Dig Boston Review of Our Paradise Show

Lauren Metter (@haveyoumetter) posted up a sweet review of our show with Conspirator last Saturday, Oct 1.

You can check it out here: FOTOBOM: PSYLAB & CONSPIRATOR @ PARADISE

I must clarify a couple things in the review… 1) We did not almost break up a year ago, and 2) Eartha has been our keys player for three years now(!). I love the way Lauren incorporates in to her post the words of the monologue from American Beauty that we sampled in our song of the same name. Very clever!

Thank you to Shwilly B and Green on WZBC!

Thank you to “Green” DJs Shwilly B and Jeff Mission for hosting Psylab and Blue Boy Productions last night on their WZBC radio show.

We had a blast sharing our new tracks and talking about the making of our first studio album.

I will post up some links to download the radio show later!

Psylab Live Album Ready for Download!

Psylab is happy to announce the availability of a very special live album. On Halloween 2009 we played a show at Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors art sanctuary. In thanks for all the times that the Grey’s have hosted Psylab at their parties and events we wanted to give something back. All the proceeds from the sale of this live album will be donated to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

You can purchase a digital download of the album on our bandcamp website. We are also doing a limited run of 300 CD-Rs for sale at our shows and at the CoSM gift shop.

Day 2 of Verdant Studio Sessions

Yesterday we recorded some of our more familiar tracks that you may have heard out live. Today we delved in to our new material, prepared specifically for this album release. All the tracks are based of this summer’s rare configuration of the planets, called the Cardinal Alignment. The Cardinal Alignment is a significant cosmic event due the high number of planets occupying the astrological “Cardinal” signs of Libra, Capricorn, Cancer, and Aries. This event, which has been unfolding since spring, is recognized as a major influence towards personal, societal, and planetary, growth. The last time this astrological configuration took place was over 4,000 years ago.

In our tracks, we’ve based each song not only off the major planetary players in this alignment, but also the signs in which they currently occupy. Based off the work of Hans Cousto‘s “Cosmic Octive”, we’ve been able to assign a BPM and key to each planet, in addition to adding the melodic essence of each planet’s current astrological influence.

Here is a snippet of Saturn to whet your whistle.
Snippet of Saturn by psylab

Day 1 of Verdant Studio Sessions

Greetings from beautiful Athens, Vermont! We are most lucky to have found this great spot to lay down the tracks to our first studio album.

After a 9am load-in and set up, we got up and running and had our first rough run-through of American Beauty before lunch.

Below are some pictures of our setup in the studio. Each person is baffled off a bit, but not total isolation.

The drums are being sent out to four speakers. So the kick drum, snare, hi-hats, and then all the other sounds each get a speaker. We are also recording the direct line outputs of the drum sampler in case we want a blend of mic’d speaker and totally direct/dry drum sounds.

Eartha is rocking all her synths direct to the mixer and will overdub some spacey embellishments as well.

Joe is recording both direct and mic’d speaker cabinet.

Vizzie is recording direct out with his laptop samples in Ableton Live, as well as his Monotron which gets some effect in Live.

We are recording through a killer old skool Neve 70s console in to Pro Tools HD. Pete Weiss is at the faders.