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"Lies (Click Into Place Mix)"

Finally decided to take on the task of remixing my favorite track from Trifonic's album Emergence. It's in the vein of some of my more recent unreleased work in that it incorporateds washes of melodic noise created with synthesizers run through virtual guitar amps. Enjoy!

A collision of old and new springs up on my MI7 page -- under the songs list, you'll find a remix of the most progressive song from my first album, Naoise. Combined with new directions in my production this gives it a curious dynamic, stretched between the outdated style of my early works and the thick, swirling ambient material that characterizes my more recent experiments. This is all topped off with an excellent vocal and lyric provided by frequent collaborator Anchor Méjans.

Enjoy!

I've taken another crack at the glorious production duo Trifonic's work with a new instrumental mix of their song "Parks On Fire." "Parks..." is a song I really love, and I got a great kick out of reworking it into something new.

"Parks On Fire (California Burning Mix)"

As always, you should check out Trifonic's album because it's great.

Wow, it's been over a month since I updated this thing. That's comparable to several hundred years for a blog. But fear not, for I am with you.

As some of you may have noticed, I made a collaboration piece with the talented Anchor Mejans over at CCMixter. It's entitled "The Incredible Joyfulness of Sentience" and there are currently three versions available: the original instrumental, my mix of the song with vocals, and Anchor's mix of the song with vocals, which you can also hear at his profile.

Phew. That's some serious linkage there. But wait! There's more!

I recently created a new music-making alias at CCMixter, to focus a little more on the growing influx of breakbeat and trance music into my smörgåsbord of styles. It's a project that's been bouncing around in my head for a while now, and I figured my mix of a minor theory's "Wait" was good enough for a starting point.

So here's Wakesleeping's profile over at CCM. There are currently two mixes up (three if you count the dub of July) and I think they're pretty good. And I'm not biased in any way. There's the aforementioned dub of "Wait," and another mix of calendargirl's "July." I personally thought the July mix came out sounding particularly nice, but the Wait dub is good too.

In keeping with the more experimental tone of my recent releases, "Faster Than the Eye Can Perceive" is a glitchy, atmospheric breakbeat song programmed mostly in 13/8.

Enjoy. 

I'm getting kind of tired of talking about this album, but I just uploaded Open Music by The CCMixter Collective to The Internet Archive, for those of you who want CD-quality FLAC files and some snazzy (not really) cover artwork.

For those of you lost for words, the correct and entirely logical response to this is "huzzah! Our benevolent dictator DJ Rkod has seen fit to bestow upon us this jewel of musical perfection!" Something along those lines, anyway.

Also, I have a new remix of Brad Sucks out that's making people question whether I ever sleep. Um, hopefully that means they like it.

As I've blogged about before, I've been working on another album during the month of February.

Rather than go into all the details of why and what for (which you can get by reading the link) I'm just going to point you to it. Go here if you want to listen. Click on "The CCMixter Collective - Open Music" to hear it.

Since I think there are some people here who have accounts at good old CCMixter, I'm posting this little project here as well.

The RPM Challenge is an organization whose purpose is to motivate artists to write an entire album (ten tracks or 35 minutes) in the shortest month of the year.

I'm sure I could produce an album in that space of time. It wouldn't even be very difficult. So I decided to do something different.

For those of you who don't want to open the link, the general idea is to get together as many people as possible from CCMixter and put together an album from the community.

Anyone will be accepted into the collective, but we especially need a vocalist. If you have an account at CCM, great. Post in the thread and I'll add you to the project. If not, get an account, post in the thread and I'll still add you. I've already put up a demo song and its separated elements (visible only to members of the project) (EDIT: I've unhidden the files so you can just go over and look at them if you want.) so as soon as you join up, you can start getting creative with it or just write your own.

As you may have noticed if you're reading this, there's a new song in my profile. It's a very experimental ambient piece I did over the course of two nearly sleepless days.

There's also a new song up at my CCMixter profile. It's entitled "Chain Of Names" and is a poppier, more sample-based composition. Go check it out.

In other news, another of my AMT mixes was featured in a mix set -- further evidence that spinmeister has made some Faustian bargain to have his music used as often as possible.

A video update is coming soon, for those of you who, uh... obsess about my music getting used in random stuff I found on the internet.

Golly gee whiz, people sure do like to use the mixes I do of A Minor Theory tunes. I hope people keep using them, because I think it's wonderful.

In the most recent installment of my music being creatively re-appropriated,  CCMixter user s.c.mixer has used my "Hard House" mix of Static Attraction to open his studio mix entitled (deep breath) "The Unofficial DanceMixter Compilation Volume Two - Tech House." Yay.

It's a very worthy mix, though not quite as good as the absolutely mindblowing Volume One.

Spinmeister, you and I are on fire I tell you!

Over at CCMixter (where I've been semi-regularly releasing new stuff) you can grab a funky breakbeat remix of DJ Vadim's "Got To Rock."

Also, some remixes of "Space-Based Utopia" have been getting published there and I thought I'd link to some of them.

First off we have Mindmovie's "Mindmovie in Space," which won the remix contest a few months back.

Then we have spinmeister's "Moments in Space," which came in second in the same contest.

Notably absent is third-place winner Spirou's "Illusion Mix," which needs to be rectified immediately. I see you reading this Spirou! Go put it up!

In non-competition entries we have teru's "Technology," which doesn't really qualify as a remix but does use some samples, so I'm posting it anyway. It's probably my least favorite of the songs I'm posting here. A very muddy and confused song.

Then we have essesq's "Dark Axe." Ooooh, that sounded dramatic, didn't it? Let's try that again:

Essesq's "DARK AXE."

It's quality stuff. Could use a bit of amplification, but not all music has to fill the dynamic range. It's garnered and deserves comparisons to John Carpenter and Brian Eno.

A couple of you have probably noticed that I've entered three of my songs into the RealWorld contest. I picked Space-Based Utopia, Crimes Against Us and Churchfall as the songs that will represent me. I feel that these three songs are some of my best work.

In other news, people have been using my music in videos, and I couldn't be happier about it.

First off, we have Ricardo Rix's unlucky13, which features Bullet, The Burning Sensation and At Peace from Naoise. It's a cool little video, not the most intellectual thing I'm going to post, but good.

Next, we have the interestingly-titled "How To Make A Floatable Metal," which explains an ancient alchemical recipe for floating Lithuanian quarters. This uses the spinmeister mix of Space-Based Utopia. You'll note that, apparently in violation of the Attribution 3.0 license on Space-Based, I am not credited. It's OK. I gave my permission to have it used without attribution. UPDATE: I actually am credited. (Thanks spin, I missed that.)

Finally, we have a rather dark little short film entitled "There's an End to an Everyday," which features the original Space-Based Utopia (and another really good song that's not by me.)

Previously on Hot Video Action:

Toy Helicopters Crashing to "Trance in Blue"

My Music: Food For Worms?

Thanks for the votes in the RealWorld contest. I appreciate them. 

Once again, I've combined the voice of calendargirl with my own beats, synths and... samples from "The Killer Shrews."

Listen here.

My fifth major release and second EP, the dark and moody Safer comes as a respite from my full albums. Short, often nastily atonal and dissonant, it's quite... different. As always available in CD quality from the Internet Archive, with high resolution cover art -- all free as the connection through which they're downloaded. Enjoy!

Safer 

Over at the great CCMixter you can grab my remix of calendargirl's "August".

From the completely random department:

Today I received an E-Mail sent my a fellow ccMixter member.

In essence, it said that she had used my "Stuttering Breaks" mix of A Minor Theory's "Santiago" in a video. And why not, I asked myself?

In the E-Mail was a URL pointing me towards a blog post presenting the aforementioned video.

It is about worms.

Yes friends, today I found myself providing the soundtrack to the creation of a worm bin. I have never before achieved such glory. On other occasions I have found myself accompanying slightly less prestigious subjects, but I feel now that I have reached the very pinnacle of musical accolade.

Enjoy the weirdness. 

I'm really excited about this bit of news -- Mi7 is hosting their second remix contest, and this time you get to remix, well, me.

You can grab the details at the "contests" link at the top of the page, or you can just go here. I'm hoping to hear some tasty stuff made out of this -- don't disappoint me!

In an entry that warms my heart to write, I'd like to announce that my debut album, Naoise, has just passed over 1,000 downloads. OK, so I'm not exactly headed for the Billboard Top 40, but it's a start.

In short, I'd like to thank everyone who has downloaded my material for taking the time to listen to my music.

Thank you.