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- niteshift — New Single "You Do it Right" Released via Airplay Direct
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Hey All,
Well, after some time in the musical wilderness, I finally got back into it, and have a new commercial single coming out Monday December 1st. At this rate, the album should be finished by 2118. Ah well, can't win em all. Press release is as follows.....
NEW SINGLE BY LETHA ALLEN DUE FOR RELEASE VIA AIRPLAY DIRECT DECEMBER 1ST
Equinox Entertainment and Letha Allen Music in association with The Graveyard of Songs announce that "You Do it Right" , the new single by Letha Allen, will be released to radio nationwide and internationally the week of Dec 1st, 2008.
Written by singer/songwriter Letha Allen (ASCAP), composer/guitarist Mark Kaufman (BMI), and composer/producer Geoff Wood (ASCAP), over the month of October 2008, and recorded in studios in Michigan, Minneapolis and Sydney, "You Do it Right" is the unique culmination of a global collaboration of artists. Produced by Equinox Entertainment in Australia and Denmark, and released to over 940 stations globally, "You Do it Right" is truly an international record.
With soulful vocals delivered over a solid acoustic rock groove, "You Do it Right" is a number that stands out beyond the usual suspects of everyday musical fare.
Broadcast quality downloads as well as streaming plays are available to commercial broadcasters, exclusively and immediately from Airplay Direct.( http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/LethaAllen ) Internet downloads of "You Do it Right" are available to the public exclusively from Independent Artists Company beginning December 1st, 2008. ( http://www.iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=69909&ArtistID=70202 ) Interested parties are invited to contact Equinox Entertainment for broadcast quality preview, commercial review and available interview dates. ASCAP Title code 551130195.
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Contact ; Geoff Wood
Email ; audiofile@optusnet.com.au
Please take a listen, leave a comment, or just drop by and say gidday. It's been a long time between drinks.....
cheers, niteshift read more... - Meno — The Caves
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- New music I have been working on. Quite a simple song. I am learning how to use Sonar Producer and this is more the accomplishment here. So much to learn. read more...
- jon ben berger — made it to the mountain
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- HE MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN TOO A SONG WRITTEN FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA from Jon Berger <jon> to publisher@nytimes.com, president@nytimes.com, clarosa@nytimes.com, schools@nytimes.com, letters@nytimes.com date Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM subject HE MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN TOO A SONG WRITTEN FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA mailed-by gmail.com hide details 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) [MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN.mp3] Reply ATT: Arthur Sulzberger Jr Scott H. Heekin-Canedy I AM WORKING ON AN IDEA RIGHT NOW THAT CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES IN THE USA AND MAYBE THE WORLD. SO MANY OF US LOVED THESE MEN AND YET THEY COULD NOT BE PROTECTED . PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THE WORK INTENDED. SO MANY YEARS AGO I WAS SITTING IN A CLASS ROOM AT PMA A MILITARY SCHOOL ACROSS THE RIVER FROM WEST POINT. OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER CAME THE WORDS THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD BEEN SHOT. LIKE MOST OF US FOR GOOD AND FOR BAD WE FOUND OUT THAT ALL WAS NOT WELL WITH THINGS IN MY USA. AND THEN MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THEN ROBERT AND ON AND ON . I HAVE WRITTEN A SONG FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING AND NOW I WILL DEDICATE IT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.I HAVE BEEN CALLED FROM ATLANTA AND ROBIN CASTLE AND THECENTER FOR THE ARTS SCHOOL HAVE AGREED TO HELP ME WITH A GOSPEL CHORUS AND BAND.TOGETHER WE RECORD A RECORD WE WANT IT DONE BY THE TIME OUR NEW PRESIDENT IS SWORN IN AND PRESENTED TO HIM ON THAT DAY OR ON MARTIN LUTHER KINGS BIRTHDAY::: THE SONG IS CALLED "MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN"AND YOU CAN HEAR THE FIRST VERSION I WROTE AT http://www.ilike.com/artist/JON+BEN+BERGER Jerry Ash wrote at 5:10pm Your recollections and song bring back my memories of the day the news of President Kennedy's assassination reached me -- in Korea! I can't tell you how strange it was to be serving in the Army in a country half way around the world, along a demilitarized zone, and learn that my commander in chief had been shot in my own country. Sure gave me something to think about. Ernest Shukara Walker wrote at 4:48pm John, I am speechless. heard the MLK song. Can find nothing wrong with it. Your music seems to come from a very stable and centered place within you. Rare for a musician, I mean I could go into where I think your influences stem from but that's not important. The song is simple, direct and fun. I like it. keep doing what you do "MADE IT TO THE MOUNTAIN" Written for Martin Luther King by Jon Ben Berger Dedicated to President Obama http://www.ilike.com/artist/JON+BEN+BERGER WISH LIST TO GIVE AMERICANS JOY AT KNOWING SOME TIMES DREAMS TAKE MORE THEN A LIFE TIME BUT IDEAS THAT ARE SOUND AND FAIR CAN BE ACHIEVED... IF WE WORK TOGETHER SMART AND PASS ON OUR CONVICTION TO OUR YOUTH, THAT WITH EXTRA PROTECTION TO OUR LEADERS AND TO OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR DREAMS CAN BE REALIZED... HEALTH, PEACE AND EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL .. I AM COMMITTED TO THIS IDEA AND TO SEEING IT THROUGH TO FRUITION, JON BEN BERGER 0046-703654239 AMERICAN ARTIST LIVING IN SWEDEN JB BERGER VRETGRÄND 4b 75322 UPPSALA SWEDEN http://www.myspace.com/jonbenberger read more...
- jon ben berger — "THANK YOU FOR LIVING YOUR LIFE" OUT NOW
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- AFTER MUCH WORK AND LOVE JON AND MARTIN HAVE TEMED UP TO MAKE THEIR FIRST CD TOGETHER WITH 14 TRACKS OF MOSTLY ACUSTIC LIVE IN THE STUDIO FRESH NEW SONGS. WITH MÅRTEN KORKMAN ON UPRIGHT AND IDA ERICKSSON ON BACKUP VOCALS read more...
- Emil Hansson — Primesounds sale in our web shop
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We're doing some cleaning at the warehouse and are selling out all our Primesounds sample CD's at half the price. Check em out below if you like:
A Funky Future
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Distoteque
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Flum
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Metriam
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Prime SFX
Previews (64 kbps mp3)
Session Strings
Previews (64 kbps mp3) read more... - Subliminal — Atlas Reshaped
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- At last, I have finished my remix of Anchor's Atlas. Now, it may seem that I am on a roll here, but I started quite some time ago with both Atlas Reshaped and A Comforting Solution. Not that I have been working on both these songs all that time, but still, both were not exactly created overnight. Next up is a serious attempt at completing my version of Blind Date. This one I have been working on when I got stuck with everything else, but now it is time to try and finish it. read more...
- niteshift — Unplug the Plugins !
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Well, what a harrowing week it's been. Having the time to sit down and actually get it all togther and create something has got to be a gift at the best of times. A month just to write, a collection of internet collaboraters to help speed the process along, and long days dfirting off into the creative ether. Nothing could be better right ?
Now, nothing at all is suppossed to go to plan, and with no agenda, the pressure should be off, to just go with the flow and let the mind have a mental splurge. That is, until internet collaborater No1 comes up with some lyrics, a great tune, and a great voice to sing the tune, to a musical piece first visited a couple of months previous.
So, it's into the dark recesses of the computer, to pull up the track, and see how it sounds with a new melody line. Sounds great, and everything is flowing along well. So, it's a quick mixdown, and onto the internet for peer review.
First comment : "There is something very wrong sonically like the music is playing from a separate source than the vocals. I have never heard you have this sound before, is something off on the set up?
Second comment : " ...but the vox sound like they are recorded in a room quite different than where the music is taking place "
Third comment : ".....had the same sense of something off, so I'll look forward to the next one? "
And so they went on . OK, check and recheck, and yep, there is a phasing issue, and yep, those vocals are sounding really different to the backing track, so what's the problem ? The problem was, that the backing tracks were recorded months ago, built up one by one, with various effects being added to the tracks. Sometimes 2 or 3 units per track, as it was a bit thin at the time and needed some "oomph" After adding a total of thirty five tracks, each with it's own clutter of little gizmos to make it sound "better" the whole thing ends up a sonic cosmic slop, spinning around in the phones like a demented cat in a clothes drier.
Only solution. Back to basics. Back to square one. Back to kindy school and back to the simplicity of the sandpit. Like a child scribbling with crayons, the plugins are unceremoniously detatched and thrown out the virtual window hopefully to be shattered on the ground into a million little bits never to return. Replaced with just an EQ, a bit of reverb, a smidgeon of compression, and a big dash of ears, all is well in sonic land.
We live, we learn, and try to remember that "better" does not always mean "burden me down with gadgets" So the next time you consider brewing up a batch of sonic soup, just remember....... unplug the plugins.
cheers, niteshift
read more... - Subliminal — Freedom
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- I have finished another track for my Orpheus In Hell project. This one features Snowflake's spoken word piece Freedom, which is therefore the title of my song. You can also hear some excellent clarinet playing by Fireproof Babies, which he recorded specifically for this song. The track opens with a flute solo, originally called Still Life, which in its final version was inspired by the Dead Can Dance song Piece For Solo Flute from their splendid live album Toward The Within. I used a stretched and reversed version of my flute solo as an extra layer in the second part of the song. read more...
- Subliminal — A Comforting Solution
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- There is a new remix to be enjoyed. It's called A Comforting Solution and it's a remix of Artie Q's song Belief. I could waste your time by talking at lengths about it, but Artie has said it all here. The only thing I would like to add is that it was Duckett's drum loop which got the creative juices for this remix flowing again. So, thank you Duckett! read more...
- arti31023 — BELIEF: NEW REMIX by SUBLIMINAL
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- Yo, Boys & Girls! Well, 'es only gone and done it, ain't he? The Master of the Mind Manipulation, The (un)Scrupulous Subjugator of Subconscious Suggestion, SUBLIMINAL has done a Mind F**k on me and subverted the course of normal remix procedure by eliciting a bunch of vocal samples from me (while I was sleeping!) and produced a fab remix of my song BELIEF, called A COMFORTING SOLUTION ... OR DID HE??? Maybe I sent them of my own free will; you know, asked him to do it in the first place. "Hmm ..." See ...? That's what 'appens when you get involved with a top notch spoon bending psychic like SUBLIMINAL/TRIPLE M/THE MOUSE MANIPULATOR FROM THE LOWLANDS. Anyway, enough of my nonsense, check out A COMFORTING SOLUTION and let him know what you think. Thank you, Michel. Nice! read more...
- Emil Hansson — Micro-Phones contest open for voting!
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- Step right up and vote folks. This is more important than the US election! =) read more...
- Molly Molotov — Entered the contest - come vote for me!
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- Hi there, Come and vote for me :) read more...
- Lo Kivikas — Interview with Lo Kivikas!
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SR International Radio will broadcast an exclusive interview with Lo Kivikas on Saturday, 25 of October, 22.00. You can find the station at 89.6 on the FM dial.
read more... - Emil Hansson — And then it was friday again!
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This is really funny =)
"Light technician crashing thru the ceiling during a live broadcast on swedish tv." read more... - Molly Molotov — www.mmbtp.com
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- Visit www.mmbtp.com for information about vocal tutoring. read more...
- The Cedars — Real World
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Sorry we've been so quiet, a crazy year for us. We've had several emails and messages asking about the Real World recording sessions, the short answer is it hasn't happened yet...
We were scheduled to record in July and that fell through and the next available date is November which we've not had confirmation on yet, so fingers crossed it all works out, you'll be the first to know when it does.
Thanks from us all...
read more... - Emil Hansson — Amazing web based photoshop clone
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Very impressive!
http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/index.php?id=0 read more... - Emil Hansson — It's time for some blogging
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Gather around people. I will blog now. =)
I watched Michael Moores documentary Slacker uprising last night. I highly recommend it to everyone. You can download it for free even.
New track: Seems like it was forever since I finished any music. I have the attention span of a gold fish. Guess I need to find some other way of working to make it more creative. I've tried beer and it doesn't help at all... ;)
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Any other tips are very welcome! - Subliminal — ...With Friends Like These
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- As mentioned in my previous blog entry, I have uploaded the individual tracks of With Friends Like These for others to remix. You can find VBR mp3 files here and a plethora of different file formats (like WAV and FLAC) here (where you can also find the full mix). I also want to use this opportunity to thank Steve and Edwin for their valuable and valued contributions. Their willingness to contribute to this song should not be taken for granted and deserves the highest gratitude. read more...
- Subliminal — Who Needs Enemies...
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- There is a new track available for you to enjoy. It's called With Friends Like These and it features Synthetic aka Steve Engler on vocals and Edwin van Buuringen on lead guitar. I am planning to release the individual tracks for others to remix. I will probably upload mp3 versions to ccmixter and wave versions (including a wave version of the full mix) to the Internet Archive. But more on that later. read more...
