My completed remix of Synnack's "Rize (5mg)" (called "Rize (10mg)") is now out on his v.2.0.5 release, available through Force Of Nature.  It is the bonus track on a digital-only re-release of v.2, or (the remix) is available as a (free) download if you're a registered supporter on the Synnack website.

I just bought myself a Novation Nocturn, and unlike my last Novation purchase, I was able to get it doing exactly what I want it to do within only a couple days.




This handle Little thing (it's about the size of a DVD case) can fit in my laptop bag and lets me do all the fancy knob turning things I normally do live, without having to require my own personal keyboards present to work right.  Score.

I used to play WoW with one of these guys.

Every once in a while I find a track on iTunes where the sound quality is terrible.  In today's case it is Combichrist remix of KMFDM - Bait & Switch.  This is rather unfortunate because he took one of the weaker songs on the album and made it into something kickass.  Not to mention both parties know how to mix a solid-sounding track, so I think it's more on iTunes' head.  Sounds like they flattened it to mono.

This reminds me of a discussion znuh  and I had at the Deadmau5 show.

 Well, it only took me 6 Months or so, but I finally got my new keyboard set up to do the things I wanted it to.
This mostly helps with KTAGF stuff.  Not sure yet how it can be used for GTD.

On top of that I've grabbed the latest versions of both Cubase (5) and Live (8), each with features that get me rather aroused.
Grabbed that floral soft-synth I mentioned some months ago (Synplant) and the packaged drum synth that P-O from Colony 5 was telling me about (uTonic) to boot.
Now I'm trying to decide if I want to round it out with the synth bundle NI offers for their Kore Player.

Sweet Jesus.  I just wrote something unlike anything I've done before.  Accidentally.  While trying to write something else.
Sometimes staying in is way cool.

I was flitting around Last.fm on a whim and noticed that Ground To Dust is (understandably) one of my most listened to artists. But, I thought it would be fun to see who else might be listening in. And I found this review of the show back in January. This is I believe the first review I've ever read of something I've done.

"Wed 14 Jan – De/Vision, Seabound, Ground To Dust
Ground To Dust did an amazing job opening. I haven't heard of this band before but now I am really interested. Even better they are from the Boston area. The music was very fun to dance to.

I haven't heard much Seabound in the past but I was impressed with their live show. I may have to check out an album or two of theirs.

De/Vision was the reason I went to the show and they didn't disappoint. It is so fun to get good electronic music in Boston since we hardly ever see European bands over here. I don't remember the exact songs they played but it was a good mix of new and old.

Overall a good showing. I woke up the next day and my arms were sore from all the moving around I did the night before! :)"

I just woke up from this dream where I was doing a back-to-back A4A and GTD live show.  A4A was first, and it was me on bass (forgot my pick) and Joel from Rooster Teeth/Red vs. Blue was on guitar [?].  But not only had I not built any of the A4A live tracks, but I had loaded up GTD - Broken.  Somone hit play and the wrong song came on, so I was trying to figure out what to do.  Leanne was there and recognized the song, so she tried to pick it up, perhaps thinking we'd been billed in the wrong order and that GTD would go first.  And then we found that some guy had snuck on my computer and left me a bunch of angry messages.

Things to remember to avoid when I really do a show for A4A.

The blame rests squarely on dogslikeus  for showing me this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISlB1IdUjI

If you're a gamer, it was supposedly during the end credits of Mass Effect, and that alone has won them lots of listeners.

And so now I've got the song stuck in my head and had to go buy it on iTunes.
The band, Faunts.....I'm not sure what to make of them yet.....

I'm having a fun little experiment with some tracks.  In trying to write a Ground To Dust track, I started going in a direction that was very much not right.  So that track is going to the 'remix', and now I get to try and reimagine it as an album cut.  So far that mix is also not sounding like GTD, but also good.

I think I know what I want to spend my Refunds on:



Well, that and the Combichrist CD, the forthcoming VNV set, Cubase 5, KMFDM vs. Skold....

 Josh and I are plotting.
I like it when we plot.
Especially when the plots involve the words "Fuck yeah".

INclination Magazine posted their Ground To Dust interview today:
www.myspace.com/inclinationmag
www.inclinationmag.com

 'Once' is one of the best movies I've seen in a long long time.

Last night lulus_curse  and I took a trip to Borders, where I was trying to pick a new Fantasy novel to read.  It's been over a year since I last read a book.  The problem was that the new works by my familiar authors supposedly sucked, and I couldn't remember who I should check out.

So I pulled a U-ie and picked up 'Dune'.  I blame Dirge and znuh .

Then on my way to the checkout I submitted to their impulse by section and wound up with Episodes I - III of Star Wars on DVD (With Commentary, Deleted Scenes and hours and hours of exras!).

So now I get to decide if XMortis is worth it, or if I should stay home buy a weekend's worth of wine and just Nerd Out.

I'll be spending my weekend grinding the Valentine's Day achievements in WoW (on both primary characters).

So, we're totally on the latest DJ mix by END: The DJ!

March Of The Circuitheads
Club mix Recorded live

Intro
E.I.D.- END: the DJ (March of the Circuitheads)
Iambia- Renegade Cult Manifesto
C-Lekktor- We Are Already Death
Vicious Alliance- II Ice Age (2008 Version)
Psytechz- Distorted
FGFC820- The Heart of America
Wynardtage- Crash of a Star (Ginger Snap5 Ringtone Mix)
Worms of the Earth- The Whore
Ground to Dust- Desolate
Uberbyte- The Gift (Erektor Remix)
E.I.D.- Psychokiller
Stahlschlag- Lustseuche
Soman- Absolution
Souless Affection- Broken Dreams
Neurotoxxik- Psy Torture

Back somewhere around 12 years ago, I wrote my first collection of music.  It was during (I think) my junior year of High School, and I had no idea what I was doing.  I just thought that it was so cool to have computers make music.

On that first tape (lol!) were only two tracks that were even remotely good.  One would go on to provide the foundation for Digging My Way Out.  The other was the very first flowing mood piece that would come to make up a sizable portion of the A4A library.

For years I've been wanting to redo the track.  I really like the chords.  In my archives that I'm currently going through, I've found my collection of failed attempts.  And one that actually kinda works.  The problem is, I can't tell if this is my remix, or something dogslikeus  did (it sounds kinda like his drum style).  It would be just like him to be better at making my own music :-P

Mood v2