So… This track has a little history behind it. Originally released around ‘02 “the Illusion of Hope” was a bit of a segue into another track… An instrumental, complete with a few tame recordings of the ocean I had made in pacifica and one of the few tracks at the time I had produced completely independently of the rest of the band.
It was one of my personal favorite pieces I’d ever done, but the original production left – something to be desired – but that particular record had taken nearly 9 months to complete and I didn’t have the time and abilities then to flesh it out like I’d imagined.
Now fast forward a handful of years. Whit and I grabbed a car and headed down to Half-Moon Bay a few weeks ago, and after making some new and more interesting recordings (and videos 
I was inspired to return to that original Pro Tools session, and finish what I’d started.
And, with Mikey away in France for a while, I had some time to kill before I could release “Just As I Thought”, so this seemed like the perfect way to occupy my mind for a bit…
And incidentally, the whole idea behind F/ux was that it was supposed to evolve, and not be some static thing I released and forgot about a year later. So releasing this song as the second single before “JAIT” started to make a lot more sense and seemed more in keeping with the original concept.
I spent a few weeks tracking new parts (including the waves of Half-Moon bay) tweaking and sweetening what was good from the original, cutting what sucked from the original, mixing and mastering myself. I finished around 5PM (sunday Oct 3rd) afternoon, and the song itself was online just a few hours later… Which is pretty fucking cool if you think about it…
So here it is: “the Illusion of Hope”. Re-imagined and complete.
The Illusion of Hope by nSLASHa
Thanks for listening…
-PM
Tags: F/ux, Flux, n/a, nSLASHa, Paul MacLachlan