{"id":1136,"date":"2010-06-25T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2010-06-25T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:00:13","slug":"ultra-megas-long-delayed-dart-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/25\/ultra-megas-long-delayed-dart-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra Mega’s long-delayed Dart EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tonight at the Lo Pub with Vampires and White Light Machine, Ultra Mega<\/a> will releasing The Dart EP<\/em>, their first record since their controversial Black Wu Jackets<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The sessions didn\u2019t include drummer Ben Jones because he was busy with school and the recently-added guitarist Josey Krahn wasn\u2019t a member yet, but singer\/guitarist JD Ormond and bassist Conrad Petkau had a great deal of fun recording with Six Shooter signee Luke Doucet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doucet, who played the role of producer and played the drums for the EP, happens to have quite a special relationship with Ultra Mega. He\u2019s Ormond\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes when we were working in the studio,\u201d says Ormond wistfully, \u201cI would be looking at Luke and I\u2019d just picture him like he was some punk in the West End and we were making songs you could double your friends on your BMX to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For the session, even though Doucet was on drums, they had hired a number of studio musicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came in to fill things out, to give them a bit of spice. It turned into a song-creating endeavour\u2014we could hire these guys and the album would go this way, or we could hire these ones and it would go that way,\u201d says Ormond.<\/p>\n

The album was recorded in January 2009, but JD felt it necessary to sit on the recordings for a while. Together with the rest of the band back in Winnipeg, they eventually decided to nix half of the 10 songs. The five that they had kept were just of Ormond, Petkau, and Doucet playing and including none of the session musicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s why it\u2019s taken too long,\u201d says Ormond. \u201cListening to [all the tracks] now, for anyone who are used to our sound, there would probably be a few people maybe scratching their heads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drummer Ben Jones says that he still feels part of the ownership of the album, even though he wasn\u2019t there recording it.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuke played all of the drum parts. They\u2019re not necessarily what I would\u2019ve played, but I still think they fit. That sounds negative\u2014but it\u2019s not!\u201d exclaims Jones. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited to tour this album and we\u2019ll all record another one together in Winnipeg.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does The Dart<\/em> compare to Ultra Mega\u2019s other recordings? How does this EP, done in studio with the talented musician Doucet, sound differently than their other songs?<\/p>\n

Jones pauses. \u201cUh\u2026 Well, it sounds really good<\/em>, if you catch what I mean? It\u2019s a little polished. It\u2019s still raw, and it still rocks but it\u2019s just,\u201d he stops to rub the table with his hand a little, \u201cvarnished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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