Boomkat increased the beep

19 December 2008

There was a really good track — Martyn's Natural Selection — that was out on vinyl only, no MP3 release at the time. I really wanted to play it so I just ripped 20 seconds from boomkat's online preview and looped it. There was an occasional quiet beep over the top of it but it sounded kind of cool.

so now it seems that boomkat has increased the volume of the beep.

I did some track around the period of Bloatware using Cycling 74's Pluggo. they had these beeps every 30 seconds. I used so many plugins that the beeps all came at different times and through different layers of processing. It sounded wonderful. Josh was going to put it out. The irony being that Josh ran the record label Orthlorng Musork and also worked for the company (Cycling 74) whose software I stubbornly refused to pay for.


  1. 1 ix says...

    can sonification of spam be far behind?

    Posted at 8:09 a.m. on January 4, 2009
  2. 2 timeblind says...

    @ix (thor?) cool idea ! we could just recycle them into art.

    there is the <http://www.potatoland.com/landfill/> spam landfill

    (spams removed. next dev cycle I'll get protection in place.)

    Posted at 2:07 p.m. on January 8, 2009
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Solar Life Raft Ingredients

Timeblind
Format: Digital
Release date: 4th January 2010
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The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)

I’ve been waiting/yearning for Coltan and Cassiterite to come out for much of last year. I was about to release it myself just to relieve my own tension waiting for it. Anyway, its on a good home: The Agriculture and the reviews have been great so far.

The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.

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