… usual tweaking and weighing up the ‘what mastering can do versus a good mix’ with a couple of bands over email. Then started the ball rolling for album duplication quotes with the lovely Alan at Tapeline

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about Zola Jesus. I’m at it again. Totally derivative  (Joy Division, Banshees, Cure) but it really holds its own and takes you somewhere else. Clever Goths should adore this. I love the fact the video’s rubbish…. totally low budget ‘thing’.

Anyway: here we go

…Flex time failed in Logic.. weird…. so I had to import a file to a new Logic Project, then tweak the timing, then reimport. Anyhows, that was the Shortwave Fade tweak to end all tweaks.

Then another mix for One Cure For Man….. the word Tweak should be banned, but it’s so, well…. appropriate!

Tom Robinson on 6 Music played the WAA remix of Troels Abrahamsen’s End Scene we did last nite. Listen here. (1hr 51ish in)

.. a final tweak on the Levitate track thwarted by weird Logic Flex time behaviour, then the WAA remix I’m doing got twitchy when the external drive unmounted. I gave up.

In more (probably the last in a series of 2 ; ) ) hospital tinged videos, here’s Goldfrapp with one of the year’s best singles (get with it, I’m two years late)

A and E. Just lovely music and words.

Beautiful

A little time looking at sleeve ideas, then progressed with the WAA remix I started a couple of weeks back. Nice Linn drum machine beat and some electro blips. Feels good.

Had three Jamie Says tracks to tweak a little. Spent an hour doing a sleeve idea for the WAA album. Loved it. Wrong colour card, but John R has taken a great picture of an old train and it’s strong with what we’re trying to say. Ace.

A way to go but I mailed it to John for feedback.

Heard the new Bjork track today…. lovely contribution to  the Moomins movie. Totally fitting marriage, surely.

Had a few new mixes of Jamie Says tracks to master, and a couple of comments on the Kafkadiva tracks to act upon.. last night’s mix was pretty much there which is nice… very rough and ready.

John R and I are thinking hard about the sleeve for the WAA album……..

Lovely blog from Peter Wyeth about tape… rather nicely gathers the ace-ness of it

Tonight, back on the Kafkadiva mixing trail. Enjoyed throwing up virtual faders and went weird on their ass. Too weird perhaps, but before I had chance to straighten it out, I stopped.

John R has been mailing me great ideas for the WAA album sleeve. Exciting.. just got to make them!

Debates over drum replacement yielded a successful mix OK from One Cure For Man… so mastered that track. They want me to mix the other 3 tracks on the EP now.

Emailed the Logic Studio questions off for the Logic revision Iphone app, then downloaded some more Kafkadiva files and prepped that mix.

John R had a great idea about cassette sleeve : note pad with cassette shape carved out. .. cassette inside it…Not sure we’d be able to do it but ace idea!