oh, go for it then

http://www.myspace.com/liarsliarsliars

this is why i was in berlin earlier in the year. to work on recording the band, liars. i got contact from my friend jeremy, who was probably co-producing the album with the band about helping to record their album. it was originally going to be done in australia with lots of surfing involved, but the powers that be didn't allow any of that, and ended up being in berlin, which is where jeremy and the singer angus is currently based.

man, the music business sucks right now, the budgets are LOW. at one point, actually the night before i was to go on a plane heading for europe, the whole thing was nearly cancelled due to budget issues. i said "fxxk it, you go an album to do, i got a plane ticket, let's just do the whole bloody thing and see where it ends up". spent a fun three weeks in berlin, saw some friends again (thanks c and p!) and got to know where to get decent hamburgers late at night. investors: a decent late night eatery in berlin would probably make you tons of moolah. or a japanese supermarket. or both in one facility.

aaaanyway, i don't engineer that often, probably one commercial project once every year or 18 months? most of my work is looking after recordings and i only started engineering "professionally" after i turned 30! (er, thanks z and j). i really like recording, because it is a very physical activity and anybody that's not part of the process has no room to enter, it is a very team oriented effort. mixing is another whole different ballpark in my opinion and is overrated, people dabble and become too narcisstic with it too often. especially since the birth of the devil called protools (yes, i sold my soul to the devil). if you think about it, it's really a very simple process. i have idea in mind, i want it to sound like this, oh, maybe not, let's try this, ok, record it, now! after this, it's all downhill. got to get it right at the source.

anyway, thanks to liars and j for taking the risk to work with me, i hope it sounds alright.

kids, download it if you want to have a listen, but try to buy it after that too............ it wasn't made for $1 a song.