Contest! Win A Limited Release Steg Rex Cassette!

Here's a contest for all you artists out there. Draw me a dinosaur, and I'll give you a limited release (10 copies!) Stegosaurus Rex cassette!

I need someone to do some cool artwork featuring a dinosaur (more specifically, a stegosaurus) for printing onto a run of hats/T-shirts that I will be doing.

Make some cool stegosaurus artwork (preferably a silhouette, single-color, and simple!) and send it to steg.rex@gmail.com at the best resolution you can manage, and the winner will receive a copy of my next release!
(It'll be a cassette collection, limited to 10, of previously unheard music + Undeniable)

Rules:

1. Enter as many pieces of art as you want to increase your chances of winning, but add only one piece of art per email. Email to steg.rex@gmail.com
2. Artwork should be at the largest resolution possible, because this will end up being printed!
3. Single color, silhouette-ish, simple. Outlines are fine!
4. Deadline for submission is November 14th, 2008.

Gyroscopes

I've been pretty busy recently, but that's no excuse for the lack of music...

So here.

Gyroscopes. Dance your fool head off.

http://www.myspace.com/stegrex

New Music

So...

I haven't posted in a while.

That's because I've been pretty busy, working on this and that, losing sleep, forgetting to eat meals...

It's because I've been working late into the night, brewing some new stuff like a mad scientist.

But just to give you guys an update and to let you know I didn't go Heath Ledger on you, it looks like Undeniable along with some other post-punk/New Wave tracks are going to be released sometime later this year.

I've also been working on a new project, collabing with someone else, forming a band...

Damn, I've already said too much! Stay tuned as I unveil some new stuff in the coming weeks!

Small Show! (SF Public Access Television)

I'll be playing my first show for San Francisco public access television on Thursday, August 7th! Stay tuned for more details as they roll in!

New MySpace URL

I've just switched the Stegosaurus Rex MySpace URL to http://www.myspace.com/stegrex
Check out my music! There might be a small show coming up in a few weeks. More details later! :)

Desolate Pool

I love 80s music. I was born in 1985, but the radio station that my dad listened to played a lot of 80s music. Depeche Mode, Berlin, Joy Division, The Cars were just some of the very awesome bands that I heard growing up.

I've decided recently to examine some of the methods used in the 80s to make CD audio. Those engineers were precision surgeons, making sure everything fit in well, taking advantage of the CD format's excellent dynamic range.

As a musician who grew up in the 80s and admires 80s mixing and mastering, I had to make some of that kind of music on my own (New Wave, New Romantic, Synthpop, etc).

I began cranking the creative brain for ideas, adding generous amounts of reverb to snares, dubbing vocals, and chaining together delay units.

80s music is beautiful. It is also oftentimes depressing, when the artist wants to make it so.

This next release (single? EP?) that is scheduled for release in October is focused on that New Wave sound, incorporating guitars, fat reverb on drums, sad synths, and utterly depressing lyrics.

I've got 4 tracks done so far with track number 4, Desolate Pool now in the lineup; I'm still aiming for 2 more. Prepare for retro goodness, to be released soon!

Back To Work!

My computer is back up and running, thanks to my friend Thanh!

I've decided to schedule "Undeniable" to be released as a digital single, which will be released on fall 2008. Check out my MySpace to listen to the track!