Oh, and for anyone who's interested but didn't bother to read my whole rambling coffee thing, I am now on Twitter, which is where I post the day to day stuff. I suppose I'll still post here when I've got the time and inclination to write a paragraph or more, but that's increasingly rare nowadays. The blurb-length stuff will be here: Leave a comment

This is a question for all you techno music weirdo geeks (like me).

What plugins are good? I'm on an Intel Mac, and I'm mostly broke, so bang for the buck is critical. No hoity-toity $500 boutique reverbs for me. Meat and potatoes! (Though weird radioactive potatoes are fine, there. Weird is good.)

I just discovered that Crystal, which is ( Read more... )

A new compilation featuring a diverse group of experimental / electronic / industrial artists from the Massachusetts area, courtesy of Connexion Bizarre and Voidstar ProductionsYOU ARE HERE: A COMPILATION OF MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRONICS (vol.1 ( Read more... )

New ukuphambana track in the myspace player, for the first time in quite a few months ( Read more... )

So, a while back this band friended me, and that was cool, because I dug their music -- tuneful sort of soundscape things with a tape music style, though that really doesn't do it justice...it's very good.

So, I wrote them a nice comment and later bought their album as a download, via this neat kind of pay-what-you-want feature. Neat idea, right ( Read more... )

One more quickie link, because I ran across it accidentally while compiling the links for the last post's "respect list": Delia Derbyshire brings the live mix. "That's in synchronization..." Damn straight!

And now a brief, unlocked, non-autobiographical post to give a shout to another rediscovered musical influence, Ben Burtt, whose name I just stumbled across, never having known it before. For those not inclined to bother watching the video: Burtt was the man responsible for sound design on the original Star Wars trilogy, and was moreover ( Read more... )

So, I am now sitting in my cool, comfortable, dehumidified basement office / studio space. This is good, though the cost of buying a new dehumidifier hurt. Waiting for crap to finish checking out of SVN, decide to check my gmail, what do I see ( Read more... )

Well, there's this: apparently John McCain's response to the SCOTUS decision affirming the principle of habeus for Guantanamo prisoners was to call it "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." Apparently the baseline legal principle that people are innocent until proven guilty is a bit too radical for his straight-talking ( Read more... )

I get to feel good about the future of my country, for a while. Yay!