Anji and Ryan sit down for their final episode of the year! Topics include Anji joining the Sirius Stars 102 show lineup, embarrassing moments on iLike, the Podsafe Music Network, fan feedback, Anji’s new Show Girls podcast, Lovespirals’s first living room concert, and more! We share a clip of Ryan’s 1999 recording of “Little Drummer Boy” featuring his previous singer, Suzanne Perry.
Additional Links:
Matt Rowe tapped me for a list of my Top 10 holiday tracks for musictap.net this week! You might be surprised by a few of my choices… I actually looked at my hit count in iTunes to verify what seems to be my biggest holiday themed songs. I decided not to include any Lovespirals or Love Spirals Downwards related tracks, even though I do enjoy listening to them… Anyway, here’s my list:
Lovespirals tracks listed on the Podsafe Music Network are now available for purchase, including several tracks unavailable on iTunes or other digital retailers. Now fans can buy the band’s 1998 collaboration with Monkey Bars, “Beatitude,” a radio edit of the first track Anji ever sang on, “Ecstatic,” the Bitstream Dream remix of “Walk Away,” and the Podsafe edit of “Free and Easy.” Downloads are 99 cents each, processed through ClickandBuy. Visit Lovespirals Podsafe Music Network page to preview every song in it’s entirety before buying them.
Anji and Ryan are back with the latest band news — including a big, big podcast announcement and a big, big CD sale, plus more music geekery, and listener feedback, including an audio feedback from CC Chapman of the award winning Accident Hash podcast!
LINKS:
I finally got around to updating our mp3 page, adding in an audio player chock full of tracks, as well as links to all of the most popular music sites we’re on. I think I’ve hit all the places folks normally check out music at. If I’ve skipped anything important, hopefully fans will let me know… Will ya?
Checking out the new relaunch of the PodShow+ site which now includes the Podsafe Music Network, I noticed Lovespirals, is dominating the Podsafe Music Network Downtempo Top 10 chart. We currently hold the number 1, 2, and 9 spots. Not only that, but we hold the number 2 and 5 spots for Most Played This Month, and number 1 and 6 spots for Most Played This Week. (One of my Bitstream Dream collabs holds the number 2 spot for this week, as well…) So, I guess you could say we’re “Podsafe Downtempo Darlings”. I always did like that term, “darlings.”
Lovespirals’ 2005 CD, Free & Easy, is now just $9.99 through the lovespirals.com webstore – as always, personally autographed by the band. Wait there’s more: an autographed 11×17 Free & Easy promo poster will be included FREE with any order placed by the end of the year! And don’t miss the 2 CD gift set for just $19.99.
i’ve had my mac mini back for close to a week now and so far so good. the apple store repair person said bad ram and possibly a bad logic board, which they replaced, were responsible for the troubles. i thought the hard disk was messed up since the i was unable to boot up from the drive and data was missing. i did a little goolgling on the matter and learned that bad ram can lead to drive problems, so i hope they were right. i must say that apple handled this wonderfully the whole way through and got the repair done fairly quickly, even though i took it on a friday night and thanksgiving/black friday was on the following thursday/friday.
so other than that, the mac mini has been a kick ass computer. small as a portable drive, powerful as huge desktop computer. space is limited in my studio, where the mini lives, so i fully appreciate it’s size to power ratio. this makes me think; whenever i may upgrade our main studio computer, a g4 tower running protools 24, i may get a mac mini. suppose i do this in two years; the minis by then will be perhaps twice as powerful as my current mini. if and when that happens, i’ll get a few more cubic feet of space back in here.
November 28, 2006, Gearwire Artist Feature, Patrick Ogle:
“On Pro Tools, GarageBand, And Pitch Correction: Lovespirals’ Ryan Lum And Anji Bee”
Ryan Lum has been making electronic based music for a decade and a half. First working with Suzanne Perry in shoegazer/ambient/electronica band Love Spirals Downwards and now in the successor project Lovespirals with new vocalist Anji Bee.
Lum’s music has ranged from the beautiful, meandering, shoegazing of Love Spirals Downwards to the new project’s fusion of downtempo and electronic jazz. Between the two bands Lum has released 9 full length releases and one single. Yet despite this electronica pedigree, Lum and Bee often eschew the electronic cutting edge for what some might consider old-fashioned [musical values]. Lum especially eschews the over-use of plug-ins.
“Two big reasons I don’t go crazy with audio plug ins and all: first, my computer is a bit old and a bit too slow and outdated for going nuts with that stuff.” says Lum “Second, I don’t really need them beyond basic stuff like compressors. I’d rather use a good rackmount reverb than a plug-in. Plus, some plug-ins just sounds horrible.”
Continue reading Gearwire Artist Feature on LovespiralsLongtime Lovespirals pal, Patrick Ogle, (of Thanatos and Illegal Teenage Bikini fame) interviewed Ryan and Anji for an artist feature for Gearwire. Read it directly on the Gearwire site, or on Lovespirals’ interview archive.
I seem to have abandoned the Lovespirals site since creating my own Anji Bee site. Bad, bad, bandmember, me! It was a ton of hard work to get my new blog up and running, and I have to thank Ryan for helping me out with some style coding, and Julien Smith for a little pointed advice.
The bulk of the work, really, is just simple data input. I wasn’t able to get the data from my previous WordPress blog before it bit the dust, so I’ve been forced to recreate all my shownote entries using the sometimes wonky code from the PodShow site. Plus I’ve been adding in podcast artwork, missing band links, purchase links, etc etc, so needless to say, it has taken up quite a bit of time. But just because I haven’t been blogging over here, it doesn’t mean that I’ve forgotten you all! Just waiting for the inspiration to strike, or something worth reporting, I guess.
Which reminds me, last night Ryan and I started writing song number 7! Here we are, in the midst of recording song number 6 (aka “Sundrenched Tears”), when the old muse tapped us both on the shoulders with another lovely idea. Thus far, we have a Rhodes piano melody and vocals, in the roughest demo form, but as soon as we’re done with our current tune, we’ll surely launch into the next one right away!
Ryan and Anji update you in the saga of Ryan’s new Mac Mini and how it affects progress on Lovespirals’ current recording sessions, reminisce about sneaking into NAMM, share Ryan’s “second choice” theory, make a big podcast announcement, and answer listener email, as Anji tries not to cough into the mic.
Additional Links:
