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:: Thursday, October 31, 2002 ::

Just updated my radio station on the site. Follow the 'Radio Station' link and look towards the bottom for new songs I've added by The Knotts, Aerial2012, ean | productions and Gilles Vittecoq - all fine mp3.com artists.

On a side note, I've jumped up to number 19 on the raw42 charts. I guess that's what happens when you have a song accepted, have a song put forward for a commercial and submit a song - all in the space of a couple of days.

:: DJ 9:33 PM [+] ::
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Uploaded a new song to raw42 today for consideration for publiciation. Song is titled 'Illumined Pleasures' and should be available on mp3.com this weekend or soon after (still have to finish up new CD art)...

:: DJ 6:24 PM [+] ::
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Old Junk, the "latest" CD by D R E A M D A Z E is now available on mp3.com. In addition, all prices on CDs have been reduced to $7.99 (cheap!).

Old Junk consists of a bunch of outtakes from previously released CDs. Tracks include:
Automatic
Chill
Down
Escape
Flurry
Lash
Link
Mist
Noodling
Sordid
Subjective Flautist
Swallow

:: DJ 8:31 PM [+] ::
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Placid Abstraction is currently 46 on the Chicago Electronic chart and number 10 on the Chicago Ambient chart.

:: DJ 5:53 AM [+] ::
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I'm surprised by some of the song appearances in the latest rankings. A couple of techno and trance songs from my Swamp CD have hit the charts. Swamp was a fairly interesting experiment for me. It was a transition CD. I had just begun experimenting in the ambient realm on Glacial and decided that it would be interesting to mix it up a bit. On Swamp I begin with an ambient song in the key of A (Bog), and then using one or two of the loops from the first song, I shift keys to B and morph into a techno song (Marsh). I continue in the same vein of moving some loops forward to the next song and alternating keys and styles for the entire CD. Of course, each song is named by a synonym for Swamp in order to maintain the "theme". So without further delay...

The Latest Rankings:

Chicago Electronic
59. Placid Abstraction

Chicago Ambient
15. Placid Abstraction
20. Serene Anguish
21. Morphological
22. Bayou
30. Slough
31. Bog

Chicago Techno
17. Mire
18. Marsh

Chicago Trip Hop
20. Premature Ossification
21. Chthonic Cerumen
22. Absolutely Modern
23. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
24. Bansuri Summer Sturm Und Drang
43. Atmosherocephalic

Chicago Trance
26. Morass

Chicago Down Tempo
37. Premature Ossification
38. Chthonic Cerumen
39. The Honorable Margaret Chase Smith
40. Absolutely Modern
41. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
42. Bansuri Summer Sturm Und Drang
43. Atmosherocephalic

:: DJ 5:50 AM [+] ::
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All right, so nothing gets done when you have guests in for the weekend...but I did at least work on my 'Hermetic' song long enough to realize I'm probably going to trash it. I might be able to salvage the weird ambient dissonance I have going on, but I definitely need to replace the bass lines I'm using, and if I do that, then the drums are in question too. Damn.

:: DJ 5:42 AM [+] ::
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I think tonight is going to be one of those nights when I stay up with a pot of tea after everyone else has gone to bed and work on CD art for Technique and maybe add some new songs to my radio station. If the urge takes me, I'll work on the song I started in August on a lake in rural Maine.

The song is titled 'Hermetic' for now. I started working on it at about 5 AM one morning. The sun was just beginning to come up, but it was still dark when I started. It was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and I was in the living room of an old cabin with a sleeping bag wrapped around me, looking out over the foggy, foggy lake. My laptop was running off batteries since there were no 3-prong outlets in the cabin. As the sun rose and the song developed, the fog became more whispy and wraithe-like.

It's been in an unfinished state since that morning when my low power alert on the laptop advised me to save what I was working on and shut down. Maybe it's time to finish it up...

:: DJ 7:04 AM [+] ::
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Well, not a lot of promotion and/or creation going on these days. Morphological is going to be put forward for a UK commercial, but that's about it. Not holding my breath, but at least it's a shot. I REALLY need to have 24 hours without distraction so that I can finish up 2 songs that are in process, finalize my CD art for Technique, and go through my voluminous email and add people to my radio station (and maybe have them add me to theirs in return).

:: DJ 6:04 AM [+] ::
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Bayou is hanging on in the Chicago Electronic Chart at number 93. It's also number 13 on the Chicago Ambient Chart.

On another note raw42 has a cool new look and tons of new features for artists. Will spend the next couple of night exploring the new site and catching up on articles about music publishing that I've missed.

:: DJ 5:58 AM [+] ::
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Bayou has jumped up to number 44 on the Chicago Electronic Chart and number 8 on the Chicago Ambient Chart. Bayou is an ambient song composed of several different ambient tones and percussion bits mixed in with heavily fx-ed guitars and bass fx's.

:: DJ 5:42 AM [+] ::
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Hey! Ho! Chthonic Cerumen is number 87 on the Chicago Electronic Chart, number 3 on the Chicago Down Tempo Chart and number 2 on the Chicago Trip Hop Chart!

:: DJ 6:46 PM [+] ::
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A couple of old trance songs off the Glacial Tumult CD have garnered a few listens (enough to get them into the top 50 of the highly competitive Chicago Trance charts anyway). I always get a kick out of old songs getting listens out of the blue!

Latest rankings:

Chicago Electronic
71. Slough

Chicago Ambient
12. Slough
18. Fen
27. Serene Anguish
38. Subjective Flautist

Chicago Trip Hop
13. Chthonic Cerumen
25. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
26. Absolutely Modern
27. Bansuri Summer Sturm und Drang
28. Premature Ossification

Chicago Drum N Bass
15. Secret

Chicago Down Tempo
16. Chthonic Cerumen

Chicago Trance
26. Murky Girl
41. Apparition

:: DJ 4:33 PM [+] ::
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If you're gonna make a move
Then you better commit

:: DJ 5:32 PM [+] ::
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My latest CD Miscellaneous is now available on the site.

Songs are trance and techno and include:
Try
Shifty
The Path
Snowy Day
Interrupt
Savitur
Vapours
Simian
Flinch
Electrogratification

:: DJ 7:22 PM [+] ::
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There seems to be a spike in demand for 20-minute techno songs. 6 Apparitions Of Lenin In A Cowfish Opus, Opus To Zarathustra And Misc Cowfish and Cowfish Opus To The 5 Rings Of Musashi rank 10, 11 and 12, respectively, on the highly competitive Chicago techno charts. These songs represent my "toe-dipping" into the processes of "automatic music". I developed a 10 minute structure that repeats twice in each song then used the same structure with different (though similar) loops to generate the three songs.

On another note, Serene Anguish is number 76 on the Chicago Electronic charts.

:: DJ 11:56 AM [+] ::
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Testing. Testing. 1 2 3.
Have an error going on here, I think.

:: DJ 7:08 PM [+] ::
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We've got no war to name us.

:: DJ 9:45 PM [+] ::
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Putting the finishing touches on my Miscellaneous CD finally. It will be ready sooner than later hopefully. The CD includes my last attempts at trance and techno before I found my down tempo calling.

:: DJ 8:46 PM [+] ::
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3 songs in the Chicago Electronic Top 100 - not a bad performance. Looks like some of my local promotion has paid off a little. I had some business cards printed up a while back, and now wherever I go, I leave some behind. Yesterday I distributed quite a few. I left some at a fencing tournament at Northwestern University in the morning - and then I distributed a few more at a restaurant in Chicago last night. What follows are the results...

Chicago Electronic
32. Placid Abstraction
57. Bog
81. Serene Anguish

Chicago Goa
4. Savitur

Chicago Ambient
7. Placid Abstraction
15. Bog
20. Serene Anguish
24. Mist

Chicago Trip Hop
11. Premature Ossification
13. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
14. Absolutely Modern
15. Bansuri Summer Sturm und Drang
18. Chthonic Cerumen

Chicago Down Tempo
15. Premature Ossification
20. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
22. Absolutely Modern
23. Bansuri Summer Sturm und Drang
24. Atmosherocephalic
25. Drink The Fish Up
34. Chthonic Cerumen
36. The Honorable Margaret Chase Smith

Chicago Drum N Bass
29. Curtain
37. Anthracite
38. Bituminous
39. Secret
40. Show

:: DJ 9:11 AM [+] ::
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Illumined Pleasures...

:: DJ 4:07 PM [+] ::
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Going to a charity event on 'The Spirit Of Chicago' tomorrow evening. Burning a CD of my raw42 accepted tracks right now. Will talk to the Event Planner (brother of a co-worker) about possibly using me as a down tempo DJ at some of his events. Will give him a copy of the CD I'm burning now as a set sample. Use my usual trick of ramping up from 70 BPM to a climax of 112 BPM then back down to 80 BPM to finish over 52 minutes. Not a bad sample set. Will see what happens.

And after 3 more songs are accepted by raw42, I will have about 60 minutes of music, and it will be time to start shopping for a CD deal...

:: DJ 10:18 PM [+] ::
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Premature Ossification, a trip hop song featuring lots of organs and really crisp drums, was accepted by raw42 today.

:: DJ 10:49 PM [+] ::
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On another note, Atmosherocephalic and Morphological have received some attention from raw42 customers (listens anyhow).

:: DJ 9:04 PM [+] ::
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Premature Ossification is number 66 on the Chicago Electronic chart and number 5 on the Chicago Down Tempo chart.

:: DJ 9:00 PM [+] ::
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Rankings. Rankings. Rankings.

Frost has moved up the charts - old ambient song with elements of Pink Floyd.

Also someone has been banging on my drum 'n' bass. First time I've seen any of that stuff chart in a while - specifically, Anthracite, Secret, Show, Wetlands, Curtain and Bituminous.

Chicago Electronic
44. Frost

Chicago Goa
3. Savitur

Chicago Ambient
5. Frost
15. Placid Abstraction
37. Link

Chicago Happy Hardcore
15. Wretched Bliss

Chicago Trip Hop
18. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
21. Absolutely Modern
22. Bansuri Summer Sturm und Drang
25. Premature Ossification
31. Chthonic Cerumen

Chicago Drum N Bass
32. Anthracite
33. Secret
34. Show
36. Wetlands
48. Curtain
49. Bituminous

Chicago Down Tempo
42. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
47. Absolutely Modern
48. Bansuri Summer Sturm und Drang

Chicago Techno
44. Flinch

:: DJ 7:02 PM [+] ::
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Tommy Lee is my inner rockstar according to emode.com.

:: DJ 4:43 PM [+] ::
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We grew up way too fast
Now there's nothing to believe

:: DJ 12:17 PM [+] ::
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We are the tabloid generation.

:: DJ 12:17 PM [+] ::
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Loaded up Acid 4.0 on my latest Dell laptop. Haven't got it onto the old one yet (the one I'm typing now). Will try to get that going tomorrow and maybe finish off the song I'm working on plus finally finalize Miscellaneous (CD) and Technique (CD). Who knows what will happen?

:: DJ 11:17 PM [+] ::
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Les jeux sont faits.

:: DJ 9:02 PM [+] ::
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Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel.

:: DJ 8:49 PM [+] ::
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Premature Ossification, a trip hop song featuring organs, whacko synths and some pretty crisp drums, is now available on mp3.com.

:: DJ 6:15 PM [+] ::
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Long time. No rankings. So now time for rankings.

Someone's been checking out my trance stuff. Not my speciality really. Haven't played with it in a long time. Haven't promoted it at all. But Savitur, Electrogratification (which really isn't trance - it's techno) and Writhe all made the charts.

Chicago Electronic
53. Placid Abstraction
57. The Honorable Margaret Chase Smith

Chicago Goa
2. Savitur

Chicago Ambient
7. Placid Abstraction
17. Shaku Shake
26. Serene Anguish

Chicago Down Tempo
8. The Honorable Margaret Chase Smith

Chicago Happy Hardcore
24. Wretched Bliss

Chicago Trance
27. Savitur
28. Electrogratification
31. Writhe

Chicago Trip Hop
28. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
40. Chthonic Cerumen

:: DJ 9:19 PM [+] ::
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Had a great punk rock weekend (last weekend). Went to see the Suicide Machines at the Metro; they were there with Gob and Guttermouth. Of course, my friend and I were the oldest one's there, but we had a great time.

The Suicide Machines have 4 "major label" (Hollywood Records) releases - I guess it would be more accurately stated that they have 4 CDs that get distribution. The first album is their best, mixing ska, hardcore and metal (usually all in the same song) very well. Their 2nd is pretty good, being mostly hardcore. Their 3rd (done around the time they were touring with No Doubt) is an ill-advised trip into pop-dom (in other words, it stinks). Their latest is back on par with the quaility and style of their 2nd CD.

During the show, they played mostly songs from their 1st and 2nd albums with a few new songs and hardly anything from their 3rd CD. Great show. Lots of energy.

Gob are the clown princes of punk rock. Each song featured an ironic metal pose by some member (or multiple members) of the band. Lyrically they're like NOFX. Awesome and entertaining.

Guttermouth proved they were lovers, not fighters. It was lady's night on stage with various female members of the audience and entourage making appearances. Also very entertaining and they worked the crowd well. I, of course, enjoyed the fact that the bass player wore a Bollweevil's T-shirt - which was a great example of synchronicity (plate of shrimp), since my friend and I were discussing the fact the crowd in the mosh pit were much more polite than in the late 80s/early 90s when we were frequenting more shows - which led to talk of the infamous Bollweevil's show when the band, the crowd and Metro security were in an all out brawl over stagediving. I believe as a result of that show the Metro banned stagediving. Hell, Metro security is giving the crowd near the front of the stage water these days...

:: DJ 5:39 PM [+] ::
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Instead of an open mind
I close my fist.

:: DJ 6:23 AM [+] ::
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