Thank you for listening

I did Vocals on this track a while back, “Original Sinner” with Tom Blacksoul from Croatia, It ended coming out on Deepfunk, Craig Law’s label in Los Angeles. I got paid $100 for the vocal, “more to come off the back-end” and 10 copies to be sent “next week”… “the week” after.. “I swore I sent them”. Whatever. That kind of flakiness is so common it doesn’t even waste space in my head anymore.

By the way, Craig seems to be a nice enough guy, and we all the conversations we have had were nice. I am not knocking him in any way, I am just telling my side of the story as a whole.

I looked for a few copies in shops, but just could not bring myself to actually buy one. Assuming that Deepfunk paid royalties in this case, I would hate to pay taxes on top of the sales tax. Jesus.

Side-thought: Could you imagine the black-hole if I had received an advance large enough to merit a recoup, and my record sold so poorly that every record sold meant less I got, and I got caught shop lifting my own record? Or downloading it? I would be begging people not to buy my record.

Side-Side-thought: I have downloaded my own music using slsk. I didn’t mind it AT ALL.

Anyway, I was trudging the path through hell that is Discogs today, trying to convince some guy that “the proof I have is that I AM THE DAMN ARTIST YOU NERD LIVING IN YOUR MOMS HOUSE” Jesus.

I stumbled across a copy of the record, and you know what? Its being sold from Seattle! However, he wants $14 for the record. It’s not like it’s an import. It’s a shitty little house record from LA that probably didn’t do more that 500 copies. At least I can avoid shipping, right?

On 01/12/08, 12:15PM, armsupaudio wrote:

You have a copy of “Blacksoul’s” Original Sinner off Deepfunk?

I actually co-wrote and sang on that record, but never received a copy of the record.

Can I take that copy off your hands?

-Mat

On 01/12/08, 01:39PM, xxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,
That’s great!
I have only the 1 copy in stock so just buy it of this site and then we will invoice you!
Thanks,
xxxx MUSIC

On 01/12/08, 01:43PM, armsupaudio wrote:

I am in seattle, what store are you?

On 01/12/08, 01:47PM, xxxxxxx wrote:

We are only online.
xxxxMUSIC

On 01/12/08, 02:14PM, armsupaudio wrote:

Ahh, I thought you were in seattle. Its bad enough to buy it, but not at an import price, with shipping from seattle.

On 01/12/08, 07:56PM, xxxxxxx wrote:

We are in Seattle!!…We charge $6.25 for USPS Priority Mail which will have the record to you in 2-3 days.
xxxMUSIC

It’s not like I am trying to get the guy to take the loss and give me the record or anything, but his price is seriously jacked up, and I am really, REALLY annoyed at having to pay over 20 bucks (1/5th of what I was paid ffs) .

Fuck it, I don’t need the record.

-Mat

First off, I apologize to anybody who was under the assumption that this blog/label/podcast was punctual, or even moderately belated. I like to take my time. Its not like I have tons and tons of free time. Since its the slow season at my job (read: slow enough to look for other work) I actually have less time than before. I worked so hard over the holiday season, that from November 1st to the day before Christmas, I only had 2 days off. Except the week I had around Thanksgiving, of course, but you can’t count holidays when you are giving a war story. Actually, it was pretty rough, there were lots of 70+ hour work weeks followed by more 70+ hour weeks, with no days off in between, not to whine, but, It sounds pretty bad ass to your siblings when they whine about some union mandated bathroom break they had to miss.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have what I do when I don’t work 70+ hour weeks. Mainly, sleep-in, think about fishing, think about working on the label and think about riding my bike or going to the gym. Think about going to the gym. I am not totally lazy though. I do have a designated time for chores and cleaning. I designate time right after the Truly-Unpleasant-Potentially-Future-Mrs Anderson reminds me that I am still sitting in the same place she left me this morning. (And here I thought I was being obedient)

2 stories and a dj mix.

1. I do not have waders for fishing. Or, I do now, but I didn’t and that sucked. The Truly-Unpleasant-Potentially-Future-Mrs Anderson and her parents went in over xmas and ordered me a nice pair. Orvis pro-guide2. I actually did the ordering, and since they promised to deliver them by Xmas (GUARANTEED) I had them shipped to her parents house in Oregon, where we would be spending the holiday fly fishing with her father, who happens to be the baddest guide in southern Oregon.

Well, they were late. Promised by the 25 of december and arrived on the 4th of January and reshipped to Redmond yesterday, the 8th. Well, guess what I did today? Actually, don’t guess. Continue reading.

2. I do not have a working dj mixer. Or, I do now, but I didn’t and that sucked. The Djm-500, My bff Dickey and I shared for oh… 10 years (really) and took to possibly hundreds of shows, didn’t have that special sparkle in its step anymore. I am not sure what happened but I think we both have matured and have just drifted apart. That and none of the bass knobs held the last-position-turned-to. Seriously though, thats the only thing wrong with it. I have been cleaning up the studio getting ready for my upcoming studio fest (whenever that is) and have been eye-balling my turntables thinking about how many hours a week I used to spend on them. I swung through my local Guitar Center and picked up a Vestax VMC-004, for really cheap. Like, on-sale, out-of-box and no power supply.

44$ ($11 per channel?) A trip to radio shack settled me with an adapter that worked (AC-in? Wierd.) and I got to… do nothing really. Only one channel worked and the others worked in a “left channel only kinda way.) I wasn’t bummed, I kinda expected it, but it would have been nice to have the Vestax be really cheap AND work. I took it back and bought a little Numark DM-1002. Its small and crappy, but I got it yesterday, and I finally have mixer that works.

So guess what I did today?

I woke up early, drove out to my top-secret spot on the lower Snoqualmie River and went fishing in MY BRAND NEW WADERS. The water was too high for me to get down safely to my usual spot, so I hiked in a bit and checked out an area I had seen but hadn’t visited before. Noting special, but there was a nice pool. No action though. Not even a bump. I dead drifted some egg patterns, some egg sucking leeches and someting called a green skunk before switching out my sink-tip for my dry leader. There was no hatch to be seen. I looked pretty carefully and decided that maybe working an emerger patter might be the best bet, as there was no noticeable fish anywhere. Nothing. I went for a few dry’s but with no result. So, I did what anybody in my position would do.

I went hope grabbed a handful of Detroit and Detroit-inspired Techno and made a mix. Warning. I recorded it, but this was my first mix in many months, my first in my new hour, on a new mixer and it was just a random sampling tracks. I literally grabbed a handful out of the Techno section and went for it. Did I ever.

No trainwrecks, no cd players, no mp3’s. Just 2 channels and some Genmaicha tea.

 

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Tracklisting, though it may not be perfect order.

ATLON INC – Dark was the Night – Force
Jeff Samuel – AWT ep – Spectral
Nagen & Saugen – Coughlozenge Horspiel Music
Audio 17
Tim Baker – Soul Provider
Thor Inc – Eternal Atom – Harthouse
Primevil 15
Red Planet – Star Dancer
Dual Channel
User
Samuel L Session – Shakin’ Bootsy ep
Brian Zentz – Dirt Box
Oxia – Intec 08
Dual Channel
Lance Samuel – Eukatech
Heatsync – Assembly – Orbit Records