Deepfried

Lucky Stars

Peter — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:31:45 +0000

Took a break today to record a quick sketch of my latest song. Check it out!

Oh What Fun!

Peter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:40:52 +0000

Rob just finished mixing one of our old songs, injecting a whole bunch of new and delicious keys, swirls, and sparkles. Check it out on SoundCloud: Oh What Fun

Brink (featuring Harrison Stafford)

Peter — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:45:25 +0000

There’s no sound quite like the beautiful and haunting voice of “The Professor”, Harrison Stafford. From the moment we first recorded the instrumentals with the flowing piano and the intermittent jungle breaks, we knew that we had to get Harrison in on this.

Get “Brink” on iTunes!

Rob and Harrison go way back. Having lived near each other in their youths, their careers in music have mingled at various junctures (Rob was involved in the production of several of Groundation’s Albums among other things). Even so, it was a surprise and a thrill to have this opportunity to work on a Deepfried concoction with the illustrious Professor.

Harrison met up with us over at Broken Radio where we proceeded to scale the building to hit the roof for an optimal perspective as we passed the spliff and shot the shit. Laughs ensued and soon we found ourselves at the console flipping the safety and dropping the bomb as The Professor stepped up to the mic to sing his soul into a song. Rob and I fell to the floor as our small studio launched us into orbit. There was a period where the gravity was insurmountable, soon overcome by the drop of a beat and the bounce in The Professor’s feet, feeling the rhythm, finding the groove, hitting a stride, making his move.

Thank you Harrison for gracing our mix with your guiding voice.

Days & Days

Peter — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:02:14 +0000

After playing Mikael’s wedding this weekend, I had a delightful little solo session resulting in this mix. Mostly it’s all about the dubstep bass line and the ipad controlled filters and reverb. I’m hoping to put together a video of how that works soon. In the mean time, check this out!

Download “Days & Days”!

Rob and Peter Play with Ableton Live

Peter — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:43:27 +0000

We had a great day today learning about Ableton Live and attempting to map functions and experiences from the cuisNart to Live. Looking forward to posting more about this soon.

Check out the song we recorded:

Download “El Cartero”!

Satisfied

Peter — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:00:30 +0000

Starting with a humble warm up jam session, this song really surprised us. The lyric writing process was particularly interesting as we started with “I want you to be satisfied. I want you to be happy with you.” After remixing the song, I wrote a bunch of lyrics that were really more from the perspective of the second person and was then faced with making a bridge back to the first person. “That’s when I turn to the people who’ve earned the right to offer up an insight, and I might just sing along to their loving song…” The protagonist conjures the perspective of his supporters to wield the force of love.

It’s also a peppy song that makes me sing in my car.

Download “Satisfied”!

Recorded in Peter’s livingroom, featuring:
Peter Chester on vocals, keys, live production, post production, and mastering
Rob Cross on guitar and bass

Out of Chaos

Peter — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:00:52 +0000

This song was really a kick in terms of process. In our 2010 Gadgetbox sessions, there was one session where Jade and Ryan were in the big room banging on some keys and making some crazy noises. I was in the mixing room and decided to just grab a random sample of the noise without any regard for rhythm and loop it to a beat. Gabe dropped some arpeggio on it and presto, we have lift off! Proving yet again that just as you can carve a masterpiece out of an otherwise average piece of granite, it is possible to make great music out of random sounds and noises.

Download “Out of Chaos”!

Recorded at Gadgetbox Studios featuring:
Mo Jo Deville (Jade Dunnaville) on vocals
Ryan Lotz on vocal and CP-70 synth
Jacob Gross on vocal, percussion, and electric guitar
Gabe Pannell on arpeggiator synth
Rob Cross on bass and piano and remix / mastering
Peter Chester on live production

Understand

Peter — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:52:27 +0000

Koht called me last Tuesday and said we should play music. Honestly, we accidentally started this loop in C# which made it extremely difficult to jam to this. But the song had good bones and thanks to a string of serendipitous events in the remixing process this thing came out pretty well. Especially when Crystal came home at 10:30 and busted out the Melodica.

I miss you Rob. I used a custom Logic Audio synth patch to do the bass. I’m stoked on how that part came out but really, there’s no substitute for Rob’s bass riffs.

The lyrics / cover art are following the theme…. what would it be like to talk to yourself when you were a kid? Do you think you would even listen to yourself?

Download “Understand”!

Strive

Peter — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:00:08 +0000

This month we’re excited to announce one of our favorite songs of the year: STRIVE. Again, we had the great pleasure of working with the string section from Audiafauna in Gadgetbox Studios. In particular, check out Andrew’s ethereal stand up bass harmonics in the very beginning of the track.

At some point we also experimented with making a mix with Kennedy’s 1962 speech announcing plans to visit the moon. In any case, it is on account of that experiment that we arrived at the cover art for this song. It’s pretty amazing to imagine setting foot on the moon.

Download STRIVE!

Special Thanks to:

The string section from Audiafauna including Chris Lynch on Violin, Alexis Hawks on Cello, and Andrew Marine on Upright Bass
Andy and his crew at Gadgetbox Studios for bringing us together and recording the strings

Something About Indonesia

Peter — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:34:50 +0000

Another song from our jam session with Peter Koht and Crystal Birns on New Years Eve.

I added the bass line and some of the drums after the fact, but otherwise this is straight from their living room. We called it “Something About Indonesia” because Lindsey sang something about Indonesia . I’m thinking that one thing that might help in these impromptu sessions is some sort of method for rapidly writing lyrics… like maybe I could come prepared with a list of topics, or a few rhyming chorus lines… Hmm… thinking about it…

Download this Song!