We posted our Deadmau5 Strobe “Steal the Earth” remix on YouTube.  Now you can listen to it anywhere and on any device that’s YouTube capable.  Make sure you select HD for better sound quality if possible.  Please feel free to spread the word/love/link!

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Here it is, finally. This is our debut album, Midnight Insight, and we’d like you to have it… for FREE. We believe very strongly that this is something you NEED to hear because we don’t think dance music has ever been approached quite this way before and we’re beyond proud of how it turned out. The only payment we ask from you is, if you enjoy the album, tell your friends about it. Send them the link to the album. Click the Twitter and/or Facebook buttons at the bottom of this post and share it. That’s all.  Not much to ask considering this wasn’t free to make, right?  🙂

Today we are also releasing the first track from our upcoming mixtape. It will include our takes on artists who have inspired us at some point in our musical careers and this first release is an original vocal remix of the incredible Deadmau5 song “Strobe”. Just like the rest of the mixtape and our album, this song is 100% free. You can expect the rest of the mixtape before the end of this year.

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Thank you for listening, sharing and hopefully dancing your asses off 😉

Just did a test listen to the mastered full record in the truck. Speechless.

So with the mixes finally finalized, last Wednesday we went into M-Works in Cambridge to audition mastering on a track. Jonathan has an incredible resume of artists he’s added his polishing touch on for decades including Nirvana, David Bowie and Godsmack to name a few. We spent a little over an hour working on the track and it sounded much more vivid and sparkly. Once we took it out and checked the translation in various stereos, we realized in compromise of cleaning up the track a bit some of the mix dynamics were changed and not as good as before. This is in no way saying we weren’t thrilled with what he did on the track, it just led us to ultimately deciding to master the record ourselves because we can still have complete control over the mixes while mastering to wind up with the best sounding final product.

So that brings us to today. We’re back in the studio banging it out. We intend to walk out of here tonight (or tomorrow morning, lol) with the mastered finished record. That means it’s coming to you within days. Are you ready? We are.

It has been a ridiculous weekend off from reality filled with shows, beers, fishing, four loko, birthday celebration, lakehouse party action, grilling, bonfires and amazing times with amazing friends. Today, we close out this escape by heading back into the studio with Alex to tweak and revise the mixes. We then have to test listen and hopefully give it the final thumbs up before sending it off to mastering. These are exciting times – we are beyond eager to share the story of Luci Dormir’s Midnight Insight.

…I say the best part of the harvest is hitting your target” and damn, we just hit our target: all 10 songs planned for our debut are now fully mixed and ready for mastering! That’s pretty mind blowing to write, I must say. If you had asked me just a year ago what I would be doing musically in 2011, I definitely would not have imagined the impending release of a full length electro pop/house/trance/hip hop album and yet, here we are. Listening back to this record from front to back and replaying in my mind the journey that brought us here is a pretty magical experience and I wish I could somehow tap into my mind to share that journey with you. What I can do is give you a peak into that journey through words. Let’s start at the beginning.

NU.F.O. began on a ferry ride across the Long Island Sound. Epic and I were on our way to a weekend getaway with a few friends of ours and we had nothing but sun, sand and fishing on our minds. At some point during our journey, after we’d had a few drinks at the bar, the conversation inevitably shifted gears towards music. Neither of us were personally doing anything serious with music at the moment (as both of our previous bands were on the rocks) and we started joking around about doing a song or two together, just for fun. As we stood at the edge of the deck looking out at the ocean waves as they crashed against the side of the boat, one of us said something along the lines of “hey man, forget rock n’ roll. Let’s see what we can do with dance music”. We laughed for a bit at that thought but not because it was bad idea; we laughed because it was absolutely brilliant. It took a few months from that moment for the spark of inspiration to take shape in the form of a finished song, but I credit that conversation, and the very memorable laughter that it caused, as the genesis of NU.F.O.

As I sit here writing this blog, listening back to the results of all of the work that we’ve put in over the last 8 months, I find myself laughing the same way that I did that day on the ferry. Because of that, I know that we’ve achieved what we set out to and created something that is, to me at least, absolutely brilliant. I hope you agree.