Mr. Furious Records

Hey, all - it’s one thing after another with building the new mrfuriousrecords.com, but I’m making progress, and learning a ton.  Every thing I want to do, I find out there’s three other things I have to do *first.*

But it’s (mostly) working at this point, so as soon as the theme looks decent enough, and I can import all the current content, I think we’ll go ahead and go live.

Musically, we’re continuing to slowly mix and record vocals for Exploder Mode, and I heard this week from Greg (White Air); he’s working on a new release, and we may well collaborate with him on that again.

-h

I finally listened to the “Document” LP I picked up over a month ago, not realizing that one of my favorite R.E.M. songs is called “Finest Worksong” and is on that album. Bit by chiming bit, I am becoming an actual R.E.M. fan.

Some bits & pieces:

- Had a great session yesterday doing a full mixing pass on “You Have To Wear The Boots.” Cleaned up the big concerns from the most recent mix, and made several small but good changes to the overall sound - cleaner drums, clearer vocals - that I like. I’m ready for Tim’s flute and Tara’s voice (as The Knight).

- Unofficially, it sounds like the cast of Khan! The Musical will be coming over in a couple weeks to complete the official soundtrack/original cast recording. Very cool.

- If you saw the new site up for a few minutes earlier tonight, I was testing the functionality of using facebook accounts to log in to the new site. (A feature that may be more important to the Exploder Mode site I’m planning than MFR, but we’ll see.) With CA’s help, it was successful.

…and I’m doing a ridiculous amount of homework.

But I swear to myself, in your presence, that I will get “…Boots” and the first Exploder Mode (formerly Fifty Bears in a Fight) stuff out this fall.  This.  Fall.

Swear.  -h

KHAN! The Musical: In space, no one can hear you sing

“Go back to the future in this 1980s rock-n-roll Enterprise.  It’s a new musical from Bryan Colley and Tara Varney … with original music by Tim Gillespie and Michelle Cotton.”

With performances between July 27 and August 1, if you’re in the KC area I hope you’ll check out Khan!  You may know Tim from various performances with me, or the Bryan & Tara team from their string of hits in the past few KC Fringe Festivals.

Tim’s previewed a couple tracks for me, and I think this is going to be a lot of fun. -h

Here’s a mix of some tunes about independence, citizenship, and the democratic process.