SIDtastic! comes to Sounds of Solarno
Back in the mid to late 80′s, and into the very early 90′s, the majority of my musical experimentation was done using my venerable Commodore 64. The Commodore 64 contained a little piece of hardware called the SID, a sound chip which would go on to become one of the most influential 8-bit sound chips of all time. The signature sound of the SID can be prominently found in the recent chiptune resurgence of the past 5 years or so. Artists such as 8-Bit Weapon and Computeher...
Read MoreThe artwork is done!
I finished all of the album artwork tonight for Robot Junkyard, and I even have my UPC code already. It’s now a real album in the eyes of Soundscan! (Or at least it will be as soon as I upload the album info to Soundscan.) What you see next to this text is the album cover. The rest of the artwork will be presented in the album listing sometime around when the album is finally available. It feels really good to get this aspect of the album done. Sometimes it is very difficult to...
Read MoreI can see the finish line
It’s so close I can taste it. Here it is 1am and I just finished the first go-round of mastering on all eleven tracks. No, I didn’t do them all tonight. The brain couldn’t handle it. All eleven were done over the course of the last week, eeking out a few minutes here and there when I could find the time. Just for fun I took a picture (attached) of some of my album notes. You probably can’t read much, but here’s a brief rundown of what you’ll see:...
Read MoreView from My Eyes
