2009
This was a great year for me. I feel that I achieved a lot. I’ve been working the Swaying Smoke project since March 2008. So, my two year anniversary is coming up in a few months.
I worked a lot with found sounds and noisy ambiance in 2008. This past year, I worked with found sounds less, instead focusing more on drone and soundscapes. I don’t expect that to lessen in 2010, but we’ll see what happens. I do have plans to explore other styles of creating within my same genre.
I had two netlabel releases with Public Spaces Lab: Hidden Beneath the Soil and Unbroken Lantern.
Two of my songs were included on netlabel compilations. Encompassed by the Rain was with Public Spaces Lab. Speaking Machines was with Earth Monkey Productions.
I also self released 20 individual tracks, three of which were remixes. They are collected under the title of Unreason. I’ll be starting a new collection of individual tracks for 2010. Expect something new soon.
I want to thank everyone for their support, especially the netlabels and musicians on Twitter.
Happy New Year!
25. Unbroken Lantern
My new album is out now on the Public Spaces Lab netlabel:
Track List
Never Been Darker
A Stain of Light in the Forest
The Ancient Hearth Abandoned to the Wild
The Hermit Stares Blindly
Morning Dawns Darker Yet
Once a month on solipsistic NATION I showcase a music label that is putting out amazing releases that you need to know about. Today on solipsistic NATION we’ll listen to music from the excellent PublicSpaces Lab netlabel.
solipsistic NATION No. 171: PublicSpaces Lab : solipsistic NATION
Encompassed by the Rain, Remixed
My song from the Public Spaces Lab netlabel compilation, Ceci n’est pas une pipe, has been remixed by Quarterbit. He will be performing a showcase of that compilation at the Netaudio Festival in Berlin. I wish I could be there to hear his set, but Berlin is well over four thousand miles away. It’s a bit of a hike from here.
Mashable reaches a whole new audience for our releases and specially for PS010, a release that we are very proud of and our servers already felt the power of it with some downtime that we took care of immediately. This is a feature that we feel very proud of because, being a netlabel, we are all about sharing the music we release to the biggest audience possible and Mashable just has given us the opportunity to do just that.
Muxtape
I received an invite to Muxtape.com from Twitter friend @madebyrobot the other day. Thanks again, pal!
All I have on there right now is the cover art for Hidden Beneath the Soil, the songs for streaming and a few links. I’m still thinking about what to do with it.
