No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Ok. I 'm currently writing this on a rainy day at a farm in White Cloud, Michigan, on a well deserved furlough from life in the Chicago area. I'm sad/relieved to say that the next EP is gonna be delayed until next spring. Probably around my birthday again. (Oh come on. You knew this was coming....) The reasons for this are threefold:

1. STG is starting to take off. We finally got our self-titled EP out there, with a decent website (Good Bye MySpace!!!), and are working on getting distribution for it. (iTunes, Amazon, ect...) A group with a good sized following in Europe found our tracks online and has offered to do a remix for us, along with other acts that we've made noise with over the years. (I might actually do a DMK mix for one of the tracks.) Along with writing another EP, and the remixes. A promoter friend of ours is looking into doing an electronic music fest in Chicago around well...March. We're hoping to have the new EP and the remixes available by then.
   
   
2. I'm gonna be moving again. My fiancee and I will hopefully move into her Mom's house come November, after she moves out here to the Michigan farm. A yard for the dogs and a space for my studio where I can shut the door on the marauding horde of cats sounds wonderful. But it means a bunch of work to make it the way we want it. And carrying all the crap down three flights of stairs ain't gonna make it easy either. 
   
   
3. The songs are taking more time. When I did 6 Feet Under The Radar, I was more or less experimenting with different things. My focus on this is a little clearer in what I want to do so I want to take more time on it then slapping together a bunch of loops, and making a DJ mix. Also I've brought more ideas to the table this time, and I'm finding my self mumbling and humming along with the playback while working, so I'm guessing some of the tracks got something to say. Which is why I'd like to record them when we move to the house. Trying to record vocals in a third floor Chicago apartment with a hospital down the street calls for a sound proofing budget that I ain't got.

So it's gonna be a little while. But with the work on STG's next EP, the remixes, and the next DMK release in March, I'm actually looking forward to my 40^th. Most don't get that lucky. They just get old.