I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed is finally online. 18 tracks, 1:04:09 playing time. It was a lot of work putting it together but I think it turned out pretty well. Thanks to all the remixers and to everyone who helped spread the word that I've been giving away the source to my album I Don't Know What I'm Doing. (You can get the full source here.)
Here's the zip file for I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed. Here's the torrent.
Since I've been dragging my gear around for the live Brad Sucks practices lately, I've been getting annoyed at all my cables being tangled constantly. I remembered reading about Velcro Grip Ties that are meant for plants but allegedly work great on cables.
I swung by the nursery tonight and picked up 18 feet of 2" wide Velcro Tree Tie for $7.99 Canadian dollars. So far I'm hella impressed. It's sturdy and my cable bag is far more organized. And I have this compulsive urge to go neatly velcro-tie every cable I own.
The remix compilation is just around the corner (finally), so here's the source for the final two songs off the album: Never Get Out [20mb] and Work Out Fine [43mb]. So now after a lot of cutting and looping and exporting, the source for my entire album I Don't Know What I'm Doing is available online here.
I've also got a torrent of the whole thing: Brad_Sucks_-_I_Dont_Know_What_Im_Doing_(source).zip.torrent. The source to all the songs is in there and it weighs in at 560+ megs. This may crap out if bandwidth gets tight, so get it while you can.
Google launched a blog search service. Exciting stuff! It's sparse and quick and it works decently enough. I like to keep tabs on who's linking to me, so I've subscribed to the search results for my site alongside my Technorati and IceRocket results. Google returns 80 results, Technorati returns "218 links from 157 sites" and IceRocket returns 106 results. I haven't done any research into the additional 26 links that IceRocket returns, but the way it displays its results is still my favorite, with the entries grouped by day.
Harry Shearer launches record label - man, I'd love to be signed to Ned Flanders' label.
iPod nano - Apple announced a line of super thin 2GB and 4GB iPod flash players today. Slick.
More Than Soup live - Video of Starfinger (aka Dr. Kong Balong) performing More Than Soup at Songfight Live! in Boston a few weeks ago. Very awesome.
VSTunnel - a plugin that lets people collaborate over the net using VST plugins inside any sequencer.
I drove by this the other day:
It says "Loving God..." over the exit and "...Loving people." over the entrance. I didn't go inside.
Rubberduck for free - you can now download the legendary Rubberduck TB-303 software for free as well.
iTunes Music Store Top 10 Songs - top 10 charts from all the iTunes stores in the world. Very neat.
ReBirth Museum - Propellerhead software's classic ReBirth program (303/808/909 emulator) is now free.
PayPal introduces micropayments - 5% + 5 cents on transactions under $2. Not sure if it's automatic or if you have to set up your account for it.
Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs - "People take pills to get high, you see." Waxy's hosting MP3s of this album and it's sensational.
Audio Files GDS Indexer - Plugin to index tons of audio file formats in Google Desktop Search.
Bandnews.org - a slick and very smart aggregator of band news. Great idea.
Magnatune "Big Ideas" - John Buckman has a list of potential new features for Magnatune.
The new revision of ccMixter launched today and it's looking pretty swank. You can see my new page here. Besides the nice new design, I like the addition of the podcast buttons and RSS feeds. I'm now subscribed to the Brad Sucks remix feed, which is way easier for me than sorting through my disgusting mailbox.
One day when I have some time to goof around with it, I'll whip up a Wordpress plugin to import that list of remixes onto my site here.
I've been trying out Pandora. It's a Flash-based music player (first 10 hours are free), you enter an artist or a song that you like and it tries to find similar music for you. The data is based off the Music Genome Project which is described this way:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
Pandora's interesting and while the songs do tend to resemble each other in a superficial sort of way, after an hour of listening I can't say I've found anything I like. It seems "major key tonality, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation and extensive vamping" doesn't really get to the heart of my musical taste.
And now the source for my song Fixing My Brain (78mb). Only two more to go.