Copyright 2005-2009 EM411.com Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:21:01 CDT EM411.com http://www.EM411.com/ contact@em411.com contact@em411.com en-us /show/blog/7805 so FINALLY my rubber monome-style button pads/boards arrived the other day, and I can get down to business of making my sequencer. I\\\'m pretty new to electronics still, so this has been quite a journey already! - my only other project was modding a Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:52:02 CDT /show/blog/7788 my latest live set i played at \'what do you do?\' in chester http://soundcloud.com/drskime/dr-skime-live-at-what-do-you-do-28-8-09 unfortunately i trusted someone else to record it so the first 10 mins is missing made with : 2x alesis mmt8 yama Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:56:30 CDT /show/blog/7779 i reckon mulletballet didn\'t feel like posting a blog about this here mixit cause participation is so low. prolly not actually, he\'s a trooper. n e ways.. i took it upon myself to promote this mixt. MIXIT OR STFU. http://mixit.you-mix.com/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:33:29 CDT /show/blog/7800 after a long absence I\\\'ve finally made some new music. a new Tnerm work of ambient drone shoegaze stuff called Dark Sky, Open Sea. Most of it was made on an iPod Touch but the FX are real recordings, some of them by me. recorded in one long night Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:14:31 CDT /show/blog/7798 Why all the extra apostrophes online? It seems there\'s a plague of errant apostrophes all of a sudden. I\'ve noticed this phenomena not just here, but on other forums, blogs, and even in the comments on New York Times articles. It used to be t Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:28:27 CDT /show/blog/7796 When Yamaha released its first QY product, back in 1990, I thought it was the coolest thing in the whole wide world : a hand-held music workstation that you could carry everywhere to make music. It might seem trivial in this age of music application Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:18:15 CDT /show/blog/7816 Well, I picked up my APC40 last week, and from that point on, making music has become fun again, just like how it used to be. I\\\'ve had several controllers for Ableton over the years - an Oxygen 8, Trigger Finger, BCR2000 and a nanoKontrol, and the Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:08:27 CDT /show/blog/7777 We all feel we\'re gifted musically or we wouldn\'t be reading this. Other than music what\'s your talent or trick? What can you do that\'s unique or special. Mine: I\'ve completed both the 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 rubiks cubes w/ no assistance. I also d Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:08:39 CDT /show/blog/7771 Today, we release the second album from Ruin, Buried In Rust. A nice slice of analog synth ambient. plenty of distortion and grime. for moody saturday nights. http://bitkins.com/releases/btkn014 ps. im naked right now. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:19:22 CDT /show/blog/7809 Think you have hardware disease? Think again!! When cows out grazing in a beautiful pasture.But sometimes these pastures where cows live,can have old pieces of wire fences, nails, bits of discarded cans, etc.While grazing,a cow might accidentl Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:17:43 CDT /show/blog/7818 The third and final instalment of my Portuguese trilogy… Continued from [url=http://www.em411.com/blog/7778/0/Portugal_Part_1_Porto.html]Part One[/url] and [url=http://www.em411.com/blog/7797/0/Portugal_Part_2_Coimbra_and_Lisbon.html]Part Two[/url Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:51:15 CDT /show/blog/7808 The new album \\\"Complex Tone Test\\\" is now out! The release date has been brought forward slightly and it is in the shops. Really pleased to see it down as album of the week @ Boomkat > http://www.boomkat.com/item.c Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:25:36 CDT /show/blog/7774 The masonverb is a diy mic that has a nice reverb effect to it, please go here for more info, http://www.seeyouinsleep.com/blog/2009/9/6/masonverb.html and heres a video of a jam session using it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKI6gjyQUmo Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:22:00 CDT /show/blog/7813 So me and the band were in the middle of a 4 hour trip to Tourcoing for a gig tonight, driving top speed on the motorway, when suddenly it sounded like we were driving on ribbed gravel... the van started swerving and tipping... we all probably realiz Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:41:47 CDT /show/blog/7799 So as none of you knew, I went to Mongolia for about 2.5 weeks to work on some video. The trip was document a group of paleontologists and a group of high school students as they went way, way, way into the Gobi to look at famous fossil areas, learn Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:34:33 CDT