| Download album |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|12:35 am] |
In fact this is a new Kratarknathrak album, but i stopped using that name, because it was too difficult for most people. "Higgs Foton" has a nice ring and is much easier to remember than that krkrkrkkt like most people say. So here it is. "The shadow". 7 songs of which two different versions of the title track, 4 new songs and one not-so-new. It lasts for about an hour, and i am currently uploading it to musiczeit.com, a nifty site i found where you can make downloads available for sale. I was long looking for something like this, but most of those sites require "maintainance fees" and stuff like that. Musiczeit doesn't and i like that for starters because i really don't know how digital sales go, though i suspect it is not as good as physical.
I have some stuff to release, and i tried the "free download" thingy, but i found that to be quite shitty. Problem is that most people assume that if you make it available for free that is must suck. And lets face it, with the crap the talentless myriad of myspace bands release as "FREE DOWNLOAD ALBUM", that's not even far beside the truth. And it adds fo further devaluation of music. Making it available for free is saying it holds no value. Well, it doesn't. I think what i make holds value, and though i experimented with the "free download" thingy (Kratarknathrak EP and album on Laidback electronica netlabel, and the Mixtape, cumulonimbus II and NCDFYS EP from tPROE) i find the results to be quite shitty, so i am not going there anymore.
Offcourse there is the illegal circuit, but i think by putting value on music, you make it worthwhile and thus desireable. So the musiczeit.com site is a new experiment i am trying now. I do not expect much from it saleswise, but at least it gives me the opportunity to do things like i want them to be. More or less, because i put up the album for the minimal EP price, but according to their standards it has to last under 30 minutes, and mine is a mere 20 minutes longer. meh.
Anyway:
http://www.downloadplatform.com/album.php?album=1103&Higgs+Foton+The+shadow
The result is pleasing imho. If i like what is happening here i will release digital versions of the self released tPROE CD's, and more backcatalogue stuff and the more difficult experimental tPROE side. And offcourse more Higgs Foton and assorted thingies.
Free downloads are soooooooo 2008. |
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| Music ramblings |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|12:51 pm] |
Yesterday i went shopping and bought CDs. A few disco compilations from sales (with cool italo stuff like alexander robotnick, Putch 79, Daniel Wang and the likes on it), the new VNV Nation (which, much to my suprise, is available in good record shops in NL now. Kudo's for the distribution!), new Louderback (minimal techno) new Vive la fete, and i bought three Pink Floyd albums in a nice package. Somehow they rereleased all their material, but now they made them with the original albumcovers on CD format, so you have mini-versions of the original vinyl albums. very nice. I bought "Animals" (didn't had that one), "Wish you were here" and "Meddle". The last two i already had on vinyl.
I had them on, and it still is amazing how timeless the music from Pink Floyd is. To me personally "Wish you were here" is their best album. Most seem to think that from "The dark side of the moon". I like that one very much as well, but "Wish you were here" is imho one of the greatest achievements in the music history. It is the BEST album ever made. Production, sounds, songs, atmosphere, everything is almost perfect. Add to that the fantastic artwork (which is partially made by Peter Christopherson of later Throbbing Gristle and Coil fame) and there you have it. A landmark in music. The album is also surrounded by strange stories like old time member Syd Barret suddenly showing up at the recordings and stuff.
Somehow this album also ment the end of the creative high for Pink Floyd. The next one ("Animals") is still pretty good, but after that they released "The wall", which is apart from "The final cut" their worst album imho. After they kicked out Roger Waters they became somewhat better. "A momentary lapse of reason" was a decent album, and i didn't like "The division bell" much but "High hopes" was a very good song. The last song on their last studio album. A fitting end. After that only live albums and compilations.
Now that i think about it. Two or their original members are already dead. The creative brains of the band (Waters and Gilmour) are still alive, but i hope they never reform. They achieved perfection on one album. There is no need for more. They will never ever best "Wish you were here", the best album ever made. |
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| \o/ Onweer! |
[May. 25th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
Onweer vind ik gaaf. De bui die net is overgedreven was supertof! Ik ging buiten kijken, en bliksems zo fel heb ik ze nog nooit gezien! Dichtbij, en enorm fel, en ze duurden zo lang (1 a 2 seconden) dat je ze kon zien bewegen! Wieeee, en een LAWAAI joh, niet normaal meer. Alles stond gewoon te trillen. Hahaha. :) De boel sloeg te horen aan het lawaai overal flink in, en ik hoor nu ook een brandweerauto buiten, dus er is iets aan het fikken ergens. En ja hoor, staat een dak in de brand ongeveer 100 meter bij me vandaan. Dat wordt spannend.
edit: meer brandweerwagens, en ik kan de brandlucht nu duidelijk ruiken. Het vuurtje is niet erg groot, dus dat zal wel geen grote fik worden met al die zwaailichten in die straat.
En JA HOOR. pffrssst ging een schuimblusser en dat was het dan voor vandaag. |
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| Slimelight |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|11:01 pm] |
Just busy with making the backings for the slimelight gigs. We will play the same set as we did in Wageningen. People went quite crazy there with this set. I hope the Londoners don't mind some dubstep, dancehall and drum&bass mixed in the stompyness, but overal the response on the new songs has been good, and i even saw people doing the strange-dubstep-jumpyness on NCDFYS.
Watch people do the dubstep-jumpyness here.
And we will also play "Dirty Distorted Dancehall" so ya'll better watch the dancemoves in this vid:
Time fo sum INDUSTRIAL DAGGERING!
Encores wil be different from the Wageningen set, and i have a set of three encores, and will probably bring some more minidiscs with tracks for if people want more and more and more. I might even do something funny, but need to work on that to make it work. So maybe nothing funny and more serieusness. |
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| New tracks and shows |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|11:45 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | tPROE - The rebellion | ] |
Right now i have 6 new tPROE tracks. Titles are working titles more or less:
- Drumbass
Drum&bass song. Originally started as a remix i did for Implant, but it seemed it didn't make it on the last album, so i reworked it. Not sure if this will make the new album.
- Amoklauf
150 bpm technoish song. Not content with the beats. Soundscapes and antmospherics are very good though. Need to work on this.
- Dismemberment
That one is to my liking now. Very strange pounding funky almost houselike track. Also suprisingly melodic for a tPROE song.
- Android daggering
Based on a dancehall beat (yes, DDD wasn't a one time exercise). Also very atmospheric and even quite melodic, yet also HARD.
- Automation test
Has a strong NIN flavor strangely enough, and also some daft punk. Slow 100 bpm track, but also very funky and with good automations i really like.
- The rebellion
Hard 140 bpm industrial track with mellotrons, so very choir sounding, whick make the song quite outstanding. Beat is HARD. Potential clubhit i think.
Furtermore we have to provide information upfront on our passports to Easyjet for the flight to England on the 25th. Strange that is. Wasn't so in 2007. I also have another logistics problem, because that day is the famous "bloemencorso". I live in the bulb area in the Netherlands, and they have this yearly parade with cars dressed with flowers. It attracts some 1 million tourists to our area. I live about 100 meter from the main route, so getting to the airport that day might prove difficult. I will probably have to leave here pretty early.
Also Stephan asked us for a show in Trier. We will do that, and cut him a nice deal (like travelling expenses, sleeping place and food and drinks and having fun). Puck might also be able to arrange another show in Germany. |
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| Shopping |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|11:06 am] |
Going to Rotterdam in a few to buy some new Drum&bass and the likes. I am also on the hunt for the new Rude66 album. I saw the double vinyl already promoted, but i wonder if there is a CD. I hope there is, because Ruud himself said the album would appeal to lovers of old skool EBM ala old F242 or The Klinik, and tracks i listened indeed point to that. Heard some potential clubhits on it as well. So i better have that.
Will drop bij Clone as well to see if there is a CD. Just listening to the upcoming Legowelt on the clone site. Sounds like a must have as well. Too bad its only on vinyl and not available yet. |
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| Social darwinism |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|09:48 pm] |
Since the introduction of wormholes it is possible to get from hi-sec to 0.0 undetected. Through the normal gates that is. Some empire carebears take their chances to get into 0.0 this way to get a piece of the 0.0 PROFIT cake. It is not smart to do such a thing:
http://me.mmo-clan.de/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=50042
That guy in the Charon (which is a very, very, very expensive freighter ship with an enourmous cargohold) had a plan. When he exited the wormhole together with a corpmate or alt in a covops frigate one of us had already detected him. We caught him when he just had anchored a small pos at a moon. Based on his cargo this was his plan:
- Anchor a pos.
- Get ratting ship there for ratting, and some mining boats for mining.
- Get lotsa fuel for the tower.
- ??PROFIT
Empire is pretty safe space. 0.0 is extremely hostile. He made the critical error to jump into a sov3 Majesta Empire system where some of our guys were in local. And yet, he went to anchor a small pos in an very,very,very expensive ship. This is comparable with driving a Rolls Royce with Isrealian plates into a ghetto in Libanon to go buy some doner kebab. Just....plain....stupid....
The actual result:
When his tower just anchored, and before it came online, our gang was already on him. Nicely we welcomed him to our space, and destroyed his ship, and the tower he just anchored.
That is about 1.3 billion in losses for this Empire carebear trying to make a profit. Muhahahaha. :D
As a trophy: a pic of me posing in front of the wreck:
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| Prepping |
[Mar. 13th, 2009|12:25 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Birmingham 6 - Isreal | ] |
Preparing for the first live show of the Dark underground tour now. We leave in about 1,5 hours for Eindhoven for the first show. Tomorrow we play Alkmaar. Hope everything goes well. Shouldn't be much of a problem.
As for other things:
I was chilling in the station in TVN when an alliance dude linked a contract in Morsus Mihi space. Fully rigged and fitted Sabre for 10 million. Thats cheap. He just bought it. I went on searching the contracts in Tribute to see if there was more. Nopes. I switched to Vale of the Silent contracts. Someone put up a contract for 35 million in C-F, 4 jumps from TVN and in our space. It had a Hulk in it. WTF? A Hulk? 35 million? Those buggers cost 100 million on the market. I looked closer. Maybe someone trying to scam with a covetor? Nopes. description was clear, checked the contracts. Fully rigged and fitted Hulk for 35 million. One of the modules on it was even a pithi A type small shield booster, and that module alone is worth 35 million ISK or something. Maybe even more.
I pressed the agree button and bought it.
And then i linked the contract in alliance channel. The guy who bought the Sabre for 10 million seem not to be amused. :) If he had payed attention he could have had that contract as well. I think it could easily be sold for up to 150 million ISK.
My mining alt can fly a hulk after this weekend. I am training up all the supportskills to use the shield and upgrades modules on it right now. That training queue introduced in the last expansion is indeed very, very handy. Anyway, that hulk will do fine in mining ops with the corp and alliance. PROFIT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNyfI4dv1dg The introduction to the new expansion is so cool i used it as intro for the upcoming tPROE live shows. :) |
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| Amoklauf |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|11:01 am] |
The german guy who shot 15 people is said to have been a vivid player of violent games. They found counterstrike on his computer, so the simpletons will probably argue it is the fault of violent games. Maybe its true. When you guys see me soaring in a Minmatar battleship laying waste to towns, cities and villages, you will know its true. I used to play counterstrike in the past, so ya'll better watch out.
Germans call an act of massmurder like this an "Amoklauf" which means something like an Amok-walk. I am working on a song with that title, because it is a pretty good title for a song. Funny how inspiration works. |
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| Remixing STUFF |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|06:33 pm] |
I am not too much a fan of remixing. But sometimes i hear stuff i want to get my filthy hands on....
So, Chris Coreline, you crazy nutter, get me a remix kit for that song. :D |
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| That was fun |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
Through meticulous planning Marco Visconti and XP8 destroyed Side line. Discordianism does work!
Hehehehehehehehehe.
That was fun! :D |
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| Babylon |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|07:43 am] |
promothingy with snippets from the album |
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| Bought some CDs |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|03:54 pm] |
Had a gift card from DNSI day, so went to buy some CDs.
Liked the single. Album is ok as well. Bit too bombastic in coldplay fashion for me though.
Only Jamiroquai album i didn't have. Nothing changed here. Top notch funk/soul.
I had the second one, but never came to buy this one. Now i have it. Great album, great vibes.
Yeah, picked this up as well. I like KUKL and Sugarcubes better, but this is a nice album before miss Bjork became too artyfarty. |
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| second DNSI day |
[Dec. 26th, 2008|04:18 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Boxcutter - Chiral | ] |
Yesterday i went eating and doing DNSI day with my brother. Original plan was doing it at my mothers place, but she became ill due to flu, so we rescheduled. Was very cozy. When i left for home it was already 1 o'clock, and i thought it was aroun 11 or so. That cozy! We watched a Harry Potter movie on dutch TV, and the final scenes of the lord of the rings 3 which were very ghey. We hoped Sauron might win this time, but to no avail. Those pesky dwarfs and elfs won again, and Aragorn became king again, and got to fuck his elfish slut again. Lucky bastard.
Just uploaded the new podcast for my little radioshow, so it is on the gothic crush website. Later today i will go to DJ Spud, and we both will go to the effenaar in Eindhoven to spin some goth/cyber disco classics. We also have a slot in the lounge with ambient stuff, and i gonna play an hour of dubstep there. Those pesky goths have to get used to goth urban and reggae since lots of industrial artists are getting inspired bij dubstep it seems. Good development.
Tommorrow i am going to get Babylon to Metarc for mastering. If all is well i should recieve the mastered tracks back bij the 12th of Jan, and then they go to Vendetta to be released. We plan on getting them released before the dutch tour in march/april. After that plans are we are going to tour the USA, but that is still in "talk about" phase. I hope we can make it work. Would love to visit the USA and play shows there. |
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| Yuletide |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|09:57 pm] |
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Everyone a merry Dies Natalis Solis Invictii! |
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| Liegbeest |
[Dec. 22nd, 2008|01:06 pm] |
http://www.nu.nl/economie/1888749/starters-komen-in-2009-moeilijker-aan-hypotheek.html
Ik ben altijd verbaasd als ik dit soort berichten lees, want ik, die dus hypotheekacceptant bij ING is, weet hier dus helemaal niks van. het acceptatiebeleid is wel veranderd wegens de samenvoeging van postbank en ING, maar dat is juist zelfs ietsje soepeler geworden. Het wordt al vaker gemeld dat bepaalde organisaties denken dat banken strenger zijn met het verstrekken van hypotheken, maar daar merk ik dus niets van, en volgens mij is dat ook niet zo.
Wel is het zo dat dat soort organisaties belang hebben bij het zo veel mogelijk aansmeren van hypotheken aan klanten, en daarom dit soort onzin roepen naar aanleiding van de kredietcrisis. Die pakken immers leuke bonussen daarop he? Nu, hypotheken verstrekken aan mensen aan wie het eigenlijk niet verstrekt had mogen worden in de USA is juist de oorzaak van de kredietcrisis, dus dat moeten we maar niet doen denk ik zelf. |
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| GoonSwarm is the best swarm |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|02:07 pm] |
When we in Zenith Affinity began working with the Goons lots of our members expressed concern. They weren't trustworthy, they were arrogant and they were bad, but after a few months of ops with goons most of us came to like them.
Internet spaceships is serious business, but not for the Goons. Like i stated before: They were not formed in EVE, they came to eve, and were already a community. They see and do things different. They are chaotic, highly libertarian and anarchistic, and indeed quite arrogant. They also have a goofy sense of humor. Some examples:
Every alliance active in 0.0 has a set amount of skillpoints you must have before you can join and often you have to meet requirements, and you get an interview. Most of it is to get spies out, so quite understandable. And to get people with good skills for fights and stuff. Goons do not recruit people in EVE. They recruit their people from the somethingawful.com forums. And they take their new recruits INMEDIATLY to 0.0, and they take them on large fleetfights and roaming gangs. Yesterday i went "cockfagging" (thats how they call roaming) with Goons and KIA and they had two one day old newbees with them. No problem for goons. When they go on big fleetfights goons even fill their carriers and moms with t1 frigs for newbees and older players who lose their ship to get back into the fight. It is also funny to hear Fleet commanders take time to explain things to the newbees while on ops. Older goons can often be heard saying things like "Our newbees are the best newbees"
They also have this thing called "Comedy ops". The idea is simple: Get as much goons as possible in t1 frigs, or even beginner frigs, and try to gank as much as possible and then die gloriously somewhere. Since EVE knows no death with cloning technology, they refuse to acknowledge kill/death ratio's and go for economic damage. 30 t1 frigs can destroy a Heavy Assault Cruiser or a battleship, but cost only less then half the cost of that HAC or BS. So if you destroy that HAC or BS and lose your entire frig fleet, you still win the fight.
Their disrespect for authority goes even among their own lines. I have been on their teamspeak quite some times, and when DARIUSjohnson (Their alliance leader) gets on TS, you can hear lots of goons saying things like "Oh there is Darius, FUCK YOU Darius Johnson".
They also have running gags like:
"We didn't want that system/region/ship anyway" (when they lose something)
"I too am gay" (posted in local or said on TS on occassion) followed by:
"I too, would like to acknowledge my homosexuality"
And when they win they go fofofofofofofofo in local.
They also thank their allies with saying things in local or on ts like:
"Zenith affinity is the best affinity!" (hey, thats us!) or
"Red alliance is the best alliance!" or:
"Tau Ceti Federation is the best federation!"
The Goons smacktalk in local. They smack a LOT. I noticed it certainly pisses people off, which is very funny. Yesterday when we were cockfagging we were followed by a BOB gang led by a toon called Lady Scarlet. According to our fleet commander this was a very fat person in real life so he ordered us to fly to their gang out of range, align to a safespot, and "Say something nice about Lady Scarlet in local". I said "Lady scarlet we love you" or something, and everybody copied it, and spammed local with it. It PISSED THEM OFF. Hehehehehe.
Anyway, got on 7 killmails, and even got final blow on a probe and a capsule.
http://www.the-edge-foundation.com/empyriankill/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5259
This kill was also funny. The combined worth of ships used to kill that HAC is less than half the worth of the ship and fittings of the victim, and there is even a newbee ship (reaper) on the killmail!
http://www.the-edge-foundation.com/empyriankill/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5260
This kill is even better. A recon ship killed by a T2 frig, one destoyer and 4 T1 frigs. This is humiliation for the victim!
http://www.the-edge-foundation.com/empyriankill/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5257
And then i finally got blown up. My losses: 2 mill isk, and another mill for a new clone. My gains: a few hours mindless fun, getting on 7 KM's of which two HAC's and pissing people off while smacking in local. :)
All this will possibly only interest Chris, but wtf, i am writing it anyway. Hehehehe. |
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