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Hello Friends.  As many of you know, I run an imprint called Weightless Recordings.  We recently redesigned our website and are relaunching it today.  Please stop by and check out our artists and releases.  If you were familiar with the old site then this definitely looks different, but we believe it will allow us to update it much easier and provide more useful information on our releases and artists (myself, Illogic, Greenhouse, Envelope, Zero Star, DJ Raregroove, etc.). 

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I haven’t been too vocal about this in public settings, mostly sharing it w/ my closest friends, but I stopped drinking about two months ago.  If i remember correctly it was May the 15th.  At the time I had no idea how long i would go without it, whether it was a short or long-term thing, but i knew i had to stop.  While it’s easy to say that I wasn’t as bad as a lot of people I was hanging out with, I can confidently say that things had gone too far for me, and for the lifestyle that i need to maintain to be productive and healthy.

At first, I just felt bored, which is ironic because it wasn’t like I was sitting at home doing nothing.  I was doing a ton of music and me and my dudes would go out all the time.  The problem was that we started to feel like we were seeing the same things over and over again, and that places that used to be our favorite spots just weren’t exciting anymore, unless we drank to the point to where we would have fun regardless.  This lead to a period of time where I was trying out new things, going to new places (mostly new bars), all in the name of erasing this bored with everything feeling that began to take over my outlook.

At home, I was feeling like my body was starting to talk to me, and tell me to slow down.  When i first started drinking I could drink until 3am, wake up at 9am, and still be productive.  But that’s not the case anymore.  Alcohol seems to have a cumulative affect on a person, whereas the more you drink the more it chips away at your productivity and clarity until you think that waking up at 2pm is ok, and as long as you’re not hungover for the two days then its ok to be hungover for one.   I began to notice that it became harder and harder to get started on my work before well into the day, and because i got started so late I would complete less, which would make me feel shitty about completing less work and want to drink more.  The cycle had officially began.

The album Columbus or Bust was released in 2005 a few weeks after 1988 was released.  I’ve always felt that because it came out so close to 1988 that it never got it’s proper shine.  This situation was made even worse by the fact that we licensed the record to another label to release and they did a horrible job in every aspect.  But that’s besides the point.  The point is that as we begin to release newer Greenhouse material, it’s important to us that people know that we have been around for a while, releasing records since 1999, and that we keep our older records available so that people can check out the older music and see our progression.  Hell, I never thought when i was dubbing tapes back in 1999 that doing music would ever be a full-time job and even if it was ever to become that, I never imagined I would be fortunate to do it this long.

So for those that want to take a step back to 2005 and hear some vintage Greenhouse Effect music (back before we dropped the word “Effect”) take a listen and enjoy.  The high-quality digital-version is the only version available right now, but next week we will release the deluxe digital versions and cd versions which will include all the instrumentals from Columbus or Bust.

http://greenhousecrew.bandcamp.com/album/columbus-or-bust-2005-retail-version

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Time to start talking about music videos for the new EP.  Last time around “Cold Out Here” won the voting, and the video came out great.  Let us know what song from Electric Purgatory Part Two you would like to see as a music video the most?

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Thanks for the input!

p.s. if you haven’t heard it yet, go HERE, and download it! Delux and retail version available HERE