tomorrow as in next year.. Have a great New Years Eve and an even better 2009!

I miss working on tracks everyday and sharing something new and fresh with you; you'll have something tomorrow; promise.

all those little things

This one does out to Sushi, rest in peace. He left us on the day after Christmas. He was a great friend and had a long and healthy life. I wish I could have given him more treats and let him sleep on the bed more; but hey such is life.

I wonder if we see our pets in the afterlife? Don't ponder that too long.

all those little things


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yourpatheticpoetic

It's all bro, it's all you. You're at the center, you can rock it or you can walk it. Choice is yours. You know you know what to do.Exactly. See what I mean? exactly.

It's coming back, and it's coming back in spades. Live to tell.

yourpatheticpoetic

μεταφορτώστε, πραγματικά θα σας θέλαμε επίσης, να πείτε στους φίλους σας!

Cosmic Electric is wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

JK

... It's gonna be a minute still, got some hummus to finish.

Update

I got some new stuff in raw GarageBand form from Cosmic Electric last night; but with the holidays and all, you may not get it as fast as I'd like.
For Last.fm fans, I just got a DM from Ned in AU about the Cosmic Electric radio reporting an Opps! no content.

Really, that stuff must be developed on Microsoft.

Go to iLike, their site is easy to maintain and it's content is always available.
See you in a bit; gotta get my Christmas on.

PS- Alan (from Cosmic Electric) has been confirmed as my best friend.

llllllllllllllllllllll;'Just heard that CE could/may/will send in some new stuff;Secrets Satisfy.

Surfgrenslev

This was arranged and recorded back in September, but scheduled for release in December as a anniversary of divorce gift for... never mind.

Surfgrenslev



Tis better to give than to receive, here's ye download. Stream, Truco

In the new year

This really didn't take as long as twitter says it took to make, I just had to see a friend midway thru. It's sloppy and I may never listen to it again, but here it is. Whatever you do, don't comment on it it's

In the new year


laden Sie es, Weibchen herunter!



If anything, this track just shows that I can have a full time day job and still produce.

missed opportunities

There's a whole story that contains caffeine, anxiety and longing attached to this track. You can/should be able to hear it within the synthesizer and slow ride (take it easy) drumming.

I officially spend time and pour more emotion online than I do in any human relationship. The online self suffers less rejection and abandonment.

(I know, I know, wha...)... still. That's honesty for you.

missed opportunities


téléchargez cette voie ici, puis tuez-vous promptement - JK...

Oh, I'm going to stage the release of this for tommorow, since I'll be in the midst of my 9 to 5 and won't know what my energy/schedule will be like. Better seal in the freshness.

hello again

This could well be the breaking point where the cornia disintegrates from the nubela and the lansik is no more operable but only in a meditative state of non-regeneration, a state best known as "starstrucken embargo"

Never mind; and I totally made that evaluation up to serve my own purpose, I want to remain outside your system for as long as possible; which could very easily mean I never gain access to your exclusive, elusive clubs and never get your flashy bargaining chips and have access to your fuel reserves. I may never taste fine caviar aboard Norwegian bound vessels with helicopters made of gold.

I just may just produce in obscurity; all coming in contact seeing the markings and even rolling up a sleeve to see if they can make it happen, be there when it comes together, only to be worn out and walk away.

I wish I could unravel this and watch the game with you this afternoon. Drink coors. Wear a jersey. But it just can't happen. Aloha.





μπορείτε να μεταφορτώσετε αυτό το τραγούδι εδώ εάν you' το δ συμπαθεί. Ι won' μυαλό τ. Στην πραγματικότητα, I' το δ είναι κάπως τιμημένο...

After all this time

Still mining the In The Burbs session from 12.6.08; here's a real gem.

After all this time



This jam is about unrequited love, and opportunities lost, never to return. The stabs and pricks of life; the moments you can't recapture; the things lost, there will be no other.

The reality that most of your life will be spent waiting alone is quite real, hence the art and the ability to create, hear and see things that may go undetected by the general populace.

It totally doesn't even seem like Christmas. I am so numb to holidays, having lost the people I used to celebrate them with.

Not to cry over spilled harvey milk; this is a really good cut, I think you'll like it.

You can laden Sie es herunter here.

Lazy, lazy Saturday turns into a lazy, lazy Saturday night. Literally haven't moved from this couch. I want to but I'm sort of glued. New jams due.

I'm gonna find out

Wow; I'm honestly impressed; I mentioned to CE that they should send in remastered version of find out and I just got received it; they don't waste any time.

The vocals are more harmonic and they guitars more full, occasionally spiked with feedback drenched in anxiety but there is tons of tone (tones on tail) and the drums are punchier than ever.

It sounds like it was recorded uni-mic'd; which is not usually how these data-processor-software-developer-by-day types like to do things.


This is iPod worthy; and I'm going to take it accordingly. I can't wait till Phree Phorm is released!

I'm gonna find out

téléchargez et appréciez !

So ready for a great 2009

Find out (early-demo)

The third demo release from Cosmic Electric's upcoming Phree Phorm; this track nails the rainy upliftingness of the Atlantic winters while wondering what Oregon could really offer (just so I don't have to explain that later; it's fleeting Yuengling speech).

Shorter in duration than most, this one delivers all the drum punch and guitar longing you'd be used to from a Cosmic Electric demo; of course I have no idea what you're "used to" since nobody tells me anything (ala comments)but I digress. This is clearly a selfish,self-serving blog and not worth your 30 second feedback.

Ouch, was that hostile? Feliz Navidad!

Without further reader beatdown; here's Find out

transferência

cherry-flav-bailout

Talk about timing,This jam is all summer fun in nana's garage!


Cosmic Electricserve it up in a surf's up sort of way; all whitewall's and fuzzy navels. Golden tanned and acne scarred.

Looks like the fellas took sometime away from winter to chase girls in the sun...

... and cherry flavored too; because you really like it when she do.... that thing she do.

Strudel your noodle dude, it's Hanukkah time; dude!

But you know, sometimes it takes so much effort; go to Pink's on La Brea and think about that for a sec.

Seriously though, this track has plenty or warmth, vigor, precision and howl. You'll want to cut through traffic with it on; top down.

Done? K. Here you go; cherry-flav-bailout

carichi programmi oggetto la canzone qui!

CE recorded several songs this weekend but they haven't been mastered yet since I took the kids to the King Tut Exhibit.

Patience. Egypt wasn't buried in a day.

Low Hanging Fruit

Fresh from a recent session in at The Burbs, Cosmic Electric sent in a demo pre-release from Phree Phorm; the duo's sceduled 2009 release. I'm totally spend so I can't rattle on about the ethos of recording freshness and trying to break the blues-based norms of rock music.

Listen to Low Hanging Fruit for yourself.


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Look for some jams tomorrow; heading to Alan's recording time; g'night.

slow drift to being alone

I'm pretty happy with this (Minus "you're Mom called; scratch that despite and with you're Mom called...). It's warm and reflects the sadness I'm leaving.

Some heated drama took place not long after the veggie burger/spinach wraps were consumed after the fundamental session.

Of course, I am not absolved; I have been known to operate on an intuitive, telepathic level; you should know I am currently recording; let the sound of the patty's in the Foreman be part of the recording, let background voice, but not... lol; nevermind.

See I'm doing it again; you're supposed to know that that nevermind was placed to prevent bad/hurt feelings as well as future lash-out.

All drama mediation, aside; this jam is pretty aight.

2009 will not be so sad and fatalistic. It will be a bit quiet, studious, focused and disciplined.

Love the delay in this jam.

slow drift to being alone

téléchargement

A little unmotivated to do the stuff I usually do last couple of days. I feel bad for that but not to bad; it's not like you even seem to care either.

But then this isn't for you right? I wish it was. I'm totally a giver. This stuff is not all produced and given away for bragging rights.

dudebro

Now AT&T may have canceled my account. Nice.... but why and how?!


dudebro

download; dudebro.

time sensitive material

Cryptic, prayerful and urgent.... with a touch of 50's sluethery.

That's right, evidence, secrets revealed... it's all there, buried in the cataclysm of keystrokes and empty promises.

time sensitive material

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zzpftzzft

Had to get another one online since denial seems to be my forte today. I really don't want to have to loose my apartment; I want to move out when I want to move out; not out of financial necessity.
ROLE vs powerofreverb: zzpftzzft



Not to beat a dead horse but 12.1 used to be a special day...


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My Trinity

I haven't posted since Friday; I've had my kids with me. It's been refreshing. The children definitely fill a certain void; of course they magnify another but hey; count your blessings.

I'm sorry, I'm in a spot. It looks like I'm this close to being employed by Wednesday; at least I have an interview on Wednesday... but the rent is due before then. So is my car insurance. Joanna doesn't think I like her; but I do. Sin and double-mindedness has all but put me in a bathtub with an electric appliance.

I am fairly lucky.

My kids bond/re-bond/bond/re-bond with me very quickly. I understand the importance of familiarity and repitition and we have little rituals; subway subs after the 6 o'clock service; Pizza (Stevie B's for econo; Savage for hipster intown); I take lots of photographs to remind us all of our times together.



My Trinity
Is an innocent creative noodling; I multi-tracked it and did some layering but it's really Trinity's spotlight.

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powerofreverb - shiny objects

Back in the day; in the mid 90's; I was a much younger man. My pursuit of a life of art and culture and love seemed equistation; galant.
I won the affection of many maiden's put I was always ill at ease. My art was dis-focused and under-exposed...(what has really changed).
I met my first wife in these days. We rushed through courtship and got to know each other while she was carrying our first child (that's her on the cover, she was 22 when that photo was taken; taken in Manhattan).

I met Scott Carol through a mutual friend Steve. Steve and I lived with Matt in a house with a half-pipe next door on Boulevard in Grant Park. This was when EAV just Heaping Bowl and Park Central Pizza.
Anyways, Scott and his girlfriend Becka would come over almost everynight; we'd drink and play loud music till like 3 in the morning while the girls hung out, tried to watch TV and made pot brownies while swiggin' 40's (JK)। We formed as Mercy Seat and made a ton of recordings on a real to real and on cassette recorders; one of those tracks made it to the powerofreverb demo; shiny object's.

It was called Norwigian Eyes... it uses rich echo guitar, nice and warm Marshall amplification; and a nice tambourine.


Here's the download


The other three cuts are tape loops and mixes done with my trusty Tascam 4-Track. I loved that thing!


**** Lost In Tribeca is a warm, fuzzy memory of Cindy and I and our vacations in Manhattan, holding hands and smoking Marlboro Reds while shopping in Soho and on the Lower East Side; before Brooklyn was hipster heaven of course. It was recorded in our trailer in Sugar Hill, GA. Joey's drums are slightly audible but perfect. The warm reverb from my 71 twin running thru a 90's Vox wah, is very nice. grab a cup of coffee; ouch it's too hot


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- Lost In Tribeca is currently misssing, sorry - 3.20.10



Channel has interesting texture to it; it's got this great flute in it; and I want to think I overdubbed it with Cindy's Yamaha keyboard from the 80's. It sounds like Bradford could have influenced it but he probably was probably in High School and we hadn't met. big boom for bass (I would drop E on my jazzmaster and do bass overdubs with it).


dwnld it हियर



This last jam from the CDR was a song I used to skip over all the time in the car, too spooky; I thought. It's all about loneliness and obscurity... and this is while I was 26 married with a young son and wife, employed and promoted....hmmm
Of course these concepts still common in my work today. Of course now I am 37, divorced and unemployed; so go figure.

Surprisingly the track was titled All alone

downer



Oh, ps... that email address listed on the inserts and covers; no bueno Haven't logged into it in years, couldn't even recall the passport. If your further interested communicate thru the blog.

One, last thing; if you think I'm nastalgizing about the past with what I said about Cindy and stuff; FU.

Turks

Why do I feel somewhat tramatized? It's only Thanksgiving day morning; nothing new...but wait, beyond the denial layer there is the sensation that every thanksgiving day sucks.. don't get me wrong, I'm totally appreciative and grateful but still, my family experience has been jaded and awkward, forever. I'm sure most of that is me, but why? Come on, I've always been a step-family member or a friend or a boyfriend or married in, I really don't know what it's like to feel solid and secure during the holidays. I'm probably better off just drinking and recording, but I'll probably buck this tangent and go to Joanna's family and see if I'm not completely the wierdo.

8turks

Dude, you really are such a downer

blayza

Whatever, you don't have to believe in me.

blayza


downer, dude

drnkngblr

drnkngblr

A holiday fantasy, pure, guilt-free pleasure. Sugar-free, zero-carbs, no "call me", no need, no back-lash.
Worth it? Probably not.

But we all get lonely.

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esophagus

Tree forts, country roads, Beach bungaloos, ocean sides, alpine, mountain tops, cotton candy,county fairs. A collection of innocent firsts

esophagus


Go for it,download it, you can totally get away with it.

I usually don't do this but...

Sonic Youth - Marc Jacobs.... Thanks Erina. Vimeo videos rule.

... and this type of culture-merge thing puts worlds together.

#$%@! I just learned that I disabled annymous comments, no wonder you haven't said anything via comments! Resolved, type away, tell me what you think!

pngfm

I've been really into the deconstructed, ambient, organic stuff lately. Does it show?

pngfm

down it, dude

hello?

test number 2...

test..

I've been a little diverted this weekend, getting reinspired. new jams coming, maybe even today. I won't let you down.

Here's our soundcloud account; just more ways to get the jams to you.

Choose Life

Originally recorded as standz, the chorus changed all that. Katie turned me on to Deuteronomy 30; and although I'm Hebrew (by birth), I felt His presence when I read it this morning. Good stuff.

The mastering wasn't as on as I'd like but we'll just bury that in the mystery jar. The chorus is clear and the sense of longing and waiting in the intro is present.

Folks, Choose Life

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Nevermind, code decompression,recession, convention, nano-physics applied geometry were required, the free world and working poor can brunch in peace.

Mother $&#@er (flash 10) broke the streamer - now mez gotsta get a new one!

bedroommmmjammmmz

bedroommmmjammmmz




Sometimes often things happen out of sequence, usually by human intervention. But how do you undo what you did, how do you unfeel what you felt? By a mere walk away? By rigorous self-disciplinary action? Is that really what you want?

Redemption. Forgiveness.

Then

Turn away. Repentance.

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Sleep Tight

This version of call it a night is for Jojo...

Sweet Joanna who has been so good to me thru all my post-divorce changes. She really is something; you don't have people like her in your life often... better take good care of her.

Without further ado, here's Call it a night, for Jojo


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• Still Waiting by Cosmic Electric
• Could be by Cosmic Electric
• decision by Cosmic Electric

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Call it a night

It's not easy but it's probably, definitely worth it to...

Call it a night



Most of us got it all wrong. Dating is not about getting as much as we can as fast as we can, in fact it's not about getting as close as we can as fast as we can...it's about seeing if we can be, progressively, and if we cannot continue merely being, and most know each other, then only within the covenant of marriage.

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I might post the vocoder-free version; keeping it here, initially, is making feel scratchy..

Ok, I'm working diligently on the list...

The OCt mixwit is fine and rocks balls.
Building an (Cosmic Electric on iLike) but I already don't know if I like that much... I want the flexibility to maintain a hierarchy, with 85 Lives as the label and Role/Truco/Cosmic Electric and such having sites within the site; maybe music-centric social networks aren't quite there. I'm currently building the iLike to mirror Cosmic Electric's Last.FM. (which I have yet to be able to play from iPhone; ugh)...

I can't wait to get another set of hands on this...

Confirmed

All the content is fine and happy now; here's my little maintenance to do:

• I have to remaster Plentiful; Katie mentioned she couldn't here the words.
• I have to listen to the OCt mixwit; see if it's you can here past tracks 5, if not fix it.
• Find a more efficient way to stream; and save said streams (possibly iLike)
• Oh yeah; utilize more QA and mastering skillfulness; we want to bring you only the best representation of the sound

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Ok, so now all the Role stuff is sitting in it's own File freak account; I hope Truco/BSWS and everyone else can here their jams too... gez

Ok so the Kingdom States thing will play because I've created a lateral filefreak account (just till I could find a better solution)... New jams soon, while I work this out...


The things I do for you.

DDAAMMIITT

filefreak; the site I use to host the streaming content is having issues, so you have to download the file to here it..

It's not always running for free...

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Different
Unique
Infected
Anomaly
Off
Almost
Relevent
Mystic
Material
Poly
Twain
Spin
Toil


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Rescind

Post-traumatic

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crosspolyfade

I met Sean Malachy thru flickr. He seen photos of my J.Mascis sig Jazzmaster and had technical questions, since he just got his.

We traded email several times then the idea came to me to see if maybe we could get a Postal Service-ish trade going. Made sense since he's all into the whole Kevin Shields sound, and I have yet to grow tired of that.

I initiated the idea, and this track crosspolyfade is the first exchange offering.




Sean, when you get this, add whatever you see fit and find a way to get it back to me in mp3 format; I'll share it with the silent masses that frequent 85lives.

You can download crosspolyfade here.

I could offer obvious suggestions but I almost never do that, I like collaboration to be unfiltered by works (other than logistical concerns); more intuitive (telepathic although I don't believe in such rubbish);less engineeristic.

buy kids

I spoke with Role and he told me a story about this track; he said he recorded one night while wrestling with a dying flu. He has been divorced for almost a year now but has not really managed to make much of a life post-marriage.
His children are only interested in what they can get from him; materially.
He said he had been having issues with self-worth since he doesn't have much monetarily to offer.

In so many words, he has eluded to ending his life during the upcoming holiday season.

I've tried to talk him out of it, telling him he has so much more to live for; that there are people that care about him and his luck will change.

He smiles back at me, emptily as he appears to have preconditioned himself to have these conversations; he thinks this is all so pretentious and that human suffering should end in success or self-elimination, but never in a mediocre existence.

He really doesn't care that he's risking an eternity in the lake of fire; all he sees is the current emptiness and distress that he says he's been in for so long.

Shake it off. Role, you can really get me down.

Here's his latest; buy kids




Dude, don't be such a downer...

34 percent

On Nyquil. Apple Store said no.

34 percent

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Pzzzzft

Pzzzzft

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Role just keeps on working. Must be unemployed or something.

YES MASTER YES

NEWS FLASH:

It takes two to make everything go right.

Seriously, all my enthusiasm and love for sound still has me lacking; and that's an accountability partner, an equal, someone who can participate. Especially when it comes to mastering. Most great recordings involve two types of artistry; the musician (from whom the music flows), and the engineer (from whom the sound is carved).

Most of us can spill into the other and even get along decently doing both roles, but things flow so much better when you have at least another person.

I wonder why I don't.

fzzy

I could almost guess what Role has been listening to lately, judging from the email I just got with this jam.

I hope you enjoy Fzzy as much as we did. Go home happy; it's Friday.

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What more?

I like Role. It's got the rain rhythm thing and (at least this jam) sounds honest and sincere.

I've gotta go and run 12 kilometers, tell us what you thing.

What more?

get down with whatcha go

(अल्ल्मोस्त वर्जिन) इ अन्ना क्नोव

Sigh The developers at flock really have to get together with the folks at blogger and fix the title translation thingie.

(अल्ल्मोस्त वर्जिन) इ अन्ना क्नोव translates to (almost virgin) I wanna know, which, if you haven't guessed it, is a another version of yesterday's track. I like this one better, I think you will too, it's more cohesive, you can definitely tap your fingers on your steering wheel at Freedom and Highland to this one.



downer, dude

The two tracks have tons of flaws in them - by design. To hell with ultra slickness, show me some scars and nicks, from time to time; that's why the description says demo blogging...

PS - Poledo by Lou on you're living all over me started most of this.

वान्ना क्नोव

So it's a little after 6 in the morning; why am I editing in GarageBand? Way aren't I asleep; about to wake up and start the new day?

Because I'm unemployed.

Do I have a problem not having a day job? No. But truth be told, these tracks are not, yet paying the bills (FYI - nor are they designed to).
Basically, all of my creative outlet is currently unprofitable, existing as yet only to draw a neat from you or the random passerby.

PS - Yes Allen did the drums on this track, after all it is a Cosmic Electric track. His drumming is timely and important, very big beat; and he understands my scatter-beat stuff.

Anyways, check out I wanna know, let us know what you think!





I posted the Last.FM for Cosmic Electric on my flickr, my one output with regular visitors (most of which I consider friends)... but perhaps my voice flattens out too much and the music is not pop enough to really keep you coming back, commenting or any other for or reply... I dunno. All I can do is continue to upload content to this blog and the last.fm or whatever... in hopes that someone out there will like it to the point of comment - at least.



you can download this track if you want to

स्टील वेटिंग

Here's the third jam from the session at Allen's in Gwinnett. Dude doesn't really return calls in a patterned time frame but if he doesn't have any girl-scout activities he's down for some back beat.

Too bad that's the only time and the only thing. Allen, I believe there's quite an artist locked up inside you but only you can transition. It's so much better on this side, the food tastes better the women smile more and your interactions with all of life are hightened; but you won't know if you don't let go.

Still waiting is what most of us humans do; and mostly for action/reaction from other humans; ironically enough. Some of us humans get a bunch of action/reaction right off, the rest of us humans watch and wonder.

Others have to spin and toil, "pay your dues" we say to each other, wiping the sweat from our brow.

None of this rightly matters once we get our recompense... it's the poor blokes who labour and labour and never, in their time receive the fruits of their labors; the founding fathers, the pioneers, the martyrs... this jam;
goes to them, hopefully I am not one of them; hopefully I get to taste victory, success and honor amongst my peers before I die; if not, Lord count me in with the Still waiting



ddoowwnnllooaadd

New jams today; still have some Cosmic Electric stuff to master.

Nothing new has been made today; sorry. I've been obsessing over making it into tonight's sold out M83 show at The Earl. Hopefully I'll get in lest I end up making more songs of setback and failure.

If you want to hire me, ok, fine. I really could use the loot. Click the large hindi text.

வாட்? யு வான்ட் டு சி மி ரெசுமே? ஓகே.. தேரே, லுக் தேரே.

We've only just begun - again