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i don’t do videogames…unless I am very depressed (not very often)
but few months ago I actually bought Osmos (10$) because I was curious…and finally during this holydays i had time to play with it…and i really enjoyed it (even if i wasn’t depressed).
i think it is wicked, and more than anything else the idea behind it is really clever.
the soundtrack of the game is a beautiful (but a bit too classic sometime) ambient album including Biosphere and Gas between the others,
every level has different tracks
Osmos by Hemisphere Games got very good reviews all around and won few prizes…and i reckon are all well deserved…

i wish to work on a similar project in the future

Robert Henke is the man…I have been following his music from the beginning…
I am still in love with Cinemascope and Interstate…and his liveset is probably the ultimate electronic liveset…period.

he is one of the minds behind Ableton…and he does many workshops around the planet sharing his knowledge….and many other good things can be said about him…he is humble !

I met him at the Sonica festival 3 years ago where I had the honor to share the same stage (Deadbeat, Rhythm and Sound and Greg Hunter were there too)..that time he played in front of 30 ppl (maybe less)…while thousands where lobotomized on the main stage by some rubbish trance…but he delivered an amazing set…and he didn’t behave like a rockstar…even if many of the bloated rockstars (who were playing on the lobotomy (trance) stage) were actually using a software that he created…period again.

he just released Silence, a new album…(dunno where he finds the time to do music)…

I haven’t got it yet…and I am very curious.
I am very pleased to read that he also joined the movement to stop the Loudness War…and he didn’t use any compressors for this album…and no limiters during the mastering.
This is a link to a very interesting conversation about mastering between Robert and Rashad Becker, the guy who mastered it:
http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html
and it confirms what I wrote in the post “Mastering is killing music” more than 3 months ago…cheers.

this was a nice surprise….
I just found this podcast with one of my tracks in it on Sacred Dub…
a website very close to mr Bill Laswell…

Sacred Dub : Transmission 039

tracklist

oooooopsss…..it is leaking so bad…sounds like they have bad emorroids….
I just found out about this brilliant news from damion psyreviews tweets…the new shpongle album has been leaked before the official release…http://psyreviews.net/content/view/650/65/
the golden boy is crying loud on the twisted rec forum (sorry…i will not put a link to his pathetic winges)…it seems that twisted records will close very soon too (oh nooo…pls tell me this is for real….)….but somehow it is starting an uprise…for example on this blog page by Paniq (that I fully subscribe):
The Shpongle Debacle & Why My Music is Free

it is absolutely hilarious to see the reactions of this buba buba bloated rotten psy(cotic)superstars in front of the tzunami that is flooding….
and anyway…piracy or not piracy (this is soo boring)…soon legal free music will be beating the copyrighted one for numbers of releases and even quality…oh yes…wait and see…

where the soul is alive.

music is again free from any constrictions and physical ownership…we can only let it flow…enjoy the ride…sing this song. (in the toilet)

let’s talk about music for a change…good music…with lot of jazz influence…
nujazz…psychedelic jazz…not that kind of posh-slick-boneless jazz that usually get me bored as fuck.

this are the albums I am enjoying more in the last months…really loving it…

Badun : Last night sleep
released by my friends of Mindwaves.

I will not go long here telling you who are they and all the rest of the blah blah….just go on thier cute website and dig it by yourself:

http://badun.dk/

the other album is not so recent but I actually found it recently:

Fontanelle: Style Drift
released by Kranky in 2002

absolutely lovely…and alive…shame they didn’t release anything after that.

after talking about it for years…
finally started this crazy mission with moreno…and greg (where are you ?)…and justin too
bakshish music…[it's not another label]…
let’s see what happen

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