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I recently uploaded a new song to ArtistServer.com, and realized that it had been a long time since I posted about my music. While I enjoy talking and thinking about artist and music promotion, I tend to not promote my own works, and spend all that time and energy working on the site or recording more music.

The last post I made about new songs was back in May, 2006, where I had two new songs to share. The list of songs you see below, were recorded between July 2006 to January 6, 2006 (listed oldest to newest).

If you have a favorite, let me know - or, sign into ArtistServer.com and post a review!

Enjoy the music :)

• Breaks For Jah
  Genre - Reggae/Dub/Breakbeat
  Song Description - a blending of breaks and reggae with an upbeat tempo. Get up and move!
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• Speculatus
  Genre - Minimal Experimental/Dub
  Song Description - This piece can be described in three words: minimal glitch dub. It's built from glitch noises, a virtual synth, and a few drum samples drenched in reverb with some delay effects here and there. The piece doesn't have much to the structure, it's more of a texture with slight changes. This piece was inspired by the music of "Pole" which I just started listening to in earlier 2006.
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• Whipass Ray and the Stay Strongs
  Genre - Drill n' Bass
  Song Description - the vocal portion of this track was uploaded to he Web and has been passed around - Ze Frank www.zefrank.com/theshow asked people to remix it, and now they are looking for Ray to give him the remixes (and they found him). definately not one of my best tracks - it was just for fun.
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• Scratchin The Funk
  Genre - Funk/Breakbeat
  Song Description - This track started out going in a completely different direction - it had a very loud, dark sound. After a few listens, I deleted everything in the song but the drums and started over. Brillman, who hangs out on our forums, asked me where my funk went, which triggered the starting over from scratch, and this was the answer :)
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• Down Here, Over There
  Genre - DownTempo
  Song Description - This song is structured around a guitar recording I made, where I detuned the guitar until I found a nice and low, yet playable tuning - which ended up in the key of Bflat. From there, I built out the drums to support the changes, then learned the progression on my bass.
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• Arpegallegiance
  Genre - Ambient
  Song Description - a set of notes run through an arpeggiator which were then tweaked using the sound source's settings and several effects to give it a well saturated sound.
  Song Page - Stream - Download
  
  
• That Scat Song
  Genre - Psychedelic/Funk
  Song Description - This is one of those songs that sat around unfinished for more than a year. Every few months, I'd pull it out, make some edits, record some new parts, then save it away. Finally... it's here for you to check out... OMG... yes, it's true, it's "That Scat Song" - the song you've been waiting for. Click it on, sing along, it's That Scat Song. [note: scat as in, singing!!!]
  Song Page - Stream - Download

I'm just finishing up the final touches on http://www.indiemobile.com/ [BETA]

It still needs some features, like displaying a mini artist profile when users click on a name, adding a help, and a button for viewing the Top 40 ringtones. I should have these items added in the next two weeks.

Yes... the site is sporting this season's trend in color schemes and runs with zero page refreshes - oh yeah - it's more of that Web2.0... colors! Ajax functionality! no page refresh! mobile! Adsense! and most importantly... no business model!

:)

That's partially not true, as you'll read on, you'll see that my perspective on this launch, is that IndieMobile is a promotional tool for ArtistServer and it's artists, and that it's main function is to be a beacon.

The following are some general questions and answers about IndieMobile.

Q: What is IndieMobile.com?

The site is basically a reformatted version of the Ringtone section and tools from ArtistServer.com. What these tools provide is a listing of Ringtones hosted on the site, in addition to a set of options for transfering the ringtones to your mobile phone.

Q: How much are the ringtones?

The ringtones are free.

Q: What kind of ringtones?

Q: Why IndieMobile.com?

This is a rebranding of the ringtone content on the site and is going to be used to promote the ArtistServer artstis who post Ringtones along with their songs.

The site is meant to give increased exposure to both artists and ArtistServer by appealing to those who may not find ArtistServer directly.

Q: Who will use the site?

I'm not sure - nor do I know if the site will see much traffic. I do plan to promote it to a few mobile blogs, post about it on my own, etc., but for now, I don't have the time nor plan for promoting IndieMobile. This is more of a, "set it free and see what happens" kind of thing for now.

Q: Will IndieMobile.com include more content than mp3 Ringtones?

Not any time soon. This is strictly a promotional tool for the artists and for ArtistServer.

Q: IndieMobile.com - nice domain name, how did you get it?

I've had more calls to purchase this domain than all the others I own. What's strange about it, is that the day after I bought the name, a guy from Canada called me to tell me that I took his domain name! Apparently, he had it in his cart and was going to buy it - but didn't check out - he was doing more searching for names... 10 minutes later, he went to check out... and found it was gone! So, he was calling me to ask for it back. Now here's the kicker... this has never happend to me before - where I bought a domain 'right' as someone else was trying to buy it, at least I doubt it's ever happened, but a week after this incident, the very same thing happened to a domain I had in my cart. Hmmmmm...

Last month I posted about my adventures with geocoding and posted a screen design of an idea I had for ArtistServer. That idea bounced around my head some more and mutated into a new Website I'lll be launching sometime in the next 2-3 months depending on my schedule.

http://www.mp3maps.com/

MP3maps is going to be a Map 'mashup' (Yahoo! or Google) and the Music and Data of ArtistServer.com

Through this site, you'll be able to see where music is coming from in interesting ways...

• View the Distribution of Genres across the planet
• View the Distribution of an Artist's Fans
• Display a Playlist, Showing the Origins of Songs
• View a Map of Your Listening History (if you are a member of ArtistServer)
• and more...

MP3Maps is under development and will serve the same function as ArtistJukebox.com, which is what I call a "Satellite" or simply, "Rebranding Yourself" - which is where you rebrand your service/content as a means to stimulate more traffic and awareness by providing alternative means and interfaces to the same core service/content.

Here is an initial screen design for MP3maps.com - I'm sure it will evolve by the time it goes live. http://www.artistserver.com/files/mp3maps.png

If you are into online music, you may want to point your browser towards Songbird and see what it would be like if your media player functioned with your browsing. Sure, there's "Foxytunes" - an extension for your Firefox browser to control various media players, and there's ways to embed WMP into IE, but this is something different, and possibly the best way to experience music on the Web.  

http://www.songbirdnest.com/home

What's cool, is that it's built on Firefox! So for those of you already in love with Firefox... here's your new friend!

If you are not into beta software - you can still get excited about Songbird and learn how it works - just take a look at the screencast/demo they posted the other day:

http://download.songbirdnest.com/screencast/

Have I tired it... no, not yet, but it's on my list of things to check out.

If you try it out, post back here with your thoughts about the software.