Finally a step forward!

So good news is finally here to be had. Over the weekend, I was able to miraculously resurrect my lap top! I can finally use Cubase again and record! Only problem with resurrection is zombies, and my lap top seems to be moving slower than one right now. Over the next week, I plan on taking advantage of this opportunity to record. I hope to have the first Cluster done by mid to late July, so pay attention to whats going down.

Slowly, very slowly...

It's been a frustraiting 2 months, but I'm very slowly progressing through the first Cluster. I'm not giving out any info about how many songs or when it will be released, that is to be discussed later. With a near dead lap top, I haven't been able to record now, but I have been working around with Drum Machines and Sequencers. I do hope to have this Cluster wrapped up some time soon, but in the mean time I must work out certain instrumentals until recording is a possibility again.

Also, the website is still down. Things are complicated, but it should be back up soon. I decided not to really do much with it right now seeing as I haven't had to much time. But it does look different... kind of.

Okay, that's about it for now. I'm still working as much as I can, so hopefully you see the results soon.

Summer is the season of MUSIC!

Or... something.

Anyways, I just thought I'd update you on a few things, or a couple... or something, fuckI I don't know.

Okay, so I've been playing around on my computer with some drum amchines and synths thinking up new ideas, and I'm already in the process of making more songs. For now since my ideas are coming in few and scattered, I am officially going to start the 25:17 Clusters!

But Kris, what the hell is a cluster? Is it a new project? Does it come in many shapes in sizes? What flavours is it available in?

Good questions, kind of. To those of you who don't know what I mean by "Clusters", it's something I've been mentioning since late 2007. A "Cluster" will consist of an unset number of songs I do in a certain unplaned time frame. When I get songs done and I run out of ideas at the time, I gift wrap them into neat little MP3 download/Torrent packages and send them out. So for example, right now I'm int he process of working in the first cluster, so it will be "Cluster 1". And the songs will ahve no titles, they will only appear as 1a, 1b, 1c, or 2a, 2b, 2c. (The number being the Cluster number, and the letter representing a song on the cluster). I hope that was explained easy enough, if not, here it is again in a nutshell.

(Random example, not actually number of songs on Clusters)

# = Cluster Number (easier to identify)
Letter = Song on Cluster

Cluster 1:
1. 1A
2. 1B
3. 1C
4. 1D
5. 1E

Cluster 2:

1. 2A
2. 2B
3. 2C

And so on and so forth, okay?

There is no set number of songs on a Cluster, and there will never really be set release dates, they'll just be kind of random surprises that you may hear of maybe 2 or 3 days in advance.

I'm only doing it this way for a little while until i can start doing shows and build up the fan base.

Okay, just thought I'd let you all know. Now, back to experimentation.

Site's gonna change...

So the main site (www.2517.mfbiz.com) is going to be going through some big changes soon. Right now, I have fixed it up a little bit. I changed up the links, re arranged things, and gave Reborn it's own info page.

So the site will remain like this for a while, but then BIG changes. I'm thinkng up better designs, more HTML, and possibly a .com? Who knows?

As for music... I'm trying to play around with some ideas I have, but my laptop is pretty much on it's death bed. It has it's own version of the Swine Flu, I guess. It's okay, I'm getting a Mac Book soon any ways, so I guess I can wait? As can you I guess.

I'll keep you updated on everything, but for now, it's kind of quiet.

Problem solved...now Reborn is a torrent

Okay, so screw the pirate bay who wouldnt let me upload torrents... I uploaded to mininova.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2491395 (Reborn 128kbps)
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2491401 (Reborn 256kbps)
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2491406 (Reborn 320kbps)

I did upload the 96kbps version, but it was done before I registered so I cant reupload or edit. But you'll know it's mine because it'll have the same info as the other 3.

Enjoy!

Cant think of a heading

So today I figured I'd shed a little more light on Reborn, I attempted turning them into Torrents, but the pirate bay totally disagreed with everything I did... so much to the point where my account all of a sudden went out of exsistance while I was logged in. So I email them telling them to take their hands off their dicks and back onto the keyboard (afetr using hand sanatizer first), and fix this.

So yeah, be patient for those of you who want to downlosd the Rebron CD as a torrent.

Also, still incredibly busy with work, so give me time to work things out, then I will see about shows.

So damn busy

I realised I hadn't written a blog for 25:17 in a little while, so here it is now.

I've had to cut back on rehersal time due to the fact that I now have a job. It's a PT job, but so far over the last 2 weeks, they've given me 40 hours. So it has made me lazy and tired to continue at the moment. They're only giving me these hours I assume because of "training", well after that is out of the way, I go back down to regular PT hours (I think). I really would like to get back to rehersing, so hopefully things go better soon.

There isn't really a whole lot to update since nothing much has been happening since my new job, but I will try get more active in the coming months. I STILL need to play some shows.

Last bit of news, although I mentioned it already, incase you missed, you can now follow me on twitter. Just search for "twenty57teen".

Take it easy.