2018, a year's journey

So, 2018 manifested itself as a time of transformation and travel for me. I left my home studio of 10 years in Avondale Estates Bedsitter studios (RIP) to start something new in Minneapolis, MN. I'm lucky I got to make anything at all this year, let alone nine releases (and an appearance on the Knifeplay compilation). At the end of the summer, I made it out to Oregon for the first time, it was about as amazing as I had hoped it would be. 

Persistentmidnight compilation "My Sound as Sculpture"

Warning Light "Left Behind the Range"

Sareth Den "Follower Year"

Paralysis Image "False Pink"

RE-MAINDR "Chillsmoker Streetlamps" beat tape

Distant Hymns "Yama EP"

Lake Lander "Past Distant Horizons"

Desolate Moon Phases "As the Dark Empire Burns Around Them"

Stormmask LTD compilation "I am alone, but so are you."

At the End of the Road announcement

My next album will be At the End of the Road,

coming out 8.27.17 on Stickfigure Recordings on CD and digital.

This was a pretty epic project by any standard (PM recorded/mastered/designed album art all in-house), but this album feels like a beautifully mad science experiment that is actually going to see the light of day... and not all the experiments do. This record is full of collaborators and a dense amount of field recordings/tape looping experiments, but still offers some techno-leaning beatwork and uptempo sample manipulation. At the End of the Road started as an attempt to look back on my ten years of DIY record making and to synthesize it all into one experience (that's probably an impossible task). It ended up with a beautiful inner life of its own... a reminder that at the end of every road, there is another path.

PM production: Severed Together

Severed Together is Outer Gods' fifth album, a production that unquestionably pushed me past my limits in engineering and recording in general. I'm glad this all came to fruition, as most of the material came together due to the duo's live soundtracks, there were a series of cut-up and splicing techniques used to forge shorter songs. Somehow I think of this as the most "organic" Outer Gods album, though that term seems relative in light of all the synthesizer and treated electric organ work on this album. John from Bataille came to work on the sessions with his typically open mind about things, which always makes for a pleasant recording experience. 

2016, the year that was (no matter how you felt about it)

Persistentmidnight Productions this year:

downers. "Ether Noir" cassette

Warning Light "Life/Death EP" cassette

Seeing the Sights "Between Avalon & Harbour" CDr

Distant Hymns "Dreaming Left Free" CDr

Outer Gods "Dismal Rift" CD

Snowbride "Small Town Synthetics" CDr

Warning Light "Inland Empires Disregard the Sea" CD

Sareth Den "Into the Glacial Unknown" 2xCDr

Clone Operators "Clone My Operator" demo

and Warning Light appeared on the following compilations:

Culottes Vol II: Yuki Joro by WUSSY MAG

Mango Heist Mixtape by Clandestine Ritual, LLC

DKA Tape Programme #1 by DKA

Inland Empires Disregard the Sea

Inland Empires Disregard the Sea is finally here, pressed on a limited number of compact discs from Stickfigure Recordings. Nine songs in just shy of an hour, the album also features a couple tracks I recorded with synthwork from Rachel M from Snowbride.

I'm excited to say this is my most eclectic and complex work to date, following in a lineage of the electronic loop concepts from Oftenchance and XXXI. The past couple years have been a time of tremendous change in the life of this project and I hope to always maintain an adventurous spirit with my recordings under this name. Cheers to my friends and allies who helped me along the long, twisty path of creation, I appreciate you all.

This has been a Persistentmidnight Production.

Oftenchance CD

Oftenchance is the product of a year of solid recording/experimenting. As an album, I'm tremendously proud of the content and layout, so I hope you enjoy. I think this one is fairly eclectic, maybe a little sentimental, but definitely epic. The CD can be purchased HERE on Discogs. Special thanks to Stickfigure Records and Matt Weiner on this one.

PROGRAMME: 
A 
1/ Across Owl Creek Bridge 
2/ Face the Future 
3/ Past the Haro Strait 
4/ The Afterlives of Free Masons 
B 
5/ Daytripping Digital 
6/ A Love Complication 
7/ The Lieutenant Colonel 
C 
8/ Learn to Curve 
9/ A Run Up and Down the Intercoastal 
10/ The Morning You Made Coffee Instead