The EPs coming along great! I'm so excited to release it. As of now its self-titled, but that may change. Hype & I have been hard @ work. I took a trip up to Covington last Thursday & we recorded some demo vocals. Nothing we're going to keep. Actually, I sampled some of the material of our vocals to use for interludes between beats.
The thing that gets me the most excited about this record is the history embedded in it. Not only the time it took to make, but the collage of samples that make the music. To think that with every sample, you're capturing a moment. Whether its a moment of someone else's past; be it a snare hit, a guitar note, an organ line, etc. You're taking that moment & intertwining them with other people's sounds & history. Then there's your own history. I sampled old freestyles I've done with my friend Andrew year's ago in Newark. And lines from old JBTC accapellas of Emcee Hype. Plus, the good old movie samples. There's history in all of that. And it's awesome.
I'm really digging the flow of the record. I feel it tells a story & the vocals bring it all home. Hype is really pulling no punches with this record. He's got some great story-telling on this one. And he's got a real solid flow going.
I'm gonna be heading up to Bennett Studios within the next two weeks to meet with our sound engineer, Aaron Gagnon (DJ Gumshu). I'm gonna be giving him all the original beats & we're gonna load them into Pro Tools. I'm then gonna add all the keyboard, guitar, & turntable parts to the beats so they're fully complete. Aaron's then gonna mixed the beats as a whole. After that's done, we're going to get another session set up for Hype to lay down his vocals in the booth. This way we get clean studio vocals. I think we're gonna mix them ourselves in Cool Edit (that's right) afterwards.
That's about it for now. Keep coming back. The summer's gonna be hot & we'll give you something to listen to through the heat. Check our our myspace to: www.myspace.com/thewinethieves.
Tentative song titles:
Poor Man's Boogie
Ode to Milosz
Shitty Fox
Hippy Girl
Egomaniac
There's gonna be about seven tracks total. That's it.
Peace, Party
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