![]() Many years ago, I met through a common friend (Hi Neil Evans!) Barry Jamieson, who is a big music production influence to me and has worked on remixes for Madonna, New Order, Depeche Mode, UNKLE and Seal (for which he was co-nominated for a Grammy). May 11th, 2019 | Original blog entry date BARRY JAMIESON (Mono Electric Orchestra) TO REMIX “VULCAN”, FALL RELEASE SCHEDULED Definitely feels like my best effort so far as Abstrakt.Digital. Everything feels super last minute but I’m feeling good about the final result. We are super tight on time, so Noel actually did a quick mix on it and added a few transitions and we sent it off to Thomas Penton to master it and send me back the mixed and mastered stems to use for my live show. ![]() Also added some pads from my Nord Lead 2 and the track sounds a bit more like “me” now to my ears. I have been back in my Brooklyn digs for a few days, and was able to re-record some of the parts on some gear that I did not have with me in Italy, I added some Moog Sub 37 Bass swells and layered the main riff with it. I love having “finished music” that sonically sounds on par to other music in the genre, but the truth is I kind of enjoy the most making music on the fly that has no structure and is just improvised. The traditional “Release Ready Track” process might not be what I’m in this game to do. It’s funny watching Instagram videos from early on in the process because I still have this feeling of “It was actually better when it was just a live jam”, so I think that might be something I need to explore. So I’d open up the project from weeks before and start from there, losing weeks at the time of work, making me hate myself, the track and the whole process. I already have a job, therefore I don’t like making music feeling like a job, or it feels like I might as well work on my business if it feels like “work” and not “music making fun”.Īnyway, I think there were 2 or 3 times that I just completely overworked the track and then had to admit to myself “IT WAS BETTER 10 DAYS AGO”. Deadlines make me feel like I have a job to do. Deadlines seem to bring this “old way of working (and never finishing) music”. However, I started overworking it, which is something I don’t usually do, due to the fact that I felt a real deadline coming up and also started to create this enormous pressure in my mind that the first track had to be SO GOOD… that maybe the audience would forget the rest of it was not… as good? These sounds like the ramblings of an insecure madman, but that is the kind of exact roadblocks that send me down a path of frustration and creative obstacles that I experienced for many years. It started like all my other music, a live jam, lots of mistakes and all, but the main hook pretty much was there and honestly, most of the track was there in the first week or so. I started working on Vulcan a few months ago for a very simple reason: I had been booked to play a live show during Miami Music week, however I didn’t have enough music finished to actually play! This put me in a position of stress and honestly I have had some real interesting revelations during the music making process of this track. March 19th, 2019 | Original blog entry date Scroll to the bottom of this page to see Instagram embeds of how this track progressed “VULCAN” DONE… JUST IN TIME FOR MIAMI! The main riff is one of the first musical ideas I have had on my new Ableton Push 2 Controller, which is really much more than just a controller, it really feels like an instrument on its own, it’s very inspiring… I have started working on the “track missing from my live set” and have this little jam coming together which I’m calling VULCAN, like the Roman God of Fire and Volcanoes, since this is my “Made in Italy” first track, Rome to be exact, which is also where I grew up. January 3rd, 2019 | Original blog entry date Please Note: The following entry is a combination of multiple posts I wrote as this piece of music developed from a live jam to a full release ![]() Journaling my music making experience has been interesting because it makes me re-live the process in a pretty detached way, and in a weird way I experience it as if it didn’t happen to me when I read back on it □
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