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Song: Putte - 5

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I love Putte’s new track. Makes me sad and happy at the same time. If music can do that, it is doing its job right!

hugs to the puttster!

Grab it here: link

Lyrics:

what a time we had
5 years of our lifes
now i lay in bed
and see your head next to mine
without you being here

i lost [...]

“So what is your music like?”

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(blog to self and anyone else who cares to read this)

If you try to promote yourself, you risk being perceived as ‘up ya self’. This seems to be even more the case in Australia than else where as well unfortunately.

Is there a ‘right way to ‘market’ yourself to others so they will listen to you? [...]
It takes two senses to perceive full range sound.  We hear sound, but we  also feel sound, especially low frequency.  Traditionally, it takes big  speakers, moving tremendous amounts of air, to feel the low frequency of  sound.  People like loud concerts because they want to feel the sound  pressure in their [...]
Saw this URL on the back window of a car yesterday and thought I would look it up. well its for a heavy rock band but you gotta check out the singers hair! wow!

My girlfriend has her own domain now! jemgirl.com. Just a logotype there at the moment but it will be updated soon with [...]

partay = good

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had great fun last night. i was right, the locals where great too… even preferred the stuff they played for dancing anyway. schumacher was very good though too playing a lot of disco tinged tunes(even mixing in some michael jackson)... will definitely be going to some melbourne techno massive gigs in the near future. degenerator [...]
-couple months ago now, I shaped a piece of MDF and sat it on a keyboard stand to extend my desk. can be seen here:

http://fresh.atariboy.com/atariboys_studio.mp4 (right click to save it, dont just click it-its MPEG4. you will probably need quicktime)

-I’m really looking forward to this: http://www.fxteleport.com/ to come out for OS X. Get a fast [...]
Well I have finished the UI design for Zebra and graphics for the new u-he.com website which will be updated after Zebra launch which will be…. I shouldn’t say.. but ummm, lets say, before another week goes by

It’s looks great and I’m REALLY happy with it… Urs still has to put the remaining [...]

Yamaha AN1x

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Just bought a yamaha an1x.



I am darn happy with it so far. Havn’t gotten into programming any sounds myself but I have grabbed some patches off the net and loaded them on as well.  (thanks Sysex librarian)

the reasons I bought one:

wanted a controller with knobs
controller that is lighter than the Ensoniq EPS i currently [...]

recording

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I borrowed a friends MOTU 828 for a couple of days.

Recorded all sorts of stuff ready for use in tracks like weird sound made with my mouth, traffic noise, hitting stuff, scraping stuff and a bit of weird singing(cause i can’t sing properly so I do it extra weird). Oh yeah. Also recorded some stuff [...]
I have put up a rough mix of my new song. Been having trouble mastering it properly so really, it must be a mix problem. I have mainly released it to get hints on what can be done to fix this.

you can grab it here via my em411 release page:

http://www.em411.com/show-addict.php?user=atariboy&tab=releases

You may want to wait until [...]



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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
+ web designer at plasq.

We are best known for Comic Life which was bundled with Millions of Apple Macs and now the much lauded, Skitch!.

Non plasq projects:
Loqalize - Open software translation web service
tequp - tech and art meetups
UI Review - Flickr group for peer UI reviews

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