February 2010 Updates

So its February! Things are really heating up for me right now - we just played an awesome show at USC, and the subsequent party raised about $500 for Haiti, and the foundation we donated to matched it dollar-for-dollar, so around $1,000 is going down to those folks.

In other news, some of you may have noticed that more netlabels are releasing "To Build A Fire", our 2009 LP. This is an experimental marketing tactic I'm trying out - instead of being signed to one, exclusive label, I'm releasing it through multiple, "non-exclusive" labels. Think of it as a double-barrelled shotgun as opposed to a sniper rifle. Anyway, I'm almost done mixing our new album! This, I feel, is the album I SHOULD have written instead of "To Build A Fire". TBAF was mainly auto-biographical, about a failed relationship with someone with too many problems to fix, loosely shrouded in a metaphor of being lost in an icy landscape.

This new album is a concept album about me communicating with my future self to prevent the end of the world. Its not over-bearing, and this concept won't be immediately apparent. This album sounds a lot more, well, "post human"; very industrial and electronic; gritty and digital.

This will be the first album we will formally shop to record labels, radio stations, what have you. Very exciting times indeed. Aside from all that, I'm also building a new recording studio, where I will produce a few new side-projects with some very talented singers.

Alright! That's enough for now. Have a good day, and remember to keep speeding up.

Daniel