Permanent Drift

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Wearing shades, drinking Starbucks, shopping at Apple. #jumpoffabuilding

@ the vous. 2 new tunes mastered. Celebrating.

Today’s Activities

1. Printed flyers to advertise my gig at Design Does.

2. Put them up in Terra, Blick, and Tequila Sunrise Records.

3. Got a lot of good feedback from Anthony Vogdes (owner, Tequila Sunrise Records), specifically related to printmaking and creating a series of vinyl releases that relate to each other over the lifetime of the label. All the records he puts out on TSR follow a cohesive design scheme, regardless of the artist. It’s something an artist who signs to the label has to be comfortable with, and I think it’s good design and good business. It was a really good talk and we also got to reminisce  about the golden era of skateboarding and he hipped me to the Vienna Aktionists (fair warning: this link contains potentially offensive material).

4. Record Store Day is tomorrow. This is the kind of crass commercialism that I despise. Everyday is record store day for me. I don’t go out to shop records once a year just to get some over-priced Blur single to display on the sideboard next to my fine china and Japanese fans. I hate this kind of crap.

5. Did some final tweaking to the laser-cutter files for my jackets. Instead of laser-scoring the spine, it will be scored by hand. This will make it look more professional, but adhere to the independent values of Waxfarmer Recordings. Also picked up a couple new colors of railstock to play with.

6. I got someone else’s dubplate in the mail today. Pretty good tunes, but they’re not mine, so I need to sort that out with the cutter. But hey, free dubplate! (These are just dubplates, not my vinyl tests. DO NOT PANIC.)

Preliminary flyer design for April 30th show.

Preliminary flyer design for April 30th show.

Two different colors, glued and almost retail ready.

Two different colors, glued and almost retail ready.

This is the back of a laser-cut 12” jacket. Setting up the laser cutter and files took some adjustment, and at the end of the day I only had time to make 3 of these. By the end of the month, I hope to have 20 of them in 4 different colors: orange, blue, yellow, and black.

This is the back of a laser-cut 12” jacket. Setting up the laser cutter and files took some adjustment, and at the end of the day I only had time to make 3 of these. By the end of the month, I hope to have 20 of them in 4 different colors: orange, blue, yellow, and black.

Front

Front

Trotec Laser Cutter

Just reserved time on the Trotec at NextFab Studio. Laser-cut vinyl jackets coming Wednesday.

First sale!

Waxfarmer.com has had a slight increase in traffic lately, and last night, it got its first mp3 sale! I’m two dollars richer!

Weekend Activity

It was hard to be productive this weekend, what with my current financial situation. However, I managed to get a couple things done:

1. Finished dubplate mixes of four tunes, sent them to Turnstyle Recordings for cutting.

2. Sent those dubmixes to Pena Anthony of Droppin’ Science.

Also, I unearthed this tune from last year. This sound is a mix of skratched drums and leads that I was working on in late 2009. The vocals are from a Daniel Johnston tune. Needless to say, due to it’s sample-heavy nature, this tune will not be getting an official release but here it is for free!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wdlmtn2kgfm/The Johnstonville Massacre.mp3

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