my friends' blogs
- warmer — Come back when tomorrow is old, new track (well rough idea)
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Hi all,
I've got a new rough idea up, one day I will finish a track I'm sure!
LEt me know what you think.
read more... - Mindmovie — New song added: Theme for An Imaginary Mindmovie
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- This will be the opening title of my upcoming first solo album. If you find some time please take a listen and if you want to feel free to leave me a comment. Audio quality is below my normal standard as the song is 8 minutes long I had to go down with the bitrate to 160kb. Anyway I hope you may enjoy. read more...
- Mindmovie — New Song added - Moonmaiden
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- A rough mix of one of the songs which will be on Mindmovie's first solo record - your feedback is most welcome read more...
- Mindmovie — New Song added - House Of Love
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Although This side is now soooo painfully slow that it is no longer a real funny thing to upload something - here is a new song. Welcome to any visitor who wants to leave a comment about the music. This title features Sara England on vocals - she as well as myself have discovered what it means when you a re trying to build a "house of love" with the wrong person. That's what this song is about.
read more... - Mindmovie — Planet Passion IV
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- A collaboration with Andres Rexach a guitar magician from Spain. Check his profile on myspace this man is a guitar and sitar monster. read more...
- Tom Pedroli — Benjamin
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Today at 12.00 hrs my (our) son was born. We named him Benjamin. The Clair the Lune remix was specially written for this child (as a modern lullaby).
All is well and we are all very happy. read more... - Doghouse Riley — My shovel's too small. . .Or is it?
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- Where can I get me a big enough shovel to make a dang difference here in the total manure spreadin music bidness? I went down to the hardware store and they just laughed at me. But ever time I git on the internets thang it's plain ta see that ifn ya don't got one as big as a backhoe you aint' goin nowheres. Any ideas? I mean I'm willin to hyperbolize as much as the next fella or gal. Scruples, have I none. So, I got that goin fer me at least. How do you folks handle it? read more...
- Lo Kivikas — "Spirit Warriors"
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New song uploaded! Have a listen to the collaboration of our common work. Three people living and working in three countries in different musical stuff...Thanks for your ears!
read more... - rodney — computing humor
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Quotes of the day:
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. ...The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
Now you're thinking "oh God, another Linux zealot going off about Windows"... until you see who wrote it: Bill Gates. Full story at Gizmodo Note: this is actually an old story about Windows XP. Vista, as we all know by now, is even worse. read more... - rodney — Symbian is Free Software
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- News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now more widely used than proprietary software. That's a pretty significant shift in the way of things, especially considering Symbian own 67% of the smartphone market, with Windows Mobile holding only 13%... read more...
- rodney — Real World stuff
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- Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: I've been spending some time recently talking with The Cedars, winners of the MI7 Real World contest. Looks like the plan is for me to produce the session at Real World Studios sometime next month, if all goes well. I'm very much looking forward to it, they are a great band, and I think we could create some damn fine tracks there. Let's see... read more...
- rodney — back from being a hermit
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I haven't been posting much in the past couple of months, mainly because I've been taking time to work on a new book and get some personal business stuff out of the way.
Things are looking interesting though... we've been approached about a new record deal, and asked to play some more festivals at the end of the year / beginning of next year. So the plan is to spend as much time as possible in the studio over the next few months and finally finish off all of the things that have been sitting on the hard drive for ages in a half-finished state.
So someday soon I might even get round to putting some new songs on the music player! :-)
read more... - Live Ullmann — New website
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Check out www.liveullmann.com
read more... - Doghouse Riley — I have relented. . .
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. . .and went an got me one a them MySpace Music thangs.
http://www.myspace.com/doghouserileyhisownself
There's lots a foolishness and my own bucolic visage to stare lovinly at, ifn ya got a mind to. Although why you would I could not say. Or could I?
read more... - niteshift — Two Songs in the Top 10 Semifinals at Ourstage
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Well, what a week it’s been. Ups and downs, swings and roundabouts.
As anyone will tell you, the masterly art of entering song contests is not for the faint hearted. The expectations, the desires, the wants and the needs of the fragile at heart, are intertwined in the madness of the rush of the moment and the expectation that one’s works are simply the best thing since sliced bread. And tasty to boot.
So off the songs went last month, to Ourstage.com to try their luck in the pot pori which is the song contest. Each perfectly matched to their genre, and each with a suitable graphic to catch the eye of the musical beholder. Unlike most of the usual suspects, Ourstage.com really does have a very easy system. Put up the material, and let others judge your works of utter brilliance on a challenge basis, one on one. Sure, there’s a simple registration process, but that’s the price we pay to the digital gatekeepers.
Now, if you think you can get a whole bunch of your cronies to rock up and just click a few buttons, then think again. If you wish to judge a music channel, then two unsuspecting musical numbers that have been hiding in the depths of the digital realm, suddenly appear before you , and you are asked which is best ? Make your choice, and you’re on to the next battle. Couldn’t be easier, and fairer to the musically and socially dispossessed, who don’t own a mobile phone, let alone have the social network in which to use it. You just can’t say “Vote for me !” A MySpace or email mail out ? Forget it, there are far too many random combinations hidden in the depths to even attempt to bring up the desired result. It gets easier in the Top 20, but still a random selection of 190 combinations makes the play just that much fairer.
So what is the result ? Well, after not really paying much attention for the last month, in pops an email into the In-box saying “Hey, congrats, you’ve made it into the Top 20” This happens twice as 2 songs were entered in 2 different genre channels. What happens next, 48 hrs later ? Another 2 emails saying “Hey, congrats, you’ve made it into the Top 10” Now, usually such things would be treated with the utmost distain, and avoided like the plague. There is a slight problem here though, in that the winner of the Top 10 receives a nice little $100 gift voucher, and proceeds to the grand final for the Grand Prize of $5,000. Not too bad for sitting on ones butt, and clicking a few buttons.
So, the temperature is rising, the heart is a-beating, and the unused adrenalin finally has a purpose. So, its crunch time, time to say “Vote for me!” , let me win that grand prize, and buy that mobile phone that will give the social status and text-thumb so long desired. Either that or a nice couple of pints at the local. Ahh, the dreams of the dreamers. Forever in hope. Later…..
cheers, niteshift
Note ; Niteshift has no affiliation with Ourstage.com. Heck, he didn’t even remember he was in a contest until a few days ago.
Niteshifts web page at Ourstage.com is ourstage.com/fanclub/niteshift Please drop by and have a listen.
read more... - Live Ullmann — New album coming up soon
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- Please have a taste. read more...
- warmer — New track up......
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- but as always it's rough and unfinished! let me know what you think though and I may complete it! read more...
- ccDuck — 26 May, Calendargirl goodness!
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I'm very excited to be able to tell you all May 26 is the date set for release of Calendargirl's album... featuring me (of course), and several other MI7 members- please support it; it not only means exposure for lesser-known artists like myself, but a better way for talented people to get their music heard by a wider audience, who might not have other avenues for exposure.
THINK about artists you may love today, that you might never have heard, except through chance- don't you deserve a better opportunity, than some happenstance random discovery?
Artists like Calendargirl (Tamara Barnett-Herrin) and others of us who are looking toward the future think so... join us, and let's look forward toward a musical future based more on what's possible, rather than what's permitted!
read more... - spinmeister — Interview with CalendarGirl
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Here's the link and teaser to an interview I've conducted on behalf of ccMixter with the talented, intelligent, gracious and funny Calendar Girl:
"In October 2006, singer song-writer Tamara Barnett-Herrin from London in the UK published a one sentence challenge to herself and to remixers around the World Wide Web: “I write one song a month. You remix and feedback. We make a record.” This experiment in songwriting and remix culture unlike any other yielded over 300 remixes, setting a new record at ccMixter. Twelve of them have been chosen to be published in an album titled Calendar Songs Volume I due out May 26 (check calendarsongs.com). Known to the ccMixter community as Calendar Girl, she has graciously agreed to an interview with ccMixter." - Doghouse Riley — Ok, ifn ya don't wanna talk. . .
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- Then ya can just listen to my latest ol magnum opus ifn ya want. Seein's how philsophy and music history ain't yor cup a tea. read more...
