big, big thanks for checkin the shit out, yall.  

big thanks as well for the feedbacks; be they by comment, detailed rating system a la stretch, or even facebook likes n shit.  not that im worried at all what facebook is doing, its just nice to know people care.  

im happy to know any thoughts that anybody has on any aspect of this project.  positive, negative, indifferent, no matter.  

and of course, to hear that youve actually enjoyed the album...  thats what its all about.  fuckin awesomendous.  

hey you!  

if you havent heard it yet, getchu some!  

download post mortem boredom today!  

Well, there goes my personal rule of not checking out music posted by forum people.....Just downloaded it, shared it on Social Media and listening to it now.......

Sean Law said
Thata boy

i wanna take a moment out of your day to say a couple things about this project.  

ocj asked about turtle herding and masterminding.  responses might give the impression that i did that.  

i am not about to accept that credit.  i was not the creative director, this is not 'brought to you by scruffy'.  

heres what it is...  we talked all this shit out in group discussions using private messages [and by email n phone calls, but predominantly pm], in these long, involved threads that i dubbed 'roundtables'.  at the start, i figured one roundtable was enough, but in all, i think we needed like fifteen of em.  

i started most of the roundtables, to help things stay coordinated.  and that is about all i really did, aside from recording a little stuff.  

the heavy lifters here were absolutely sean, sketchez, and lucem.

sean is a worker.  you can tell that from the tracklist.  he can crank out verses like a phenom.  mad quick.  he has probably written two verses since you started reading this post.

lucem is a little underrepresented, as far as how much he did to help put the lp together.  aside from his solo tracks, though [which are, to coin a phrase, very lucemy], he also had the unenviable job of arranging and mixing both of the multi-collab songs on the album.  ever tried to engineer two recording sessions spread over six weeks, 5000 miles, and five email accounts?  

he also brought the outro, which is nice.

and then theres sketchez.  again, the tracklist speaks to his contribution, but lets talk about mastering.

the whole time we were doing this, i was positive there wouldnt be a master.  all these songs were recorded and mixed in at least nine different setups, probably more.  

sketchez did a master for the lp that gives it a vastly more unified sound than it wouldve had otherwise, and he did it in a way that doesnt cover up or take away from the various producers' styles.  actually, it does cover up somewhat for certain flaws, such as my penchant for gutter-sounding, rough mixes.  with what sketchez pulled off in post, my shit sounds way more polished, by comparison.

neverthrive needs a lil bit of extra creative credit, too.  album didnt have much of a concept to it at all for a long time.  we had pages of ideas for names and themes.  

after never hooked up that fresh ass cover art, it was kinda like, 'ah, this is a real album, and thats what its gonna be like.'

another thing i wanna yack about, is who isnt on the album. not puttin out names, here, but yeah, there was a few people that were asked into it that didnt end up on it.

i wanna make it clear, though, that nobody, nobody was 'dropped', or told by anyone that they had to get out, or anything like that.  some guys never came back with anything, some just didnt want to be involved, for their own reasons.  but there was never any exclusion.

regarding spange specificly, i do want to clarify that it wasnt that he didnt stick around, he just didnt know about it.  he doesnt come here as frequently as most of us, and he didnt realize he had gotten a message about it until we were almost done.

and there were some who werent asked.  sorry.  

it was kinda hard to figure out who we should get at, and how.  remember, this thing was being done all secret-style, we couldnt just put out an open call.  

but if there is ever a sequel or sumn...

oh yeah... click this.