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

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!

CD BABY (digital and physical)

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/psylab

AMAZON (digital only)

http://www.amazon.com/Cardinal-Alignment/dp/B004UKONIG

Listen to new, specially selected tracks from the album each week here!  http://soundcloud.com/psylab

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!

Buy your tickets in advance, this one is likely to sell out.

Get your tickets here, or buy them at the Middle East Box Office, 472 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square, Cambridge.

Additional CD release parties are planned for April 1st in Southbridge, MA and April 22nd in Portland, ME.

See you on the dancefloor!

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.

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

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.