working working working

tonight i've made a bunch of samples using old stuff I recorded and arranged in Live. i've got a bunch of guitar-sourced samples that feel like BoC synths, which is good. I've got a few rhythm samples that sound like Aphex, which were surprisingly easy to make (so much for imagining him spending horrendously long sequencing in 1/64ths). I've got some stuff that started as circuit-bending an alphabet-button toy thing from Value Village (with Alison), that actually... sounds as though I might be able to use it for something.

All of these samples I'm collecting are giving me hope that I'll be able to do this album. I think I've got enough stuff to start working on the first bit of (Hate). I'm not going to have to force myself to do anything with my shitty keyboard because the guitar samples sound great for that sort of thing. I'm not going to have to force myself to record plastic-pickle-barrel-percussion with makeshift soft mallets made of broken drumsticks and a facecloth and hockey tape.... because I've got some weird percussion stuff already (like this). I love that sample.... thanks for letting me use your voice, owen.. and for being there when I made it.

I'm really hoping I can get Kaj's drum kit... that would make this whole thing doable... and.. much less daunting. Of course, I could probably do with the drums I've got in sylvan... only.. then I'd have to do a lot of editing to get it sounding "right".

I've got a guitar melody that I'm working on also... I'm going to play it with some Mice Parade-ish rhythm and lay some really frantic drumming behind it (probably with hands on different surfaces... no sticks or anything, I want it to sound... really, really organic).

There might be a lot of auto-paning (or stereo tremolo, some might call it) on this album.. i think. I hope I don't overdo it (or anything, for that matter).