Recently ordered from Taiwan, I picked up a copy of Mint Royale’s “Dancehall Places”, the follow-up to their amazing first record “On The Ropes”. This motherfucker is packed with some seriously heavy disco shit, as well as some slow jams for the ladies. This isn’t a music review blog, I’m aware, but just know that I’m recommending this because I can’t stop listening to it myself. Good luck pirating it, nobody has it or gives a shit (at least I think), so do us all a favor and just buy the motherfucker! Trust me, it’s worth it.

Mint Royale: Dancehall Places

I managed to pick up the Japanese import of the album, so there are a couple of awesome b-sides. Check out “Floor Basics”, “54″, “I Don’t Know”, or “Sexiest Man In Jamaica”.

All mad heaters.

So yeah, it’s mp3′s. I really didn’t think anyone would care that much, but apparently folks do. So, at the moment, I’m encoding the tracks exactly how I did before, only WAV. Beyond that, there’s really not much room to complain on account that:

A) The samples I’ve used were recorded on tape. A long time ago. So sound quality there is helpless.

B) With that in mind, it sounds ridiculous to have ultra hi-res shit over low-res shit. It just doesn’t sound right. So, you try your best to mix and master to a comfortable medium which would lie within the confines of the 48/16 wav’s that will be posted shortly.

I do appreciate the attention to detail and quality, however. It’s good to know that there are some people out there who still give a shit about sound quality.

It should be all available within the next day or two. Check it out.

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The first tracks available are “Plastic and Flashing Lights” and “Ambition”.

Let’s see what everyone can come up with…. This will be cool. Really cool.

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Just the pics. Hopefully PK will come delete this line and add something worthwhile shortly.

Thursday, February 12th, Braydon (Dr. Gottem Fupa) and I will be playing a set of my stuff at the Elbo Room in Chicago. The past several days have been spent synthesizing an array of samples and patches and project files to make for a live performance. The most unique and likely the most challenging part of doing this kind of music live in any “musical” sense is having to deconstruct a composition in order to understand how to actually perform it. Since I want to change things up instead of just playing exactly what’s recorded, the effort has been spent in creating a little more of an erratic wackiness.

Between this and school, it’s been difficult to keep up. Really, I don’t have much of an excuse, I feel like I’m being lazy, but I spend hours each day working on this stuff. I just wish I had more and better equipment.

Anyway, if you’re interested in coming and happen to live in the area:

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