Time for a layout update.

I am in the process of updating the layout for the site. I have grown bored with the old layout and I think a more traditional "blog" layout would look better. Hold on while I update things.

Whoops, I broke the blog

I edited some margins the other day and apparently I broke the layout for my blog. It appears correctly in Opera and Firefox but shows incorrectly in IE. I just found out about this today and will try to find out what the problem is in a little bit. Thankfully everything is still readable.

Two New Tracks I Am Working On

Here are some links to two new tracks I am working on. Currently these don't really have a project that they exist under. I still need to do the layouts for Readily Red and Dynamic Interplay, so I just temporarily put these in a working page at soundclick.

Below are the Hifi stream links. Sorry for all of you on dial-up.
The songs are pretty rough, but I am trying to move away from all of my old ambient stuff and develop a new sound. I'm trying to touch on that sort of bubbly minimalist repetitive techno from the 90's. Let me know what you guys think so far.


.:Acidy 1:.

.:Acidy 2:.

I Found This Gem Out of Nowhere

Ever once in a while I like to google my own name, just to see what is out there. I almost always suprise myself and find something intresting.

This time I found a song I wrote in 2001 about the 911 terrorist attacks. To be honest I don't remeber much about this song at all. I think I wrote it for a compilation cd or something. It somehow got lost.

Anyways for a little bit of nostalgia (even for myself) here is the song, being hosted on this site: .:Out of Tune:.

The song is entitled Remember. Ironic since i completely forgot the song.

.:Remember Mp3:.

Samplecity Remix Competition Results

Well here they are. I must say however I am pretty dissappointed with the participation. Out of all the people who seemed intrested only 2, yes 2!!!!!!! particiapted. Thanks to Tonamel and Ultra for submitting some mixes. They both did a great job and I think all of the mixes also demonstrated the varied directions that one could have gone. Below are the links and the artists. I am not going to bother with a vote, but at least show some appreciation and and listen to everyone's mix.

Below are links to the page the song is on and then the direct mp3 link

O Magnum Mysterium - B-Ultra and Basic (aka UltraWill) - 8bit/retro
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.:MP3 Download:.

Still, Still, Still - Tonamel - Ambient/Acoustitronica?
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.:MP3 Download:.

Still, Still, Still - Dynamic Interplay - Ambient Techno
.:Page:.
.:MP3 Download:.

Carol of the Bells - Readily Red - 8-bit/retro
.:Page:.
.:Mp3 Download:.

Samplecity.net Holiday Song Remix Competition

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:.

It Never Fails. I Will Always Shoot Myself in the Foot.

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.

Kind Words from a Fan.

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:.