up a little bit of a session from late last night. This is pretty raw but its only fitting to start giving some insight into whats happening in the studio. Kris has got me in to do a quick mixdown of his quite inspired track “Begin Again”. Id love to claim thats because my mixdowns have suddenly become magical overnight, but its more due to some issues with his DAW and my brand spanking new production tower. The original tune is a lovely slice of melodic progressive house with plenty of subtle twists and turns, as Kris is frustrating adept at. His other forte is big woosh build ups, which he eschews here and keeps it nice. Which is where I come in. Here’s one of at least 10 or so nasty directions I’ve taken it. This direction won’t make the cut for the remix I daresay, but the general groove sounded good at 3am. 

Begin Again (not a) Remix snippet 1

Begin Again (not a) Remix snippet 2

Apart from that I will be headed off to Vietnam shortly where I hope to get some field recordings and do some editing on the little Acer Aspire One we will be travelling with. Banging Cambodia progressive tech or bust.