Equinox is coming...
My hope is that I have "new" music to release every Spring. This year, it's a remixed and remastered collection of instrumental pieces I did with my good friends Ken and Tony in 2010. Ken is the drummer and recording/mixing engineer from
Keep Doing (2018). Tony is more known for his
visual artistry, such as his work on the film
Coraline (2009) and the stop motion videos for
Scrimshander (2014) and
Eeels (2018). Both these guys are way more into experimental music and than I am, but together we found a cool balance.
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MMX - previously referred to as "untitled" - started as a multi-location recording experiment where we'd do something minimal and then pass to the next person. The first tack, for example, was a piece
Ken started, flipped to me (
D), then I flipped to
Tony. We took our favorite versions of KTD, TDK, DKT etc and found ourselves with something we thought sounded pretty cool. It hasn't really been shared beyond our circle of friends. Those who did hear it either streamed it off my old shitty website or had some other lower quality mp3 format of these un-mastered tracks. Revisiting these pieces and cleaning them up has been a cool experience. To be able to share this stuff with the world in a week or so is pretty exciting.
Ideally, we'll be following it up next year with another collection of instrumental stuff aptly named
MMXX. I'm way more into ambient shit these days so I'm expecting to put together 30-45 minutes of something nice and ethereal with these noise nerds, but I'm just as excited to be blindsided with something surprisingly different as well.
We decided we're called
DKTKTD, which you could pronounce as "dick-ticketed" if you like.
Thanks for reading.