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.....