To stave off the inevitable depression following last week, I decided to buy myself some momentary respite. I wanted a new music toy, something to kick back in bed with and tweak out some sounds before sleep, and the Korg Monotribe “analogue ribbon station” (what.) looked to fit the bill. It’s got a relatively low [...]
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Music for Programming vol. 2
Happy to announce that Music for Programming volume 2 is now available for download About 50 minutes worth of massive, dark and melancholy ambient to go with your coding session. Featuring tracks by Bruno Sanfilippo, Tim Hecker, Murcof, Cliff Martinez, Inade, Jackson C Frank, Max Richter and Christoph de Babalon. Music for Programming is an ongoing [...]
Sunjammer interview on The Harder View
Forgot to post about this for some reason. I recently did an interview with the hardcore/techno zine The Harder View that I think came out pretty good. It goes into detail on why I got into hardcore techno to begin with, and why I eventually got out of it. It’s pretty candid stuff, so if [...]
Thoughts on Game Boy music and Castlevania
Gametrailers are doing another one of their all too rare retrospectives, this time on the Castlevania series. Ever since I got to play the first NES version of Castlevania in the 80s, I’ve had a serious crush on the early incarnations of this game series. The name is perfect. It’s a game about killing Dracula, [...]
Audiotool suggestions
I’ve been following the Audiotool project with great interest since it began, both because I’m a Flash developer and a musician. Now that Audiotool 1.0 has been released, with a very broad and interesting suite of devices, I’m both amazed and put off. As a developer, I’m utterly blown away that this thing is running [...]