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album track considerations 060125

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Created: 06 January 2025

https://www.patreon.com/posts/album-track-119388545

Done and released as singles:

1. waiting on a message from bob
2. liquidator
3. morning flame
4. 2 week millionaire
5. the fix is in
6. psychedelic surfer
7. by myself without you
8. The Duke (only released as a video, not out officially)

Previously released as singles, not on an album and ready to go

9. Crossfire
10. the King is back

Sooo.....I mean....

Our target has generally been 13 tracks but that's a target. Basilisk was shorter, so was signposts (i think?)

Looking at the release candidates I reckon

- the yearning
- solace
- heavens on my shoulder

are all pretty much in contention for a slot.

Thing is, a few of the others are almost read as well. Long album? (theo says yes)
2 albums? (maybe?)
Time constraints? Radio interview for launch, 11 Feb.

What we can get done between now and then. Simple yeah?

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Psychedelic Surfer videoclip - notes via patreon

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Created: 05 January 2025

I am putting the robot image generators through their paces and having a blast.

Turn around on this was a few weeks elapsed pre-production and about 12 hours of editing.

Relative to $ per second, this is nuts.

This was NOT the video I was planning on making, having used Dall-E and Runway (the online robots) to great effect on Liquidator, where it really turned out similarly to my shotlist/storyboard/mental picture, this video was made using left over 'credits' on the robot generator.

I wound up have to buy extra cos I got to 95% and went screw it, i wanna do it, so I did.

These things still suck at Narrative cos they can't maintain a consistent model at present, or at least that's not available to the public. Everytime a scene/image is generated, it starts from scratch. It doesn't 'know', it's still clockwork. Fancy clockwork and eventually maybe even so advanced we can't tell, and passes the Turing test/Voight Kampf test, but meanwhile it still needs the squishy meat parts to make it all work.

Liquidator worked well cos a gasmask is an easy trompe de l'oeil. This clip well...not so much.

Following the wise saying 'let thy limitations be thine art', and our more general interpretation of 'do what you can with what you got, while you can' and add to it 'as often as possible' and well, here we are.

Since we started I have done live action, animation, CGI, LLM generation and now Robot Animation. If there's one consistent thing? BUTTONS!!! Yay! Newwww butttons! What does this do??

Hmm...anyway Imma do Juggernaut as a video project. Yeah thought I'd mention that. Also? I got an album to finish, we are on ross fears show in early feb so we have a deadline.

Welcome to 2025, batten down the hatches kids it's gonna be a dooozey.

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Psychedelic Surfer (it's alright)

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Created: 05 January 2025
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Psychedelic Surfer and By myself without you, both released as singles

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Created: 31 December 2024

VIA PATREON 

Attached there as 16 bit wav's.

Nice way to end 2024. I was hemming and hawing and i still have a chance to alter these before the go to the album but I think it's time. So here ya go. Happy 2024, bring on 2025

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Liquidator - Video Clip

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Created: 29 December 2024
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Robot image generator is cool AF and production updates 281224

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Created: 28 December 2024

https://www.patreon.com/posts/robot-image-is-118819833?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link


OMG i wannnnnaaa make a clip for liquidator so baddd. I realised I have been doing multimedia clips for quite some time now. I've done live action, cgi, animation, experimental, ChatGPT based image generation ( I still resist calling it an intelligence), and now machine generated video.

I'm gonna see how I go.

Meanwhile, I am listening to 4 mastering samples and reviewing what I think I know.

I feel more comfortable with the process and it does seem like some more mixing is due on stuff that has already gone out as a single.

Nutshell - most music is gonna be streamed. Just how it is. Cd's are an on again off again things for me. I kinda like'em tho.

We pretty much know the majority of time people will come into contact with us are on YT. Spotify? well... I have thoughts.

The map is not the territory, so to speak. Meanwhile, what's going well is the ability to produce material at a rate that suits us. That's also a modern factor, perhaps one of the first times artists have been able to just get on with it.

That opportunity needs to be met with the practical aspects of getting it done. And so.

Once my singles are put to bed, then it's onto finishing the remainder. I have more than one idea of how this collection of songs could be structured, the answer isn't with us yet.

Taking a minute to do a video would be a welcome change of pace.

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  7. recording session outcomes mixed
  8. drum and vox session at everland 25 nov 2024
  9. "Exploring myself" and I Got Told
  10. Production Update 181124 - ups downs and arounds
  11. 2024 CRAB festival cancelled
  12. New song side project song - By myself without you - The Michael James Band - via patreon!
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