Good lord.. is it really the week of Christmas? Did I really just see my weekends and time off fly by without even a cold winter breath upon my neck? What the?!

Well the GOOD news is that I’m a few clicks away from nabbing the first set of short run CDs of the new Silver Standard self-titled LP. The disc contains the songs from “The Silver Standard EP” along with a few new tracks that our small group of fans should enjoy quite a bit.

There isn’t really any BAD news, as might have been indicated by starting with the GOOD news.  I’m somewhat indecisive about how to progress with releasing some of my materials from the past 2 years.  /sigh

In the Sliptide world, I’ve had the continual battle in my head-space for those precious cycles that may be applied to music production: Do I make more house and techno styled stuff? Do I dive headlong into more experimental meets traditional production values? Where do I take my live sets?

One thing is for sure: I have 10 solid house (tech and progressive) songs that are sure to please most casual house fans. There is definitely a grain of “Sliptide” sound in there along with the 4 on the floor beats and 4 or 8 bar progressions.  The sounds are all programmed, and from what I’ve been hearing in the past years, sound fairly unique in their application to dance music. I’m thinking of this collection of songs, which deviates from what I’ve been doing in the past 5 years, as “a study of house music”.

I’m going to open up here and admit that sometimes I feel cheapened by having been so excited and satisfied by making these tunes.  The progressions and arrangements are very distilled and simplified, but something has attracted me to them for some reason or another, so I must continue to remind myself that I’m not making this music in vain. It simply taps into a different area of techno/electronic music that I have always enjoyed since I was introduced to all things electronic as a kid.

It was pointed out to me that perhaps I’m making the house and trance music because it is in my comfort zone.  This is very likely.  The stuff makes me happy and is fun to ‘throw together’, so maybe I need to sit back down and really start hammering on some new-to-me sounds and styles, ‘eh?

In other news, I’ve been casually posting photos to my Flickr account again. I caught up on some highlights throughout the past, erm, I want to say 2 or 3 years? Check them out and feel free to connect with me on Flickr if you want!

That’s all for now. Have a wonderful week, everybody!