Rooftop Access

Ok, I don’t know who reads this, but just in case you stumbled across this site via a CD that i handed to you, or some kind of spamming, here’s an update!

Microleaps

Our first full-length album Microleaps was released in September, on the always excellent Laridae label, you can grab it for free here. It’s a collection of tracks that have been floating around in several forms since as early as 2005, which means I’m sick of most of the tracks by now, and it was basically just a way for me to flush out my remaining electronic tracks that were made after the last Modex album, along with some new post-rock stuff. Unfortunately they didn’t use the superb artwork designed by our in-house artist Egle Naujokaityte, but it is included in the zip file.

Let’s Take This Dinosaur

Last month I ‘released’ a mini-cd of guitar ambience, with handmade packaging and unique stencil artwork. The response was awesome, therefore I’ve decided to keep making copies of it until the next album is out (more on that later). Here are some photos of the artwork:

If you’re interested in buying a copy, they are $5AU including postage if you live in Australia, and $5US if you live anywhere else. Leave a comment on this post if you want a copy.

Reals And Dreamity

On the subject of new releases, I’m working on a new album. It’s called “Reals and Dreamity”, and it’s mostly going to be a collection of edited improvisations, much like the mini-EP mentioned above, but this time it’ll be more of a “full band” sound. The demos are coming together slowly, and hopefully I’ll be able to work on the structure and some recordings with the band in Perth in late December, and bring it all back to Melbourne to finish it up. I’m hoping it’ll all be done by March 2009 at the latest, but if I remember correctly, I said that Microleaps would be finished by November 2007, when it actually took until June this year to complete. That said, this album is coming together much more quickly, I’m getting used to the songwriting process now. And I should also add that this album will be 90% band based stuff, as opposed to only a few tracks. Exciting stuff!

Anyway, that’s about all for now, there are some collaborative projects in the works, but I’ll keep them quiet until they’re ready, just in case they change dramatically, like they always do. Goodnight!