circuitse7en

Hump Day - Behind the Scenes - Ableton Live

paul hunter voorheis — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:57:54 +0000

While we’re busy creating music i thought it would be cool to give you a look behind the scenes at how it’s made. Ableton Live 8 is the current core of my musical life. Over the years I have tried most of the major DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) out there, and have found the Live not only works wonderfully, but exactly the way i want it to. Also as the name might imply Live is perfectly geared for live performance too.

My first encounter with Ableton Live occurred when my beta key for Pro Tools expired and i had neither the time nor the money to get a new copy. I had received a NFR (Not for resale) copy of Live through my job (managing a big box music store) and decided to give it a go. Even though i had never used Live before i quickly discovered that it worked just the way i would want it to. I finished the project i was working on, a remix album for sitarist Chris Freeman (on iTunes) and was amazed with the results i achieved.

Recently, while re-imagining our live show i started to learn of how easy it is to use Live… LIVE. EVERYTHING is tempo locked and completely controllable. With the twist of a knob or the push of a button or the swipe of a finger on my iPod Touch i can add amazing effects and transitions that were previously only in my head…

If you are a musician i would encourage you to check out Ableton Live. You can download and demo the software for 30 days for FREE. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Hump Day Update

paul hunter voorheis — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:17:25 +0000

Greetings all!

I realize that it’s been a little too long since we’ve posted anything here. For the past few months we’ve been busy… Both working full time jobs and giging and re-working our live set. We’ve also begun writing new material for our next album (due this fall). Starting today you should look for new updates every Wednesday (hump day). In the mean time check our our music on reverbnation. If you like it wou can get a physical copy here or download it from iTunes.

See you next week,

-p

Photos from the Show At New York New York

paul hunter voorheis — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:05:59 +0000

Hey All!

Just wanted to let you know that we posted some great pics from our recent show at New York New York in Chesterfield, MI on our flickr account click here to check them all out! We also just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who came out and made our first live show an awesome one! If you missed the show dont worry we’re already working on more bookings and should be announcing them very soon.

thanks again,

paul and courntey

Chaos & Hedonism now available on iTunes!

paul hunter voorheis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:15:41 +0000

For all of you iTunes users out there who were waiting for Chaos & Hedonism to finally be available at the iTunes Store… IT IS! You can click here to be taken directly to the iTunes store and get your copy right now. If you would like to get a physical copy you can do that as well by clicking here.

circuitse7en on MTV!!! (well sort of)

paul hunter voorheis — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:59:02 +0000

So as of 7/16/2008 we made it on Mtv… well sort of… Mtv has recently launched “Soundtrack” their new community for musicians and fans of music, and yep we’re one of the first up there.

The years of wishing I could pick music for shows, introduce people to music I love, champion emerging bands that make me feel something: all of that is the heart of SOUNDTRACK. And I am happy that you are here at the start. Please build a profile (band or fan), check out the music from our shows, submit your music to our music department - discover what MTV has always offered and be a part of what we are becoming.

So what are you waiting for check out circuitse7en on MTV! If you’re a fan toss a vote too

Chaos & Hedonism is now available.

paul hunter voorheis — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:44 +0000

It’s official, Chaos & Hedonism is now available for purchase and download at CDbaby.com. Chaos & Hedonism is the first full legnth release from Detroit’s premier industrial sex rock band circuitse7en.

Chaos & Hedonism is available as very high quality, about 200kbps VBR, encoded using the “LAME” MP3 encoder on its audiophile settings. Your MP3s will play on any hardware. for only $9.99

For those of you interested in physical products, Chaos & Hedonism is also available on audio CD. for $11.99 for one copy or $9.59 if you buy two or more copies.

So what are you waiting for? Check it out.

Serendipity

paul hunter voorheis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:28:50 +0000

While i could definitely not be classified as religious or spiritual at all i have come to accept that things in the universe happen for a reason. Some are good things and some are bad, but in the end all of them seem to lead to better things (and thinking) in the future. Recently at work (i work for a large e-commerce company in Detroit) i was approached about moving from data management to the design team, coding CSS. This was both exciting and a bit overwhelming to me, since my CSS skills were not “up to snuff.” So i spent time studying CSS (which is short for Cascading Style Sheets, and basically are the “design side” of webpages.) I watched a few tutorial videos and googled a lot of different topics to learn what CSS can do and what it can’t. While i was doing this i was also thinking in the back of my head how this would be helpful for circuitse7en and our website. So i started re-writing the site using a basic (yet extremely powerful) theme i had recently come in possession of. The picture you see is the before and after of my CSS work on this site. I doubt i would have been able to pull this off without studying and learning so much for work. I really want to stress the point that things do happen for a reason and if we will take the time to stop for a moment and examine what is going on in our lives and perhaps learn a lesson or two along the way that life can be an amazing thing!

-Paul

ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

paul hunter voorheis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:56:49 +0000

Welcome to the new circuitse7en.com! New you say? but this is my first time here. Well then… Welcome to circuitse7en.com! For those of you who have become regular visitors you may notice that things look a bit different than the last time you visited. To start with we have done a major overhaul on the graphics of the site and switched a few back-end items around also to provide greater compatibility with ALL browsers/OS platforms. We were very happy with the look and design of the old site however some of the technology we were using was incompatible with older browsers (IE 6 and earlier) so we decided to make some changes and went to a format that is web standards compliant and will look the same no matter what browser or os you may be running. We also added some new features like the audio player in the right hand column so you can listen to all of your favorite circuitse7en tracks from any page on the site. Have a look around and let us know what you think.

Happy Unofficial International WordPress Day

paul hunter voorheis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:10:57 +0000

July 1st is “Unofficial International WordPress Day“. So you may find you your self wondering what is WordPress and why are circuitse7en writing about it? Well WordPress is a CMS (content management system) and blogging platform. It is also completely open-source and is supported by a huge group of third party developers. It also just happens to be the platform that circuitse7en uses for this site. It’s amazing flexibility makes it easy to set up any kind of site, from a simple blog about your cat to incredibly complex sites of any kind. If you’d like to see some amazing examples check this out. So if you’re looking to build a site of your own for any reason, be it a blog, music site, video site, or practically anything else check out WordPress.

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New Music: Slave

paul hunter voorheis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:10:56 +0000

The conversation went something like this “well most of your lyrics are pretty rank!” “yeah but mom this one is way dirtier than anything I’ve ever sung.” That was the conversation Courtney had with her mother about our 10th new song (and final unreleased song on the CD Chaos & Hedonism). The truth is this by far the dirtiest song that i have ever written. It is a series of commands a femdom mistress is giving to her male sex slave, where she is telling him exactly what she expects him to do to please her. This along with the other 9 songs we have released so far will be available for sale and download very soon as Chaos & Hedonism.

“Slave” by circuitse7en

[See post to listen to audio]

Slave

hey slave it’s time to let your training start

hey slave i know that you’ve got the heart

hey slave i want you to lick my legs

now on your knees slave it’s time to get pegged

eat my ass!

taste my shit!

tell me just who loves you!

hey slave bow down and worship my ass

hey slave drink my piss from a glass

hey slave my ass will smother you

hey slave i fucking own you

hey slave you know you want to worship me

hey slave you know I’ll never let you be

hey slave drink some of Mistress’s blood

hey slave you are the one i love