Matthew Supert

This album is a collection of songs from 2009 from artist Dynamic Interplay, aka. Matthew Supert. It features an eclectic mix of dance and IDM oriented tracks. 

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• Light Train
• Simplemist
• Glass Beads
• Gold Leif (Original Mix)
• Stickney
• Life Spots
• Disengage 591
• Gold Leif (Dance Dance Mix)

All Tracks (c) Matthew A. Supert 2009-2010 unless otherwise noted. All work including music and artwork is released under Creative Commons sharealike license 2.5. For more information please visit the .:Creative Commons 2.5 Deed:. for this webpage.

Rise of the Solar Empire is a divergence of sorts for me. This album is focused on more dance oriented beats with almost all of tracks featuring a “four to the floor” kick line. Mixed in with the danceable beats however are the signature pads and melody lines you come to expect from Dynamic Interplay. 

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• Rain Maker
• Henry Boy
• Night the Morning Come
• Journey to the Edge of the Earth
• Rise of the Solar Empire
• Five ‘Till Touchdown
• Echoes
• Hop Scotch
• Hopes & Space Dreams
• Eyes Closed & Waiting

All Tracks (c) Matthew A. Supert 2007 unless otherwise noted. All work including music and artwork is released under Creative Commons sharealike license 2.5. For more information please visit the .:Creative Commons 2.5 Deed:. for this webpage.

The Electronic Musican Has A New Website

I would just like to let everyone know that The Electronic Musician Podcast has a new website, and consequently a new RSS feed. We have moved our hosting over to Podshow.com because the site overs a centralized hosting and management solution to the site. At present I am running the site through about five different logins all over the net, and the new hosting offers just more features for myself and the listeners.

You can find the new site at:
http://www.tem.podshow.com

The change makes are current RSS feed unusable, and it would be just too much of a hassle to try to update the current feed. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause the people listening.

If you quickly want to subscribe to the new feed you can click on the links below. The new feed show will offically added to the iTunes podcast library within the next day or two.

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Episode 2: Introduction to MIDI (AAC)

In this episode of The Electronic Musician I am covering the ins and outs of MIDI. I will be talking about what MIDI is, where it came from and where it is going. I will also highlight some of the successors to MIDI that are waiting in the wings to become the next communication protocol for device communication.

Additionally, I am adding a new section to the show called "Unknown Software of the Week", where I will highlight one piece of music software that people might not be aware of.

Show Notes
Introduction
Industry News
Forum Topics
Topic of the Week
Unknown Software of the Week
Artist of the Week

Artist of the Week
Kid Wikid

Featured Music
Stormchaser - Into the Light
Dynamic Interplay - Flutter By
Flawe - HIS

If you are looking to get your music featured on the show, or just have questions or comments send me a link, as well as your webpage to sup (AT) serious-sounds.net and be sure to sign up for our forums at: Serious-sounds.net
Until the Next.

Episode 1: Introduction to Music Production (AAC)

This is the debut episode of the Electronic Musician podcast on Serious-sounds.net. I am still working out the format bugs and everything, but in this episode I will be talking about choosing the right software for you and how you can find out what type of software is out there for music production.

Our featured artist this week is a Australian trance duo Suspended Animation, and of course I will be covering the latest industry news and discussions, as well has the happenings on the Serious-sounds.net forums.

Show Notes
Introduction
Industry News
Forum Topics
Topic of the Week
NAMM Roundup
Artist of the Week

Artist of the Week
Suspended Animation - Evolution

Featured Music
Must - Endless Sunday
Dynamic Interplay - Night the Morning Come
Robb Walker - Reality Check
Kid Wikid - None Thinking
DJ Pee - Cocaine (Extended Remix)

Send us questions or comments at sup (AT) serious-sounds.net and be sure to sign up for our forums at: Serious-sounds.net
Until the Next.

Well it seems I have moved into another one of those writers block moments with my music. These seem to happen with me about every two years. Perhaps I just get bored with what I am doing. Anyone who has known me on these boards knows it takes me an eternity to write any music at all. Usually at least a month for a track.

Currently I am in another one of those funks, twiddling my thumbs as to what I want to do now. About two years ago I quit production on the computer to focus on doing LivePA work and to try a new style of music. At first that started out great as anything else does and I was getting some pretty good shows, but at a great expense to me. I now have not done any live shows in over a year. The cost of driving out to those shows and everything was costing me a lot of money, and to be honest not that many people are looking for downtempo livePA acts. Again I am at that sort of point in my music where I am wondering where do I go from here.

Do I bring the MAS productions style and alias out of retirement, go back to computer production and back to more ambient music? On the one hand I really do want to do that and I am beginning to miss some of the stuff that I was able to o in Buzz. On the other hand I tried to move away from that vowing to go in a different direction with my music, only to find myself stuck at the same point I was two years ago, and two years even before that.

I suppose one of the things I am missing most right now is the gratification of my music. With the computer production I was really putting out some great songs and getting a lot of feedback online for my work. I left that behind for the LivePA work though, and for a while, while I was doing live shows, that was able to satisfy me because I had that feedback from the crowds. But since I have not been really putting out the shows, especially not the music as regularly as I used to, everything just seems to be lacking at this moment.

I suppose one of the things that is perhaps behind this as well is that I am done with college and now looking for a job. Ironically enough my time at college the past six years gave me some of the best free-time I have ever had to make music and those two things in my life really connect. My best music came out of those six years. Despite the some of the stereotypes of most college students I was really a hermit for most of college, locking myself in my room on Friday and Saturday nights pounding away at music with my headphones on. I really loved that and I was happy as a clam to do that, having my apartment to myself to get some real work done. I have a feeling I am not going to be able to get away with a lot of that anymore. I can already begin to feel pressures and responsibilities piling, pulling my attention and time elsewhere.

Anyways I am just sort of throwing this out there to see if anyone has some insight they can perhaps throw at me. At this point I really feel like getting back into the whole computer production thing, but unfortunately my budget just doesn't allow it at the moment.

Well Christmas has come and gone, and I hope everyone have a great time. Surprisingly my Christmas this year went off pretty much without any problems. No crazy relatives shouting at each other or anything.

So I myself got some pretty nice gifts for Christmas, some of which I would never have thought to buy myself, but really enjoy actually. The first surprising gift was an iHome H6 alarm clock. Now what is so cool about this alarm clock is that I can plug my iPod into it and wake to my iPod. Plus it charges my iPod. Two birds killed with one stone there, and I totally needed a new one. My old alarm clock I have had since i was about six years old.

The next surprising gift I got was this super small photo printer, the HP Photosmart 385. Now I am not one of the photo types but this thing prints super sweet photos. You would never tell they were printed on a home printer from a digital camera. I went to get some extra paper for it and I found a sweet value pack from HP which included 125 pages of photo paper plus a print cartridge from $40!!!! Black ink cartridges for my regular printer cost $31!!!

I got plenty of other cool things, but to sort of tie a theme together here I was reading the "Cult of Mac" book which I got. My girlfriend and I have totally fallen into the whole cult. We adore our Apple products. She personifies hers, and we even held an "unpacking ceremony" as they say only Mac people seem to do. As far as I am concerned I could do without seeing anoher Microsoft product......Except for maybe an Xbox 360.

I am getting off the point now though. Through all of this I came to realize that when I get my own place I will have to design the rest of my furniture and design around my white Apple products.

So Christmas for the rest of my family was mostly and Apple affair as well. Both my Mom and my Dad got iPods and a plethora of Apple accessories.

If any of you are as connected to the world wide web as I am (and I assume you are if you spend your free time reading blogs) then you have probably heard about the recent death of Cnet.com senior editor James Kim.

About two days ago James Kim's family was found alive in the Oregon after spending more then nine days alone in the frigid cold. In hope of trying to find help for his family, James Kim set off into the wilderness to try to do something and not just freeze to death. Last night however, it was reported that rescuers found James' body near a ravine.

Almost as soon as the announcement was made the news spread across the net just about faster then anything I have ever seen. This news however was spread not through the traditional sites like CNN, or Yahoo news, but rather through the blogosphere. As I opened up Bloglines to review my feeds for the evening, I quickly became aware of the cascading effect that was occurring around the blogs. Of course the technology blogs such as Engadget and Gizmodo and several others were the obvious sources that expressed their regret to the loss of James Kim. I was surprised however, to find out that some of the craft and knitting blogs that my girlfriend subscribes to also featured news of regret over the story.

Initially I thought that perhaps this was just some heartfelt expressions that were being expressed out of regret, but I later came to find out that some of the bloggers on these craft blogs were actually good friends with Kim's wife. Other close friend's of the Kim family also appear to be bloggers themselves and include authors from the site Engadget and others. As I read this, I quickly came to realize that the blogosphere is much more of a tight knit community then I initially thought.

That fact has always been talked about and discussed before here and there, but this is the first time that I think the fact is really being highlighted as the blogging community struggles to cope with the loss of one of its own rising media stars. These bloggers are not just nameless screen names behind a keyboard, but they actually communicate with each other all the time and operate in the same professional and personal circles. They go to the same press events and product releases, and I assume they generally hang out together during those times.

Through the blogosphere readers and writers have had a relationship of intimacy that has never really been seen before in the journalism world. Not only do the bloggers write news, but readers write back to them in the form of comments, and participate as never before seen. Often times the bloggers will respond personally to readers comments, which really creates a relationship that has never existed before. As these levels of relationships unfold and play out we can see how bloggers grow with each other, and readers grow along with them developing personal relationships which create dedicated readers and dedicated writers. For those in the tech community (and apparently other blogging communities) the loss of James Kim does not seem to have been just another report about a journalist tragically lost as we may have seen on the TV news, but it instead feels as if they have lost someone they actually knew. I would suspect that many bloggers out there professional or otherwise have developed different levels of relationships with their fellow bloggers and readers, and this blogger finds the response that has developed out of this sad story particularly remarkable. It certainly demonstrates the power of the online community, and I would not be surprised if in the next few days that same community mobilizes itself to develop a fund, or trust or something else in James' honor.

I think this whole series of events makes one think about the impact that the blogosphere really has on the society that we live in these days. For better or for worse we have developed a new level of intimacy and relationships with people online that would never have existed outside in the real world and that means something.

My girlfriend summed my thoughts quite nicely in an email she sent to me today when we were discussing this topic. She said, "I always found it sort of cool to stumble across a new Blog, and notice that half their links are ones I subscribe to. I don't know these people at all, yet somehow I am in the same group as them."? I think that sums the whole issue up quite nicely. We all have some sort of connection.

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