all mooby all the time

I'm back with another cringe inducing update on the 2der Mooby front. This was a little drum demo I put together to demonstrate a realistic drum kit sound and execution, you can even hear the snare being played by 2 sticks if you can look past the soulless computer that actually plays them.

another dreaded 2der Mooby update

I've been working on this one for about 4 years now. Even though I've had a few versions available on my soundclick.com page for most of that time, it has always been missing a key element that I had desperately wanted to play with as part of this song. What you'll find here is my first attempt at "scratching." Since I don't scratch, this most recent version is the culmination of years of searching for samples that I was satisfied with and slicing them up into something that worked with what I already had, and at the same time could be a fair representation of what was in my head. It took 4 different computer programs and uncountable missteps to get to this point. This has always been one of my favorite projects, and now I'm happy to say I'm almost there.

Churchill's Down by 2der Mooby

Over the last few weeks I've been working on a ton of new stuff to help expand my little music project. This is one of several tracks that I'll soon be pushing on local clubs until they all get restraining orders. It still needs some work (I've got to fine tune some of the drum channels and fix a few issues with the fx levels) but this will at least give you the idea.

A short little something

It's different but it's also the same.

some one stop me!

As things go, I'm on pace to have more blog entries in a single month than I've had for a very long time. This entry probably shouldn't count since it's mostly to point out how often I'm blogging. Too bad that blogging 5 times in a month is a lot for me.

To make this post an even greater waste of your time I thought I'd mention that I'll be posting more and more 2der Mooby stuff in the margin over there ------>

Right now there is a new track called "Frantic Attack" If you're interested in that sort of thing I'll probably be putting up a new song every two weeks or so.

Happy Thanksgiving.

New Song by 2der Mooby

This is how I spent my Sunday.

adventures of a wanna-be techno-dude... guy... person

What is the strangest thing you have done while waiting for your utilities to be hooked up? Can't be stranger than what I did. When my wife and I bought our house, we made the mistake of having the cable hooked up last. Next time I'll hook up everything in this order - Power, CABLE, gas, phone. Since I had not yet been granted this insight, I was forced to find creative ways to entertain myself.

Power was on and that was it. Since my wife works days and I don't, it was up to me to wait around for the deadbeats who "work" for various companies to show up and hook up. At least they were all coming on the same day. I arrived early with my computer and hooked it up near a window in the front room so I could watch for the jokers that would be showing up as the hours passed.

The only software I had loaded at the time was a program for creating electronic music. So... that is exactly what I did all day. I busted out three complete tracks and started several others. I had no idea what kind of music I was writing, only that I found the experience more than mildly amusing.

That night, my best friend came to pick me up for work. I played him some of the tracks. He laughed in all the right places (I should) mention that I groove to an old school synthesized sound) but when all was said and done he told me that as far as house music goes, this was pretty good. Cool… but what the fuck is “House music?”

He later put some of my songs on a website that features independent artists of all musical genres. One of my songs actually reached #31 on their charts. That’s 31 in downloads and plays... 31 out of several thousand songs in the "House" sub genre. I was 465 out of more than 86,000 electronic songs at one point. The whole thing had me feeling pretty good.

Has this changed my life? Have I signed a phat record contract yet? Have I ever had a chance to do the interviews I've practiced so many times as I was falling asleep? HELL NO.

The only recognition I have really gotten over there (or anywhere except from my best friend) include some shout-outs on my message board from artists who are really only plugging their own… bastards! One is even from one of those geniuses that can’t seem type in anything but all caps. He dude: FUCK OFF WITH THAT SHIT!

I just uploaded the first single from my second album. Three days on the charts and I'm at 204… so far so good. But perhaps I should drop this silly hobby and focus on something worth while, something that will actually make the world a better place and me a better person to inhabit it...

You know, like blogging.