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Todd Christopher (aka Instruction Shuttle) and I have release our third collaborative project together under the pseudonym OVe, entitled Brutalist. It is available via the release page at the Zenapolæ website. The music for Brutalist was crafted using bits from my previous project Pre-Process. While the underlying tone of Brutalist takes much from Pre-Process it is whole a work in it's own rights. Enjoy! :D

Inspired by the Blip Festival a couple of weeks ago I created a neat little chip tune"album" I am calling Sunday AFternoon Sunshine. I don't quite have an 8-bit set-up just yet (I pulling my old Atari STf buddy out of the garage for some much needed love), I cheated a little bit by using Reason (I'm getting into the spirit) with a little help from a tutorial (@ Steelberry Clones) I found by Judson “Tettix” Cowan. After watching the first video of the tutorial I was able to set up a few instruments that exhibited an 8-bit sound. After dabbling with the sounds for a little bit, I set out to create a track before rushing off to work an hour and a half later. I am hoping to get a few more mixes together as well as some additional tracks in the near future. Until then enjoy! :D

Last Thursday Tim and I drove up to Brooklyn for the annual Blip Festival. It was a total blast. Neither the photos to follow nor any downloaded recordings of the event can convey the awesome energy of the music presented that nigh. Regardless, I wanted to share some glimpses of that night with these photos (taken with my iPhone).

I've been working on some wallpaper depicting one of my favorite computer games Shadowbane. Shadowbane was one of the earlier Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), released back in late 2003. Unfortunately, Shadowbane was shut down for good early in 2009. Well I was traveling down memory lane today and got to mucking about with some old screen shots in Photoshop. What was awesome was that I found that if I used a filter called "Poster Edges" it would make the screen shots look as if they were scenes in a comic book. Check out some of my more favorite ones below...

I've uploaded a second hour long set to the bitphitz.org website which I am calling Minimal Stomp & Pound (w/Acid). This set is another attempt at minimal techno and acid but this time without any distracting vocal samples. ;) I think I like this set much better then the previous one, One Hour Now but I was having some issues with some of the instrument levels. I also need to invest in a audio file editor like Bias' Peak as there are a few tweaks I would have like to make to the audio and I just wasn't in the mood to go through a lengthy process of dragging the file into Logic or Live to do a job that these apps were not designed to do easily.

Anyway, enjoy the set and, as always, let me know what you think. :D

I've been working on my studio this past week. As a result, I spent a couple of hours setting up Reason with my Axiom 25 and Trigger Finger (x2) as a virtual acid workstation. The result was One Hour Now; one hour (almost) of trippy acid house and techno sounds. I've uploaded them to my bitphitz.org website, which I'm going to be converting to a DIY electronic dance music website kind of thing. I'm not sure of all the details just yet, but it's going to be something along the lines of hour long "live" sets of electronic dance music.

Enjoy! :D

On Today's menu... 28 minutes of Bad Acid. Enjoy! :D

I've finally gone and uploaded Post-Process, the companion piece to Pre-Process, to zenapolae.com. It's been finished since before I uploaded the other tracks but I have been waiting until my work on a new template for Zenapolæ releases to be ironed out. Instead, I'm settling for a new version of the Zenapolæ cover art motif, which you can see above.

This past weekend Molly and I went to the Gaian Mind Summer Festival. Gaian Mind is a series of events, based in Philadelphia, that highlight psy-trance. We arrived at the campgrounds on Thursday night and camped there until Sunday afternoon. Unlike my previous two expeditions to GMSF in 2007 and 2008, which were held at the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, the event was held at Ramblewood campgrounds.

...well not exactly right. I've downloaded several albums worth of music from one of my favorite music labels, 12k, which are collectively entitled Term. In an interesting statement, the fellow who operates the label, Taylor Deupree, decided to release this music, in it's digital download only format but without any of the trappings of traditional packaging. In his own words...