The Reviews Are In, And…
Sometimes it is amazing what can happen when you ask. Why just a few short years ago I asked my utterly fantastic wife if she would marry me, and she said yes! More recently, with the release of my EP Rauthaz, I reached out to a UK writer/blogger who had shortly before reviewed the new album Crash St by my friend Paul Foster aka Dementio13. Not a month later I get a couple of e-mails stating that I was tagged in corresponding Twitter and Facebook posts. What those posts linked to was a...
Read MoreRauthaz EP release dates announced!
My new EP is finished and delivered to the powers that handle distribution. Now it’s just a short wait until you can download it. Here are the release dates that I am aware of: 2/28/2012: Available worldwide through Bandcamp 3/6/2012: Available worldwide through iTunes and CDBaby Sites such as Amazon, Napster, Deezer, and Spotify will follow later, but I do not have exact dates. All songs will also be available for sync licensing via Rumblefish and Friendlymusic in the near...
Read MoreMy Name in Print! In Future Music 243!
Navin R Johnson once opined, “I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in print – that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.” Yes, that’s how I felt today after I wandered into my local Barnes & Noble to see if the new issue of Future Music Magazine was in yet. Future Music is a British publication that focuses on production...
Read MoreNew Album and Charitable Donations From Solarno
Two announcements to make: 1) ‘Robot Junkyard – Derivative’ is now available throughout the interwebs! 2) Solarno now giving 50% of net proceeds of all sales to charitable organizations! Yes, ‘Derivative’ is finally available at all of your favorite digital download sites including iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, Bandcamp, and more. ’Derivative’ takes away the sound palate restrictions of the original ‘Robot Junkyard’ and breathes new life into...
Read MoreFor When I’m Not Writing Music
Hey, one can’t possibly write music all the time, especially when I still spend the better part of my days helping to save the world from inferior cycling products. So when I’m just not feeling the inspiration to sit down at the synth controller sometimes I’ll just pop a shiny silver disc into my xbox 360 and let my mind wander into another world. BTW, my gamertag on xbox live is solarno72. Feel free to hit me up. My latest wanderings have taken me into the mud covered world...
Read MoreReview of ‘Vulcan Foundry’ by Dementio13
Clicky drones? Check. Punchy drums? Check. Staccato arpeggiations? Check. The ability to make you dance without a traditional dance song structure? Check. If we step into the wayback machine and punch up the mid-90′s, cross-referenced with only those four short descriptors, you’d quickly narrow down your search. At the top would be Orbital. (Full disclosure, Orbital is one of my favorite bands of all time, and a big influence on my own productions.) But we’re not in the mid...
Read MoreI Love Shapelock!
Sometimes you come across something so cool that you have to post about it, whether it’s directly related to music or not! This is just one of those times. Last Tuesday I made a quick overnight trip to see my good friend Steve Cooley perform a live set with his musical compatriots Haptic Synapses. Hanging out with him the next day he showed me an amazing fast-prototyping material called Shapelock. It starts out as little plastic beads, but once heated in water to at least 150 degrees...
Read MoreThe Beatseqr Returns
One more video featuring Steve Cooley’s amazing Beatseqr. This time I’m using the Beatseqr to simultaneously send MIDI data to four different channel strips in Logic, each with a different instrument set up on it. Let the awesomeness ensue. ...
Read MoreBeatseqr comes to Robot Junkyard
Here are a couple of videos I recently did explaining the basics of the Beatseqr MIDI controller which is handmade by my good friend Steve Cooley. If you are interested in getting your hands on one of these bad boys, head on over to beatseqr.com to learn more. ...
Read MoreTotally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs!
This is possibly the greatest name ever for a band, and an electronic one at that. I stumbled across TEED while browsing through new and recent releases in iTunes. iTunes currently has three EPs and one single for TEED dating back to 2009, so it appears that they (actually he) are a fairly new act. Here’s a brief description of TEED from his last.fm page: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs swings between overt musicality and scarily on-point dancefloor sensibility, ripping up clubs...
Read MoreView from My Eyes
