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The latest development copy of Issue 10 has been added to the music section. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think.

Here is the link:
http://www.tadabstracts.com/music

I have some "fake" jazz sounding stuff coming up in bit as well, and may calm down on development and start the completion and finalization stages of some of these tunes.

For the past few evenings I have been grinding my gears in order to make a certain idea work. It's not anything special, just a piece that found itself in line to be worked on. After the initial couple of bars, I found myself really getting turned off with the song and nothing I tried seemed to get it back in good standing. This went on for around two nights. I found myself pondering the decision to remove it from my focus completely. In a last ditch effort, I decided to change up the drum track. It was as if I switched on a light bulb.
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Issue 6, Revision 3 has been added to the music section. Please give it a listen, and feel free to comment. I would probably expect 300 or more additional revisions of this work and any other work published here, so don't plan your birthday around it's permanence.

Here is the link:
http://www.tadabstracts.com/music

I have been rather quite lately, all for good reason.
"The Issues", audio with no misleading titles, have really gotten the best of my time. At this point I have around 8 minus 1 issue in the works. These are all in the developmental stages but I hope to have some of them up soon. I am working on these all at once and obliging new works as they pop up. I am not sure if this is the most productive means of completing these, but at this point creativity has been very kind.

In the age of the digital audio workstation(DAW) it is now easy than ever to track, produce and record original compositions. This however does not lend itself to the pure quality of the resulting product. As of late, I am finding myself immersed in unfamiliar regions of frequency analysis, filter settings, compression and never ending equalization types.
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