Just a quick post today to see how I can cross promote both my radioshow (sundays at noon until 2pm on wrct) and my blog (you are already here). Here are some links to the things that I played on my show that are free to consume... the blibbblobb podcast - amazingly fantastic chiptune remixes with no annoying talking on top bacanal intruder - modem - awesome free net.label release, along the lines of nobukazu takemura, but cuter somehow, and with far less vocoders. Audiogarde - Mardi Gras - from the cock rock disco free compilation, most everything else on this comp is breakcore, but this is one tasty little disco nugget. Tim Koch - Elk Meadow EP - beautiful melodies and simple drum lines from one of the oldest net.labels emil klotzsch - sandkorn - collage sounds, nice melodies, interesting instrumentation

Last month I participated in a project called NARMO, the participants of which attempted to complete a 31 minute long album in one month. I managed to finish under the deadline, and my offering is available now. It would be awesome if you could download the entire album as a zip file but if bandwidth concerns keep you from doing so, you can grab the individual tracks at the project page. This album is a somewhat significant departure from what I normally do, due to the fact that I played some actual physical instrument on every track. I also tried to fit vocals on everything as well, and I think that it came out alright, if somewhat hesitant and melancholy. Some of the other albums that I think are pretty good from the competition are: the Chris Schwan album, which is really intresting ambient and field recordings which duck into techno about halfway through all of the tracks ( Download here ) the Fred Hamilton album, which is pretty silly rock. I don't think it is quite ready for radio play, but it is encouraging somehow. ( Download here ) the counterweights for their totally fantastic cover, and the awesome blog of the person that wrote it. I havn't really given this one enough time, but this track is pretty good ( Download here ) d.edren is well produced idm, but loses points because I have to open up an xml file to find out where to download the mp3s. Currently you have to listen to it in a flash player. 14bits is some techno stuff as well. nice and roomy. ok, hope you enjoy!

I have been meaning to start a database of mac shmups for a while now, as it is one of my favorite genres, but the lack of dojin soft & the millions and millions of shooters that it brings really lowers the number of games to something that can be covered in a few blog posts. Hopefully the development of shooters on the mac will speed up, but for the time being, here is a brief collection of the shmups that I have been playing to bide my time until I can buy a pc for a tax deduction. I couldn't get by without at least a quick mention of Kenta Cho's ABA games, who releases his source, resulting in some awesome ports. His latest one just came out, and it has yet to be ported, so someone who knows their way around SDL and D has the opportunity to be my best friend, at least for a few minutes. Gridwars 3 is a clone of Geometry Wars 3, which is itself a clone of Robotron: 2048. It is a high-scoring, high-speed shooter that you control with two joysticks. Gridrunner ++ is a hella dope psychotic mayhem shooter that is developed by someone who has been in the business for an incredibly long time. This one took up alot of my time in the design computer clusters in college and I am somewhat sad that I have rediscovered it, if only because I am going to lose a ton of time to it again. I ran into some more fun ones tonight, namely: bullet candy. It is another one in the style of Robotron, but with more bullet mayhem. It also has a pretty slick sound track and some nice particle effects. I also ran across Super Phoenix tonight, which is not technically a shmup, but has some pretty nice graphics and pretty frantic gameplay so it comes close enough to qualify for this post. Ok, I think that about does it for me tonight, sorry for the drunken blogging last night, but I hope this post (which has been far too long in production) more than makes up for it. Enjoy ignoring your work! [edit] I have added an ad, because lots of people come to this post from google searches. I hope you find what you were looking for!

just going to throw down a few ideas here real quick so that I don't lose them before tomorrow. Today I had a pretty good day at work, I managed to get a reasonable amount of work done. I am starting to realize that everone else at this job is about as stressed out as I am. after I got home from work, I spent some time going to radio shack and cvs to pick up components to trick out my bike. I bought a length of EL tape off of some classmates about a year point five ago, and I have been thinking that it would be pretty cool as a safety device for my bike since this weekend. After initial testing this evening, I think I can safely say that it is pretty sweet, and the only real problem with the el tape is that I need more of it on my bike. I just got back from a doormouse show which was reletively great. It would have been nice to be able to stay later, because dj cutups, who came on right after doormouse was dropping some sweet ragga-jungle stuff.

As a public dis service I packed up the two albums that I have completed into zip file and stuck them on a web page for you to download. Please enjoy. I suspect that this method of making little webpages without database backend, nor any method for organizing the urls is going to come and bite me in the ass someday, but until I get some free time, I am quite enjoying designing little tasty nuggets of throwaway html. This is clearly a discussion for some other time. In other news, my life has been going pretty speedily recently and I havn't had much time to keep up with my blog. I feel like this article about slowbloggging is pretty applicable to how I am feeling right now. Edit!!! : I was just informed that none of the links to my mp3s were working. They are now. Sorry folks.