yesterday evening i had another nice meeting with Kai Hoffmann - a good friend of mine who is doing the whole artwork for the upcoming album… its really great to see ideas growing - especially if someone else is doing all the work

I have to admit that i really liked the new visual concept he is working on at the moment… its wonderful to see another artistic aspect of the album growing

The cover design also dictates the use of a DigiPak… and did i mention that there will be a booklet? Ha! I am looking forward to getting the finished cd myself…. counting the days

here is an intro to a song i finished today that really shines on headphones for all its details

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it uses a lot of reamping and automation and i will describe many of the processes when the album is finished and i do my “one week one song” feature in this blog…

Yesterday has been another day in the studio finally fixing another two songs…

one of them is about the natural human behaviour of searching for knowledge - the feeling that drives mankind into exploring the unknown… here is a little snippet

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link send by my friend kai with the remark “sounds familiar?”

www.underworldlive.com/Audio/Studio-Recordings/ALAF.html

and another snippet of the improved illusion track… the bass now works like it should but i am still uncertain about the sample…

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so here are some snippets from the final mixes… please allow me to keep them rather short… in a few weeks you all might get them in full length :)   mind that this is still not mastered and that some details like new speech samples might be added…

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after a little orchester break it resumes like that:

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and here is an old well known fellow in brand new bright clothes…

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this might be the opener of the album…

ill post another one tommorow… cheers!

Its time for some mixing at a different place this weekend. I hope to mix 3-4 songs this two days. These will be the first finally finished and fixed albumparts

Ill post a snippet monday… cheers!