September is here...

I've been behind on the next interlude "Force of Reason."  I'm still working on it and so far I think it's the best yet.  It'll probably be the last of the classical and or organic sounding interludes as the future album will be progressing into the industrial revolution and the world wars after this.

I decided to draw a teddy bear...  with a gun... and I put it on a t-shirt.  Have fun with that ; )

You can buy 'Gunbear' shirts here -> [U-D-R] Store

I'm about 5-6 weeks from leaving Korea.  I'm still waiting on paperwork and procrastinating far too much.  Time to start looking for a job to help out with income before I head off to school in January.  I need to get that taken care of as well.


I'll see everyone in Seattle soon!

Crab-walking and claymores,
-Anthony



P.S. The 1996 version of 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' was actually pretty good.  It's got some Einstürzende Neubauten in the soundtrack too.

Force of Will

"Force of Will" is here.  I've been planning to release it for the past few weeks.  Things have been hectic and on top of everything, I moved back to Humphreys from K16.

Only 70 some odd days left, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.  The thought of looking for civilian employment to supplement my Post 9/11 GI Bill is also looming.  Assuming my Army paychecks aren't interrupted...

The 'Force of Man' album has been moving in spurts.  I get a lot of work done now and again, but in general it's moving slower than I'd anticipated.  I'd like to see it released in some form by the end of 2011.  So I'll keep shooting for that.

I didn't work out all the kinks in this version of "Force of Will."  But it's about as much as I'm going to stress over in a pre-release, more or less "demo" version of the song.

Here's the latest from Soundcloud and Youtube.

~Listen or Download the audio~

~Watch the video~

"Force of Will" is focusing on the aspect of civilizations, cultures, religions and their effect on mankind.  They have driven us to create great works of art and architecture.  Unfortunately, they have also driven us to wage war on one another.  So much of what we've built and accomplished throughout history has been razed by those who didn't agree with those who created it.

Hope you like it...

Zynga and ziggurats,

-Anthony (or perhaps Normal)

New album(s)

There's a new album in the works. It's going to be called 'Force of Man' and will be an interesting project for me. The early tracks on the album are going to be rather different from anything I've written before. I'm aiming for a more organic natural sound. So much so, that depending on how it goes, I might actually split the album into two. The first half as something of an experiment and the second half being more typical [U-D-R].

The basic premise is that of the history of humans. From the very beginning of our cultures through what I see us as a species today. Possibly with a bit on where I think we're going. So as one might expect; even mellow, slow paced electronic music wont capture my vision early on. I'm trying out new things, expanding my horizons a bit and working with a more simplistic, organic sound.

It will of course evolve as the album goes on. I would expect to see more electro inspired songs beginning in the renaissance. As we reach the industrial revolution, things will get darker and more mechanical. What lies beyond that will ramp up to what I would consider, my "style."

The album(s) will contain a prelude, three interludes and an epilogue. These five short songs (and videos) will be released once a month leading up to the album's release. In the mean time, I will likely have some other offerings as well.

Without further ado. I present 'Force of Nature' (prelude):

~Listen or Download the audio~

~Watch the video~

This begins as a look at an Earth, unaffected by humans.  Mankind then enters the picture and we see a brief glimpse of what horrors we can inflict upon ourselves.


Enjoy!

Party hats and Palominos,
-Anthony

Site overhaul

Major overhaul to the site today.
I thought I might do a quick rundown of the changes.

Home page -
New view, with extra space for information. Both facebook and twitter, at a glance. Mini bio, album info and quick links to music, video and merchandise.

Each page has a new social media links bar. Below that is a sitemap style menu. With easy access to the various parts of the site, music retailers and additional info.

News page -
Essentially the same as the old one. I understand that some browsers are particularly unamused with me embedding blogger. So I moved the "if you can't read this, click here" link to the top of the page.

Listen and Download page -
This is now split into links and notes for the three most recent albums and EPs. Each link will take you to the corresponding album. Where you can preview or download, depending on the license.

Music Store -
This takes you to the CD Baby store widget. Where you can buy the album through them. There is also a "buy on iTunes" link. This of course is in addition to the links to other stores, at the bottom of all the pages.

Clothing Store -
This section is also essentially unchanged. I lengthened the page so the embedded store itself, does not have scroll bars. The navigation feels slightly easier, to me at least.

Videos and Photos -
This is much like the album page. It's now split in two, with a link to a videos page and another to a photo album. I simplified these areas as well. With selected videos and photos. As all the videos are readily available on YouTube and the photos on facebook.

Bio page -
Just a bio. One that never seems to stop being... slightly revised.

Live page -
A new feature to the site. With some notes about [U-D-R]'s past performances and booking information. Which is currently not available.

Contact -
This is a mix of the old links page and contact information. With a special note for promoters, DJ's and the like.

I hope the new site design is agreeable.

Wombats and web-design,
-Anthony

Cantonment on iTunes

[U-D-R] - Cantonment is now available on iTunes as well.

[U-D-R] - Cantonment on iTunes

Look for it on these distributors in the future:

• Rhapsody
• Emusic
• Napster
• Nokia
• Tradebit
• ThumbPlay
• Deezer
• MySpace Music
• MediaNet
• Amazon MP3
• Zune
• Last.fm
• Spotify

Thanks for the support!
-Anthony

[U-D-R] 'Cantonment' worldwide release

[U-D-R] - Cantonment

world-wide release announcement:

Cantonment is available now on CD Baby (click here to buy).  iTunes in the next ±24 hours.  Amazon MP3 and others to follow in the coming weeks.

This album is a collection of previously unreleased and reworked material from 1999-2011.  With moods ranging from harsh industrial and upbeat synthpop to melancholy electro.  It covers a decade of creative exploration.  A true untapped talent of the independent industrial music scene.

Cantonment is only a taste of things to come.  [U-D-R] is back in the studio writing all new material, as well as bringing back a few lost gems of the past.

Be sure to take the time to listen to and download "Cantonized."  The free companion album to Cantonment below.

Cantonized by [U-D-R]

Enjoy!

-Anthony

Post vacation funk

Wait for it... waaaaait for it.

So, mentioned that I've been in a post vacation funk.  It's pretty well gotten worse.  I had a bit of progress on some freebie stuff I want to release before Cantonment.

However, here I am doing anything but working on those freebies.  Though I did manage to at least put them in some semblance of acceptability before my relapse.

I'm trying to work through how I've been feeling.  I think it's got a lot do to with my future fast approaching.  I've been in the Army 8 years.  That's 8 years of a routine.  8 years of paychecks for showing up to work.

I'm a bit aggravated at myself and the Army.  I never really tried to make much of my military "career."  Probably because I always knew it wasn't permanent.  After I reenlisted, I considered going for promotion again.  Though, I was happy.  I was crewing Blackhawk helicopters at Ft. Lewis, living in Seattle and making enough money to pay the bills and enjoy my off time.  So I just went with it.

The flip side of that coin is simply a whole debate on the flaws of the army promotion system.  I've decided to leave it at that.

This leads to my realization that it's all about to end.  On the plus side.  I'm going back to Seattle and I'm going to be with my wife.  I'm also headed into a great uncertainty that kinda scares the hell out of me.

I'm going back to school.  Assuming the Post 9-11 GI Bill doesn't take a sudden turn for the worse.  I've looked at various jobs to fill in, if I don't go straight back to school.  I found that I'm worried in part about going to school, because I have a (psychological) need to maintain my support for my family.  It will be an ugly pay cut.  Granted, I'll be nearly debt free at that point.

I guess that's enough of a ramble about myself.  Maybe all of this unease and tension will make for an awesome album in 2012.  One can but hope.  I don't even want to think about what to do with a hard drive full of partially completed songs.  Songs, that I'd like to finish at some point as well as writing new material.

Mistrust and manual labor,
-Anthony

New logos

Double Eagle Logo w/ Retro Symbol

I put some new shirts up on the store with the double eagle logo on them.  Check them out and don't forget there's a buy 4 get one free sale through May31st.

A few more details on my plotting.  I'm working on another freebie release with some remastered versions of the original Tainted and Last Chance songs.  There will also be another redux of a classic [U-D-R] song to be revealed when it's ready.

I haven't been as diligent as I should be in the studio  lately.  I feel like I'm still unwinding from being back in Korea.  We've had a fairly hectic work schedule and I've found some solace in a semi-vegatative state with the PS3.  No online stuff for me.  So the PSN being all mucked up hasn't caused me to go into any multiplayer withdrawal nerd rages.  I do do some online stuff now and again in MW2, but I quickly grow tired of watching myself get shot in the head over and over and finally being the cause of my teams loss through a tac nuke.

So yes, that being said.  I suck at video games.  I always have.  I play them for the story and always have them set to easy.  There are a few exceptions to that though.  Ducktales and Strider on the original NES.  I totally rocked those games.  I got FF2 on the SNES down to 15:32 at the start of the fight with Zeromus (later got my whole party to level 70 with Cecil at 71, that was a pain in the butt).  That and Aliens in the arcade.  Megaman continues to be a foul evil stirred up from the abyss of Japan however.

Oh boy, I'm rambling.  Though I guess I did just admit to being a geek, nerd or w/e.

I've got a few other things to work on today while I healthily avoid the vile playstation of doom.  So I'll catch you all later.

Lawn darts and ambulances,
-Anthony

Cantonment release date

I'm setting the Cantonment release for a tentative date of June 7th.  Everything should be in order by then.

This week, I'm planning on having some freebies up.  I'm also exploring possibilities for a digital release party of sorts for Cantonment.  I want to do some free merchandise but I'm not sure I can afford it right now.  We shall see.

I'll let you know when my plotting for this week has concluded.

-Anthony

Cantonment Promo

Cantonment Promo is out!



The Cantonment promo mix track is now available for preview and download.

These are the final mixes for the EP.  If anyone has an comments or suggestions, please let me know.

***

I think I've got a pretty good handle on how I want my music to sound.  I'm still not working with the greatest reference.  With the baseline I got in Seattle and listening to the songs on multiple systems.  I think it sounds about right as it stands now.  A friend of mine (and fellow musician) told me to stop when you're 80% happy with it or you'll never stop tweaking the sound.  Might be good advice.

I have a lot of songs in the works right now for the next album.  I'm still chasing the sound I'm looking for. A lot of the partially completed music I have right now isn't exactly new.  Though I think that might be ok, since I've been procrastinating for the last 7 years.  I do have a few totally new songs I'm working on and I seem to be headed in the same direction as I have been throughout the hiatus.

I'm definitely holding on to some sort of angry synth-pop vibe.  A little too dark for the standards of the genre, but a little too melodic and upbeat for industrial proper.  I guess I'm unique.  Rock on.


You and me and rainbows,
-Anthony

Back in Korea

Fun with the Cannon in Santa Monica

Back in Korea...

Been lying low a little this last week.  I caught a yucky cold over the weekend and it derailed some of my musical plans.  I wanted to get back on top of things full force when I got back here.  But it seems Korea can suck the life out of you a little.

Cantonment is essentially done.  I had been holding off on a commercial release to see if my Tainted (tortured mix) made it on the side-line facebook comp.  Seems they aren't going to announce who made it on the comp until the end of May.  Seems they also have somewhere between 500 and 1000 submissions and 40% are from "professional" bands.  I'm not liking the odds.

So in light of that.  I would like to release Cantonment earlier than June 1st.  However, I'm going to try and get a few external remixes and maybe another internal one done in the next few weeks and add a little more meat to the Album.  It'll still be an EP by definition, but more remixes are good no?

As for mastering.  I've rediscovered through logic's handy little tool "Match EQ" that I do so love to leave some holes in my spectrum I wasn't aware of.  Granted that tool is dangerous.  If you trust it outright, it can make a total disaster of your mix.  But if you get it just right, it can make some excellent fine tuning.  Somewhere around 500-700Hz, I don't like in my head, because it kept boosting that.  At first it sounded a bit um, "cardboardy" to me.  But I've heard it on several different systems now and I do like the way it came out.  Perhaps that's the "warmth" those analog guys are always talking about.

I didn't finish all the mastering on all the tracks while I was in Seattle though.  Time constraints and the occasional hangover didn't lend itself to mastering.  But seeing as I decided to add more to the album, I'll have to make do with what I have over here.  With an added dose of perspective.

For the future...

I was going through a lot of songs I'd partially completed between 2006 and 2010.  I like where a lot of them were going, but they aren't all exactly the sound I was going for.  There are a lot of them.  Enough to make into another album over the next 6 months.   Though I'm trying to decide if I want to continue to backpedal and revamp older and unreleased material or just wipe the slate clean and start fresh.

If I start over, I feel like I want to avoid "corrupting" my sound with past ideas.  But in some cases, I like my past ideas more than my current ones.  There are also a few semi-completed tracks that really move me.  I also want to bring back a totally up to date version of Cease Fire and possibly Licht.

I'm trying to push myself away from over-complexity.  Which has been a constant issue with my music.  I do so love to pack as much as I can into a song until it becomes "busy."  While at the same time, seeming that the key to a good song is only having what you need in it to make it work.  In part that may be my lack of "real" musical talent.  As I'm more of an engineer than an artist.  Then again, all I have to do is listen to a few songs out there to realize, I'm not doing that bad (oh, crap, hello ego).

Ok, ok...   this is enough of a ramble for one news post.

Love and other indoor sports,
-Anthony

Vacation

Heading back to seattle for a few weeks.  I'll be on the road for most of the time.  But the first and last weekend, I'll be at home relaxing and enjoying life.

Heh, seriously.  I'll be taking care of a lot of things while I'm there.  But I should still have time to catch a break.

To do list:
• Spend time with my wife.
• Look at a house or two
• Do taxes and resolve owed taxes from last year (<3 IRS)
• Clean the studio and do some mastering work
• Get access to my Service Credit Union account so I can figure out how much I still owe them
• Enjoy some time around (possibly) Napa Valley, San Francisco, LA and Utah
• See Leæther Strip live in concert, woo!
• Get a new usb midi controller (M-Audio Oxygen 49, I think)
• Discuss the future
• Wish I didn't have to go back to Korea
• Hope Tokyo doesn't get some ucky fallout for my return trip layover there
and a whole lot more...

I'm sure this doesn't even cover half of it, but it's what I've got off the top of my head.  Yes yes, I know a lot of that is totally irrelevant from the perspective of most people who might be reading this.  But I vent and process a little here too.

If you really want to hear me vent.  I might think about linking my rant blog sometime.  For now, it's just for me and whoever finds it accidentally.

Now, I have to go sign out on leave.

Tschueß,
-Anthony

Near future

Remixes, my future (post army) and Cantonment commercial release (soon).

Spent a chunk of last night working on my "homework" for the transition assistance program class I'm in this week. Getting out of the Army is a fabulous thing. But all of a sudden, one realizes, even if you stayed in your military career field, you'd take a pay cut. While I'm ok with taking a pay cut to go from 14-16 hours a day, 60 days a year in the field, 1 year in 2-3 deployed, etc, etc to 10 hours a day M-F. It does pay better to be a civilian in Iraq. Though it's a pain in the ass to get you and your equipment there. I'm so off track already...

Regardless. I'm down to about 6 1/2 months left in Korea. Then a few paychecks on terminal leave and after Dec 1st. I need to already have some kind of Seasonal job lined up, transitioning into part time while I'm in school. Probably back to the retail world for me for the time being. They don't really offer much in the way of my skill sets in part time jobs near Seattle bus routes. So, I'm feeling a tiny bit nervous. But worse come to worst, there's a variety of jobs I'm qualified for and I get a tiny advantage with veteran's preference. Namely government jobs. The closest non upper upper management ones are mostly TSA/DHS guys.

Otherwise, Surveying. Which might even be enjoyable in the PacNW weather. But that's all a moot point as I'll be in school starting in January with a 70% pay cut and 15% more bills.

Wow, so so far off track for the topic of this discussion.

The OTHER thing I was doing last night is the Klutæ - Desert Storm remix. I'm still working the song back together and messing with instruments. It's coming together though. Probably after tonight it'll be time to futz with it a bit. Though I'm going to be busy preparing and packing for my trip to the states. So it might be on hold.

I will have a couple non-consecutive days with my full studio set up during those two weeks. I'll be adding some spit-and-polish to the Cantonment tracks. After that, I'll be pushing a commercial release shortly thereafter. I'm still on the fence about remixes. I might just push those as freebies online later if anyone wants to do a remix. I'm not in the position to pay for them just yet...

So here's the list of upcoming goodies- -
KLUTÆ - Desert Storm [U-D-R] remix.
Frontal Boundary - Mental Illusion [U-D-R] remix (on his commercial release).
[U-D-R] - Cantonment Final Master and Retail availability.

I haven't decided the best route for a retail release, but I might go with a 1 shot iTunes (or multi digital distribution) release. ReverbNation has a pretty good ongoing deal with a monthly fee. But my finances are about to get pretty thin. Once I have access to my UPC or barcode thingy. I can self release the hardcopy CD myself for distribution. I do have a route for doing that, but it'll be up to what I can afford. Currently, there isn't much demand.

That being said, I'm in this for myself and my fans. I'm not planning on living off my music anytime soon, so I don't expect or anticipate a very profitable response from releasing Cantonment. But you never know what the future holds. Time for a serious indie promotion assault methinks.

"It'll cost ya good nuyen or two little puppy dogs.  Har har!"

Cheers,
-Anthony

Experimental music

I just finished up a song I did for my wife's school project. We were on a super short time schedule so I more assembled it with with loops in GarageBand. My first go kinda missed the mark a bit and ended up sounding like a 60's James Bond theme song.

And here I was supposed to be writing about the element of Earth from the Traditional Chinese Medicine point of view.

We worked on it a bit more, but with our time crunch, modified my 007 theme with some slightly different elements. We had also intended to have her sing. She did very well, but I ended up doing a rendition myself to get it out the door with her to class this morning ^_^

I will say though, for being totally raw and with a couple minor flubs. I sung in a style that was about 75% outside my norm. I think I did ok too. So I guess I haven't lost my touch just yet. Though for the year and change I was living in Seattle and working at Ft. Lewis (54 miles one way). I was singing my ass off in the car to everything. So I actually came up some new techniques.

If they're appropriate to industrial I dunno. But should I ever record my rendition of Covenant's "Final Man." You'd all get a giggle. Actually, it sounded really cool... from a singing in the car perspective.

We're also off GO1 after two weeks (aka now we can drink), so cheers!
-Anthonormal B. Funfrock

...yes, I just made just made an obscure reference to "Dr. Funfrock."

[U-D-R] News - back on blogger

Heya

I switched the [U-D-R] news over to my blogger account. While it's a rather wide format and kinda mucks with my website template. It's a lot easier to post and maintain (and I like the way it looks). As well as being able to post when I'm away from my computer.

Cheers,
-Anthony

Cantonment EP

I've decided Cantonment is going to be an EP with 6 tracks, possibly some remixes. Cantonment, being a place where soldiers live. It seems somewhat appropriate to leave it as music I wrote and or reworked while I've been in the army. Though the combination of this EP and a long hiatus has essentially killed the Prometheus (working title) album that was scheduled for 2006-2007 originally. Most of the newer material is from what that album could have been.

I also think holding out for later this year or even early next year while I put together more tracks isn't really fair to those who might want to buy the album. Especially when the music I'm writing now is somewhat different than these revamped tracks from 1999-2005. That being said, there is a lot of unfinished songs from 2006 that might not fade away completely.

I'm looking forward to what the future holds. I'll be heading to school at the Art Institute of Seattle for the Audio Design Tech program. Huzzah for the post 9/11 GI Bill. Though they keep hacking away at the benefits. All in all, it's far better than the Montgomery GI Bill that I joined up for, so I can't complain.

I'm heading back to the states for a few weeks pretty soon. I plan on hooking my trusty macbook pro up to my lobotomized studio that sits idle while I'm off in Korea. Giving the 6 tracks a final once over with some real reference monitors.

Hopefully around May, there will be a Cantonment EP for sale somewhere. I've so far only released promo materials to a handful of people. Though with the ability to record audio from preview only streaming tracks, I'd imagine anyone could get my music for free. The next album is likely to be fairly hush hush until it's about ready.

I think I'm rambling a bit. It's almost midnight here and I'm running on 2 hours of sleep from last night. TGIF for sure. Well, tomorrow is Friday for me. It's nice being 17 hours ahead of the west coast sometimes.

Love and other indoor sports,
-Anthony

Back on blogger.com

Heya,

It's been a crazy 3 weeks. I put a new [U-D-R] site together, redid 4 songs, remastered 13 for a compilation of *old* songs and scattered myself all over various social media and music sites all over the internet.

Back to work.

Look for the new CD "Cantonment" early next year. It'd be a lot sooner, but I'm in Korea w/o most of my studio equipment.

I'm still here.

Music has been on the back burner for a long time now.

I've more or less got my studio back up and running. I still need a few odds and ends before everything is working right. I've let life get in the way of writing music. Life and various other forms of entertainment anyway.

I have tried my hand at a few new tracks, things are going slowly though. Life is good-ish and there's not much to bitch about in my songs ;)

Well, it's over 100 degrees in my apartment, my computer and associated music equipment are cranking out some serious BTUs and making it even hotter. I suppose I could write a song about how much summer sucks in the Pac NW, but you'd hear an awful fan noise int eh background from both the fan in the window and my computer fan going all out to keep my processor under 120° F.

All in all, just wanted to update my blog so the world didn't think UDR has completely died. I'm here, I've got new gear and before I deploy again sometime next year, I want to get something done.

So cheers to that.
-Anthony

Iraq 08

Heya guys,

I'm in Iraq again. This laptop can't handle the latest version of GarageBand, so no musical aspirations out here this trip.

I'm in Tall'Afar / FOB Sykes and it's very quiet out here as far as the war goes. I should be back home in Washington state by mid September.

I've been saying the music has been going slowly or not at all for oh, about 5 years now. Really, since Germany, I haven't done much. I've played around, gotten some ideas... watched them crumble into crap as I tried to bring them to the surface.

I think I'm about ready to give it another serious go this time around. I've got plans for a 1 bedroom apartment which is going to be not much more than a storage facility for all my household crap and my studio.

It turns out my beloved Event 20/20bas monitors were damaged, but they're being paid for by the damager. So I thought I'd take that cash and throw a little more in and get myself an upgrade. I'm looking at both the ADAM A7s and Dynaudio BM 5As, they both have great reviews, but the pro's are leaning towards the A7s I think.

If I end up with a similar priced set of monitors I think I'll go for the Mackie MR8s.

Either or, I want to definitely surround myself with a more music friendly environment. Get my computer and surrounding studio set up as user friendly as possible. I've spent a lot of time with various things in awkward places which added to the frustration of trying to write music again.

I'll also have less distractions I think. Especially with today's gas prices, sheesh, I can't possibly afford 2 trips downtown a week. Bummer though, I really enjoy Seattle and the scene there. Though I should probably work more on being a part of it and less on being part of the crowd.

I hope all goes well. I'm assuming short of not making it out of Iraq alive, I'll be pushing for a Dec-Feb time line for the next [U-D-R] release, even if it's a single or EP or something. I'm seriously considering using State of Oppression and Forever in Time as singles and b-sides material. As I'm willing to guess they'll probably sound out of place on a "new" album as they were both written 2-3 years ago.

The slew of material that I've been sitting on is still there. So I may take a stab at finishing the "Prometheus" album before working on new material. But I might just as soon dump those unfinished tracks or merge them with new songs. I doubt the next album with be called Prometheus, but the songs that were finished for it, much like "Version 4.X" will retain the album/EP title.

That was another idea I was toying with. Some manner of udr greatest hits or picking and choosing the best songs I've already written and bringing them up to snuff. I have several songs that are dear to me, that sadly sound terrible as I wrote them between 97-99 when I had little experience in songwriting or mastering. That would probably make me personally happy.

I'm possibly after an Alesis DM Pro. One of my big hangups in recent years has been drums. When I was using a DM Pro with the "encode" side project, I never had any issues with finding and utilizing great drum sounds and beats. But it seemed for a long time that running just my Alesis QS6 and EXS24 drum samples, I felt like the backbone of the song was just weak.

Lastly, I might be going in a slightly different direction in the future. Rest assured, it's no where near the departure Apop ran off to. I am *not* emo. If anything, it'll be angry, stompy and maybe synth-poppy. Er, some combination of the three most likely.

Dragonslayer 37 Zulu, out.
(doh, not in OIF 1 anymore)

-Normal
Mayor of Udderville
Operator of Uddervogt
Designer of Uddercraft
Master of Udders
I mean [U-D-R]'ers
Or something...

Moved again and still lacking new tunes.

Long story short. I was rather unamused with Ft. Drum. I reenlisted and got myself sent to Ft. Lewis. Good news, I'm close to Seattle and it's scene. Bad news, I'm deploying to Iraq until September.

Not sure if I'll be able to get anything done musically before I go downrange and I'm not sure it's worth is trying to get a new laptop just to work on music for 6 months. I mean hell. It's been 3 years since I've put anything out. What's another 6 months.

Though I suppose I'll always have garage band and I can futz a little with Logic on my current laptop.

I'll post again when I know something. I'm currently chasing around between here, my personal myspace site and my band myspace site and trying to update all three with my limited time is difficult to say the least.

Check myspace.com/djnormal for the latest info on [U-D-R] and myself.

-Normal