Digital Vomit stuff (new threads)

Mr. Noisy Online!!!

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:32:04 +0000

Hi,

The Mr. Noisy album is ready for download!

Atm it's still with a megaupload link,
but I hope the album will be available soon through a decent link.
(already in contact with Hardoff)

Ps: coments are more then welcome

Mine….track 1-19: I like :-)

Hope you like it too

Cheers

Another DigiVom gig in Colchester?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:56:22 +0000

As Hooray will testify, a good time was had by all last Thursday night at a pub in Colchester called the Bull - the place was packed, the PA sounded great and we destroyed some CDs (video coming soon). And the upshot is that the landlord has basically said that if I ever want to do anything there again, I've moreorless got the keys. So I'm thinking that at some point in 2009, maybe in the summer months, we should do another DigiVom gig.

Your thoughts?

50mB upload limit for my webspace

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:59:58 +0000

ok, so i checked the support forum, and the 50mb limit for uploads is only for when you use the html uploader that is connected to the site.

if you use a seperate ftp unploader thing-a-me-bob then you can upload much more.

a thought on the opening page description...

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:56:24 +0000

i don't really like the sentence that says "between 50 and 500 members worldwide". it seems like a hell of an exaggeration to me….if it said something like members range from "double to triple digits", that would seem more accurate and less boastful.

on the other hand, if it said "somewhere between 50 and 50,000 members" that would be amusing.

does anyone else have an opinion on this?

Submissions list in navigation

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:26:42 +0000

Look over there
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I've added that submission list in the navigation as a really quick way for people to see what's currently available to get involved in… Is this worth having?

If so, can someone who has better CSS knowledge than me look at making it a bit better, because it's kinda bigger than it needs to be right now I think…

Also, for anyone that wants to edit the side panel, if you click "Edit this panel" in it, or here: nav:side it will come up in page, just click edit to edit it like any other page…

anyone experienced with torrents? what about DigiVom...

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:40:02 +0000

i've downloaded quite a bit from torrent sites but have never uploaded —- what if we (i.e someone in the know) uploaded EVERY digivom release as one huge DVDr image file? it would be handy both as a means of spreading the word, but also as a very nice resource for all of us to be able to pull down everything at once.

any thoughts?

Dublin Photos

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:04:29 +0000

DVR updates?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:09:55 +0000

…or something.

DVR013 Reverse Engineering Music - Part 1
Dead project?

DVR019 Various - Guide To Successful Party Training Volume 2
New deadline for tracks is Wednesday 15th October I gather. What will follow is anyone's guess. Will there be another CD Keith?

DVR023 Various - http hip hop time capsule
Dead project?

DVR027 Various - Acid Vomit
Deadline's been and gone, which I managed to miss, so I guess it's up to Doug now as to where to go with it next. MP3? CD? Who knows…

DVR031 ROBOstud - Soothing Sounds for 22nd Century Factory Workers
I'm guessing the first copies of this are being distributed tonight. Can't wait to hear it…

DVR033 Various - Mr. Noisy
Deadline's Wednesday 12th November apparently. Knowing Brian, the release will follow very shortly.

DVRXXX iivix voices/music project
???

DVRXXX Various - ∞
Not had a single entry yet. Mind you, I've been very busy of late, so that's not such a bad thing.

Website stuff

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:33:45 +0000

Yo. I've expanded what we had for the About Digital Vomit page. I think in the long run we should think about raising our profile in general, and one thing that will help us is to explain what makes us unique, and to make it easy for people to "get it". This is what I've tried to do on this page, so if you're interested, have a read, tell me what's missing or what shouldn't be there, or just edit it yourself.

Ultimately we have a lot to be proud of right now, so we should start thinking about how we can get our message further out there.

Also, while I'm here, perhaps we could remove the tag cloud? I dunno, it would clean the site up a little, unless people think it's useful? If we took it out, we could use the space for a small news section perhaps? Or a couple of little adverts for the latest releases?

wikipedia

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:49:59 +0000

So while I love that wikipedia is often full of random stuff that's fun to read, I really F&&King hate the attitude that they have to delete anything "non-notable". F^^king server space is virtually unlimited you arses, why not just include everything, rather than being power tripping arseholes? Well anyway, Solypsis is considered "non-notable" (sorry dude) as is Digital Vomit itself. Basically, if we wanted to be "notable", we'd have to have some coverage from tradition press somewhere, or release stuff by artists who are already "notable". I reckon this is a load of crap, because at the end of the day, for a small scene like we are, we are both the producers and the publicity of it. Also, haven't we released stuff by notable artists (namely V/Vm and Goodiepal to name two)? Haven't we had Radio 3 airplay? Well, apparently people in the noise scene aren't notable enough for wikipedia editors. Here they are dissing us

Well anyway, I'd love to make a compilation called "Non-notable" and promote it as all artists that wikipedia has deleted pages for. You could almost certainly get a degree of press coverage with such a stunt, and of course the irony then is that the compilation and artists contained therein would then become notable :P

If you wanna see what else power tripping wikipedia editors don't think is worth keeping, check out Deletionpedia

Mobile Vomit

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:50:04 +0000

Yo, so I just remembered that in light of the Hallo-Ex. back catalogue being restored, we're still missing the Mobile Vomit ringtone collection. I still really like it as an idea, and there were some cool sounds in there, so does anyone have the ringtones still (Junkshop? Mixo?? Solypsis???), and if so, can they upload them/link to them so we can make it accessible again?

∞

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:28:51 +0000

As mentioned briefly before, here's the fuller details of this new loop-based project, currently under the working title of ∞.

Basically the idea is to get people to create loops of music that can be played in any given order and form a coherant piece. So say 8 people sent in a loop, A-H. When played next to each other a combination of ABCDEFGH could be shuffled into DGACBHFE and still work as a single piece of music. And that's basically the idea.

What you lot would need to do is create some loops. Now in order for this to work well, all loops would need to be the same length. For this project, I'm setting the loop length as 15 seconds. This means that you could comfortably work with a tempo of 128bpm, or indeed any of the following:

8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512

Alternatively you could make something without a tempo, ie. a drone or noise. However, the precise length of each track would need to be 15 seconds. Not 15.01 seconds, neither 14.99, but 15 on the dot. And there should be no gap at the start or finish of the track - The entire 15 seconds should be filled with sound. If you're doing something with a 4 to the floor beat, the first beat should come in at 0.0 seconds. You get the idea. There's no limits with which key you use, nor with the style of music. (Ab)use of samples is fine.

Format is TBC. Although I'd like to do a CD, I'm not sure it would work conceptually, because usually if you put a CD player on shuffle it pauses between tracks, which would destroy the effect of all these tracks coming together as a single piece. As MP3 software technology improves however the gaps between tracks are almost non-existant now, particularly in iTunes, so I guess this will probably be an MP3 release. Whether that's as a download or a data CD or even a USB stick is still unknown. The added bonus with releasing it as MP3s of course is that extra tracks can be added on at later dates, officially or otherwise.

So yeah, that's the general idea. Some other details for the anally retentive amongst you… Because this is effectively meant to be a single track, submissions should not have track titles attached to them. Also, in a move similar to other short-track releases like No Time To Waste or Sloppy Seconds, you can submit as many tracks as you like, but each one should be under a different name. The release code, if not DVR025, will be DVR∞. :)

Completed tracks should be sent as WAVs to lee.ashcroft@hotmail.co.uk. Any submissions that are either not 15 seconds or contain gaps may be altered to fit the project. If your track doesn't fit and can't be fixed, I'll be in touch.

Have fun!

DVR033 - Myspace update

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:50:01 +0000

Could someone of the DV-myspace 'owners' update the space with a Mr. Noisy blog (with the info from the release page).
A bulletin would be nice too :-)

Thanks.

can we ditch that dancing MC hammer on the front page?

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:26 +0000

sorry….it was amusing for a few seconds 6 months ago, but i forgot it was there and it really is obnoxious.

just my opinion…

DVR033 - Various - Mr. Noisy

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:23:27 +0000

Submission is closed!

breaking the law.

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:48:06 +0000

wherefore art thine album, dear hardoff?

i don't care if it sucks, i wanna hear it.

A thought about net releases...

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:21:41 +0000

Since all that went down (if you don't know what I mean, don't ask), the sudden influx of net releases came to pretty much a stand still. Maybe people are too scared to release them now, maybe they've all just dried up for the time being, I don't know. But as you all probably know, I've always tried to push for physical releases whenever possible. To me, that's what this whole thing is about - putting records out against all the odds. But that's not to say online releases don't have their place, of course. So, one thought I had was that online releases could be released under a sub-label. Something like 'digi.vom' or whatever. But all of these releases would remain attached to and available from this wiki/website. It would just be a new way of differentiating between the physical and online releases, but would leave the name 'Digital Vomit' for exclusively releasing physical products only.

Maybe I'm just overcomplicating things with this; solving a problem that isn't really there. I dunno. It'd be interesting to hear what you lot think though.

DVR025?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:25:40 +0000

Sorry if I've missed something obvious, but someone's crossed out code DVR025 without indicating what the release is being used for. Any ideas?

New Project for DV?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:18:18 +0000

Dear all;

Was planning to launch a new project for D/V once I got 'Let's talk about Sex' out off the way but have had a few bad viruses to deal with which has made me put this project aside for a while…

In the meantime anyhow, I have just registered for this website by Nine Inch Nails - http://remix.nin.com/ and have being having some fun remixing Nine Inch Nails… I have done 2 Distance remixes already and one of them will be appearing on there soon.. I was thinking won't do we all at Digital Vomit have a go at doing a remix or two too and post them up there…

We could also if we want post a load off them together here afterwards as a D/v release afterwards..

What does everybody think?

DigiVom in Dublin: Can we get a lineup together now? Flyers?

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:28:54 +0000

believe it or not, the Dublin escapade is a mere 2 months away, so i do believe it's time we locked down who's performing and who's not.

so far, i believe me and hard off are the only ones who are "official"….i think pidgin is, uh, no longer participating.

also, if a good graphic designer (beytah?) wants to throw a flyer together for us, that would be aces /