Look what I just got my hands on --- the very first issue of The hitRECorderly, our brand new subscription series!

"Little Red Riding Hood Redux" is our inaugural issue and I'm really proud of this gorgeous full-color book the hitRECord community and I have created together. I really love when the stuff we work on together becomes a physical record.

This book we made is based on an adaptation I did of the original Brothers Grimm fairytale (which is sexist as all fuckin hell!) Our version's got a different take on the story and we've packed this book with feminist essays and various reactions to the new tale.

I loved JulesKD's "But What If I Want To Be Eaten?" record so much I just had to do a little reading of it in this here video. :o)

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You gotta hurry and order your copy as these are a limited edition run of 2,000 so get it while the getting's good!

Single copies are available in The RECord Store for $20, but you'll save cash by subscribing to The hitRECorderly and you'll get a new issue every season! 

You can subscribe here: http://www.hitrecord.org/store/recorderly.html

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Thanks Again!

<3

J

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The rhyming creation myth by wirrow and Metaphorest.  I tweaked the words just a little, and my draft of the text is resourced below.  And here I recorded a reading of it.  There's already been lots of great readings of this poem, and I hope there are more to come.  I think it might be cool to mix a grand multitude of voices together to tell this story.

The next thing that probably ought to happen is for visual artists to start drawing specific parts.  Pick a stanza you like, or even just one line and turn it into any sort of image.  Maybe pretty soon we could have a bit of a storybook slideshow going, which is usually an important step in big animation projects.

wirrow first Released this song back in the springtime.  The first thing I did after the first time I heard it was email dan, saying "I found your new favorite song."  He and I share a love for the pleasantly repetitive.

Other musicians added to it, PixelPilgrim and ChenelyWelly added to wirrow's vocals from the female persuasion.  Nels Cline played hot guitar.  Jeff Peff added percussion and edited the whole thing together into its current form.

The hypno-face template is one of the cooler aesthetic feats our mass collaborative process has achieved so far: wirrow drawing the first face, then hundreds of hitRECorders coloring it into diversity.

And the work of a whole lot of video artists went into this montage I've cut.  Too many to name in this description, but I'll cite the resources below.  (I've listed some so far, but I'll have to dig around to find the rest)  The footage of dan spinning comes from Vanya, who is well intent on uploading the resource, I know because he's standing right next to me.

I've been meaning to show my mom GarageBand for a long time.  When we were hanging out on my birthday a few nights ago, it seemed a good time.  We made a little ditty.  Then Major Tom made this great stop-motion animation to it, which I just cut up a bit, et voilà.

When my mom and I sat down to RECord something, we didn't know what story we were going to tell.  We just sang a little something.  And now it's turned into this.  I love when that happens.

When I was done writing these words, (finished it on my birthday) it seemed to me like a sort of tavern sing-along.  So here's the bottom layer.  Now I'd love to hear what y'all add to it.

Sing along with the chorus!  Or sing along with any part of it you see fit.  Play along on another guitar.  Acoustic, electric, the chords are just the same old ones: G C D and Em.  It definitely needs bass for at least part of it.  Perhaps a drum set, although I think even more fitting would be less formal percussion.  Clink bottles together, stamp your feet, knock on wood, etc.  And who knows what else?  Piano, fiddle, Moogs, shit, the more the merrier.

When you upload your new layer, make sure you release it as an isolated stem (in other words, by itself without any other records mixed in), so we can remix it together with all the others.  Here I've released a full version as an MP3 file for listening, and also uploaded a ZIP file with stems.  So, if you want us to listen to your addition in combination with all the others, you can upload that version, just make sure to also upload the isolated stem(s), either as audio files or a ZIP file.

Also, when I first wrote this and released the lyrics, and then a GarageBand recording of it, I was happy to see that quite a few hitRECorders recorded various versions of their own.  LizzieMackie and Metaphorest made a beautiful one, as did TongueCutSparrow and others too.  So here I hope to start a definitive bottom layer for the purposes of mass sing-along, but that doesn't mean those other excellent versions will be forgotten :o)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce....  we are going on sale !!!

That's right, hitRECord RECollection Vol. 1 is on Pre Sale only at our RECord Store 

Now, it will be released to the public September 20th, 2011.

However, I wanna try to see if we can sell 3,000 copies before that date here at our RECord Store.  If we can, we will have covered all of our costs in making the anthology.  

So, what I'm gonna do is something special for you!!! If you are one of the first 3,000 people to buy hitRECord RECollection Vol. 1 from our RECord Store, you will receive our limited edition 7" vinyl RECord for free. We have only pressed 3,000 7"s and after this, that's it, we won't press anymore.

That's a DVD with 36 short films and videos, a CD with 17 songs, a 64 page book of beautiful color high gloss art and a Red 7" RECord with 6 songs for $29.95. 

Congratulations to us all on a journey well taken that has resulted in such a beautiful RECord as our RECollection. 

Thanks Again. 

<3

J

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Tickets on Pre-Sale NOW!  Click here!

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BIG NEWS:  We're gonna be on TV!

"Hit RECord on TV" is gonna be a new kind of variety show.  I'll host the show and also direct our global online community to create short films, live performances, music, animation, conversation, and of course, more! Each episode will be focused on a different theme.  And like always, anybody with an internet connection is invited to contribute.  

I'm super excited to get started!  

Are you RECording?  

J

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