mistrustmusic's posterous http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com Most recent posts at mistrustmusic's posterous posterous.com Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:38:49 -0700 Ultravox covers competition http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/ultravox-covers-competition http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/ultravox-covers-competition I've recently submitted a remix for the Ultravox Covers Competition on the official Ultravox website. Here's a link to all of the tracks that were submitted, so have a listen to all of them - some good tunes from all the entrants. If you're an Ultravox fan or a fan of 80s music in general, you'll probably recognise most of them. "Vienna" is amongst the 80+ tracks. Have a listen and download some of the tracks - you'll be surprised at how good they are.... Here's the remix I did: Ultravox - I Remember (gimme the money mix) - TB/mistrust remix Here are all of the entries.... Ultravox.org.uk - Media Archive : 2009 - October 10th.

 

 

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Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:04:23 -0700 Writing from my iPod Touch http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/writing-from-my-ipod-touch http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/writing-from-my-ipod-touch I'm finally blogging on my iPod Touch. When I say MY IPod Touch, I mean it's sort of on permanent loan from work. I've had a bit of time to play with it and see what it can do now I've finished the Pitch Black remix. So far, I'm fairly impressed with a couple of things, but overall it looks like Apple are tying people's hands when they should be making things easy to access. Pros: the Apps - some great little progs, especially iDrum and MooCow Band. There's also stuff like this Wordpress app I'm using now and the mobile twitted one. Very handy. It's also good for auditioning different mixes of my own tracks, as a good mp3 player should. Cons: a couple of things- iTunes and Flash. iTunes, because you pretty much have to do everything through it, and officially can't use anything else to manage your files on the player. Flash - because the Safari browser doesn't play Flash movies, which covers a lot of web content. All in all, it's ok, but if I was spending the cash myself, I'd look around a bit more before deciding what to buy. There's an interesting discussion about the iPod Touch at createdigitalmusic.com, so hop on over and have a look.

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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:32:43 -0700 Stop: Windows misery strikes again http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/stop-windows-misery-strikes-again http://mistrustmusic.posterous.com/stop-windows-misery-strikes-again [caption id="attachment_110" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Tree Swirl, by Paul Harrison, aged 15"]
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[/caption] Windows never ceases to amaze me. It's like the be-all and end-all to the world of computing. It's like gateway to a parallel universe, that will only let you in if you meet a million and one criteria, all encrypted in hexadecimal code. BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), followed by STOP: 0x0000007B. What's that supposed to mean, then? Run Chdsk /F or something - that'll get you a ticket to ride the rollercoaster again. I feel like the world's a blur when this happens...... As you've probably worked out by now, my laptop with all my Acid Pro files, VST plugins, and all my work projects, died on me. Or rather, Windows XP Pro died on me. It's a 2 year-old HP/Compaq NC6400, which has been running very slowly for about 5 or 6 weeks but has been more reliable than my old desktop. Should have backed everything up, but there's probably 20 gigs' worth of files on there, but you wonder about viruses and spyware being passed on. Took ages to load up last week, then on Friday evening: STOP: 0x0000007B. Couldn't run Chkdsk because I couldn't get into Windows, so that's not much use. So much for Windows. Lots of trawling on the internet later, a Linux Rescue disk came to my aid - System Rescue, with TestDisk on it. It told me that all the contents of the drive where safe, and not corrupted. Runs from RAM, not the HD. Thank heavens for that! How to get to them without a good knowledge of Linux. Ahaaa! Bypass Windows! Find a sneaky way past the guard dogs at the eternal gateway! Took the drive out of the laptop, plugged into a USB drive adapter connected to another PC, and hey presto! There were all my files, looking the same as ever and (hopefully) not corrupted. This little incident, along with many other run-ins I (and so many people I know) have had with Windows, makes me realise that I should either by a Mac and get some decent recording software, or install Linux on a laptop and make music the open-source way. Either way, I'm getting very tired of having to second-guess the system and waiting around for an error message to appear. I very nearly lost all of the Pitch Black remix stuff I've working on for months, just when I'm clear about finishing off. If you're a Mac or Linux user, please don't laugh at me. I've seen the light and I'll be converted soon.... Don't forget to bookmark this post, in case you ever get this problem!

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