Beathound.com is a cool service that will send you recommendations on what music is missing from your collection. it analyses your itunes xml file and emails you recommendations based on the artists and albums that you have in your collection. if it finds new releases by artists that you already Read more…
This is my list of 100 places to get free legal music downloads online www.largeheartedboy.com have a list with lots on it itunes is good for free music itsfreedownloads.com have a list of the latest free tracks on iTunes Amazon mp3 store has a lot of free stuff too last.fm Read more…
Some nice music for you to listen to and, if you like it, vote for. its a remix of janes addiction’s irresistible force by a friend of mine. if it gets enough votes then it may be an official release on emi :D Drawing on influences including Ministry, NIN and Read more…
Last night my girl and I were invited along to mumford and sons by a really nice couple we know. they managed to get us in for free too, which was excellent! the gig itself was fantastic. truly the best audience ive seen in a long time. maybe even better Read more…
Community. Im sitting right now participating in a video shoot for a local band called rose parade. when I say participating I really mean watching. and singing ‘da da da da’ when needed :) it has made me realise that there is a decent community in ayr. its not all Read more…
I have setup a facebook page for artu. the link is on the left. the link for the music on itunes is on the right sidebar :)
I have setup a facebook page for hybrid machinima. im in the process of writing a new album. the link is on the left.
I went to see dizzee rascal in edinurgh on sunday night. I was pleasently surprised. I’m not usually into that kind of music, but I do like dizee rascal, especially his older stuff. Edinburgh was expensive. very expensive. it always is. I stayed the night at my wee borthers flat Read more…
My new album is up on itunes – it is 33 tracks long and is a collection of the electronic music that I have made over the last two years released under the artist name ‘Artu’ – I was going to go for R2D2 but written out artuditu is a Read more…
I have mentioned the tracks before – here there are 33 tracks in total, they will be on itunes soon, and I guess they will be on amazon too. for now you can get the 33 tracks for $9.99 from cdbaby.com/cd/artu that works out at 30 cents each =| If Read more…
I’m addicted to making these youtube mashups now, this is my third one in as many days =| for this one I used a drumming lesson and a few analog synths. as with the other ones all the sound you hear comes directly from the videos playing, all I did Read more…
Well, I made this video yesterday, and had so much fun that I did another one today. The second one is a bit better than the first, but only just. again, made in ableton live with clips from youtube video’s.
Here is a song that I made from youtube videos. I looked for someone playing drums, then edited the video to my own beat, then I found someone teaching you how to play latin bass lines on a double bass and a guy playing sax in a park, added them Read more…
A wee mess around in ableton live with a beastieboys accapella on a saterday cos I was bored. nothing much more to say about it.
I was just looking about my blog and realised that I didn’t have the video for my band on the site, so here it is. http://www.youtube.com/hybridmach
Well, I’m sitting now, listening to the news, apparently Michael Jackson is going to announce a comeback tour this afternoon. Should be good =P Apart from that I have been training up to do a 900 mile cycle round Europe in the summer -you can find more details about it Read more…
Well, I am a bit bored today, so I decided to look up the number one single when I was born. it turns out that it was ‘the specials’ with ‘ghost town’ not bad. it was number one from the 11th july 1981 for 3 weeks.
Well, its coming up for that time of year when all the crappy christmas songs come out. I must admit that there is one good song in the uk charts this year – the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. all the other versions just arent as good. Read more…
I like the radio, Its not like the TV – with the radio you can listen to it while you do other things (unless you are recording, mixing or mastering =) things like checking emails, sending replies to messages on the numerous social networking sites and generally all the other Read more…
I was feeling a bit epic today, so I wrote this. I just jammed it out in two passes – one for the bass parts, and one for the higher stuff, its a bit messy, but I kinda like it. I had midi tracks going from ableton into reason, and Read more…
There are so many good things about ableton. one of them is instrument racks. this is me messing about with instrument racks.
So I was at my grans house, helping her tidy out her attic, and she gave me a pioneer stack system. and technics speakers. record players are cool. so I gladly accepted them, and now I have a record player. I dug out all my dads old LP’s, Neil young, Read more…
Everyone’s itunes does it. you get massive visualisations at gigs. im experimenting in proper visuals for my gigs – I play ableton in a band. I have yet to find a visualisation program that takes input from your soundcard and generates the visualisations based on whats coming into that input. Read more…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
well, I now have a way to make tutorial videos, and this is really the last in a series of tests for me, this is the test of getting my video from youtube and generating a page with the video in it, its not yet working properly on the homepage – i need to put an if statement in the code to check if the file is a video instead of a picture.
it should be working on the front page as well, and the story should be ok in the categories, but the single page video is borked =P
this video is just me running an ableton session so that i could make a video of it and test everything…
i just got back in from t in the park, I’m charging my phone up so that I can put the pics up later on. all I have to say is that Rage Against The Machine are fucking amaising ! by far the best band that I have ever seen. Read more…
I got the confirmation email last week, and ive just checked the itunes store, and my new album is up !! the physical cd is available through cdbaby.com aswell =) so ive added a new slot to the sidebar and put in both of the cds with links to biy Read more…
Nine inch nails have been releasing a lot of new material lately, they released a new single onm the 22nd, you can get it for free from this url http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin
W0ooot my second album is out now!!! cdbaby.com/cd/machinima2 This is the first full album release by the Scottish black metal band Hybrid Machinima, formed from their love of metal and rock in mid 2006. This is an altogether different experience from their debut ep which was released last year, showing Read more…
Ooooh, rancid are gonna (hopefully) release a new album i just ripped this from some site that I subscribe to, and ive just fired up rancid on my winamp Rancid is working on a new album that is expected to drop around the same time the punk-rockers dive into their Read more…
I was lead to a fantastic new site from one of the blogs that i read, http://nothingbutgreenlights.net the site is called muxtape you can get it here muxtape.com basically its a way for you to make mp3 mixtapes that people can listen to, or download if you let them, im Read more…
Well, ive had this on my mind for a few weeks now http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options nine inch nails have released a 4 cd set, the first of which you can download for free, from their site (see above link) this is another of the free legal downloads, im getting it right now, Read more…
So, I downloaded the new pennywise cd from myspace a couple of days ago go grab it form myspace.com/pennywise this is the second time ive listened to it now, the first time I listened I thought ‘wow’ they have made a good job, the production is clean compaired to previous Read more…