April 2012
feeling strangely not myself.
(it’s been) two weekends, and i haven’t touched music; not in any way that really counts for me — no recording, no composing, no songwriting. the cellar doors did have a gig; and i have been listening to music. just… not making any.
it feels weird. i don’t feel like myself when i don’t get time off on my own, with just my own silly little brain for company. i’ve tried not going off, and just making music like i would write an article (meaning, in my own house, in my own bedroom, with my life around me — work, home, friends, people i love), but it really doesn’t work like that. i need to feel like i’m completely alone; removed from the real world. any other way just doesn’t work. shitty for everyone else in my life, i’m sure, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
!genre
- MATTI: !genre
- MAXI: Post Modern APLM Punk
- MATTI: bahahaha you're a genre now, maria
- APLM: that's just silly
everything ducks everything.
- R: compress the drums via sidechain input from bass
- VD: you mean the drums duck the bass?
- B: No, bass duck the drums.
- NDA: fuarking nice
- B: And then the drums duck the bass.
- VD: it is
- B: And then everything ducks everything
- VD: DUCKS
- B: Ducks. Llama Llama Duck.
- APLM: GOOFY PLS
- R: wild
- VD: it's a mess
Just Like You (Produced by New Dark Age)
A Problem Like Maria
#180 JUST LIKE YOU. like “eviction notice,” this song was passed around quite a bit; the subject matter of this is quite heavy, and it was hard trying to imagine what the beat would sound like. leave it to new dark age to just perfectly capture it.
Eviction Notice (Produced by Nemo Hose)
A Problem Like Maria
#179 EVICTION NOTICE. i love how this song came out. this was actually one of the more problematic ones, in that it was passed around for a bit because of scheduling difficulties. the feel of it was kind of elusive, too… so there wasn’t a lot of time between getting the instrumental so actually recording over it. turned out to be one of my favorites, though. isn’t nemo hose’s work just breathtaking?
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
—Ernest Hemingway
WORD. This girl. →
aproblemlikemaria.bandcamp.com
I got no medals to show for music critique, but APLM’s (A Problem like Maria - a good old childhood friend based in Quezon City) debut album nails down TRIP in trip-hop. The lo-fi, muffled, almost distant-from-the-mike effect done on her dulcet vocals (you won’t associate dulcet with rapping) match and blend seamlessly with the instrumentation.
awww! thanks for the wonderful words, oui. :) if you wanna hear what she means, download “99 problems and maria is 1” here.
