Update on Delayed Release

By Minus 1 of Underground Parliament

In retrospect to a previous blog on the album being delayed:

While in the process of re-mixing a few tracks prior to finalizing our sessions, our entire setup suddenly froze and stopped working. To make a long story short [and I won’t get into any details], we were no longer able to access anything anymore, in what appeared to be a total loss of 5 years worth of work… [all backups included]. This was the reason for pushing back the original release date.

Since then, most files, folders, sessions, and stems have been recovered [for both, the beats and the vox]. But there is still some recovery work to be done, in what has now become an anxiety-filled environment.

The overall reason for things going bad had to do with an overheating system [especially the particular hard drive we were directly operating from].

Since then, we have managed to keep the equipment running a bit cooler than before, and have a mid-sized oscillating fan facing directly at the main drive, as it needs constant cooling. I also want to mention that, the main PC tower is starting to make some strange ass noises that are getting louder and louder by the day. Some scary shit I tell you!

So all said and done, this is not what we expected to happen right-smack-in between the final mixing process for the album; but, it is what it is! All we can do now is hope for the best, as we proceed to overcome this crappy, unexpected event. Hella dumb and uncalled for!

In the next blog, I will continue to discuss how this event has led us to consider converting from a PC to a Mac setup.