Digital Vomit stuff (new posts)

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:50:59 +0000

sure yeah, just pick a track from the "earliest recordings" folder….but lemme know which one it is before releasing this - i get veto power!

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:11:56 +0000

Annoyingly, my stuff's on DAT and my DAT player seems to have died :( I've got cassette tapes from back in the day but they're all at my parents' house… I'll see what I can do.

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:58:06 +0000

Cheers guys. James, I've got both the Purge DVDs so if you want me to take anything from that just let me know.

Currently deciding on the single best and worst tracks from my archives to add to the pile…

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:52:55 +0000

Let's see now… Sunday 11th Jan 2004 is the date of the first mp3 here. Sounds like I loaded up the first thing I could find into a freshly installed, erm, "copy" of Cool Edit Pro, and pushed all the nice buttons.

I'm also sure I used to have something done on the Amiga with this: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/perfectsound
I know I had two samples from NYNEX Cable (one from QVC and one from The Box). Unfortunately, a recent raid through a big box of 880Kb disks failed to turn them up, but I'll keep looking.

Links have been sent.

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:46:29 +0000

I could only dig back to 2000. I had few more years of earlier junk but it all got lost back then to a hard drive crash. Probably for the best really. Email with MP3 link sent!

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:21:33 +0000

I got some 1998 tracks from purge I could throw on this.

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:34:50 +0000

Hmm… I've got a track I made in 1983 when I was 14. Unfortunately I only had my mum's stereo to work with. It was possible to play a cassette and a LP simultaneously and record the "mix" on second cassette player. I repeatedly dubbed approximately a bar of "Rock 'n' Roll" by Gary Glitter on to a tape as the drumbeat, took the belt out of the turntable and played a DNA record over the top at about 5 rpm. Obviously, it sounds fucking awful.

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:51:31 +0000

I sneaked some of my early stuff on to Bunghong releases, but I know of a few other experiments from 20 years ago i can dig out for this.

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:01:59 +0000

I've got some tracks I made on Protracker on my Amiga back in 1993, I'll be interested to see if anyone is going to dig out anything earlier or more primitive :)

Teenage Sickbag: Re: Teenage Sickbag

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:21 +0000

Obviously I'm down for this. I reckon 1) there's some gold to be mined from naive experimentation, 2) it'll be a cathartic process, and 3) it just seems like a pretty DV type of compilation.

Teenage Sickbag: Teenage Sickbag

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:39:53 +0000

So I was digging through my archives today, when I came across a collection of tracks consisting entirely of sample-pack arrangements assembled in Sonic Foundry Acid Express (those were the days…), "written" when I was 15 years of age, during time spent off sick. It's godawful, but I was thinking of releasing this collection on here as a kind of artefact of my dubious musical history. Then iivix said on Facebook that if we all went through our archives and pulled out our earliest recordings it might make for an interesting compilation. And he's right.

So your mission is to trawl your hard drives, CD-Rs and floppy discs for the earliest examples of music you've ever recorded. Not "the earliest stuff under your current name," but the absolute earliest stuff. Mine was all recorded directly to 192kbps MP3, and I'm sure the rest of you probably had similar disregard for audio fidelity back then, so there's no bitrate or format issues for this one. Put it here, send links to lee.ashcroft at hotmail.co.uk, whatever. When there's enough I'll unleash them. Oh, and if you remember, include the creation date with it too.

(Title might change.)

DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK: Re: DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:09:41 +0000

this is the fixed back art with the track listing:

http://hararca.com/download/DVR053_back.jpg

thanks

-b

FUKNO - Live Studio Mess remix comp: Re: FUKNO - Live Studio Mess remix comp

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:39:57 +0000

Seriously guys, this stuff's ripe for remixing. Give it a try…

DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK: Re: DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:36:42 +0000

hey, thanks for "archiveing" it!

there seems to be a problem with the back art (the file is way too big).
I'll post the fixed version somewhere and link it here so you (Keith) can change it at archive too.
thanks again….

-b

Bandcamp?: Re: Bandcamp?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:40:40 +0000

I put my last RPM Challenge album up at Bandcamp - the page is here - and the whole process is quite neat and painless. Archive can be a pain, although the new upload system they have now is far better than the old one, which seemed to almost require occult knowledge in order to operate and display correctly.

If you've got WAV files for everything it's a nice alternative - although Archive will convert everything into MP3, FLAC et al as well.

Bandcamp?: Bandcamp?

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:50:26 +0000

I know we all seem to be using Archive for online releases these days, but I've recently kind of fallen in love with Bandcamp. It's meant for bands who want to sell digital downloads easily, but they also have a free service too. What I really like about it is the fact that you can download audio in a number of different formats. The catch of course being that you have to upload audio in WAV format. There's also scope for layout customisation, and the Bandcamp branding isn't particularly intrusive. The whole thing just feels a lot nicer than Archive if I'm honest. I realise this probably won't be suitable for the back-catalogue, given many of the tracks are sourced from MP3s, but in future, could this be an option?

For example: http://valentinerecords.bandcamp.com/

8-Track Remind (DVR062) - SOLD OUT, shipping soon: Re: 8-Track Remind (DVR062) - SOLD OUT, shipping soon

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:28:08 +0000

First bit of press, courtesy of the Chicago Reader…

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/kesha-calls-cutsies/Content?oid=2224457

8-Track Remind (DVR062) - SOLD OUT, shipping soon: Re: 8-Track Remind (DVR062) - orders now CLOSED

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:52:32 +0000

The carts are now in my possession; official release date is Friday 27th August. If you've ordered one, you'll receive your copy some point soon…

DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK: Re: DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:27:49 +0000

Here it is Guys

go promote yourselves silly.

http://www.archive.org/details/Various-DerNarrenturmdvr053Mp3

DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK: Re: DER NARRENTURM PATHOLOGISH-ANATOMISCHES BUNDESMUSIK

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:20:46 +0000

Oh thats a good album. (only a quick listen by dipping ionto each track, but i think it's going be a grower as well!)

Cyan approves and was even dancing to the Solypsis tarck!!!!