Roche Limit

2011-11-14T18:37:00.001-08:00

Here is a quick little peak into the mixing process of one of the songs that will appear on the next Roche Limit album. The song is called "Dirty Contradictions" and is being mixed at Fader Master studios in Vancouver BC. The video was shot and edited on an iPhone 4S so it's fairly limited but you'll hopefully get an idea of how it goes.

2011-01-31T21:02:00.000-08:00

Shock Treatment Management has released a compilation CD for free download that includes one of my songs and can be downloaded here
It's also being handed out at colleges and universities of the Pacific Northwest for free to students, which is pretty awesome. It is a 17 track mix of many different styles and genres and is worth checking out.

New Song For Free Download

2010-12-23T18:27:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays Everyone!!
Here is a previously un-released song that never made it onto the last album for you to download for free!! It's called "I know" and I hope you enjoy it and have a great New Year.

I Know by rochelimit

Zombie Cover

2010-07-30T20:02:00.000-07:00

ZOMBIE by rochelimit

Thought it was time for some streaming of the cover song I did called Zombie.

What Now? July 2010

2010-07-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

What's on my iPod in heavy rotation at the moment?
Not much, a little disappointed in this summers tunes...

The Black Keys :new album Brothers is pretty great, and I'd say is one of the top albums I'm going through at the moment. Bluesy good times.

The Glitch Mob: "Drink the sea" is a wicked album that pretty much goes down anytime, instrumental electronic awesomeness is pretty much how I'd describe that one.

Dan Black: I'm listening to him a bit too... not sure if it's cheesy or not but I seem to be playing more than once so I must like it a little bit. Poppy electronic summer fun music.

That's kind of it at the moment, I'd love some suggestions if you'd be so kind.

Have a great summer...

PS. I've been slowly working on some new material for the next album, and it's coming along nicely.

Video for "Final Breath"

2010-05-10T12:24:00.000-07:00

Final Breath from Dave Righton on Vimeo.

I bought a new Canon Rebel T2i a few weeks ago and went out on a walkwith Tyler to do some video tests with it. We weren't planning on doing anything with itbut it kinda turned into a video for "Final Breath".It's sort of weird doing a video for an older song but, who cares it was fun and it fitwith the music.

the Zombie

2010-04-08T18:10:00.000-07:00

Did a cover song of "Zombie" by the Cranberries and decided to release it as a single through iTunes on April 27th. I originally hoped to release it as a free download through this site but due to the song license restrictions and copyright law it's now a US only iTunes release. Hopefully this region will expand as I figure out different publishers for different zones etc. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out and excited for the release. Here is the art work that will go along with it.

The version has been described as "a gorgeously creepy, post apocalyptic version".
(thanks for the description Charity)

Council Estate (ROCHE LIMIT REMIX) by rochelimit

2010-01-28T13:04:00.001-08:00

Council Estate (ROCHE LIMIT REMIX) by rochelimit
This is a remix I did for the Tricky song "Council Estate" in 2009. Nothing ever happened with it so I thought I'd post it up here. Hit the play button to stream it or click on the little arrow on the right hand side of the player to DOWNLOAD it for FREE!!

What Now? January 2010

2010-01-28T11:59:00.000-08:00

iPod Listening:
Fever Ray - (mellow electronic)
Karin Dreijer Andersson from the Knife goes solo for a while and releases an amazing CD. Her music videos are great too, highly recommend checking them out. I've been listening to this quite a bit lately.
The XX - (mellow folktronic)
I read somewhere this album being described as make out music for the new generation, I guess that's a good description of it but way cooler than it sounds.
The Beatles -Revolver (remastered release)
Pretty much my favorite Beatles album, now sounding even better.
Pucifer
Maynards side project to do what ever he wants with, and he does. Sounds good to me.
the Eels - End Times
Kind of depressing album but an Eels classic.

Watching:
Spaced (season 1&2) - Simon Peggs weird comedy
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Life

Playing PS3:
Dirt 2
NHL 2010
Little Big Planet

2009-08-10T13:02:00.000-07:00

The other day I was bored and thought I'd try making a little live recording of me playing one of my songs acoustically. I grabbed my digital camera (Canon a640) and filmed the process.

"So Sorry" - Live in studio Acoustic performance

What Now? March 2009

2009-03-15T01:25:00.000-07:00

I figure once in a while like maybe once a month I'll post what I'm currently listening too, or watching or playing. So...

March 2009

Listening:
Handsome Furs - Face Control: (Indie Electronic)
More electronic than their last album and feels more like their live shows, I still think their last album was better but this still rules and is getting much play on my iPod.
K'Naan - Troubadour: (Hip Hop)
This album is more polished and less gritty than his last but I still like it a lot. I don't think it will ever surpass "Dustyfoot Philosopher" in my eyes, but the more I listen the more I like. That might have something to do with seeing him live recently though too, and he was amazing.
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
I still think this is the best album to come out in a long time. I can't get enough and listen to it regularly.
School of Seven Belles - Alpinisms
This is a great album, with great female vocals and very full sound.

Watching:
TV on DVD
- It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Season 1&2)
- Six feet Under (Season 3)
- Big Love (Season 1)

Playing:
PS3 - I don't play that much but lately I've been into
- GTA IV - so wrong yet so right.
- Little Big Planet - so fun

Why Roche Limit?

2009-03-15T00:34:00.000-07:00

Why the name Roche Limit?
I have always secretly loved space and the idea of astronomy. I enjoy a good Sci-Fi book or movie every once in a while and I could sit and stare at the stars for hours letting my mind wander. That being said I also hate going to the dentist.
So I was at the dentist, sipping some tea, waiting for my turn to get 2 infected wisdom teeth pulled (it was a holistic dentist so they serve tea first), flipping through a Astronomy dictionary and came across the definition of Roche Limit. I liked what it meant and I liked how it sounded.

Roche Limit: the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction

I started considering this more as my teeth were being yanked from my mouth. There was a loud cracking sound, the taste of blood, and the dentist said "Fuck". My tooth had broken off at the root. This gave me more time to contemplate "Roche Limit", and how it could translate into everyday life in regards to people being easily influenced by bigger and better things or people.
It made sense to me at the time, and it could be in part due to the slight anesthetic effects of whatever herbal extract capsule the dentist made me take but... long story short Roche Limit stuck.

The process leading to "White Light" Pt.2

2009-01-14T22:08:00.000-08:00

...After I had all the tracks recorded and picked out for the album (White Light) I needed someone who would Mix & Master them. My sister had gone to a music production school the year before and recommended one of her teachers named Kevin Kowal. When I met him at his studio (Leading Tone Productions) I knew right away that my songs were in good hands, and in the next few months I learned a few important things:
1. using a shitty cheap microphone gives you shitty cheap sounding recordings
2. it helps a lot if you know how to mic your instruments properly (evidently I didn't)
3. that Kevin Kowal is a musical genius and can fix almost anything.
It was always a weekly highlight going over there and hearing how he had interpreted the latest song, and mixed it into something way beyond my expectations.
When it was completed it was actually a little depressing, but satisfying as hell. I now had in my hands my first album. Next I had to figure out where to get it pressed, what to do for art work, and how to get people to hear it (still working on this bit).
Due to the fact that I was paying for all this crap on my own, and knowing that it was highly unlikely I would recoup much of what I spent on it, I had to do the rest on the cheaper side.
I decided to design my own album art, and new I wanted a moth on the cover to go with the "White Light" album title. I had taken a bunch of photos of these crazy moths on a blue wall while I was on a jungle trek in Peru and knew I had to use those.

I enhanced the moth wings with some city lights from the Vancouver skyline taken from my apartment window, threw my face on the little guy, made him glow, and the rest is history.
Next I found a place that would press the discs and print all the art including some posters and
3 weeks later I had a bunch of boxes of CD's for me to deal with. What next?

The process leading to "White Light" album

2009-01-06T16:41:00.000-08:00

Lets go back a few years to 2004, to the point where I realized I had a collection of songs that I had recorded (about 40 or so) that I wasn't doing anything with, and if I just left them they would continue to go unheard and unappreciated. Did I care if they weren't heard or appreciated? Not really... but kind of.
When I started recording music back in 1994 I never really had the intention of anyone hearing it. I was just making music I wanted to hear, except I couldn't sing very well, or play any instrument very well, so I guess it wasn't "exactly" what I wanted to hear, but it was fun so what the hell right?
One thing led to another and my tape deck turned into a four track, and then that turned into a computer, and the songs got a little more bearable to listen to (or so I thought). My girlfriend at the time thought otherwise, and definitely wasn't holding back in her critique of each song I played for her. I remember once I wrote a song for her while she was away that I was very proud of, and felt it captured my feelings for her perfectly. I called it "Alone". I couldn't wait for her to get back so I could play it and have her gush over it. When she returned, I nervously played it for her and when it was done she said "That was too long and kind of boring." and then went and started to unpack. It turns out she must have been ahead of her time cause now when I listen back to that old song it is definitely kinda long and kinda boring. Plus I probably could have picked my timing a little better and let her at least take her jacket and shoes off upon her return.
OK, sidetracked a little there...
So in 2005 I figured if anyone other than my family and friends were going to hear my music I needed to release an album. The problem was my songs were all over the map style wise, and honestly I wasn't that excited by most of them, some actually sucked... a lot. I had maybe 8 that I thought were good enough to put onto my first CD, and for the first time in my musical career set aside a couple months strictly to write and record the remainder of the album.
In that 2 month period I spent everyday (well almost) writing and recording, and came up with another 6 songs that I felt were miles above the stuff I had done before, but how could I release the old stuff now that the new stuff was so awesome? I couldn't. I'd have to keep recording, but i also had bills to pay, so...
I went back to work at my real job doing Props for film or TV, this time on a TV show called Robson Arms, then after that some other show, I can't remember what. It kinda blends together after a while. Eventually I decided to take a trip to South America for 3 months, and while I was there I ended up writing a few more songs.

When I got back wouldn't you know it, I had no work lined up so I spent the next 2 months writing and recording a bunch more songs for the album. I would call this album "White Light" after a song that never made it on to the CD. Actually I never really finished that song come to think of it. In the end I only used 4 of the older songs (The Same, Number One Value, Funny Feeling, and Final Breath) on the final disk with the remainder being written while I was in South America and in the 2 months that followed when I returned.
So now I had the songs ready, what now? I guess find a place to Mix and Master it... More about that step later.