So I was in the midst of working on a remix when all of a sudden the lights went out, as did my monitors. The laptop carried on thanks to its battery, and the ProTools MBox runs off USB so it was fine. The hard drive, however, shuts off. Emergency […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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And it is at my home station, CiTR Radio in Vancouver: Futureghosts is #21 on this week’s top 30 chart.
So, as is so often the case, the best ideas come late at night when I’m trying to fall asleep. This time, I was pondering how I want to be playing tambourine live on a couple songs, but want to avoid the massive bruising on my upper thigh that I […]
Shot all over Vancouver. “Caution” is from the new EP Futureghosts, available as a free download from http://maqlu.bandcamp.com. Futureghosts was released on April 30, 2012.
Person A points out that industrial grew out of the punk scene and is therefore very much rooted in a smash the sacred cows ethos. It should piss people off. It should be dangerous. Person B says oh, but the punk scene grew out of the hippie movement, therefore industrial […]
All I reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally want to see is a total eclipse of the sun… except it pissed rain all day today here in Vancouver. So much for that.
Years ago in art school I recall a discussion where the prof was telling us about an interview he saw with Basquiat. The interviewer was asking the usual sorts of inane questions and Basquiat was answering, albeit whilst stuffing his face with French fries. Chewing and mumbling, and refusing to […]
Killer review of Futureghosts from Brushvox, saying Futureghosts is a “journey of exploration beyond the borders of Industrial and Electronic music, beyond the borders of conventional and boredom.” Read the whole thing here: http://brushvox.com/2012/05/maqlu-futureghosts-ep-2012/
Well, my Crackberry is a terrible camera for far-away things, gotta get a new point and shoot real camera, but I did get a couple decent shots from tonight’s Rammstein show at Rogers Arena in Vancouver: Just over an hour and a half for the main set, plus two encores. […]
Dude. If you’re gonna have a DJ set before your show, that’s cool, but don’t just play remixes of the songs we’re all impatiently waiting for the actual headliners to come out and actually play. Talk about Department of Redundancy Department. This isn’t a warm-up, it’s a piss-off. Have a […]
Loosely inspired by chatting with @chaos_darling on Twitter earlier, who described hearing a neighbor’s wretched guitar playing that sounded like the guitar was being anally raped. Me, I have a sick and twisted mind that likes to imagine things literally, so this is what went through my mind: First, you […]
Sorry, you still suck. [Or wank, depending how one wishes to interpret the gesture here.] Your teenybopper fans have moved on to worshipping Carly Rae Jepsen instead, but don’t think that Marilyn Manson’s fan base will flock to you in their place with your new look. Doesn’t work that way. […]
Presuming it’s still 1985, that is. Programming drums into the drum machines. I’m used to my Yamaha RX8, which is from the early ’90s and arcane enough but the RX15 is a real relic. In some ways the RX15 is much simpler than the RX8 – fewer sounds, no non-drum […]