Cartel Website uo and running...

[Fico]

Greetings~
 
 My band's website www.carteldc.com is up and running...we are uploading a couple of tunes from our upcoming EP and if you like what you hear come and check us out saturday Aug.7th at DC9..
 
 Cheerios,
 
 F.

[Medusa]

I like the site!
 
 I downloaded the song "Polly Jean" and am listening to it now (and liking it very much).
 
 I tried to download the other track "Fleets" - but I got a message saying, "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site.  The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.  Please try again later."
 
 Hopefully that track will be available soon!  
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

[chaz]

Nice.  I really like Polly Jean.  Good song!

[Fico]

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to visit the site and check out the song. We have the EP finished but decided to re-mix a couple of things in order to make it as good as we feel it can be. We wanted to have the EP ready in time for the DC9 show but the deadline might be pushed a good two weeks back..such is life.
 
 Medussa, we are trying to get Fleets up and running, maybe sometime during the afternoon we'll have it ready...we are also looking at ways to stream the full EP so you guys can check it out.. again thanks for visiting and all comments be them good or bad are appreciated.
 
 Cheerio,
 F.

[markie]

Much as I would like to say that you were a twat and your band was crap, unfortunately, at least the later would not be true.
 
 Polly Jean was quite fine, it was much better than I was expecting. I quite liked most everything about it, bar the slightly painful, Tall, Fall, All, rhymes.
 
 I will probably come along to see you again.

[markie]

Are you going to mess around with the production of Polly Jean?
 
 You need to spend more time trying to get you live sound to be as good as the your recorded sound.

[ratioci nation]

yay, local band does not have crap website, good job

[Bags]

Cool stuff!  Nice website.  Hope there are more dates forthcoming (I'm out of town for the Aug 7 DC9 gig).
 
 Good luck, Fico!

[ggw]

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[Fico]

This may be boring information but i'll try and clear some things up...
 
 To Mark E's. comment about toying with the song/live setting:
 
 - the EP is finished (mixed and mastered). However, we feel some things don't sound as we thought we'd heard them in the studio. In Polly Jean's specific case we want the kickdrum to be louder and more pulsing and fix the very last part of the outro where some guitar part got a bit lost. If you're wondering why this even happened it's because we had to send the disc for mastering to Portland (Jeff Saltzman's location)on a set date and we hadn't had time to really get into the mixing. We spent 20 hours straight on mixing and at 4am many things that don't sound ok now, did sound ok at the time...we sent the record to get mastered without really listening to the final mixes outside the studio...such is life..we were tired, over budget, etc, etc..
 
 As for the live sound..we are working hard on it and getting better..it's hard with our 3 guitar dynamic plus occasional keyboard..but we are getting there..we are 3or4 gigs young and we're taking steps to be a better band everytime you lot come to see us..stick around..
 
 Thanks for the compliments on the website..we felt simple was the way to go and we are quite happy with it..the EP artwork is also pretty cool and you will all get a chance to see it in the next few weeks when the EP comes out..oh and yes, it will be only $5.
 
 Things are happening slowly but surely and we in the band are over the moon at having you guys join us for the ride..

[poorlulu]

cool website..........
 
 very impressed by it's prettiness..........

[walkman]

very pretty tune, fico.  how the hell are you guys from DC?
 
 by the way, I second that observation about the kick drum sound...a little more pulse/danceability would do wonders.

[Fico]

Originally posted by walkie hearts you all:
  very pretty tune, fico.  how the hell are you guys from DC?
 

"how the hell are you guys from DC?":
 
 - Brian, by way of some small town in Pennsylvania...
 - Mark, a place called Redmond, Oregon..
 - Luke, army brat, calls Sacramento home..
 - Ed, Born and raised in Maryland (via India)..
 - Me, Born and raised in Dominican Republic..
 
 We were lucky enough to find each other...not many people out there with an affinity for Elbow, Doves, Stone Roses, U2, etc.. it's funny you would say that cos if you read the Bio on our webpage we touch on that.. the last thing we are is a "dischord" band...

[vansmack]

I'm getting Kinky Wizards flashbacks.  
 
 Remember in "High Fidelity" when Rob walks into the record shop and Barry and Dick are listening to "Minor Threat meets Brina Eno" and says what the hell is this?  No one can believe it's those little skater fuckers Vince and Justin.
 
 That's kind of how I feel right now.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Fico:
 ...not many people out there with an affinity for Elbow, Doves, Stone Roses, U2, etc..

Except nearly everyone on this board...