I'll cut right to the chase. After the beginning of 2019, I'm not going to worry about releasing material on January 1st anymore. There are multiple reasons for this but the main one has to do with a desire to release smaller amounts of music more frequently... specifically in the vinyl format. As it turns out, I've been experimenting a lot with record casting, and the results have become successful to the point that I believe I'll be able to release something in this format next year. However since the suggested time limit for the total amount of songs on a single side of a record is around 18 minutes, only releasing one of these once a year on January 1st didn't make any sense. It means that I'd only be releasing two or three songs a year.
So what is record casting you ask? Well, it's the act of creating a silicone mold of a record (that's the purple part in the picture above) and then filling the mold with liquid plastic resin (that's the white stuff in the circle shape). Once the plastic is cured... voila... a one sided record. The working idea is that I would record a couple of songs, have it mastered for vinyl, cast the resulting lacquer, add artwork to the blank side, and then release.
As I said above, all of this is estimated to take place sometime after the beginning of 2019, meaning that I still plan on doing a small release for January 1st, 2019 but I will go into detail about that in another post.
