Music Forums are Being Hacked Left and Right: Beware!!! (Update 03/04/06)

Some of you may or may not know this but I am a moderator over at .:Serious-Sounds.net:.
About two days ago our servers were attacked and an unknown hacker modified the SQL code of our forums and in essence making them useless. Thankfully the support staff for our forum software was able to quickly bring us back up to speed and repair the problem.

One of our administrators noticed what appears to be a trend of attacks across the music production community target towards music production forums.

Approximately a month ago the popular forum .:Samplecity.net:. was successfully hacked and down for about ten days. That forum has been attacked again about five days ago and remains down at the time of this writing.

Upon further investigation by various people I know we have determined that several other forums have now been hacked as well or are featuring problems.

The ambient forum .:Ambient Collective:. was also attacked about a month ago and went down for a few days.

Last week .:Loopcreators:. mysteriously went down and appears to remain down at this point

The list of other forums attacked the we have been able to uncover thus far is as follows.

.:Loopy.tk:.
.:Fltutorials.com:.
.:FLstudio-tutorials.com:.

I ask anyone who reads this to please pass the word on throughout the community to create awareness. If you are a moderator or an administrator of a music community please make sure your site is updated and backed up.


(Update)- Upon further investigation and posting around some other boards it seems that many other forums are continuing to experience a trend in attacks.

.:midwestmassive:. was attacked.
.:Serious-Sounds.net:. was attacked a second time and was taken down for about 12 hours.
.:VI-Control:. Was attacked and down.
.:Papergoose:. Was attacked


We have also notice that many of these sites appear to have a user named Kampo, or some variation of that name. There is no proof that he/she is associated in any way, with the attacks, but the coincidence begs to question.

No Where Girl Online Webcomic


.:w w w . n o w h e r e g i r l . c o m:.

I happened to come across this online comic today entitled "No Where Girl" by and artist named Justin Shaw. The currently has two comics online (for free).

This is a great dark little comic following the life of a young girl. It is not an action comic, but does address some nice themes. The artwork is very good and features that modern American style that has hints of anime.

Definitely worth the read for a few minutes of your life.

Not as Productive as I Wanted to Be.

Well I was not has productive as I wanted to be today. I only got 2 tracks recorded, and to be honest only 1 of them is probably going to make the final cut.

I should have them uploaded by Wednesday of this week.

Have Americans Lost Sight of What the Olympics Mean?

For the past few weeks I have been watching the Olympic games on television. I am a hardcore Olympic fan and love watching them every couple of years, but I am personally a huge fan of the winter Olympics.

As the Olympics this year have played out I have become aware of the lack of attentionpaid to the games by popular American society. There also seems to be a general missunderstanding by many American athletes as to the pupose of the Olympic games. While other countries regard their Olympic athletes as hero's, the American athletes are largely forgotten after the games have ended. Their short lived fame is punctuated by an effort to garner as much endorsement cash as they can before their light burns out.

While the oylmpic coverage presents us with detailed stories chronicling the lives of many of these atheletes and their struggle just to be in the games, I see the TV ratings demonstrating that the American public is much more interested in the pre-packaged reality TV of American Idol or Survivor instead real life stories of people overcoming obstacles.

To make matters worse we have athletes in our ranks that have an attitude like Shani Davis who have seem to missed the entire point of the Olympics. The Olympics were envisioned as a competition where athletes come to represent their country and compete on behalf of their country. The purpose was to have competition instead of war between states and countries. Instead we have pure self indulgence. The honor of the American athletes should be that they brought a medal, back to America not to their own homes.

Thank goodness at least some American respect and dignity is saved by some truly sincere American atheletes like Apolo Anton Ohno. I am sure there are many more in those ranks, but unfortunatly due to NBC's decision to cover only about four events each night during prime-time I was unable to see them.

Diving into the Studio Tomorrow

Well I am quite excited actually for tomorrow. I hope to dive in and lock the door to get some good recording done. While I have been writing music I have not had the time to actually sit down and record the stuff.

The goal is to get at least 3 tracks recorded tomorrow. With any luck I should have them mixed and posted online by next week sometime.

Album Re-posts.

As I shift over and compress my blogs, I have had to re-post my two net albums here. You can find them below, I hope you enjoy them.

Organic Mindset

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.

This collection features classic compositions such "Lost in the Conscience of an Infant"; the orginal 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".

Tracklisting
.:Prelude (2005):.
.:Classica #1 (2004):.
.:Twilight Night 4th Movement (2003):.
.:Lost in the Conscience of an Infant (Orginal Mix) (1999):.
.:Farewell to Cares (Organix Remix 2005) (2004):.
.:Classica #2 (2004):.
.:Possesed (2001):.
.:Gentle Giant (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.

Artwork (Hi-res .Png format)
.:Cover Artwork:.
.:Back Cover:.
.:Cover Booklet:.
.:Inside Booklet:.

Alternative media froms for this work, including .ogg audio files and .m3u files can be found at .:Archive.org:. All Tracks (c) Matthew A. Supert 1998-2005 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.

Twilight Night: Movements 1-4


Twilight Night

Twilight Night
A four part mp3 release featuring melodic ambient songs. The pieces are cyclical in nature featuring elements of the previous and next piece. The overall affect is a journey through the Twilights of a dream filled sleep. The opening movement brings us our first flutters as sleep approaches and progresses the listener through the night and into the rising of the morning sun.

Tracklisting
Twilight Night 1st Movement

Twilight Night 2nd Movement

Twilight Night 3rd Movement

Twilight Night 4th Movement

Download the zip file.

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.