Sounds to Make You Shiver - MP3s from a vintage Halloween sound effects album. (via boingboing)

I'm Not That Adam Levine - An Adam Levine gets phone calls from Maroon 5 fans, posts them as MP3s. (via Coolfer)

Here's a couple remixes from DJ Redshirt.

• Bad Attraction (Evil Red mix)
• Look and Feel Years Younger (Pure Utter Redness mix)

That Bad Attraction one is extra fantastic in a Prodigy sort of way.

Tributes to John Peel - He'll be missed.

Some more remixes for y'all:

• Bad Attraction (Bill Berry mix)
• Making Me Nervous (The Ways of Reverb mix)
• Dirtbag (MC Jack in the Box mix)

And a reminder to participate in the Bad Attraction Remixfight! Deadline is still November 15th, 2004!

Spinalcat - turntables modified to use barcode readers instead of needles. (via Beatmixed)

MTV's VH1 has licensed (up to 30 seconds of) my song "Sick As A Dog" for use in an episode of their series "Totally Obsessed". Associate producer Heather told me that it will be used in the episode airing Sunday, October the 31st during the segment about two white dudes who are obsessed with Mr. T. Cool.

Podcasting = iPod broadcasting - here's a great simple explanation of Podcasting if you're still wondering what it is.

MIDIjet Wireless MIDI System - Wireless MIDI transmitter and receiver. A mere $375!

Minty MP3 - instructions on how to make a homemade MP3 player. (via Plastic Bugs)

Ghouls With Attitude - a great double cd Halloween mix of classics. (via boingboing)

Podcasting 101 - a great collection of audio tutorials for beginning Podcasters. (via Kelly)

A few things things I've been meaning to blog for a while:

• You can get physical CDs through Magnatune now. Adds $4.97 to the price, which is not too shabby. If anyone buys one, drop me a line and let me know how it is. (Direct link to buy my album.)
• My album's finally available on the only Canadian music download service PureTracks now.
• A custom remix of "Dirtbag" is being used as the theme music on the IT Conversations series Voices in Your Head by David Slusher.
• I forgot to mention that my track Look and Feel Years Younger is being used on the intro for the Millennium Wrestling Federation. I do enjoy the pro wrestling, so this is great. Thank you Echelon!

Here's a batch of remixes:

• Dirtbag (Bill Berry mix 1)
• Brad_Sucks - Dirtbag (Bill Berry mix 2)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Omatoz mix)
• Making Me Nervous (alike mix)
• Making Me Nervous (MC Jack in the Box mix)

This'll be the first new batch of remixes (hopefully) being Podcasted in my remix feed (feed is here).

The Online Guide to Whistling Records - all you ever needed to know about whistling records plus over a thousand MP3s.

Here's the source to my song Bad Attraction (52 MB). It won a Songfight. Also: it's up on Remixfight.com. If I haven't blogged about it before, Remixfight is like Songfight for remixes. People do remixes, submit them, then there's voting. Get your remixes into them before November 15th at 10AM PST to compete.

You can send your remixes into me regardless and I'll post 'em.

Rock's 10 Wildest Myths - I'm not sure I would have chosen these ten, but they're good for sure. (via Look At This...)

Syntrax - a music studio for your mobile phone or PDA.

I checked out the recently launched MSN Music last night and was pretty impressed. The interface is slick and clean and previewing is entirely browser-based (looks like IE only), making it even simpler than iTunes to check out clips of new bands and much simpler than iTunes to send people to pages of the store. Prices seem to be the same as iTunes and the format is of course WMA chock full of DRM. This means it's incompatible with all the iPods out there, which is going to hurt it in the short term. Also as far as I know you can't buy anything from the store in Canada so there's not much else I can say about that.

Some suggestions:

• Put more bio and discography content in there. Become a useful music encyclopedia resource like Allmusic with easy previewing and purchasing of songs. Do this right and you'll have a resource that web savvy types would be constantly sending new potential consumers to even if they themselves aren't interested in the purchasing part.
• Let users embed song previews -- and links to buy the song -- on their websites. So if I wanted to make my killer mix of 80s hits I love and you should have, I could list them all on a page on my weblog here with 30 second previews and links through to buying the tracks from the MSN Music Store. Why would I do that? Because it's easy, it costs me no bandwidth and is something I can't easily do on my own. Giving people referral kickbacks like iTunes would obviously be an added bonus. This would be like the awesome iMix feature of iTunes except instead of being only useful to people who are already inside the store, it would be open to the majority of web users.
• Artist and record label RSS feeds. Why not give users the option of instant notification when there's new stuff to buy on artist pages, or entire record labels. I can't really see a downside. The catalog is a bit empty in some areas right now and I'd like to be able to watch for when stuff I want shows up.

All in all I'm pretty impressed. Now they just need to get my music in there (delivered on August 27!) and we're all set.

So I was complaining about how annoying setting up multiple Podcast / RSS enclosure feeds was last night. I want to Podcast all the remixes people do of my songs but I really don't want to make blog posts for all of them or maintain a whole other blog just for that. We came up with an idea and my pal Ryan whipped up a PHP script called dirCaster. Basically you drop this script into a web directory full of mp3s and it makes a Podcast feed of them sorted by file date, with data extracted from the ID3 tags. As you add new files to the directory, the feed will be updated dynamically. Quick, dirty and easy. My remix feed using it is here.

It has some pretty obvious limitations but seems to get the job done with minimum fuss. It should work for the usual talk radio-ish use of Podcasting, but I also like the potential of using it to share small feeds among friends. Like I can set up a directory of my current favorite songs I want to force my friends to listen to and they subscribe in iPodder or jPodder or what have you. Then they'll automatically download any new songs I throw in that directory. Pretty neat.