Taking the 2011 RPM Challenge!

From the RPM Challenge website:

This is The Challenge - Record an album in 28 days, just because you can.

That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape.

It’s a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 days, or the great folks over at February Album Writing Month (fawm.org), who encourage artists to write 14 new songs in February. Maybe they don’t have “Grapes of Wrath” or “Abbey Road” at the end of the month, or maybe they do—but that’s not the point. The point is they get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear. Get the gears moving. Do something. You can’t write 1,700 words a day and not get better.

Sounds like a blast, and the perfect way to force me into producing some new music. I''ve got some ideas that involve my new Monotron and an Alesis SR-16 that''s been gathering dust in my closet.

Update:

The tracks are all finished up. Have a listen:

Everything was done with the SR-16, the Monotron, a little bit of Native Instrument''s FM8, and Reaper.

Here''s some pictures of the finished product. Slick cover insert courtesy Staples, and yes, I was too lazy to do a CD label.