shiner.clay: Music

Instead of being a blog with a band, shiner.clay is really a band with a technology blog.

After doing the rounds in various punk rock and experimental sampling outfits in the early '90's, I began recording music on my own under the name "Ceiling". After a few releases on the new defunct Hydrant label, I moved the project to the UK where along with a brand new studio, the project was re-engineered under the name "shiner.clay".

Why "shiner.clay"? Because I've said for years that with the proliferation of bands and home studios these days, it's only logical to assume that we're all going to run out of band names. In searching for alternative sources of inspiration, I received an AOL CD-R in the mail (one of many as I'm sure you've seen). "Shiner" and "Clay" were a username and password combination and I liked the image of a ruddy brown environment punctuated by a shining coin, so it stuck.

We were previously running a mix of both hardware (EPS16+, ASR10, D-50, Vintage Keys, R8, etc...) but recently have moved over to a fully software based studio running off both an ancient Powerbook G4 and a shiny new iMac. (No more lugging around heavy equipment! Woo!) Everything from 2006 onwards has been brought to you courtesy of the Native Instruments suite of software and various samples that I find here and there.

Both are then fed through Ableton's Live with a little help from Pluggo and Twerk's Cameltoe MAX/MSP sequencer. Mixing and post-processing is all handled in Live 7.0 and final mastering is done via Amadeus. Did we mention how much we love Ableton?

The tracks below are full length mp3 albums with no DRM. If you like what you hear, please tell a friend.

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