Sorry for lateness. Not too satisfied with what I’ve come up with so I’ll skip this LCRP. I’m looking forward to hear the contributions from you all, though!

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Finally sent mine over to Jason. This whole experience has reminded me how important studio monitors are… mixing on Grados is really deceptive

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Alright, I’m about to upload the tracks for mastering. If you were planning to get a track to me, do it right now!

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Jason, did you finish the cover?

Absolutely. I, too, was out of home for the weekend and mixed my track with phones. When plugged the laptop into the monitors was really surprised.

I haven’t done the inside or the back yet, and I honestly wouldn’t mind some critique of the cover, as it’s a bit different from the previous LCRP.

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For me… it looks great!

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Looks ace 20 characters

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Great cover! The bottom text line could be positioned a bit higher and the upper text font could be straight instead of italic, but it’s awesome as is. When do we hear the complete compilation? :slight_smile:

conceptually I think it works well, you fused all the pictures into one, which perfectly reflects what LRCP is all about. Also, it’s probably the best way to combine images that are so different in style and colour, without making it result into a big mess.

Looking back at past LRCPs and at the music people on this forum make, there’s a strong dominance of minimalistic, subtle, brittle, gentle sounds and compositions, I think this should somehow reflect on the cover. By overlaying the photos you already stripped most of the images of their iconic aspect, which makes the thing more abstract, so I think that’s good,
So I would only reduce the size of the title, making it more understated, less dominant on the cover to take it closer to how the music if this LRCP will likely be (but you’ve heard the tracks so you’re in a much better position to judge that of course)

As a last point something which is probably very subjective and likely something only I see. To me this technique (the overlaying of multiple photos) is something that was really popular in the 90s and is still often seen on dance club and rave flyers. It’s still very popular with psytrance stuff (albeit with blindingly saturated colours, kaleidoscope effects and the gratuitous recycling of Indian iconography). Just to be clear I’m not saying your cover looks like a 90s rave flyer, but the overlaying of multiple photos can remind of it somehow, so this might be something to be aware of.

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I like it… but agree with artfwo about lifting the text up a tad. personally, a bit tired of the minimal abstract thing. great work …

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Mine definitely isn’t minimal!!!

I really like the cover, looks a bit drumnbass right enough.

Edit: I meant that as a compliment @jasonw22 :grinning:

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yeah tbh mine isn’t totally minimal either. :slight_smile:

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My above comment was relating to packaging styles only. Still love minimal sounds.

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I took it that way! :smiley:

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it’s been 2 weeks! do we have a release date set? :slight_smile: @jasonw22

Mastering will be done this week. I still need to revise the cover and there will be a little bit of setup with Kunaki. 9/18 seems like a reasonable goal.

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exciting!!!
Like really exciting.

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After hearing what happened to the llamas- I’m not complaining!

LOL :smiley: :goat: :goat: