Unholy (new single released)

Unholy (new single released)

cover of the Sam Smith/Kim Petras song

Oh YES we did!!

We fell in love with this song, (and with Sam Smith & Kim Petras who created it), and we felt moved to do our own version.

We hope you love it!!

To all of the people who don’t fit in...for ANY reason

Thank you for making the world a better place!!

Thanks so much to Sam Smith & Kim Petras!

Their art, their truth & their bravery to be themselves struck us.

Love, compassion, and understanding for each other is always the way forward, and it is getting increasingly scary and dangerous in a world that tries to pressure people who do not fit into particular molds.

We will be donating a portion of the proceeds of this song to The Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project provides support services to LGBTQ young people.

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RagMag (Recording Artits Guild Digital Magazine)

RagMag (Recording Artits Guild Digital Magazine)

It seems like it’s taken a while for press and magazines and most people to really take notice of Notes From the Universe, but we’re starting to get some good press on it, which makes us happy. We put A LOT of energy into making an album, so it does mean a lot when people notice, and take the time to write a review.

RagMag

An ambient and boundless alt pop and rock opus of an album was recently released from the band Collide and it breeds an absolutely refreshing set of textures that blend and chop into each other giving everything a darkened disquietude but also this vitality that helps the songs build a fierce but flowing character.

The Notes from The Universe album is completely immense, and these songs have the feel of connecting together almost like a concept album would.

You get such a great combination of natural and digital instrumentation that create an atmosphere that has a way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants you.

You have some real gems throughout the records playthrough that possess this pop sensibility which is also there a lot on this release.

But even still if you look at this like it is a concept album, you're better off.

The vocals across the record have this graceful tonality to them and it really helps the whole approach for the soundscape and style that they've built.

There are plenty of surprises lurking around the corners and levels of intensity that rise and fall so the songs have a way of feeling alive and breathing.

What's most impressive about this really is the arrangement and songwriting and how the performance of the songs is the glue that keeps everything together and forward moving.

These are incredibly pictorial as well a lot of the time, which is quite beautiful in its own right, but they never lose that touch of grit and sharpness.

Notable songs include "Freak Like Me", Haunting Me Still, and "Are You Better Now" among others of course.

ReGen Magazine Reviews Notes From the Universe

ReGen Magazine Reviews Notes From the Universe

ReGen Magazine

Although the band has hardly kept quiet in the interim with reissues and the “Are You Listening?” collaborative single, it had been four years since Statik and kaRIN had graced their audience with a full-length album of new Collide material. Perhaps it was this long wait that accounts for the 11 tracks on Notes From the Universe, which present some of the band’s densest and most notably robust production values yet. Elements of ‘60s blues-laden psychedelia can be felt in the sharpened rays of light guitar and organ that resound in “Turn Off Your TV,” or in the grinding grooves or “Are You Better Now?,” while later cuts like the jaunty “Icy Cold,” the swinging lounge jazz vibes of “When All You Crave,” or the sultry cabaret rhythms of the smoky “What Were You Thinking” demonstrate the fuller extent of Collide’s variety of influences, all filtered through Statik’s fierce layers of sophisticated electronics and splashes of organic sounds like guitar and piano. We even get a mangled bebop energy in “Gets to the Heart,” the distortion doing little to dissuade from an inherent pop catchiness, and probably the closest Collide has ever come to truly sounding like Curve. A song like “I Go Crashing” is especially entrancing, if somber, as jangly strums of acoustic guitar mingle with swirling waves of ambient pads, while the martial percussion and icy trickles of guitar eventually give rise to overdriven drums and malfunctioning sequences in the opening “Stardust.” All the while, kaRIN’s breathy and melodious voice remains as seductive and serpentine as ever, always balancing between a vulnerable chanteuse and a mischievous temptress, aided by no small amount of reverb and other minor effects for occasional emphasis.

However, much of Notes From the Universe tends to linger precariously close to the point of excess; songs lasting nearly six or seven minutes are not a new thing for the duo, but there is such a superfluity of lengthy repetitions that one might wonder if Statik and kaRIN are trying to make up for the long absence. “Freak Like Me” is a prime example of this, with the song virtually a complete work by the time three-and-a-half minutes have elapsed… but that’s only the first half of the song, and while the corroded bass tone and washes of feedback in the bridge and the arpeggios and vocal effects of the coda are enticing on their own, there is an almost anticlimactic disconnect that occurs. This applies to every song on the album, but this isn’t to say that Notes From the Universe is in any way tiresome; on the contrary, in fact, much of the band’s appeal over the years has been in how they allow songs to breathe and progress as they will. Ultimately, Notes From the Universe delivers all you could expect from a Collide record, and just a little more – such generosity from a band is deserving of gratitude.

Notes From the Universe comes in at #19 for top albums of 2022

Notes From the Universe comes in at #19 for top albums of 2022

Notes From the Universe comes in at #19 for Best Albums of the Year!!

To end the year, we'd like to give thanks to all of our supporters and listeners.

Since we began making music, a lot of magazines and websites have gone under, but one of the most well known and revered websites around, A Model of Control, made their list of their top 50 albums for 2022, and our album, Notes From the Universe, which came out 2/22/22, came in at 19 on their list!!!

There were a lot of albums released in 2022, so we were pretty happy to come in at 19, and appreciate Adam at A Model of Control for his continued support.

In the Frequency (Video Mix)

In the Frequency (Video Mix)

(NEW VIDEO+NEW AUDIO)

https://youtu.be/9zH8CR77tEw

The original version of "In the Frequency" never had a full video. Edward Mavskegg (who also did the video for “Bending and Floating” started a video for the song, (but for some reason that we never fully understood), never wanted to finish it. Since this is the summer of new videos, we decided to finish it ourselves! For the audio we did a new mix which combines the original version of the song with the Great Apes remix.

For anyone wanting to download the new mix, we made it available on our website (as well as our Bandcamp page) as both a wav and mp3 download

https://www.collide.net/.../in-the-frequency-video-mix...

https://www.collide.net/.../in-the-frequency-video-mix-mp3

We hope you enjoy this all new version and complete video! It only took 10 years. The Great Apes Remix was done by Tom Gipson. The original version featured Dean Garcia on bass and Scott Landes on guitar.

Son of a Preacher Man CD Single

Son of a Preacher Man CD Single

Collectors item
Signed & numbered Son of a Preacher Man CD Single!!!!
Available NOW!!!


This will be a collectors item of an extremely limited edition single. Each one will be signed and hand numbered, from 1-200. We wanted this to be a special Halloween release, and if you get an order in soon, most people should get it by that time.


Let us take you on a little trip....so, have you ever had something you wish you could go back in time and do differently?


Take the song "Son of a Preacher Man"....We originally did the song for a compilation that Re-Constriction was putting out called Cyber Punk Fiction. Director Kevin McVey loved our version so much that he convinced us to do a video for the song. The thing is, the regular version of the song never appeared on any of our own releases. We did a remix of it for Distort, but that's it. Who makes their first video, but never releases the song on their own album? Us!!


Around this same time, we did a remix contest on our (old) website. We posted the winner (and maybe a few more) online, but that's all that ever came of those remixes. Once we transitioned to a new platform for our site, all of those remixes just disappeared.


Jump ahead to 2022...At around the same time we were working on upgrading the video to the song, we found all of those remixes.. We listened to them with fresh ears, and thought that they really needed to see the light of day. And then came a new idea...we had all of raw footage to the video now—we can re-cut it to go with one of the remixes!

Watch the new Guflux Remix video here


Since the original version of the song never got released by us...we thought... let's do a CD single with that version and the best of the best remixes. We now have that CD Single printed and ready to send out! The single includes the original version, and 5 other remixes.


Order your copy now!!


1. Son of a Preacher Man (Original Version)
2. Guflux Mix - (see new video!) remixed by John van Loon (Guflux)
3. Katarrhaktes' Heretic Mix), which was just done especially for this single,
4. G6 Mix - Remixed by Damien James (Gabrielsix/Tripping Breakers)
5. Heavenly Creatures Mix - Remixed by Richard Turek (Heavenly Creatures)

6. DJ Phrancis Mix - Remixed by DJ Phrancis

Son of a Preacher Man 4k video upgrade

Son of a Preacher Man 4k video upgrade

https://youtu.be/POQiideW3Fs

As you may have gathered by now if you have been following along—we have been going back and updating older videos. For this one, we take a step wayyyyyy back to our first video, Son of a Preacher Man.

We've always wanted a higher resolution version of this video, and thought that we could re-digitize the 35mm film that it was originally shot on, but, as it turns out, the film had been lost and we may never know what happened to it.

So, to make an updated version we did the next best thing and found the 1:1 original digital transfers, and re-digitized all of the video, including all of the raw footage. There were always a few things that we thought could have been better. Being the crazy perfectionists we are (Statik), we did a bit of new color grading and color correction and along with a bit of A.I. up-rezing, we now have a great looking fricking 4k version of the video!!

It's definitely been a labor of love to work on these videos. We hope you enjoy the results. Be sure to give the video a like on YouTube, so that more people can find these new versions.

Summer of Videos

Summer of Videos

If anyone hasn’t been keeping up to date with us on Facebook this summer, we’ve been uploading some new and some new and improved videos to our YouTube page.

So far we have

  1. The Live at the El Rey concert video., now in HD, with a new mix of the concert audio.

  2. Euphoria (now in 4k)

  3. Head Spin (Behind the Scenes studio video and photoshoot) (NEW)

  4. A Little Too Much (Behind the Scenes studio video) (NEW)

  5. Shiver X (Secret Meeting) (Behind the Scenes photoshoot video) (NEW)

  6. Dreamsleep (Acoustic Video) (in 4k) (NEW)

  7. Deep (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

  8. Modify (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

  9. Breathe (Acoustic Video) (now in 4k)

  10. Time (Acoustic Video) (in 4k) (NEW)

  11. Euphoria (live in San Diego) (now in HD)

  12. Like You Want to Believe (West Coast Tour) (now in 4k)

  13. Wings of Steel (West Coast Tour) (now in 4k)

Stay tuned…we still have a few surprises up our sleeves!

Happy watching! -kaRIN & Statik

When All You Crave (Lyric Video)

When All You Crave (Lyric Video)

When I write words, I like to capture my own feelings, but also to leave the song open enough for others to gather their own meanings and experiences from it.

At the core of the song, "When All You Crave" was written to say we are all interconnected, and although we are individuals, we all have similar dreams, hopes, and fears as we go through life.

Here is a a little lyric video we made with some fire, fire

The Independent "Notes From the Universe" review

The Independent "Notes From the Universe" review

There is no one like Collide. Their music defies categorization, and that’s an excellent sign of great art. I’ve heard all sorts of musical styles in their sound over the decades I’ve been listening to them: industrial, trip hop, darkwave, jazz, middle eastern music. Over the course of six albums (not counting some excellent remix albums and a great cover album) of all original songs, they have crafted a very diverse catalog, But Notes From The Universe stands above them all as their most unique, dynamic, and complex album yet.

“Stardust” sounds absolutely cinematic, like if Hans Zimmer collaborated with The Crystal Method. The album’s first single, “Are You Better Now?” — Reminds me a lot of Curve around the time of their album Gift. “Turn Off Your TV” delves into the agenda-ridden psychological programming that’s driving people crazy these days, saying, “Why don’t you turn off your TV? It’s always trying to sell you something.”

“Haunting Me Still” is a remarkable hybrid of industrial and middle eastern music that is just flat-out awesome.

“What Were You Thinking” is a really cool hybrid of trip-hop, goth, and industrial.
“Freak Like Me,” with its fuzzy ambient trip-hop melodies, is my favorite song on the album.

Frankly, I’m reaching for descriptions of these awesome songs to attempt to give you some idea of their sound, and i don’t think I come close. There’s so much to immerse yourself in and so much going on in the compositions that it really is futile trying to compare them to anything or anyone. Between Statik’s incredible blend of music and kaRIN’s mesmerizing vocals, you have a highly unique musical experience that you really shouldn’t miss. - Rob Jones

A Model of Control Collide Interview

A Model of Control Collide Interview

New interview with Adam from amodelofcontrol.com

The interview can be found here

Read about how working on the Blu Rays of Chasing the Ghost and Some Kind of Strange led to one of the songs on Notes From the Universe.

"New today, my first interview of 2022, as I catch up with kaRIN and Statik from Collide, discussing their excellent new album, their sound and their independent spirit."

Thanks Tool!!

Thanks Tool!!

Thanks so much to Blair & our friends at TOOL for giving Notes From The Universe a shout out on their news page. We are honored.

They have always been so great about helping us to get the word out there!!

TOOL are brilliant artists, and our friendship goes way back to the early days of TOOL where Statik did some programming work on “Disgustipated” on Undertow, and then later “Triad” on Lateralis.

Also, Danny Carey played drums on our song “Somewhere” that was released off of Some Kind of Strange.

Collide interview on Kettle Whistle Radio

Collide interview on Kettle Whistle Radio

Kettle Whistle Radio

Had a super fun conversation with David & Shaun from Kettle Whistle Radio about the making of Notes From the Universe.

You can check it out on their podcast.

These guys are always great to talk to--they really know their stuff, ask great questions and they are fun.

This is our first discussion with anyone about the making of Notes from the Universe.

Other than that...

Thanks so much for all of your comments so far!!! When we make music, we try to make something that we would want to listen to--but we never know how others will respond, and it means sooooooo much to us to hear that you are enjoying it!!

Much

click here to check it out

Notes From the Universe

Notes From the Universe

Today is the day! After the last couple of years of work, Notes From the Universe is out today everywhere! All orders have been shipped, and everyone has been sent their download codes.

Please help us get the word out, tell your friends, add it to your playlists, write a review, and anything you can…we super appreciate all of the help.

We hope you love it!

Submit

Submit

Yesterday was a big day. We pressed the button! Hit submit. Turned in everything. Artwork and songs...written, mixed, mastered, sequenced and done.

Letting go is always hard for us—it involves intensive listening over & over again and doing all the artwork & re-checking the artwork over & over.

For Notes from The Universe we also did all of the photography as well. So if anyone ever wonders why each release takes awhile—it is because we are completely DIY and every detail takes time.

By the time we are done, we've poured everything we have into the album.

Thanks to each of you for being here. It means so much to us.

Notes From the Universe

Notes From the Universe

We are so excited to let you know that after over two years, endless hours, & some blood, & some tears...we are ready to announce the upcoming release of our latest!

We bring you our new album, Notes from The Universe!!!

The official release date is 2.22.22

2.22.22 sounded like a nice date that we could remember!!! All orders will ship on, or before that date.

We are really, really, really excited about it, and think it is one of our own personal favorite releases in our entire history, and we hope you will love it as well.

Pre-orders start now! and the first 200 people to order get some special extra things added in their orders!!!

Notes from the Universe will be released as a Special Edition Digipack with 11 songs, as well as a strictly Limited Edition (250 copies) 2CD Version with a bonus Instrumental CD which will only be available on our website. We also have 2 new limited run T-shirt designs to go with the release.

We are fully independent, which means we are 100% self-funded. We decided not to go through a fund raising site this round, but our Collide website takes all sorts of payments including Paypal.

Come join us on Facebook, or Instagram where we will be posting lots of new photos and thoughts about Notes from The Universe.

Any help in getting the word out is deeply appreciated!! Liking, sharing and commenting on posts help…Every bit helps!!

Much Love,

Collide

Cat out of the bag

Cat out of the bag

We know it has been awhile--but we have some exciting music news that we will be announcing very soon!!!!!!

We have been super busy getting things ready and we are getting excited to let the cat out of the bag!!!!

To make sure you get the news--please sign up for the newsletter on our website--that really helps us as we can no longer count on having a reach through socially controlled media.

Meanwhile speaking of cats--this is Mittenpaws!!! She is new to the Collide family!!! She was a neighborhood stray cat who decided to adopt us!! She is very special!!!! Barkly however is still adjusting.

Soooooooo stay tuned for news coming up!!!!

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