Here's a retro industrial fantasy of mine. Ministry and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult are on tour together. Tour details are here. They're coming to Montreal in October but I think I might be too old and fragile to go.
Catching up on remixes here:
- Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix)
- Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 2)
- Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 3)
- Look And Feel Years Younger (SexyMix)
Also the extras section should be all caught up now.
Here's a review of my album I Don't Know What I'm Doing over on Horrorwood BabbleOn. It got 4 and a half jack-o-lanterns out of a possible five jack-o-lanterns, which is my highest number of jack-o-lanterns I've ever been awarded for anything.
It's taken forever and a half, but this weblog seems to be switched to Wordpress now. Huge thanks to Denise for CSS help. There are probably broken things all over the site. If you spot any please let me know. Right now I'm just thankful it's gotten this far.
Also: might be worth updating your RSS URLs. I have forwards in right now but one of the two RSS readers I tried choked on it.
The MP3Blogs Aggregator is an easy way to keep track of a ton of MP3 blogs all in one place. MP3 blogs are pretty cool and are a bit easier to tune into than a radio show for people who are lazy and impatient, like me. They're also how I found out that Steve Burns (formerly the host of Blues Clues) has teamed up with some of the the guys behind the Flaming Lips. (The song Mighty Little Man kicks ass.)
How to be Creative is a pretty good list of observations on the creative process. Most are pretty insightful. The explanation behind "Ignore everybody" is worth reading alone.
For the home recorders out there, here's a pretty good article on compression/limiting. The main thing that sets this article apart: it has audio examples. As a ranty aside: why is this article one of the very few with audio examples? There's no shortage of tutorials on the net for recording, but almost none of them have any audio with them and are basically worthless without that.
A while back I had an idea about starting a recording website where any tips you gave had to be backed up by audio examples, money where your mouth is style. But then I had other things to do I guess.
Due to peer pressure, I signed up for the Songfight Coverfight where you get assigned another songfighter's song to cover. The assignments are in and I have until August 30th to finish mine. Awesomely, I have no voice right now, but I'm sure it'll come crawling back eventually.
Certain DeathGenre: Rock? Time: 3:48 Date: 07/19/04
Acoustic guitar, drums and synths. This one took forever to write.
This time around we've got a pretty neat children of the fifth people Borderline remix and two Look And Feel Years Younger mixes by the unstoppable c.layne. Borderline (co5p remix) Look And Feel Years Younger (anasthetic mix) Look And Feel Years Younger (violence of surprise mix)
Thanks!
This Vestax QFO Q-Bert Designed DJ Turntable looks pretty awesome:
For scratch DJ's and turntablists, the VESTAX QFO is the ultimate go-anywhere, try anything, all in one DJ tool. Not only is it an extremely powerful turntable but it is also a full battle-worthy, 2 channel dj mixer with all of the professional features you would expect from a Vestax Mixer. The Vestax QFO is a radical new tool for performance DJ's who are looking for a lot more creative options and who want to own the most advanced DJ workstation available in the world. With the QFO, DJ's will be able to take what DJ Qbert has started and revolutionize the Scratch DJ and Turntablist scenes.
Saves you the hassle (and hopefully cost, once the price is announced) of buying a turntable AND a mixer to get up and scratching.
The Shape of Song is a Java applet that analyzes and visualizes MIDI files:
The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.
Pretty cool. I think the server's pretty stressed out right now though, it's going very slowly.
Here's the source for Look and Feel Years Younger (41MB). Post your remixes to the forums or email 'em to me, I'd love to hear them. If I haven't mentioned before, it's pretty weird listening to the source for my old songs. All I can think of are all the things I'd do differently if I was recording it again today, which is probably made worse by being bored with the song altogether. Still, when I hear problems that I could fix now it at least gives me the feeling I've been learning something here and there along the way.
After reading an article about garageband.com selling tons of albums for artists, I decided to give it a whirl. A few weeks ago I submitted Making Me Nervous there. Based on user reviews, it's going to be the track of the day in the Alternative section on July the 14th. Here's the little badge I get to display:
Kinda neat. Guess we'll see what happens on the 14th.
Happy Canada Day everybody (who is Canadian).
A couple of people expressed interested in hearing my electric kazoo when I got it. So here's my 3:45 opus Me Screwing Around With My Kazooka Brand Electric Kazoo and My Boss GT-6 (5MB).
Three more remixes for you all:
- Borderline (Wadical Weft Mix) by billr
- Making Me Nervous (Wadical Weft Mix) by billr
- Making Me Nervous (UNIT-E Mix) by sharp.
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I switched Sellout Central to Wordpress a few weeks ago, which was a bit of a rough ride due to the additional challenge I put on myself to not allow myself to break any URLs in the transition. Wordpress is faster and seems to have more features than Movable Type, but also has a lot of "quirks" and, uh, "character" if you want to put it that way. Enough research smooths that out a bit, but it takes a while. Overall I'm pretty happy with it and would like to switch on this site.
The main thing holding me back from that right now is moving the design over. I really don't want to jam this stupid table-based design into the guts of Wordpress and I also really don't want to spend the next six months of my life trying (and failing) to come up with a nice browser-friendly CSS design.