March 3rd, 2011 10:56
Posted by Takuro
「Recording Reports Continued」
Hello everyone. Yesterday they finally unveiled news on our new release. The song we gradually worked from last autumn and on… is not “Atarashii Hikari“. It’s something we haven’t told anyone anything about yet. I’m really looking forward to playing it live. Ah man, can’t wait! As for the second song, is it a Queen cover? But isn’t the spelling wrong? Is 9mm just a huge bunch of idiots? …are the kind of questions I was excitedly waiting for. But, they never came. In any case, there’s no mistake there～ (though, about us being idiots, there might be some truth to that). But just in case my word alone on it isn’t enough, listening to the music should clear up any possible doubts you may have so please wait a bit more. Both of them are Sugawara (lyrics) and Taki (composition). I’m looking forward to letting you all listen to it.
Also, as for the recordings, right now I’m writing the final lyrics. Let’s do this.
※ Here’s my MacBook and fuzz. The pedal, too, is by Apple (lie).
March 1st, 2011 10:59
Posted by staff
In the middle of recording…
We took a picture as well.
There’s a different picture at the homepage’s Biography section!
Do give it a look please.
March 1st, 2011 10:58
Posted by staff
『Atarashii Hikari』 (A New Light)
At last we can announce the first release of 2011～! Lots of new shows announced, too, so definitely check it out～★
For details…
＊PC http://9mm.jp/
＊MOBILE http://9mm.jp/mobile/
February 23rd, 2011 10:58
Posted by Takuro
「Recording Follow-Up Report」
Hello everyone. The recordings are finally nearing their end. Today we happily finished mixing three songs. They’re good, each one of ’em! …is what I think. It’s like something’s exploding. That something being, well, the sound of course. That’s how it is.
There’s the worry over whether the CD will sell or not, so a year after we’ve released these songs as an album, we’ll release them all as single cuts (lie)! And all on analog (bigger lie)!
Even so, to respond to all the “I want this on LP” “Release it as analog!” requests we hear, I’d definitely like to. Cause if you drop your iPod in the water it’ll break, but an LP will be fine. Or if it comes down to it, you can use it like a shuriken and throw it at someone.
Saying all that, my player is broken so I can’t listen to LP’s right now. I’ll get it fixed after we’re done with recording.
Tomorrow it’s vocals and guitar dubs.
Talk to you later.
February 16th, 2011 10:47
Posted by Takuro
「Still some way to go with the recordings」
Hello everyone.
9mm is still hard at work.
It’s something we did sometime back but you guys are only hearing about it now… yesterday, our musical composition contribution to Chiaki Kuriyama was announced. That thing we recorded last year’s autumn was this. I think it’s a song that’ll make you start humming it to yourself, so definitely check it out. It seems it’ll be the first song on the album.
Tomorrow I’ll sing a Kazuhiko-penned tune.
Well then, talk to you later.
February 7th, 2011 19:30
Posted by Takuro
「Basic Recordings Done」
Hello everyone. The other day, the four of us were happy to be able to finish all our individual parts of the recordings. Previously, we’d mostly record everything in one take. This time we’ve moved on to something called overdubs, which is when you do guitar parts, vocals, etc., one by one. It’s time to say farewell to the equipment we so enthusiastically prepared back then, so we took a picture to celebrate the occasion. I don’t have much of an interest in vintage gear so I don’t have that much rare stuff, but let’s upload these just for the folks who get so entranced by watching pictures of gear they even forget to eat. For those of you who have no interest whatsoever, it’s completely OK to just leave it at a quick glimpse before going “heee…“. After all, it’s just technical equipment babble when you think about it.
The head of the Corps is comprised of these three.
Haven’t been able to use the wah yet.
Hope to do so at the overdubs.
Just a bunch of distortion pedals on the bench. On the left there is an old Guyatone.
February 7th, 2011 10:41
Posted by staff
Taking advantage again…
Kamijou’s drums～.
February 7th, 2011 10:32
Posted by staff
Taking the opportunity to post this after Takuro’s blog…
This is Taki’s pedal board.
January 29th, 2011 13:56
Posted by Takuro
「Midway Progress Report」
Hello everyone.
The recordings are progressing nicely. Today was a difficult song again, but we were able to record it without issue. The feeling somehow reminds me of when we were recording our 1st album. Can’t really put it into words.
Still need to finish recording several songs, do the vocals, put them together, slap a cool jacket picture on it, and we’ll be done. It’s still going to take a while but if you want to catch a glimpse of how it’s going… the staff took some pictures of us working, so do wait and look forward to those. Also, for all the gear freaks among you, we’ll upload pictures of our pedal boards. We’ll get started on another song at daybreak. I’ll talk to you later.
January 29th, 2011 9:31
Posted by staff
The song we’re recording today…
It’s quite the battle song.
by Kazuhiko Nakamura
That’s the one we’re recording.
It’s a song he came up with way back, all the way back since I first met him. I really love it.
Looking forward to it!
Yesterday we also had a photo shoot.
Look forward to seeing what kind of pictures we took～.
I’ll show you just a bit of the scenery at the shoot (lol)
