Progress...

The new record is getting close. Aiming to place final touches next week, so we can spend all of May:

- deciding what new songs we will add to our live set

- visualizing and imagining how those songs will translate

- sampling every sound and note that will be performed into either my Akai Z4 or SP303

- strategically assigning each sample to the key or pad of my choosing to be played back w/ my pretty red keyboard or my ugly black keyboard (i painted it) or my ugly black pad (i painted it too)...

- sampling all sound Ash will trigger w/ his Roland SPD-S

- rehearsing, then rehearsing again, then rehearsing like everyday

- shooting videos of Bear and BlackFace (the little people in the boxes) so they can be seen live

- deciding light show trigger placements for the new songs

- imagining how to streamline our production (5 vintage televisions, 6 light boxes - 2 par cams each, 1 100ft. strand of industrial light bulb lamps and 3 light triggers) into something a little more manageable...

All... in preparation for Bonnaroo in June (and a few sick shows leading up)!

C U there.
-joel