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Link Attack or Just Some Stuff I Have Found Lately

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If you somehow missed the DS-10 or the the fact the it will be available everywhere or even if you haven’t you might want to keep an eye on this blog. Since there appears to be a big interest worldwide the fact it will be available everywhere maybe there will be more English updates. There always is Google’s translate feature but it doesn’t seem to work so hot on Asian languages.

I like the Whites Stripes but hate the Raconteurs. Steady as Shes Goes makes me want to fill my ears with wax. Anyway here are some links pertaining to the new Raconteurs album being rushed to market. More new ideas in a brave new music world.

BBC

Paste

Idolator

Gear Junkies had this round up of last weeks MusikMesse. Sonicstate has this whole page of MusikMesse coverage. Also I found this video via Digital Music Mag:


Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. What fun would that be to play with.

You can find 8.5 gigs of free samples here.

Audiowarrior has a free djembe for Kontact.

Check out this handy note to frequency calculator from AMZ.

At WolframTones you can generate some interesting midi files. Not compositions in my book but maybe ideas can spring form it.

The is a page is an Illustrator’s portfolio but here is some great looking stuff done on a couple of guitars.

NIN is Cooler Than You or Options, Artwork & a Sample

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Last year In_Rainbows got so much publicity last. Well Radiohead I got news. NIN is cooler than you.

The case for NIN being the leader of a new music industry model keeps mounting. The Saul Williams Album The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust free for the first 100,000 & now presumable passed that number only $5. Then the Remix Album & Site allowing anyone to remix and upload material easily. And mix in a plethora of very anti-big music statement.

As of yesterday Nine Inch Nails instrumental album Ghost I-IV is available after some tecnological problem(which I can sympathize with lately.) The is no less than 5 choice of how you would like it. $10 for 2-CD’s set to ship April 8th(can do a download now), a deluxe edition of Ghosts I-IV in a hardcover fabric slipcase containing: 2 audio CDs, 1 data DVD with all 36 tracks in multi-track format, and a Blu-ray disc with Ghosts I-IV in high-definition 96/24 stereo and accompanying slideshow for $75 dollar, for $300 you could have got a Ultra Deluxe Limited Edition Package but the have sold the 2500 copies.

There are two download options. The first 9 tracks free in DRM free mp3 of the whole .pdf art work. Or for the reasonable sum of $5 download the whole 36 tracks and art work. The download choices are 320kbs mp3, FLAC, or Apple lossless. IMHO they got it right. Options, Artwork & a Sample. You can not go wrong. Myself & others suggested should be done after In_Rainbows.

If you are not a NIN fan or instrumental fan or whatever but are a gear head you should check out the .pdf artwork that comes with the download. It doesn’t really matter what kind of gear porn you are into there are intimate phots of it. Vintage amp, boutique pedals, pile o’ spaghetti patch cord modular madness, etc. It is all there. Death by Audio couldn’t ask for better product placement.

A New Home Sweet Home or a Brighter Future

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Homemade Noize has a new home. Its ones and zeros transmitted to you now originate from some hosting company’s server farm rather than the mega-server plantation belonging to Google. The guts spitting out those ones and zero have changed also. Wordpress is powering these words. It provides the ability to do more things and give be more power to makes this little corner of the web bigger, better more the way I want it. Wordpress is also fairly easy for those that have considered it. Which is good because I don’t full understand what I am doing. Thanks to all those behind the K2 theme and Dave Kellam’s Fork style that adapted to my purposes. I sure there is some glitches that I hope to fix. I think the major stuff like posting and the feed works(knock on wood.)

This web stuff might not be that exciting to you. Sorry. The long and short of it is I hope to great improve this site.

Also kubton.com has been redone and in the short term a lot of new content should be added. I am sure a lot of problems need fixing there also. If I waited until it was perfect(or close to it) the only place these ones and zeros would be was my desktop.