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Hello Cosmonaut

matt — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:30:11 +0000

Dashing has just finished mixing and mastering our first EP, Hello Cosmonaut.

You can stream it and download it for free at wearedashing.com. We’d love to know what you think, so why not leave us a note while you’re there.

Hello Cosmonaut EP by WeAreDashing

Written and produced by DASHING © 2011
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Karr at the Hive Creative Labs in Burnaby, BC
Dashing is Daniel Puzzuoli, Eric Lajoie, Matthew Brehmer, Peter Beshai, Ray Wang, and Thomas Hazelton

Dashing – Hello, Cosmonaut EP Trailer

matt — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:44:38 +0000

A sneak peak of our forthcoming Dashing EP entitled “Hello, Cosmonaut”. These are working versions of the songs and may sound different in the final cut. Enjoy!

Dashing – Hello, Cosmonaut EP Teaser by WeAreDashing

Inevitabilities

matt — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:13:54 +0000

5 new songs, recorded 06/19/11 in a garage.

Available at archive.org here (20 MB zip).

Dashing Live 04.15.11

matt — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:54:20 +0000

Dashing - live at Windermere House 04.15.11

Dashing – Sunday Drink by WeAreDashing

wearedashing.com

The album that changed your life

matt — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:13:13 +0000

CBC-R2′s The Signal had a contest in September in which participants described an album that changed your life. This was my entry:

I was about nine or ten years old when I first remember hearing the album that changed my life. Like many boys of that age, I was fascinated with science fiction stories. One night, my dad improvised and told me a bedtime sci-fi story, playing the Alan Parsons Project’s album “I Robot” as a soundtrack. It’s likely that the story itself was derivative of half a dozen sci-fi films, but to a ten-year-old that didn’t matter at all; imagery of space travel and alien landscapes accompanied by the futuristic electronic arpeggiated sounds of the title track, the spooky ambience of “Total Eclipse”, and the epic orchestral climax of “Genesis ch.1 v.32″ left a lasting impact on me. Up until this day, music and storytelling have always been deeply intertwined for me, and I have come to the realization that my “I Robot” experience can explain why I have come to love things like Vangelis’ score to “Blade Runner”, Brian Eno’s soundtrack for the Apollo moon landings, the jazz-heavy Cowboy Bebop anime series, and the type of music played every night on the Signal. And of course, any time I’m deep into a good imaginative novel, you can be sure that I have its soundtrack in mind.