Enter the Rabbithole

I don't know if you've come across this website yet, but it's a dandy one: http://www.rabbitholemusic.com If you haven't, now is your chance to check it out and bookmark it, especially since Braintoy is a featured artist. The website is pretty sweet any day of the week …

B-Shirts For Sale

We just got some brand new merch happening that should give you a bit of a glimpse at the visual feel of Vehicles. If you were at the Horseshoe show then you probably saw a few people sporting their fancy new Braintoy T's. All the shirts are based on the sun logo and …

Snowflakes

I always wondered how they make snowflakes. I think this is what they use to design them so the nanobots can pluck water molecules from the frigid air and assemble them on the way down for us. I have already come up with a few interesting snowflake concepts, it's really …

The Bicycle

For those of you who don't already know, I'm a big fan of the bicycle. It's a wonderful tool and toy, and it's so... mechanical. And a beautiful bicycle is a beautiful thing. There's something about it that is very appealing. Growing up in Ontario, I was very into …

Titled: Vehicles

We have quadruple checked and finalized the track listing for the upcoming braintoy album. This big fat lovable beast of a sonic manifestation will be titled Vehicles. We updated the song titles and added lyrics to the tracks on our myspace music player as well. I hope …

A Taste of the Album

The first 11 minutes and 40 seconds of the new album have just been uploaded to the player. Have fun listening! - Braintoy

The Mix

The Studio, Andre, Joe

Cinematic Orchestra

The past Sunday the concert-du-jour was The Cinematic Orchestra, and it blew me and several friends away, musicians and non-musicians alike. The show left me feeling enriched and inspired with new ideas and concepts about music.

The Cinematic Orchestra has taken jazz …

Braintoy Live

So it's true, we finally played our first show together, outside of the comfort of the rehearsal space, that is. We made our way to Burlington last week and infiltrated the Legendary Red Rooster with an excessive amount of equipment. We played very loudly and …

Evil Joe Barresi

Well ladies and germs the moment has come. After a long year (with a change in our ranks) the album is now being mixed. Andre Wahl (our producer) headed down to Los Angeles yesterday morning, with the completed album to put in the hands of Joe Barresi and embark on a 10 …

Light Writing

I stumbled across some pretty amazing art recently and thought it was worth sharing. It caught my attention not only because it looks really cool but because of how it's made. All the lighting effects you see in the videos were done in front of the camera in 'real …

Bruford

Chris and I are on a King Crimson kick... again. Chris recently picked up their "Early Years" box set that has some killer live recordings, some of them hauntingly reminiscent of our live-off-the-floor madness. Their drummer Bill Bruford has an innovative approach to …

Braintoy Live

There is a Braintoy show later this week, its been a while coming. Its on Wednesday September 19th in Burlington, Ontario at the Legendary Red Rooster. More are being planned, including a Toronto show (more about that later this week). We're not going to make it down to …

New Video: Recording an Album (Part 2)

So many goings on in one day! Another look at the recording process has just gone up online. Along with the footage Braintoy in the studio, there are segments towards the end of the video with stone sculptures created by a Canadian teacher/artist. They're strange, …

Recording: Post and Kurzweil

Sorry for temporarily falling off the edge of the universe, but I'm back for a little while anyway. Around recording day 6 I was plucked from the blogosphere much the way an in-grown hair is removed from the tender areas of your regular shaving route: spontaneously, …

Words: HM's Tropic of Capricorn

Then one day, without the slightest warning, I wake up and looking about me I understand absolutely nothing of what is going on about me, neither my own behaviour nor that of my neighbours, nor do I understand why the governments are at war or at peace, whichever the …

Recording, Day 6

It's saturday and my throat is feeling like it needs a rest from singing, so we took the day off of tracking. This isn't really out of the ordinary, so don't worry about that, thinks are going great. Its just that I've been going for 5 days straight, at least 5 hours a …

Rig A Mortis

Well here I am just taking a break from setting up my newly customized guitar rig.I am getting dizzy from pressing buttons and naming patches but it sounds amazing and probably will be a constant work in progress but at least the starting point is quite satisfying. …

Recording, Day 1

Hey people,

So we're done an official day of recording vocals. so far, so good. we've got one tune practically finished, we're just missing a couple of harmonies. everything is sounding good and andre is a great guy to work with, so i can tell this will be a pretty …

Destitutorial

As some of you have pointed out an older Braintoy song has reappeared. Destitutorial is on the soundtrack of a Horror flick called Skinwalker that is going to be in theatres in North America later this month. There is a trailer up on the apple website with the song - …