Matthew Supert

I have started a remix competition over at .:Samplecity.net:. . This remix compeition is open to anyone who wishes to particpate and is purely for fun. The only stipulation is that you have to sign up to be a member of the forums. The sign up is totally free plus you get to join a great community about electronic music production.

Offical Remix Competition Rules.
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This is the official thread for the the Samplecity Holiday Remix Competition. The purpose of this competition is remix traditional holiday, folk, contemporary and festive holiday songs taking advantage of the unique sounds and production techniques that are afford by electronic instruments. Any song that is related to any religious or ethical holiday between the months of Novemeber and January is open to the remix. Orginal songs are not allowed for this compeition.

Time Frame:
November 7th-December 7th

There will then be a fun poll to allow members of the community to vote on their favorite song or remix. The poll will include the song name, but not the artist name. The voting will last from December 8th-December 15th.

Submission:
All songs should be submitted to me (sup909) via email, Instant Messanger or Private Message. You can provide me a link to the file online, or if your email can handle it email it to me.

Songs can be submitted in any compressed format including but not limited to: VBR mp3, .ogg, 160 kbps or greater mp3, WMA, etc. Please do not send me Wav. files. If you have a question regarding a particular format you wish to use post it here or contact me. Basically dont be stupid, but send me a quality file.

IMPORTANT: No songs will be accepted after 12am December 8th (that is midnight on December 7th.) CENTRAL U.S. TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone in Europe needs to do the math.

If you have any Questions, Comments, Concerns please post them here so everyone can see them. Good Luck.
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The thread for the forum can be found .:Here:.

Well it appears that Blogger has a nefarious desire to inflict me with as more extraneous and repetitive programming work then I need to for this site. About 4 weeks ago I painstakingly implemented the Technorati searchlet to the site. I wrestled with code for several days to get the formatting to work just right. Then about 3 days After I implemented the code successfully Blogger released the improved Blog search through Google.

About three weeks ago I then decided to implement Haloscan for my commenting system because Blogger did not feature trackbacks and I thought Haloscan was more flexible. Needless to say Haloscan sucks. It does not have email notification for comments plus Blogger again decides to "one-up" me and implements the talkback feature, which is essentially a built in trackback using the Google Blog Search.

So I just now, by hand reinstalled the Blogger native commenting system.

I think I won't make any more changes to my blog from now on.

Every once in a while I get an email or a message from someone telling me how much they have enjoyed my work. These sorts of messages really make my day and I always make an effort to reply to those who write to me personally. The following messages I found in my .:Myspace:. inbox a few days ago.

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your mixes are amazing; I've always been hugely touched by ambient/techno music, and have ventured into vocal trance/deep house, but still adore all manefestations of it. Hope you keep up the great work; good luck :)

love from tokyo,

miharu

You can visit her myspace page .:here:.

Organic Mindset

Organic Mindset is a culmanitive collection of eight years of music composed by producer M.A.S. in the realm of software music production. This collection features the very best of the various music works remixed and remastered for one final farewell from the software production community. More information as well as download information can be found by visiting the .:Albums:. section to the right.

Below is is concept art that I am playing with for my new Album cover. Of course the actual cover will endtail much more then simply the fractal, but these are the bare bones here. Let me know which one you think is the best.

Cover Concept 1

Cover Concept 2

Cover Concept 3

Cover Concept 4

Organic Mindset is a cumulative collection of eight years of music composed by producer M.A.S. in the realm of software music production. This collection features the very best of the various music works remixed and remastered for one final farewell from the software production community.

This collection features classic compositions such “Lost in the Conscience of an Infant”; the original mix of the popular song composed in 1999, that to this day remains to be a favorite staple in Dynamic Interplay performances. Also featured are remixes of “Farewell to Cares” and “Gentle Giants” as well as two new tracks entitled “Last Stand” and “Disconnected”.

Download

Tracklisting

• Prelude (2005)
• Classica #1 (2004)
• Twilight Night (4th Movement) (2003)
• Lost in the Conscience of an Infant (Original Mix) (1999)
• Farewell to Cares (Organix Remix 2005) (2004)
• Classica #2 (2004)
• Possessed (2001)
• Gentle Giants (Broken Bit Remix 2005) (2003)
• Skandha (1998)
• Disconnected* (2005)
• Last Stand (2005)

*Disconnected was composed by Matthew A. Supert, Jason Musil and Colin Brash. Disconnected is released under Creative Commons license 2.5.

I have made several enhancements to the site this evening. I have updated the commenting engine and added .:Haloscan:. to manage comments. It features much better tracking features as well as "Trackback".

I have also added .:Technorati:. search, indexing and more to the site. They are located on the bottom right of the page. This should help anyone who wishes to search for posts, articles or tutorials I have written more efficiently.

I have also added a favicon to the site which can be seen if you are visiting my site through the blgospot link.

I will be adding a couple of more links in the next few days.

I have updated the links to the Dynamic Interplay livePA sets. To appease to a broader audience and those poor souls on dial-up I have no linked to the Archive.org page for each liveset.

You can stream the file in 64Kbps or Vbr MP3 or download it in the following formats.

64Kbps MP3
VBR MP3
192Kbps MP3
Ogg Vorbis
and Zip

The original Mp3's are still encoded in 192Kbps MP3

I have started an Electronic Music Production Wiki to collect ideas and methods about electronic producers.

http://electronicmusicprod.wikispaces.org/

This WIKI is for artists to more actively participate in finding out who their fellow artist is and to allow outsiders into what we do.

I have started a few pages to get some ideas flowing. Since this is a WIKI where this goes is up to everyone. The point of this wiki is to allow for us artists to express what it is that makes us tick, why we do what we do, how we do it and everything that is important to us in the electronic music. Write about anything. Feel free to edit anything. Please make pages about topics that are important to you as an artist and musician.

The point is not to describe what electronic music is. There are plenty of wiki's for that, and if you want to link to those then feel free to. The point is to provide a resource as to who we are as musicians, composers, artists beyond just the sound, and to let people into our world.

If this is to succeed it takes the effort of everyone.

Editing is really simple. go to a page or make one and then simply click edit and type whatever you want.

To make links and hyperlinks it is as follows: [[http://www.bashds .com The Name of the Link]]

It is even easier then html.

There are three rules that I ask when you post:

1. I ask is that you please don't spam the board with personal links, unless you want to make an artist link page. That would be great, but don't use this as some cheap promotional tool to just post your link and leave.

2. Please do not try to show favoritism towards one production style, or a certain tool. The point is to open people up not to have a flame war start, or narrow people's thinking.

3. Please do not write in the first person. Do not use "I, We, Our, Like" or any of those types of descriptors. They generally look sloppy and do not come across as objective.

I hope everyone participates. Remember there are no right or wrong answers or ideas, so please share whatever you have regardless of how much skill or experience you have. Even the person just starting still has their own methods, tricks, ideas and reasons for what they do.

As promised I have uploaded some new Artwork to the Art page. There is a total five new pieces.