Glacial Communications

Some combination of Leap Day, records (particularly 33 1/3 RPM ones),  The Onion's Our Dumb World, and Tangerine Dream's Phaedra (not to be confused with Banjerine Dream)

This episode was pre-empted by the 11th annual Homelessness Marathon.

I’ve been busy with various and sundry things – attempting an album for the RPM Challenge, working on some video projects and all kinds of other junk, thus no time to blog here outside of the semiautomatic podcast posts.

There will be some new Sonicbirth plugins posted soon (I just need to GUIfy them), and as the RPM challenge songs are done, they’ll be uploaded to NEOelectro.

In the meantime, here’s a cool AudioUnit I found today: bismark’s bs-0 – a free/donationware Soundfont/DLS player that probably works better than the one that comes with OS X (since it can find the individual patches within the soundfont), and likely needs less horsepower than Crystal. It’s also available as a VSTi for you Windows and/or Cubase types.

What's on my external hard drive? Well, that's what you heard. lots of old recordings/samples/etc.

Since it was Ash Wednesday, it was all Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. There were also songs sampling/referencing the movies (Deicide's Dead by Dawn, Skinny Puppy's Who's Laughing Now?, LaTour's People Are Still Having Sex).  And this song made entirely out of ED/EDII/AoD samples by the awesomely named Monkey Farm Frankenstein.