Hey everyone! I’ve found that as i’ve been busy with infants and general life stuff for the past few months I have been doing more lurking and less interaction here.
I figured it would be nice if we had a thread just for checking in and saying hi that wasn’t the Introduce yourself channel.
If you wanna post here, feel free to give us whatever updates you like, what you’ve been up to etc.
Even if you’re positing here all the time, if you want to share some random part of your life and day to day thats not really related to other threads, please do .
Paging @bfk. Are you alive? This place sure is quiet when you’re on hiatus
I think I’ve got a few shitposts in me, though, so I could sub for a little while. Here’s to hoping there are more lurkers here and they haven’t all left us
I’ll start, hey everyone. Hope you have all been well.
I’ve been logging in like every day just to see whats been going on for the past while. I’m just so damn busy day to day getting things ready for the changing season here in the PNW and hanging out with my boys, that having more meaningful interactions is more difficult. I’m still here though, I didn’t go away.
For those that don’t know, my wife and I had our first kids in April of this year, identical boys actually. They’re fucking awesome, but they keep me busy for sure.
I’ve been spending what free time I can muster working on a few different music projects, including one for the boys. Time is less available now, so it’s slow going, but it’s still happening as often as I can get it.
I’ve been missing out on giving a good listen to recent additions to the members releases and listening booth, but i’ve got some good time today to go through and give all of that stuff a listen (I do my best to listen to and comment on every post when i have time, so I have a queue lined up). Looking forward to hearing what you guys have been working on and put out there.
I’m also going to try and go back and give the last two GP releases another good once over and give some reviews on bandcamp. I’ve listened to both already, but I want to give them some special attention today, as they’re both excellent albums.
Anyway, thats all. Hope everyone has been well.
Here’s a few picks of my boys over the past couple months in some of my favorite outfits. (Not comfortable posting their faces anywhere online. We’re sticklers about not having them shared on social media or things like that, hence the stickers.)
I don’t think most people* are really interested in designing their own sounds these days, tbh. The ratio is probably higher here than most other places, but a lot of that just ends up becoming dry conversation for nerds (I love that part too, but I think there are only really a few of us in any given community who do).
* =out of the community of people who make electronic music, that is
I’d personally love to see more of the nerdier, nitty-gritty type threads around here. If that means anything
I’ve been lurking a bit here and there myself but like @makeuswhole I haven’t had the time to do any meaningful posts.
My daughter is now 18 months old, and if I’m not at work, (like I am now), my time is spent taking care of her. We have been looking for a house to buy in regional areas, so we have spent the last few weeks travelling around and if we’re not travelling, we’re sitting on the couch looking at online listings. I have another big trip planned in three weeks’ time. It’s bloody hard work trying to find a house that’s for sure! Especially with a toddler as you must time all your car trips around naps and meals and what-not, otherwise problems arise.
If I do have any time to myself, it’s spent on GPR release organising. Time for my own music has disappeared. Come November though my family will be leaving me by myself for 3 weeks. Hopefully during this time, I will get back to making music and more development of Glitchpulse.
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