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My birthday today.... called into work, got some Kahula, other than that, have nothing more to do today. Hoping for a stress free night.

TA037 | Candle Nine: The Muse In The Machine



Tympanik Audio is proud to present Candle Nine’s debut album ‘The Muse In The Machine‘. At once a swirling torrent of luscious synths, steady glitch-soaked beats, provocative vocal samples, and powerful piano movements, ‘The Muse In The Machine‘ easily cultivates both cerebral wonder and lip-biting ecstasy.

After a stand-out remix on last year’s Ad.ver.sary CD ‘A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky‘ and an appearance on Tympanik Audio’s ‘Emerging Organisms 3‘ compilation, Candle Nine now delivers nine stunning new tracks of welcoming urgency and undeniable warmth, marked by ravenous, addictive beatwork and soul-embracing atmospheres. Brutality meets beauty with expert precision to arrive with such perfect cohesiveness and purpose, your mind is sure to contradict your body.

Coming soon on compact disc only from Tympanik Audio in late February 2010.

Tracklisting_
Internally Threaded
Penumbra
Raison d’être
R5-D50-R8
Imperfect
Wintermute
Icarus Descending
Kerrianne’s Spine
Someone Anyone
Wintermute (Access To Arasaka rmx)
R5-D50-R8 (Autoclav1.1 rmx)

Pre-order this release

http://myspace.com/candlenine
http://tympanikaudio.com/

So, as I've said elsewhere... I bought so many CDs yesterday that the card company called me this morning to make sure that it was really me. 

Then, also this morning I got some more CDs in the mail. Now, the reason for me making a post is because of something included in this bundle.

This:


l'ombre's "Letting Go At The Steering Wheel"

Holy shit. I'm in love with this album. Absolute beauty from beginning to end, and I can't stop listening to it. I actually find it hard to find the way or the right words to describe how I feel about this album. It just really moves me too well, but I'll try and talk about it a bit, by giving some thoughts on one of the songs from the album: "Your Refusal."

First of all, wow. Really wow. This song is just so wonderful. There's this whole range of thoughts and ideas and emotions going on here that I can't help but be torn between the best and worst memories of my life. The best I can compare it too is that it's like a symphonic poem in the same vein as Camille Saint-Saens' famous "Danse Macabre", and I really would put it right next to that same level of brilliance. As the song seems to tell a story through the emotions expressed and the movements contained. The song begins with the Hunt, and I'm sure some of you guys know what I mean when I say "the Hunt". It's the feeling of glancing across a room and seeing a girl daydreaming as you wonder when the right time to get up to hear her speak should be. The track goes into this and moves through the courting and builds into the dreamlike bliss of falling in love. But then it moves through this into the experience of fear... and doubt, and finally culminating in betrayal. Then, we are left suffering through the sharp pains of loss, and it lingers on this as we see loneliness embrace all thoughts and feelings. But then, as it moves through this pain, moving on becomes not just a desire, but a necessity to continue through our lives. So, the Hunt resumes, but in the shadows of this new ambition there are the memories that haunt you, and they are not memories of the loss, the fear, but instead, the best times of life, when love seemed to have no boundaries, and happiness was a bottomless well that was always overflowing from the downpour. Because these are the ones that hurt the worst.

Hmmm.... it's what I see in it, at least. It's really, REALLY, a wonderfully beautiful song (as is the whole album), and though I'm probably behind you guys in getting to hear this album, if any of you guys don't have it yet, you really need to snatch it up immediately.

Mostly posting just so I can prove I still exist... Anyone around out here?

Though I know I'm not about to be the first to say that the Google Nexus One looks awesome, it does feel a bit peculiar to me, as I'm not much of a mobile phone person. However, since it's apparently going to be sold unlocked, and I have a Google Voice account, I might pick it up for that reason.

The Zune HD in black with the sleek OLED screen and everything looks creepily like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

So, I installed the Zune Software recently for various reasons, and I think either it or Sony's Media Go software that I use to sync to my PSP is automatically trying to update album art.

Because I just looked in Windows Media Player, and the album art for Converter's Expansion 1.3 has been changed to this:



I'm admittedly pretty confused.

Mwa ha ha!

I've come up with the perfect holiday gifts for everyone!

So.... I've been thinking a bit about how to put together this idea I have for another album. (inbetween being stressed and busy as fuck, of course). I've been thinking about how to piece together this thought of looking back over all the things I've done, the decisions I've made, a longing for the things that could have gone better, and a fear of the things that could have gone worse. All those glimpses of pain, fear, love, regret, sadness, delight.... And I think I might have an idea. The inspiration came to me from a conversation and a rediscovered love. So, here's a couple hints of what could possibly be expected:

 I don't think you need one more person talking about how awesome the Skinny Puppy show was... so, I'll leave that alone.

However, I had a good time. Had some Jack & Coke, ran into Paul and Shannon from Tympanik and Kevin from Cyanotic. Shook Kerri around during the verse of Politkil. They played Worlock during the encore, and I came. Also, Pro-Test, but not I'mmortal. Which was sad, but it was cool nonetheless.

Was fun, and I don't have to work until Saturday. So, fuck yeah!

Also, I'm playing with Millipede on the 25th at Morseland. So, I'll pop in with more details about it when I know more.

 Things I hate:
Having to have multiple IM clients open at once

Things I also hate:
Pidgin and Trillian. Fuck them.

 So, how was everyone's Halloween?

I'm jealous in advance, I assure....

My night is mixing chicken ramen with shrimp ramen to pretend it's phoenix and dragon, and playing Planescape: Torment. I figure it's a good Halloween game.

Seriously though, how was your Halloween?

I feel positivity shattered.

Well, I got an invite to Google Wave with a bunch of invitations to send out to people so that I can actually use it.

So, do any of you want an invite to Google Wave?

Alternatively... Have any of you already gotten in and want to add me as a contact?

Sweet.

Turns out I can't set up a new checking account unless I fuck myself financially the American way, by putting myself under pathetically crushing credit card debt.

Money sure is awesome, amirite?

Apparently, the expiration date for the last batch of manufactured Polaroid film was yesterday.

Hmmm....

Also, it seems that my doubts about the SensMe Channels on my PSP were completely misplaced. SensMe Channels is one of those little auto-playlist things, mostly categorized by mood, like "Mellow", "Upbeat", etc. Anyway, there's a channel for time of day, too. So, being that I can't sleep, I went out for a short walk, and I didn't know what to listen to. So, I figured I'd try out the Morning SensMe Channel. aaaaaand.....

Boom. Instant perfect morning music.

The first twenty minutes was:
Access to Arasaka - Beach
Gridlock - Voiceless:Vcam:RMX
Autechre - Dropp
S:cage - Vapour

It was quite cool.

So... I guess props to Sony for the firmware update. I never make my own playlists. So, it's nice to know that I can get some use out of this.

So, something that I find funny happened yesterday. We were all sitting at our respective computers, and Geramie was listening to Last.fm on his computer in his room when he shouted out, "Wow! You've got to hear this song!" So, I of course say, "What song?" "It's called Gift of Nervous Methods, by a guy called Totakeke." "Ah yes, I know that one," and I walk into his room and he's bobbing his head and whatnot, and lifting a side of the headphones to show me. "It's awesome!" he says. So, I walk over to my CDs and pull out eLekatota. Then, walk back into Geramie's room, and hand it to him. He grabbed it and turned it over, and there was a little sparkle in his eye, and he said "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, why didn't I know about this?" Then, he did the little shaky eye thing and ripped the disc to his computer. He listened to it all right after.

So, now I'm wondering what else I have that he might have heard but has since forgot about, or hasn't heard. 

 I really, really, really wish there was a new S:cage album coming out. This stuff is so brilliant.