Crime Never Pays

Another project for 2011! Awesome! This time round, I’m supplying some music and ambient noise for a video game level that Binky is making as part of his degree. The game itself has been described to me as being like “28 Days Later but with werewolves and set in neo-China”. This quite clearly being the best exposition that I have ever heard. I can visualise a full theatrical trailer even better than the recent one for Dead Island (if you haven’t watched it then, well… do so!). The preview above clearly shows off some of the setting and stylistic decisions for the level – now imagine it with some creepy, droney, glitchy, horrific ambient noise behind it all. That’s my job:

Just after everything went tits up.

This is just a little snapshot of one of the setups that I was using to create some sounds last weekend, and as the caption and my post from Friday alluded to, things went a little awry. My adaptor decided to stop working (no idea whatsoever why that should be the case) and so I didn’t get a whole lot done, but it’s fine again now. I’m hoping to start recording the music for this project, or demos at least, throughout March. As soon as I have something to show, I’ll post it here.

P.s. for any tech-heads out there, the equipment in the above photo (L-R) is:
Top Row: Dwarfcraft Devices Shiva, Audible Disease Convulsion CN-2, Devi Ever Bit Mangler
Middle Row: Behringer Xenyx 1002, FM3 buddha Machine, Ibanez CS5, Audible Disease Rupture RP-2, Ibanez AD-9, Behringer FD300, Audible Disease Junk-Fi JF-2, M.A.S.F. SCM
Bottom Row: Korg Electribe EA-1 Mkii, BugBrand μCrusher, Korg Electribe ER-1 Mkii

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Get low.

My blogging time this weekend is going to be severely impeded, what with working, back-to-back gigs, trying to spend some time with the girlfriend, attempting to prepare Call of Cthulhu for next week and job hunting. That being said, I will try my best. For today, however, I would just like to plug tonight’s gig one final time:

Hitchin’s infamous Club 85 from 7:45 the mighty BlackEye headline with support from Inner Hatred, Embers of Angels and Black Polaris who kindly thought of me when looking for someone to fill in their vacant bassist position. I”mma get low… (sorry for the picture guys!)

I get to use my full range of pedals tonight (always good for a laugh) as my daisy chain power adaptor decided that actually it wasn’t dead, just resting, as well as one of these bad boys:

Cheers JD!