:: Music As Social Agitation Records::

:: Sunday, June 12, 2005 ::

here we catch two masa artists, 1985 (disguised as wetness protection program*) and Blair Harris, in the middle of an online IM conversation courtesy of the IM function at myspace.com. the topic is "practising and polishing ones art VS. capturing it as soon as possible after its (con/in)ception." we have already missed the meat of the insightful dialogue, and enter the storyline post-climax...

wetness protection program: exactly.
wetness protection program: takes the heart away
from it.
wetness protection program: perhaps...
wetness protection program: but looking back
now.... i listen to some of my
older (a sandcastle still and such) recordings and
feel crappy that i didn't try and give the song the credit
it deserved.
wetness protection program: and now it feels too
late to approach them anymore, you know?
wetness protection program: but i just wish i had
good sounding (quality of recording, quality of
performance) captures of them.
Blair Harris: yeah I do know waht you mean...I was
thinking of this song on My Name is Blah..and there's
this riff in it that I just love almost more than anything
I've made..but the song just doesn't really go...
Blair Harris: the way I want it to and I dont relal yliek
the song
wetness protection program: and i am tending to
lean mroe towards the fence side where it is better to
polish it up first, as some people (though it sucks
bad) are gonna have a harder time understanding it
if it is roguh....
wetness protection program: yeah.
wetness protection program: if it is rough, some
people might have a hard time picking up ont he
sentiment, the emotion, heart behind it, you know?
wetness protection program: (i think it is ironic, as
well, that we are having this conversation when i am
logged into the WPP account) -editor: the irony being
that the WPP is an low-fi, improv tape series-
Blair Harris: yeah..I'm open minded to all of it...I
mean sure it's fun to make the rough cuts but I dont
think there's antyhing wrong with having a good-
quality recorded song at all
wetness protection program: yeah....
wetness protection program: i think it is good to
mix it up...
wetness protection program: or maybe have both
you know?
Blair Harris: hahah
Blair Harris: yeah
wetness protection program: and i got SOOO
much of my stuff captured in that infant roughness, i
just kind of want to do this next recording all nice
like....
Blair Harris: I mean the song is still the song, as
long as you're getting your message across and
mean it, then who cares how it's done
wetness protection program: and bring back some
of the songs i think weren't given a fair shot at it...
wetness protection program: exactly.
wetness protection program: and each song has
like its own personality...
wetness protection program: some songs fit more
naturally in the rough others not./..
Blair Harris: yeah maybe you should make like an
EP of just redone songs, rerecorded and maybe
throw in parts you'd have liked better ors oemthing
Blair Harris: like a "revisited ep"
wetness protection program: nice, nice.
wetness protection program: good idea...
wetness protection program: i do know that this
next album i want to do is gonna be sort of a greatest
hits in that fashion... bring back the old songs i like a
lot and match them up with some new ones i love...
Blair Harris: that would be awesome, that sounds
like a really good idea
wetness protection program: and even there, i
want to have a blueprints sort of precursor, with
rough sketches of it and a few months later, and with
a few firends playing on it, record it all super nice...
Blair Harris: that way newer listeners can a better
chance to hear some of the older ones
wetness protection program: yeah....
wetness protection program: though they might be
a little disappointed to go back and listen to that stuff!
Blair Harris: haha no way
wetness protection program: yes way!
wetness protection program: hey, so what should
we call this wpp we did?
Blair Harris: yeah that's a good way to go about it
though..scratch the revisited EP..just rerecord those
old songs on your new album with new songs..that's
a really good idea
wetness protection program: it has to relate some
how to things that keep you protected from wetness...
wetness protection program: but, yeah...
Blair Harris: haha hmm
wetness protection program: there will be a low-fi
tape precusor blueprint thing (for the low-fi fans) of
all the songs (also to be given to the people i want to
play ont he album so they can get used to the
songs)....
wetness protection program: and then a few
months later...
wetness protection program: so name?
wetness protection program: does the arkansas
have any getties?
wetness protection program: how about, volume four: the
floodgates.
wetness protection program: i like that...
wetness protection program:
wetness protection program: some examples? step two: the tent.
Blair Harris: that sounds good
wetness protection program: procedure three:
watergate
Blair Harris: oooh ok I see
wetness protection program: i like floodgates alot
though...
wetness protection program: you know, cause we
are all like on "on the verge" of busting out into full
creative bloom...
Blair Harris: how about.. four: the dam music
Blair Harris: haha uh
wetness protection program: nice.
wetness protection program: nice.
Blair Harris: hahah sorry
wetness protection program: no, that was funny as
fuck....
Blair Harris: yeah floodgates will work
wetness protection program: you think? or?
Blair Harris: yeah it sounds like we are all about cry
and pouring ourselves through the strigns
Blair Harris: Im pretty sure I can identify my guitar in
that recording on there..and man I am not good at
playing with peple
wetness protection program: nice.
wetness protection program: no way! i play totally
happy music!
Blair Harris: I soudned ok on some parts, but
horrible most the time..and then I got too
overpowering
wetness protection program: my heart is golden
orange!
wetness protection program: yeah, it is pretty rough
ALL around....
wetness protection program: oh well, we can do a
better one next time.
wetness protection program: yeah...
wetness protection program: you should starting USING the
masa blog!
wetness protection program: i am trying to kick all
the masa folks in the butt about that one, but so far...
wetness protection program: not so much, you
know?
Blair Harris: yeah I've pretty much lost tocuh with that
after my first entry..that's me for ya when it comes to
blogs
wetness protection program: yeah.
Blair Harris: yeah I will amke another entry though
Blair Harris: I have to fiind the address again
wetness protection program: now, if it was an LJ,
you'd be all over it
wetness protection program: blogger.com
wetness protection program: right?
wetness protection program: or:
masarecords.blogspot.com?
Blair Harris: haha
Blair Harris: yeah I'll find it
wetness protection program: it sucks cause the
only person who has really been using it, brandon
(jimes)... makes the text all super big and super
white (so people can see it he says) than i change it
back and i think he is sick
wetness protection program: of that tug of war
now...
wetness protection program: is it really that hard to
read, or?

:: brs 4:10 AM [+] ::
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