:: DREAMDAZE ::

The trials and tribulations of a laptop DJ and VJ, promoting his music on the web.

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:: Sunday, August 31, 2003 ::

From the number of recent exclamation points you might be able to tell that I'm wired on Red Bull and Krispy Kreme's. What a combo! See another exclamation point! This is fun!

:: DJ 8:10 AM [+] ::
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Spent a lot of time yesterday and this morning finalizing my set for my laptop DJ gig today. Using Native Intstruments Traktor DJ Studio. Works great!

:: DJ 8:09 AM [+] ::
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Slough is still going strong!

World Ambient
3. Slough

Chicago Electronic
2. Slough
41. Organic River
43. Suburban Summer Backporch Riff
47. Bayou

:: DJ 8:08 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, August 30, 2003 ::

Doing a laptop DJ gig tomorrow at our block party. Should be fun.

:: DJ 10:12 AM [+] ::
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No links for now; will add links later, but wanted to get charts up before they disappear from mp3.com.

Slough is still hanging tough at number 3 on the ambient charts. Sure was nice of mp3.com to make it a featured song.

World Ambient
3. Slough

Chicago Electronic
2. Slough
22. Raindrop From Heaven
42. Bayou

:: DJ 7:33 AM [+] ::
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:: Friday, August 29, 2003 ::

Had a wide variety of regional listens this past week. Afghanistan showed again with 23 listens, continuing to surprise. The big surprise of the week was Brazil at 259, the largest number of listens outside the USA. I don't recall having that many listens there before.

Premium Artist Stats for the week beginning 2003-8-20

Listens By Region
Afghanistan 23
Albania 7
Argentina 10
Aruba 1
Australia 9
Austria 5
Belgium 4
Brazil 259
Bulgaria 2
Canada 83
Chile 1
China 26
Colombia 3
Comoros 1
Costa Rica 3
Czech Republic 1
Denmark 3
Ecuador 2
Egypt 4
Estonia 7
Finland 7
France 8
Germany 27
Grenada 5
Guatemala 2
Hong Kong 1
Hungary 3
Iceland 3
India 17
Indonesia 9
Ireland 1
Israel 5
Italy 58
Jamaica 2
Japan 1
Korea, South 1
Latvia 3
Lebanon 2
Lithuania 2
Malaysia 7
Mauritania 12
Mexico 24
Myanmar 3
Netherlands 17
New Zealand 2
Norway 1
Pakistan 7
Panama 1
Philippines 1
Portugal 1
Puerto Rico 1
Romania 2
Russian Federation 7
Singapore 4
Slovenia 6
South Africa 3
Spain 3
Sweden 5
Switzerland 4
Taiwan 1
Turkey 1
United Arab Emirates 1
United Kingdom 59
United States 1342
United States Minor Outlying Islands 5
Venezuela 9
Viet Nam 2
Virgin Islands, British 4
Western Sahara 2
Yugoslavia 1

Average Age of Listener 30

Listens By Gender
FEMALE 21.93%
MALE 78.06%

:: DJ 6:34 PM [+] ::
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Slough is also 66 on the Electronic charts on mp3.com.

:: DJ 7:09 AM [+] ::
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Wow! Plus Slough is number 3 ambient song in the world!

:: DJ 6:18 AM [+] ::
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This is becoming a diary of rankings. I need to post some regular news next time...though 3 songs in the top 10 and 15 of the top 100 songs on the Chicago Electronic charts is quite good!

Boy, I send out one brief newsletter and look what happens! Yowza!

Chicago Electronic
2. Slough
6. Raindrop From Heaven
8. Bayou
14. Organic River
20. Suburban Summer Backporch Riff
21. This Belongs Elsewhere
46. Metropolitan
50. Faster Than I Crawl
53. Eleanor, Again and Again
57. Placid Abstraction
58. Whimsical Florence
73. Lo Fi Picabia
74. Fisches Nachtgesang
80. Diffuse
81. Automatic

:: DJ 6:12 AM [+] ::
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:: Thursday, August 28, 2003 ::

Slough was a featured song on mp3.com yesterday. That's always a nice way to get your music exposed to a lot of people...

World Ambient
13. Slough

Chicago Electronic
2. Slough
5. Bayou
15. Raindrop From Heaven
34. Pure
57. Eleanor, Again and Again
78. Zarathustra
81. Kitty

:: DJ 5:58 AM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 ::

Quick rankings...

World Ambient
59. Bayou

Chicago Electronic
2. Bayou
5. Raindrop From Heaven
63. Absolutely Modern

:: DJ 7:24 AM [+] ::
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Slough is one of the featured electronic tracks on mp3.com today. Cool!

:: DJ 7:18 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 ::

Well, back at home now finally. Just getting into the swing of things again. The week has started out nicely too (see charts below).

World Ambient
19. Bayou

Chicago Electronic
2. Bayou
100. The Honorable Margaret Chase Smith

:: DJ 6:51 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, August 23, 2003 ::

Back in the US.
Dropped cards around Brussels while there.
It paid off.

Chicago Electronic
42. Organic River
52. Kitty
54. Absolutely Modern
71. Secret

:: DJ 9:27 PM [+] ::
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:: Thursday, August 21, 2003 ::

Still in Brussels.

But 2 old songs have charted.

Chicago Electronic
67. Morass
69. Revel

:: DJ 2:14 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, August 16, 2003 ::

Off to Brussels today. Might not post here for a while.

:: DJ 5:59 AM [+] ::
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:: Friday, August 15, 2003 ::

I've changed the links at the left (new review & CD options)...

:: DJ 6:10 AM [+] ::
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An IDM song pops up! Very nice...

World IDM
47. Chthonic Cerumen

:: DJ 6:01 AM [+] ::
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:: Thursday, August 14, 2003 ::

128 listens from Ahghanistan is pretty cool!

Premium Artist Stats for the week beginning 2003-8-5

Listens By Region
Afghanistan 128
China 3
Costa Rica 2
Germany 1
Italy 4
Malaysia 1
Mexico 3
United Kingdom 17
United States 1744

Average Age of Listener 28

Listens By Gender
FEMALE 12.19%
MALE 87.80%

:: DJ 5:58 AM [+] ::
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Chicago Electronic
92. Link

:: DJ 5:53 AM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 ::

Picked up Native Instrument's Traktor DJ Studio 2.0 for my DJ gig. Must admit that I'm really impressed with the software. Set up a play list and clicked the 'automatic' button, and I swear I didn't even need to be there. Wow.

:: DJ 5:54 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 ::

My CD is now available on the Tower Records web site!

:: DJ 8:05 PM [+] ::
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Some more quick rankings (am I getting lazy or what):

Chicago Electronic
67. Bog

:: DJ 5:59 AM [+] ::
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:: Monday, August 11, 2003 ::

Quick ranking:

Chicago Electronic
69. Absolutely Modern

:: DJ 6:10 AM [+] ::
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:: Sunday, August 10, 2003 ::

Spent 2 hours yesterday putting together my set list for the DJ gig. Not done yet. Will spend more time tonight definitely.

:: DJ 12:40 PM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, August 09, 2003 ::

Pure comes from nowhere! Old song. Someone listened. For some reason.

Chicago Electronic
95. Pure

:: DJ 8:00 AM [+] ::
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Spent most of last night ripping CDs for my Labor Day weekend laptop DJ gig.

:: DJ 7:57 AM [+] ::
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:: Friday, August 08, 2003 ::

It's in your head it's in your head it's in your head
It's in your head

:: DJ 8:34 PM [+] ::
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:: Thursday, August 07, 2003 ::

Now my vision is
No longer hazy

:: DJ 9:27 PM [+] ::
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Leaving for Brussels a week from Saturday. Really hot there right now. Record highs. Oof. Surprisingly it's cool and comfortable here in Chicago.

:: DJ 8:45 PM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 ::

Raindrop From Heaven, a down tempo song featuring lounge-y grooves and vintage synth fx, is now available here.

:: DJ 8:00 PM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 ::

She runs away from me
Faster than I crawl

:: DJ 9:29 PM [+] ::
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You can quit anytime you want...

:: DJ 9:25 PM [+] ::
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Tattooed pillow.

:: DJ 9:17 PM [+] ::
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The first thing you learn is
You got to make it in this world
Alone

:: DJ 9:17 PM [+] ::
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Quick Rankings:

World IDM Charts
45. Illumined Pleasures
78. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
80. Chthonic Cerumen
87. Fisches Nachtgesang
88. Lo Fi Picabia

World Happy Hardcore
72. Wretched Bliss

Chicago Electronic
32. Eleanor, Again and Again

:: DJ 5:59 AM [+] ::
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:: Monday, August 04, 2003 ::

So AdVariant has been having trouble with mp3.com, and they have been behind on the banner ad they were running for me. I was supposed to have 20,000 impressions over one month. Nice and steady. Well, now they're catching up big time. I've had close around 10,000 impressions in the past two days and the rankings are picking up a bit. Right now, I have 5 of the top 100 IDM songs on mp3.com.

World IDM Charts
47. Illumined Pleasures
86. Understanding The Breakdown Of God
88. Chthonic Cerumen
95. Fisches Nachtgesang
96. Lo Fi Picabia

:: DJ 8:31 PM [+] ::
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:: Sunday, August 03, 2003 ::

Incomplete Song Status:

Started working on a house song yesterday. Have a good start to it. Still haven't finished the d'n'b song I started 2-3 weeks ago. Have a very strong start but after about 1 - 1.5 minutes I need a direction to go and haven't settled on one yet.

I remixed Lugubrious to make it 'better produced'. Right now it's kind of quiet, but I added some EQ and compression and tweaked it a bit and it sounds much better now. I'll upload that to mp3.com tonight.

I also finished up a new song titled 'Raindrop From Heaven'. It's a down tempo piece. I'll be uploading it to mp3.com tonight too.

:: DJ 10:50 AM [+] ::
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I don't want racial hatred.

:: DJ 10:41 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, August 02, 2003 ::

Our people must rise up.
Life won't wait.

:: DJ 10:49 AM [+] ::
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Old song. Ambient. Combines Chinese instruments with Western Classical music. And it charts. Who knew?

Chicago Electronic
89. Fen

:: DJ 9:39 AM [+] ::
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:: Friday, August 01, 2003 ::

Elvis needs boats.

:: DJ 8:06 PM [+] ::
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The charts are finally back on mp3.com. Finally. They've been out all week. Don't know why. Annoying though.

:: DJ 5:54 AM [+] ::
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