I worked all the daylight hours today on my new piece of music: "Living The Life"! What a great time this is in my life. For a couple of years now I have been trying to genuinely incorporate real instruments into my "all synthesizer" sound with Second Culture. My interest first started in 2005 when I started becoming very obcessed with the music of Manuel Gottsching, Ash Ra, and Ash Ra Tempel. Also at the time I actually listened to "E2-E4" for the first time, allthough Id certainly read about. Around the same time I was getting very interested in Tangerine Dream's "Encore" and "Ricochet". I was very interested in the "real" "live" quality of these recordings; before I had over looked those records for the exact reason I now liked them. I also became greatly interested in Klaus Schulze's records with percussion but before he acquired the sequencer. The stuff with the real drums is what Im talking about: Blackdance, and Picture Music. I really like the new bonus tracks on Blackdance now too.

In my new pice of music I purposely limited myself to using guitar , bass guitar, and voice. The percussion for what Ive done so far has all come exclusively from the Quasimidi RaveOluTion and the Adrenalinn3, however I do intend to add more  diverse and more layered drums... This song has had would I would call a "writing phase" , which would contrast with how I normally work on music which is that I basically finish as I go... This thing was a first for me, as I have been trying to become better and better on guitar and  bass. And then I just jumped into the fire with this piece of music with the doing the vocals... All of that was extremely fun and has made me want to start doing vocal work all the time, I dont know if thats a good or bad thing. This is definitely more prog than anything Ive done since the first second Culture CD. I can tell you one thing: I very much like the sound of the rock instruments (guitar and bass) with my Electronica percussion. Those worlds seem to be very resistant to each other. For some reason to my ears I love the sound of driving bass, space rock guitars and drum machines. At times it reminds of  the old original Ozric Tentacle releases before Erpland like Sliding Gliding Worlds and stuff. The sound also reminds me of Love and Rockets to some degree with the way they always embraced the "hybrid" percussion idea. Moreover my sound was very proudly reminding me of some cassette only space rock that I had found out about and ordered thru AUDION magazine back in the very early 90's... The vibe of that stuff was so creative and so passionate with being dedicated to that space rock sound... The driving bass with the drum machine and programmed percussion was something  awesome to me, of course they probably wanted a real space rock drummer, but I loved it....

I love the way the lyrical idea developed, I just started singing a few lines about a very sexy tattooed, shirtless guy who was sagging boxers really hard  I saw one morning when I got off work early  and I was up on Central Ave and Foothill by Puncture in Upland or Montclair or whatever the fuck that is over there.. But the  lyrical root of the song wound up being a voice as a  big advocate for law of attraction and personal expression and the personal creative empowerment one could get from being ruthlessly self indulgent with those two things.

Then I went off in these different direction with playing games with he words like YES would do, which is something Ive always wanted to do..  That was mainly the last section I created today and it was very successfull, Iam totally in awe, what a landmark period in my history as an artist.