In the land of broken dreams.

I know I'm posting on a weird day, but I was done with the track so what the hell.

Here's the first song to grace this blog that isn't a remix or an experiment of some kind, it's just an honest to god new Son of Rust song in my usual style that I'm sure will appeal to people who like Son of Rust and my usual style.

The past two weeks or so have really been tough, and that's good for my muse... she's definitely a sadist, as she only really speaks when I'm miserable. This has been a problem for me as anyone who listens to my music generally thinks "oh god, somebody please give that pathetic sad sack a hug!" when in real life I'm fairly up-beat. When she's working she doesn't mess around, though... this song was one of the easiest to write I've ever had the pleasure of recording. It just wrote itself from start to finish without any thrashing, forcing, or nervous twitching of any kind. It's highly unusual that I don't spend two days beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how to make a track sound like it's supposed to, and the last one I can remember being so easy was Violator. Hopefully, "easy to write" translates to "really effing good." I'll leave it up to you. :P

Oh, and not to sound desperate or anything but it would be really nice if you could comment if you're reading this so I know I'm not screaming into a vacuum. That's a funny image if you picture like, a hoover vacuum.

"In the Land of Broken Dreams"
I can feel you breathing
when everything goes wrong
will you be standing with me
when the world comes crashing down

remember winter evening
when everything went wrong
you put your arms around me
they played our favorite song

the call of chaos frees me
and every angel screams
will you be standing with me
in the land of broken dreams

(one rose at the altar of her
one blink and your ten years older)

I can feel you breathing
when everything goes wrong
and I still know you're near me
when the world comes crashing down

remember winter evening
when everything went wrong
you put your arms around me
they played our favorite song

the wind of chaos frees me
lays waste to all my fragile things
can your tainted ears still hear me
in the land of broken dreams

(one love lying on your shoulder
one blink and your five years older
one rose at the altar of her
one blink and your ten years older)

Some things that might jump out at you that need improvement: my @%2?#% awesome rode NT mic bit the dust so I'm using a Shure SM57 for the vocals - musicians in the audience will know that this is a great stage mic but the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as studio work goes. I also still don't know how to master things properly so the eqing may be a little out of whack on your system.

Missed one....

Okay, so it's my first week without a new track. I've been recovering from the show, and after putting on a big one I'm always dragged into an existential malaise that owns me for a week or two... I guess it's kind of a post partum depression thing.

Regardless, I hope to be back to my old tricks next week. I fully intend on actually putting together something shiny and new and SoR worthy, now that I've got my good mic back so I can lay down some honest vocals... so there'll be that to look forward to. Don't give up on me yet, dear listeners, I'm sure I have a few more good ones left in me.

It always leaves me desperate....

Okay, so I'm a day late on this post. The truth is I actually had this song ready yesterday, but I completely forgot that it was Thursday. That's life without a 9-5, all the days just kind of blur together like the previous night after a serious bender... that description seems more apt then it probably should.

Anyway, I've been spending most of my time trying to get ready for the Son of Rust show with Assemblage 23, which means that most of the music work I've been doing centers around making a spicy live show. Last time I rehearsed with Jason while we were playing my Violator mix he gave me this look like "ummmmm....". You see, I had mentioned to him that I had "hardened up" the mixes a bit to make the live songs a little more dance-able. I got the impression that he still thought Violator sounded.. well... a little gay.

I decided to rectify the matter by putting together this mix, which combines all three of my "new tech" elements (vocoding, side-chain, and my new soft-synth the ReFX "Nexus"). It's along the same lines as the Highest Cost VF Mix in the fact that it's meant to stomp you into submission. Let me know if I succeeded. :P

This one isn't for download. Come to the show on the 22nd if you want to hear it in all it's live glory. :P