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Friday, November 13th, 2009
and confusing the hell out of porn-bots everywhere, to be sure, with a title like that. shortish entry about my current doings, which are actually getting pretty interesting, at least for me. that's the 'bucking' part, where I surprise you all by switching off the automatic Tweet updates and instead ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
I've created a twitter poll (something I should be doing more regularly) asking a question of central importance to this blog, to my life, my creative pursuits, and something that's been on everybody's mind since the dawn of music (when wazzat?): how should musicians get paid? If I haven't given ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I need to retract a decision I made based on seemingly false news.
Just over a month ago I posted an announcement that Simulacre Media would be removing its entire catalog from the Last.fm service due to the imposition of user fees in countries other than the US, UK, and Germany. ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Last.fm (aka CBS) has finally thrown in the towel on free music. Well, I'm not going with them. It's not that Last.fm sucks; they still offer a great service, one that *might* be worth the subscription fee, even. But for those of us who are trying to give music away ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
This? Oh yeah, we already did that.
& it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
Posted in P2P, culture & society, file sharing, indie, labels, marketing, music | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Swinging the pendulum from the ridiculous to the merely trite, the archiving project rears its desperate head this week with a glimpse at Verona, the predecessor band to Decora/A Spectre Is Haunting Europe. This recording comes from my days recording demos in the basement of The Abbey, the shared house ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
OK - daughter's asleep...continuing on with recordings of similar vintage (1987 and pre-), to ensure the oldest tapes I have are salvaged first.
More Bucket of Slugs, of course. Unlike yesterday's monochromatically raucous Carnival EP, the follow up LP, entitled Pacifism, oscillates between whispered and barked songs. It appears that parents ...
Posted in archiving, music, tapes, wikia | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Bucket of Slugs - Different Flavours of Birthday Cake [Sept 1987, 3min 0sec]
OK, the archive project has officially begun, with a warble. Apologies at the outset for the pisspoor quality of this one (the others are in much better shape). I've tried every DIY method I know, and I cannot ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I had another dream about my lost cassettes from 20 years ago (remember? I dreamed about this previously). This time, I was not in a pawn shop. This time, beleaguered campus radio station CiTR (which in this world has had to resort to fundraising in the face of UBC budget ...
Posted in archiving, music, personal life, tapes | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Bitnotic created this program called Chill that generates ambient music 'randomly' (that would be impossible). It's not bad - but if I could port this to whatever soft synths I wanted it'd be ideal (e.g., the voicing built in to the app appears to be merely Quicktime Instruments). At any ...
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