So right now I have six songs that are basically finished as far as composition goes.  They are:

• Wired Jungle
• Midnight Highway
• Tweak
• Occupy
• Intro #1
• Emotions

Not that listing off their titles will do you any good, but bear with me here :)  There are also 2-3 other incomplete songs that may or may not develop into full compositions.

Anyway, as far as the album goes, I have a few problems developing that I’m trying to fix.  The first is that Emotions doesn’t fit with the other music.  Like, at all.  It just sounds like this weird crappy emo tune that doesn’t develop.  So do I remove it from the album, or do I continue to hack away at it?  Or should I go radical on it, fork what I have now, and completely rework things?

The second problem is that the mixes for Tweak and Occupy still don’t sound like I want them.  It’s something I tried fixing the other night but, much to my dismay, I actually made them worse.  So I’m not sure how to handle them right now.

The third problem is that I can’t seem to come up with anything really good lately.  Every time I try writing something it comes out sounding cheesy, super depressing/emo, or both.

Perhaps I just need to take a break from music for a few weeks :)

I didn’t expect this to happen quite this soon, but the new Partition 36 album is now about 25% finished.  This is the same one titled 63 that I mentioned in my last post.  With two CDs, intro tracks, and an accompanying art/writings book (yikes…), this album will likely be my most ambitious project yet.  And if the tracks I recently finished mixing down are any indicator, also my best sounding one.

The idea of the two CDs came about because of the thematic and stylistic differences between the tracks I have both written and planned.  Although Inside The Beat turned out really well, I was never all that happy with how it wasn’t that cohesive.  The title track was a banging industrial-inspired song, while the song right after it was influenced more by jazz, synthpop, and J-pop.  But by splitting the new album into two CDs, and throwing on a few extra tracks, things should sound like they belong together, and the overall theme will be much more apparent.

As far as releasing it goes, this one will definitely be available for purchase, but I’m debating if I should have both digital and physical releases.  If I do end up doing just a digital release, the art book would just be a downloadable PDF.  But I also like having that physical copy in my hands because then it feels that much more real.  I guess we’ll see how things go.