Colin OOOD

Thanks Moai. :posford:

Nice t-shirt. Very yellow.

The sound on the Glade video we used to have on our Myspace was kaka but luckily it turns out that while we were playing Free Range, Pieman was standing behind us for about 6 minutes with a video camera - just when the sun came out! Cue massive cheering One quick overdub of the album version later and we have a wicked video of us and a hugely packed Glade dancefloor with excellent sound quality including live crowd recording!

Here's what I put on Isra... Well we had wicked fun! Thanks to Teo, D. and the crew for bringing us, and to everyone who danced to our set. The sound system was excellent, one of the better rigs we've played on, and the engineer was really friendly and efficient and knew his shit... same for the visuals guys - love what they did with our logo The chillout was great at night, loved Simon Baring's minimal set and Ott afterwards was great too. It was interesting to see Simon P. play with a more minimal setup than I've seen him use before, and it's always good to hear those tunes on a big rig. From a festivalgoer's point of view it was an excellent weekend; facilities on site were awesome and the food was good and much cheaper than at an equivalent UK event. Not only did I not see any police on site but it was one of the most naturally drug-free festivals I've been to, probably due to paranioa from earlier years. But that just meant that we could experience the local alcoholic specialities in all their glory. Man I haven't been so drunk in about 15 years... Most of the organisation was fine too, especially considering (as I was told) it was one guy doing pretty much the whole thing, and from what he told me any criticisms about the lineup delays are better directed at the sun for frying the amplifiers, and artists who played for much longer than they were booked for! This affected us in that we'd been told we were playing at 9pm after an hour of silence when there would be no music on the main stage, and we therefore planned out our set with that in mind, starting with a few minutes of ambient before taking it up to trance via a psy-breaks track. We eventually played at 11:30 after a vocal prog act, which made us worry that our set wouldn't work so well. It was fine in the end though, and our feeling was that 'resetting the dancefloor' like that kind of prepared people for the transition we made from prog to more full-energy music at night - especially since we ended at 150bpm! Having one guy doing the whole thing did have its repercussions both before the festival and during it when he was totally unobtainable when shit really needed sorting out; the only thing I'll mention here is that the transport situation for artists was not always good (understatement) - it's not cool to abandon your artists at the hotel when they have to catch their flight home, even if they're staying for a day longer. But nothing was fatal (for us); Teo was straight up with us whenever we spoke to him at the festival and I'm sure that once he's recovered from the immediate aftermath he'll work through the backlog of things still to do as fast as he can. I'm also sure that the lessons learned from this year will make next year even better and we'd certainly be up for it again.

Be interesting to hear what you think of the new album when it's out. Obviously it'll be different to Free Range but it'll still be us.

Sorry you felt that. Funny though you don't recall that the first 20 minutes was pure ambient leading into psychedelic breakbeat leading into the track I did with Ott, which is on our last album. Nothing generic there! It's quite possible you thought another live act was us because we didn't play at the time it said on the printed lineup; we were told that other live acts overran their set times (playing 1h 30m instead of just 1h) and the sound system broke down during the day, so that everyone was playing up to 3 hours late. The fact is, we'd prepared our set for the time we'd been told we were going to play rather than the time we ended up playing due to the lineup nightmare. We'd been told we were due on at 9pm after an hour's silence on the main stage - this is what the printed lineup said, and this is why we decided to begin with ambient -> breaks -> slower trance -> pumping trance. In the end we had to play at 11:30 pm after a prog live act, and I was kind of worried that our set wouldn't work so well but we got a lot of feedback afterwards that we reset the dancefloor just right (my MSN has been busy today, and we have new bookings from our set at the festival), so in the end I'm happy

Giving them drugs, taking their lives away...

No, I was asleep on a plastic chair behind the stage, apart from the bit where I was dancing.

Should have made it a cash bet. Good set too.

Tell him me and Stevie say hi

I'll let you off cos you're young.

'Greater minds' have the intelligence not to hang about with music that lacks creativity and genius, and go and find something more interesting to listen to - rather than whine about how it isn't as good as it used to be. Getting bored shows a lack of imagination as to what to do with one's time and/or a reluctance to do new things. IMO.

Yeah... I'm getting sick of those bassdrums that every single trance track uses too. Time for a new rhythmic foundation! And as for hihat and snare sounds - let alone the rhythms they play - man it's getting so boring. Also, why does every single track have to have a bassline? Are we really that unimaginative? And people are all so stuck in this 'dancing' thing; isn't it time we all moved on? Only boring people get bored.

Just so long as you get there by 9pm on Saturday...

Samples online at the Arabesque website: http://tinyurl.com/4abzdw Release date: September 26th

Got a phone call from the organisers... panic over

<frustrated>

Still waiting for our plane tickets and other essential things. Getting slightly concerned - if anyone knows the organisers please could you ask them to get in touch.

That was the ringtone I had assigned to my exe a few years back. Amazing melody... I have a nice little piano version of it too

Never thought of the different projects as being 'for' anything in particular but I can see how it can seem like that. Different lineups will inevitably produce different results; Andrew and I have both moved on from where we were when we wrote We Are Free and A: Drive reflects this. A: Drive is not We Are Free II Hope you like it nonetheless :clapping:

That's a fuckin pisser, we're using it quite heavily at the moment to pass data back and forth between us. Trying to find out what's going on... our webspace was donated by a friend so it's possible he's having problems with it.

Voice of Cod's second album "A: Drive" is currently being mastered by Chris Organic at his studio in London, to be released in September/October.

"Voice of Cod - A: Drive" will also be out in September on Organic Records, but that'll get its own thread when the time comes

All-in-one mastering solutions are not the way forward IMO. Especially when people use them on their tunes and then send them to me to master! DON'T DO IT lol But as ever I'm sure some people get good results from them.