When we assembled at the studio for our first REM Challenge 2023 recording session, Nick offered up a MIDI guitar piece he had been working on. Kevin, being chronically underprepared, did not have any decent sounding guitar VSTs installed on his…

Played around with some new virtual synths and MIDI loops I bought from a company whose stuff I like.

All MIDI, all the time!

Messing around with electronic doodads - tape loop, drum machine, looper pedal, other effects pedals, and then DAW plugins on the drums. Edited about 5 minutes of noise down to about 2:45.

Played around with some new virtual synths and MIDI loops I bought from a company whose stuff I like.

All MIDI, all the time!

MIDI bass, drum loops, and electronic noises layered under an improvised guitar track from another project. Dan Hollands - guitar Kevin Craig - recording, arrangement, mixing

Dan improvised on guitar over some synth and drum MIDI loops Kevin had pulled from a collection he'd bought the previous day. Quick, easy, and fun way to spend a few minutes at the studio. :)

Dan was (*ahem*) instrumental in very first Spice Rack Collective album way back in 2010, and we’ve gotten together a few times since then for various jam/recording sessions, including RPM albums in 2015, 2018, and 2019. Robbie and I have been…

A lovely, sweet sentiment that, to my ear, could be a love note from one hopeful individual to another, or could read as a celebration of this everchanging group that assembles to entertain and support one other each February. Like I told Leum…