David’s Adventures Through the World of Music Creation and Sonic Exploration

2008 has kicked off at an amazing speed. I do spend too much time at the office and haven’t had the time, inspiration nor excitement to start working with the pile of projects Fred has managed to get his hands on. My old DAW (a trusty Pentium 4 running at 2,8GHz) started to throw exceptions over and over resulting in dull blue screens so it wasn’t really that much fun working with it. And, when my studio space in the apartment is rather limited I turned to software since they only take up hard disk space (and the space on the shelf for the box, unless it’s a download version) and that didn’t really do wonders on the already tired processor.

I’ve finally invested in a new casing, new motherboard, processor, memory, hard disks, everything. It’s a Core 2 Quad at 2,4GHz with 4GB’s of RAM running a 64 bit operating system, and it’s really nice to work with. Waldoft Edition wouldn’t install though, but I’ve contacted the support and they will produce a 64 bit installer. Thank you!

I started working with a remix for the Swedish artist, Pandora, and when I needed a certain sound, I could just load a new instance of Native Instruments Massive or Gforce Minimonsta and start to program it not worrying about overloading the CPU.

When the Massive Disco Monsta Remix of “Don’t You Know” is finished, I’ll be turning to a track by Adam Tensta. As I said, 2008 has started at an amazing speed.

The first official mindXpander remix is ready - almost. Ta-ta!
I took on a Space Project track called “The Return of Space Raiders” and you can read some info about the remixes in this forum thread. There is an EP to be released in January 2008 so if you want the latest mindXpander creation - get the CD! I haven’t decided on a name for the remix yet and “mindXpander’s Remix” might be a little too cliché - right? Perhaps I’ll go with “mX Remix”. We’ll see.

Sooo…
It’s a bit different (but different is good - right?) from the typical mindXpander sound since I lost almost my complete sound library in a double disk crash a little while ago, but I think I’ve managed pretty good with this one and I’m now ready to take on the mindXpander CD Patrik and I have lined out. I’ll keep you posted on the release of the “The Return of the Space Raiders” EP.

The competion has closed and all the remixes are now online over at Erasureinfo.com.

If you want to listen to the three remixes Patrik and I did you can simply follow this link to the official Cut & Paste post.

Like them or not? Let us now. You can post comments both over at Cutpaste.org, here, and at Patrik’s mi7.com account =)

Time to tweak some synths before bedtime.

I’m finally working with one of my all-time favourite bands; Erasure.

What I’m doing is that I’m actually trashing the well-written song “When a Lover Leaves You”. Not sure whether they’ll like it or not, but it’s nice to at least have gave one of their songs a try. It’s for a contest, but still.

They won’t get one remix either. They’ll get three. I mean, why not?

On the wishlist of todo’s:
. An official remix or co-production with the Pet Shop Boys
. Writing a song for Sarah Brightman
. Remix Erasure

I’ll upload some more music later, I’m on vacation now so I got plenty of time to be in the studio.

Take care