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		<title>General Update</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/09/08/general-update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a four-day weekend and went into the studio to work on a new bit of guitar music I&#8217;d been tinkering with for awhile. Then during a break from it, I was playing around and came upon something new I liked better, so I switched my focus to the new piece. I can only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakthroughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;ve been breakthroughs this week on the expedition. The first is with site design. Whenever I&#8217;m designing, I start off by brainstorming and experimenting, and at some point everything clicks, and I have a &#8220;yes!&#8221; moment. I started off with a variety of background images, popping them into Photoshop and creating color variations and tiles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depth Charge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m uploading another track for the Mysterious Unions album entitled, &#8220;Depth Charge.&#8221; Faster tempo, driving rhythm, distorted guitar lead, so more toward the center of the album. I&#8217;ll use the remaining tracks to wind this baby down. Possibly. It&#8217;s an organic process, and I&#8217;m not sure how something is going to turn out until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Down, Headin&#8217; South</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time once again for another installment of Mysterious Unions. This one&#8217;s got a quicker tempo, a funkier bass line, and more distorted guitar, so it earns a spot more towards the middle of the album. Drop the top and take a long and winding road somewhere fun. Listen to the song]]></description>
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		<title>Long Time Comin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/07/27/long-time-comin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the hectic job and life situations have continued since my last post two months ago. It sounds so long when I read that, but the time seemed to fly by. It wasn&#8217;t entirely without musical progress, though. I have a rock song in the works, and I started two downtempo pieces. One of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steady Drivin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/05/31/steady-drivin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day job and personal life have been really busy lately, so it&#8217;s been harder to focus on new music. In an effort to try and keep myself on track, I loaded up some project management software and created tentative schedules for all my projects. One of those is the Mysterious Unions album, and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ring My Bell</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/05/22/ring-my-bell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m uploading another downtempo track called, &#8220;Ring My Bell,&#8221; intended for the Mysterious Unions album. It was created in Ableton Live using the built-in instruments, played on a MIDI keyboard. It started when I discovered the bell sound and came up with the three-note riffs. Then it was just a matter of layering other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organ Grinder</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/05/11/organ-grinder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I uploaded another track called, &#8220;Organ Grinder,&#8221; for the downtempo album, &#8220;Mysterious Unions.&#8221; It was created using Ableton Live, with me playing Live&#8217;s built-in instruments via my MIDI keyboard. The initial creative spark came when I happened upon the gritty organ sound that forms the backbone of the song. I picked a tempo between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpet Ride</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/05/03/carpet-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I uploaded another downtempo track entitled, &#8220;Carpet Ride.&#8221; It was created in Ableton Live using the built-in instruments and a MIDI keyboard. To me, it has a Middle Eastern sound. It&#8217;s also a quicker tempo than &#8220;Yo, Yo, Mama,&#8221; and will probably be the fastest track on the &#8220;Mysterious Unions&#8221; album, so track order will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Up</title>
		<link>http://grooveexpedition.com/blog/2010/04/30/cover-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I designed covers for the rock and downtempo albums and uploaded them to the downloads page. I&#8217;d initially thought to do a colorful abstract painting for the rock cover, with some sort of love and fulfillment imagery in keeping with the title track, &#8220;What We Were Missing.&#8221; But as I brainstormed in Photoshop, I took [...]]]></description>
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