Got my Studio Back Together

 

Studio Notes - Spring-Summer-Autumn - 2025

November 2024 saw a Tower Card whap-splat my life 

the flying magic carpet being slipped out from beneath my dancing feet. 

Gulp. 

Falling hard and fast for six months.

Today I sit in the new studio, 

gleaming like the glisten thing, 

listening to sounds of sacred magic instruments, 

bagged and boxed ten years ago and more. 

Got my shit back together. 

Got my studio back together.

Previously it was an underground music studio 

in a flat in Zooport city for my sins. 

Now it's in the White Room. 

It's been 17 years. 

Two cycles of 7 and a half. 

The numbers form a theme, 

etching shapes in their wake, 

surfing the dream sea of infinite potential. 

Problem being, technology has evolved in that time 

I got a push-button digital dreamscape in a box 

The likes of which we used to talk about 

Does it make the old school gear obsolete? 

Productivity from using AI competes 

with a huge skill set honed only of experience 

Don't know what to do about it 

The philosophy of Samplists is easy

All sound is a valid source of inspiration 

To be copied & crafted 

Into a new context 

Different than the original creative intent 

It's actually a better world 

But hey, 

We have all been compromising with the interface 

For so long now

It's just another tool in the box

Shaping us as much as we hope to shape it 

28 AI albums later 

Getting it out of the system

Before returning to the slow old ways 

Of real sound 

Of real Human artistry 

For what it is

Does it still hold up and compete in the new world? 

Who is to judge? 

Perhaps it has become a thing of the doing, rather than the sharing

And perhaps it always was 

Despite the sharing being the purpose

Musicians are channels who music flows through 

From whatever it is before it becomes music 

To the emotions of the audience

If there even is one 

But hey

We do it anyway

Music is religion 

Truth is God 

Island Village Britain

There is a village on an island.

The village has a population of 100 people.

Its sewerage infrastructure can sustain 60 people at a push, preferably 40 people.

The loose average is it can support 50 people maximum.

The population of the village is currently two times more than the sewer system can support. 

There is a lot of pollution, clogging the rivers and the sea around the coast.

Previously the Sea around the coast had fisheries and beaches. 

Fishing brought food.

Tourism brought money into the economy. 

Now, it has much less of that.

And it smells.

People and ecology are already negatively affected from the polluted water being full of excrement. 

It is going to cost a lot more money to fix it all, than what the village collectively has. 

46 people are the Traditional National Imported Religion.

(This compares to 15 years ago when 60 of them were the Traditional National Imported Religion. 

Mostly the reduction is because the older generation are dying of age).

37 people are atheists, believing in no God or Spirituality at all. 

11 of the people are from a Foreign Misogynistic Dominator Religion, 

5 of them arriving in the past 5 years. 

5 people are all of the Other Foreign Moderate Religions combined. 

At least 1 of the people is Imported Neo-Pagan Religion, possibly more.

Only 3 of the 100 people are the original indigenous bloodline 

who originally were 100% of the population before all of the other groups of people moved in. 

Archeology shows they have been here between 10K-12K years.

Although that cultural and genetic replacement of the original population 

by foreign colonists began to happen 1500-2000 years ago, 

it accelerated exponentially toward modern times. 

Only 1 of those 3 half-practise the Indigenous Pagan Religion of the Original Ancestors. 

The village is called Britain. 

Statistic from UK ONS (Office of National Statistics) 2025

2025/9/9 Hermits Portal

 

I trust astrology. It was taught me how all energy is electromagnetic, all energy seeks to balance, and all planets and stars affect the person because their alignment at the moment of conception establishes a grid for that individual which affects they life path. It's a hard science when you understand it electromagnetically and that we are energetic beings. 

Anyway, today (10th Sept 25) I saw a video posted to YouTube yesterday on the 9/9/9 which is described as 'The Hermits Gate'. This obviously makes a lot of sense to me as for the past few days I have been contemplating my hermetic lifestyle. 

Yesterday I was driven by overwhelming intuition to upload some albums to BandCamp. 

Here are the links: 

Munster Cathedral Bells

 

https://x.com/theflateartherr/status/1905842899712983361?s=46

Lyva Vamity

 

Lyva Vamity 

just dropped a debut album

It’s a beast 

A voice of the 21st-century reminding us people do still think, in terms of albums. This one is definitive. A statement of our times. 

A seasoned studied pro ecstatic with achieving goals most of us can’t even dream of, says it all for all of us better than we know. 

100% proof distillation, roots of South Wales Bristol music scene, rock jazz electro rap dub drum and bass.

Spinning our collective cultural references, deftly handled, making the impossible seem easy. 

Takes us “beyond hip-hop”

A voice of our generation. 

A generation piece. 

I intended to do a review for each track individually 

but I got caught up with it 

The album is a portal of high octane creativity. 

It tells it as it is. 

After this album, the world is reset 

into a different trajectory. 

It needs to be played

on a loop. 

~SnakeAppleTree