Colin OOOD

The hardware in my studio is a laptop PC, a silenced tower PC, a computer, a controller keyboard, a mixer (used as a volume control), an amp and speakers.

http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?sh...ic=28670&st=20# Sorry, blatant self-promotion I know, I'll get my coat...

Just found this thread... Flurorostani Transcendance and Synchronicity Converger are both tracks by Unconscious Collective. Um. Carry on... I'm going to read the rest of the thread now, where someone else has probably already corrected you. Possibly even me.

The 'scene' is just another word for every one of us that listens to psy trance. If the scene is dead, it's because we killed it ourselves.

Fuckin' LOL

http://transdriver.psychedelic.ru/party/sobytie003/

One thing about the person who started this thread:

Let's hope they make a better microphone than your old ones.

FREAKCLUB @ Mass Friday 14th October 2005, 10.00pm - 6.00am Freakclub : Psychedelic Trance Voice of Cod (Organic Records) UK (live) Chris Organic (Organic Records) UK (live) Kristian (Phantasm / Psygate) Gibraltar Kalimamboh (Chichime) Italy DJ Meciu (Pangea) Poland SYNCHRONICITY : Progressive Deep Psy (Chichime) Gibraltar Phil Chichime (Synchronicity) UK Darxien (Wonderland) Russia Mr Egg (Inner Visions) UK @ Mass, St Matthews Church, Brixton Hill, London SW2 Door £5 before 11.00pm / £10 after Advance Tickets £5 + booking fee Come and join the fun...

How can you have less than zero erections?

Yeah, I was, actually... it gets lonely out here sometimes as you'd be surprised (or not, maybe) how many people leave OOOD off lists like these. All that probably means is that at the time we weren't as influential in real life as we thought we were, in our little bubble! (and no, I'm not fishing now, just holding my hand up to a bit of ego...) As for the name, you can zarking farwark off. I'm not quite as Out Of My Depth as I used to be... but the OOOD is here to stay!

:offtopic: I used to be in an indie-rock band called Autospy...

Might I suggest... er... no, actually, it's ok... um... this is the way out, yeah? Ok, I'll see you later... <trips over doorstep>

Here's a couple more:

NEWS FLASH Due to a fire in the factory the distributors have been forced to delay release a week until October 3rd. Just to increase the anticipation!

Jon - it's Voice of Cod, by the way, as in the fish. We considered Voice of God when we were deciding on the name but thought it would be a little presumptuous. And DeathPosture - thanks a million million for such an awesome review!

It was recorded live in hot sweaty clubs; a lot of the instruments went out of tune badly during the course of the gigs, in particular the 303 on Cosmic Ripple and in Kundalini where the Silver Machine (Nigel's home-made synth) came in not only out of tune but in entirely the wrong place, played for a while then stopped responding to pitch information entirely - at which point I muted it on the mixer. There are other major blunders in there too. The main point of that album was that I think it managed to capture some of the (unique, I think) vibe that we generated on stage with that particular line-up and stage setup. To this day I'm still very proud of it for that although aspects of it make me cringe at some points because, to my ears at least, parts of it just sound wrong. I realise that the artist is quite often their own worst critic though, and I'm very glad that many people have enjoyed the album for what it is - a celebration of live music made because it was really, truly the only thing we wanted to do with our lives. Still is, too.

http://www.psynews.org/reviews/alive.htm

MP3 - getcha.

64-bit? Do you mean 8-bit? [/geek]

It was the cheeky girls wot did it. I just wantet to prove myself to be worthy of your groupiedom. Maybe because it's when we lift our eyes up in thanks for a sunny day, we see blue...

Transylvania... and I do believe I've just been told off! For you, Moni, I will shave, shower AND brush my teeth. How's that? Glad you like the cover too. I hadn't thought of the blue as being the colour of 'happiness and freedom' though; it's just my favourite and I tend to use it a lot.

Well... one person made a comment, anyway! And when you use phrases like "successful, original, doggy style" to me in that sultry manner you have, it's pretty obvious that you're already well on the way to being a successful groupie. What country did you say you lived in? Woof! Colin PS. I haven't left my room for nearly a week now except to eat and use the toilet, as I've been working very hard getting the artwork ready for the deadline. I haven't shaved since last Thursday. I don't smell nice at all right now. Still want to be my groupie?

It's a great album - I love it.

Hi there... I guess we couldn't expect to be able to have an album cover as different from what has gone before and still be able to please everyone - but I'm very glad that the critical comments about it have been over a matter of personal taste rather than originality! As Pavel has said, the cover art he posted is final (although I'm still working on the art as a whole and until I go to bed tonight it could still be changed) and sets the theme for the rest of the package. The dogs were drawn as a doodle by an artist who is a friend of a friend; the original drawing is about 5cm across, and I first saw them enlarged to about 1 metre across in a picture frame on my (ex) girlfriend's lounge wall. At the time Andrew Humphries and I were just starting work on the Voice of Cod album; I fell in love with the drawing instantly, and knew from the beginning that I wanted the dogs as the cover art for the album. To my eyes they have so much personality - they seem to be leaping off the paper, and each one shows different aspects of both of our personalities: friendliness, assertiveness, openness, and a certain degree of both agression an wilful naivety! But whatever it is they are doing, they are leaping out into the world to do it together, just as Andrew and I are doing with the album. To me, those dogs represent us. As far as the rest of the cover goes, I was aiming for a simple, clean design that highlighted the drawing I like so much I also wanted a certain amount of detail in the background to satisfy the eye so I placed a warped and distorted circuit-board faintly behind the dogs to make it look as if they are leaping free from some piece of twisted technology. Perhaps the circuit-board could be a little darker and more obvious though... hmm... <tweaks Photoshop> Obviously as a creative person I would very much like what I do (whether it's the music or the album artwork) to be universally loved... however I know that's impossible, and that there will be people who dislike the music on the CD just as much as slyman604 dislikes its cover - in fact even though this is the first negative comment I've ever had on it (and believe me, I showed a lot of people that drawing before I started on the artwork!) I wouldn't be surprised if someone ends up posting it in the 'other' thread at some point! I would hope that it's not just the fact that it looks different to other album covers that have gone before it that made slyman dislike it - I would like to hear his reasons rather than just a blunt "that looks awful!" comment, as it might help me improve things for the next cover I have to design for the OOOD album. Finally I'd just like to repeat a quote I heard recently that (to me) applies in this instance: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"... and if I see one more fractal bloody Shiva on an album cover, I'll...