Scratch Ambulance, the CD I collaborated on with earcon (aka John Parker), is now up on CD Baby [dead link -- try this]. The page includes ordering info and a couple of minutes from each track in streaming form. Turn up the volume -- we opted for more dynamics over the usual ear-assault of current CDs.
tom moody
Scratch Ambulance CD
Spent some time today on the CD Baby website getting my disc with earcon ready for physical and virtual distribution. The CD will retail for $10.99 and tracks will be purchasable on iTunes (suck it up) and other venues.
Categorywise we're describing it as "electronic/electro" (genre/subgenre 1) ; "avant garde/computer music" (genre/subgenre 2); and "lo-fi" as a third level.
The tag line is "earcon's electro-style remixes of Tom Moody's Macintosh SE tunes from the '80s"; additional description is the text on the front cover (above):
The raw material for this CD is a series of recordings made by Tom Moody on a Macintosh SE computer, using its poignantly limited 4-voice, monaural sound chip. The bulk of the songs were produced in 1988 but efforts continued sporadically until the machine died. On this disc earcon remixes the tracks using the imperfections of the digital source material as the starting point; the CD is a hybrid of ancient digital signal processing and current music composing tools.
More info about distribution to follow.
Cyber-Movie
Ghost in the Machine (1993). Really bad. From IMDb: "Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the 'Address Book Killer,' who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's address book to demonstrate a hand-held scanner. Karl obtains the file, and while driving to Terry's house that night in a heavy rainstorm, his car runs off the road and lands upside down in a cemetery. While Karl is undergoing a CAT scan at the hospital, a surge of lightning courses through the building, and Karl's soul is transformed into electrical energy. Karl uses the electrical grid and computer networks to continue his killing spree." More IMDb: "The whole idea of the killer going into electricity in general is obviously the most unrealistic thing in the entire film, but it is stretched to cover almost the entire movie from beginning to end, which is what shows most clearly the fact that the movie is based on the emergence of the world wide web. It's kind of a what-if thriller about what would happen if a psychotic killer was accidentally released into the electricity based communications system that is the internet and was then able to defy all laws of logic and physics and who knows what else, and if he had somehow developed this overwhelming passion to kill a certain woman and her family and friends for committing the crime of leaving her address book at the computer shop. "
Newish Adrien75 Tune
Belatedly found that Adrien75 had posted a new track, "MellonBallBounce," on his mp3 page. Worth a listen as always.
Update: He also has a MySpace page.