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Romantech Updatification January 2010

Quick romantech round up:

• “Tough Love” Mix CD’s are flying out, they’ll be at 7 cafe, Grey Lynn, some other places, UPfm lobby in symonds st., probably put some downin Handmade burgers, people beats movement . . .

• There are artistic vibes about. Darcy and Shane are doing their film “Godspell”, Scott and Harry are moving to Westport to fish and write beats, Chris from Timaru is making “3beat” and “threefixing”, there are other people around too. Just been running around, seeing stuff, and I want to be in with the art that’s happening, not where the art isn’t happening and dudes are just lying around.

• DJ Asides has been staying and it’s been an opportunity to see and learn - samples, mixing, production, songwriting, picking up little bits of stuff.

• The gigs have not been going well recently. I’m over it, I’ll still be keen to perform but I don’t want to pursue too actively because I want to more real art stuff.

Hi all, haven’t been posting much on the romantech blog and there’s kind of a bunch of reasons for that . Don’t worry, it’s not permanent, just working it out.

I was feeling pretty angsty mainly because it was christmas and january and that’s a time of the year when I make the least money, and also stuff was happening with my living arrangements and my BMW collection that was hitting me in the pocket so I had a bit of a “poor” mindset going on which put me a little bit crook because if you know me, I’m at my best when I’m banking.

Not making money makes me nervous. Jumpy.

I can’t help myself! I always get paranoid every january that the business will lull and it won’t come back. But it’s coming back, and at the back of my mind, I prepare to deal with issues I’ve foreseen and come to the perimeter of in the past – like getting a secretary who just basically deals with problems.

Picking up where we left off, I activated the strategy I discussed earlier in the blog that endless frustrated outpourings just weren’t doing it for this blog. It wasn’t the right vibe. So I decided to use that energy toward my business and try and keep it a bit more together around here. That kind of played out, but when I started making money again I sort of well got more into it rather than just sitting moaning.

Crying Over Uninspected Dojo’s

It comes back to the whole Dojo Inspectors thing. It’s been hard. The fact that it shouldn’t be is the reason that it is. See? Complicated stuff. But y’know it seriously bums me out that it hasn’t come together. That wasn’t my expectation, and it brings me down, makes me feel negative, blocks me up creatively.

Already I’ve started laying down new tunes, more tunes coming from the minimalist deepstep direction – exit recordings, autonomic all that business and all the liquid on the dojo inspectors release sounds old, it sounds like what might have been good in 2007.

Lenzman and S.P.Y. are doing their thing pushing the sound and anyway, I didn’t want to get left behind I had to move forward, except for this release that never happened that was supposed to close the book on the last few years work, and having established myself in business now, to be able to begin my production career in earnest.

But no, basically. And it’s effected me, and still effects me because business and making money is rewarding and the energy is positive and the momentum flows. Whereas projects you’ve poured so much effort into that don’t eventuate just make you feel bummed, and the energy dissipates, that’s what’s happened, is happening. and I just need to avoid this swamp of failure altogether.

That’s why I’m thinking I have to be more independent and uncompromising. Sure i’m alone without the opportunities I might have, but at least what I’m doing is really me, and ultimately is more exciting.

So what do I want to do that is different? Make tunes, if they’re really good pay to have them mastered and if not deal with them on a mix and deal with that. It doesn’t really matter if it’s Soul Science or Romantech.

I’m going to do my videos and my blogs and look to that to inspire people who are interested in what I’m doing, not rely on some bunch of pricks to decide whether they like me enough or I’ve kissed enough ass to push me out there. That shit brings me down. End up looking bad because you’re trying to be something you’re not – one of them!

So writing tunes is important, but where schmoozing and scenery will be less important, building depth through secondary content will take it’s place. Keeping it real. Like seriously, not just like, when it suits. Delivering and representing a high standard.

But video will be hard. I was working on scripting recently and realised that it’s all a lot harder than I tend to think. It’s going to take work to get serious about video, again, another reason why all this scenery just is not for me.

I don’t have any fantasies, really, if I ever got asked to pay overseas as a result of my stuff coming out then that would great. But i’d be happy just to know there’s 50 people in auckland, 500 people in new zealand, 5000 people around the world who are into my stuff, and make an effort to get the music, or come to see me play or whatever.