stg/journal

flyer for the street team

2008-05-17T10:45:52Z

i'll be posting this around. no one will care, as flyer-to-audient ratio tends to be n-to-zero, but whatever. i get the point across:

photo credit: copyright Dottie Georges 2005

Universal Rhythm Assembly

2008-05-17T09:26:39Z

ah excellent. another third-tier Peoria multi-band dirty hippie event which leaves out the most psychedelic and mind-expanding band in Peoria AKA Peoria's Greatest Jam Band: the Suit & Tie Guy Band.

have fun with the Goldbergs, guys.

CHiPs on a pipe organ.

2008-05-17T07:19:02Z

this is worth much more than the time you'll spend watching it. it beats the hell out of the 14 million David Chowderhead Band covers on U-Toob:

2 cheap STG modules on ebay apparently

2008-05-17T03:56:46Z

Noisebug seems to be liquidating the fuck out of their inventory.

DAMN YOU DISH NETWORK!

2008-05-15T10:06:24Z

Dish Network has deleated Family Room HD.

this sucks. it was my favourite.

i could watch Thunderbirds, UFO, and Totally Frank in glorious HD.

now i can't. i have to buy the DVDs.

DW2008 review "The Doctor's Daughter"

2008-05-14T11:27:22Z

eh fuck it i'm not going to repost it here.

go join the whedonites in telling me i'm full of shit over at the DW community:

http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/2961559.html

while i'm happy there's a new DW series, the fact that a whole bunch of stupid people have latched on to it and eat up this drivel makes me wish it didn't happen and that DW died when BBC revoked Virgin's licence for novels.

New Track: Chillicothe Thug Life (feat. Donald Crunk)

2008-05-12T10:18:27Z

and another demo track over at

http://www.myspace.com/stgsoundlabs

these two tracks feature the in-development STG Soundlabs Voltage Mini-Store and Trigger Mini-Store sequencers, which run off a DIN Sync buss and have an internal clock divider for quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.

"Chillicothe Thug Life" is the first new original song i've got to have a significant part in for the past ten years. it's also possibly the world's first-ever berlin school gansta crunk track. this is a "collab" with The Degelman AKA Donald Crunk. it's about life here in Chillicothe, where the STG Fidelity Sound Lab is situated against the broadside of a meth lab slash foster farm.

i made the beats and chorus and took a minimoog solo, Donald Crunk brought the words and the concept. we produced the track together, and was tracked in one night and mixed by myself the second.

the bassline and Redshift-ey sequence line (the first two pitched elements) are the modular parts. the parts that sound like a Yamaha RX5, CR-8000, Minimoog, x0xb0x, Z1 electric piano, and Juno-6 are of those respective instruments.

berlin school crunk, coming atcha like a motherfucker.

2008-05-11T10:25:34Z

it seems that Degelman and I made a rap song tonight, in the new genre of "berlin school crunk."

i'll get it mixed today, and uploaded tonight, so you can ignore it tomorrow. it's your loss. ha.

topic matter: chillicothe thug life.

bonus: it's also a demo for the new STG Soundlabs voltage and trigger sequencers, and the Yamaha RX-5 (the Chuck Senrick Special) which Skylab 2000 sold to me a couple weeks ago.

suitandtieguy @ 2008-05-09T06:36:00

2008-05-09T11:37:35Z

i recorded a fabulous video tonight with syncronised audio and then accidentally deleated it.

dammit!

suitandtieguy @ 2008-05-09T06:27:00

2008-05-09T11:28:46Z

i made a bitchin' video of the new sequencers.

and then i deleated it. data rescue X failed me. let's see what Mr Spec can do.

Manuel Göttsching - E2:E4

2008-05-08T08:59:15Z

some might say this album doesn't go anywhere.

i prefer to say it takes its time. and it's fucking great.

Doctor Who vs The Love Boat

2008-05-08T08:23:26Z

fanvids violate Sturgeon's Law. they transcend 90 percent crap, and move all the way to 99.8 percent crap.

here's your 0.2 percent:

first new track in years and pictures of the sound lab.

2008-05-07T11:39:32Z

pictures of the current state of the sound lab are at

http://pics.livejournal.com/suitandtieguy/gallery/0003yfqy

and i recorded the first thing i played in my new electronic cocoon. it is an electro slowcore track called "AO-27 Trance City," and is located at

http://www.myspace.com/stgsoundlabs

and this is a kit list:

chords - Z1
chimes - Juno 6
solo - Minimoog
octave jumpy thing - x0xb0x
hi hats - CR8000
BD/SN - 909 samples on the Akai under TR-505 control
FX - Studio 400, MPX-100, PCM-80

minimoog and juno played in realtime. one take to two tracks. parts were switched in and out on the Ramsa desk.

also i put up three new tracks to

http://www.myspace.com/thesuitandtieguyband

consisting of my arrangement of Blade Runner circa 2006, and a couple of jams.

The Big Rack

2008-05-06T04:40:12Z

so after a couple of years being relegated to storage, The Big Rack is being called back into active duty in celebration of its sixth birthday. here she is, freshly stained and stuffed in late May of 2002 (and quite a doozy of a folder that is:)

the only gear which i still own which is pictured here is the Mackie mixer. i still have one of the Z1s and the power conditioner, however the Z1 actually belongs to Jim Coker and the power conditioner belongs to James McCaskey.

maybe if i'm hyper productive i'll get a pic of the new "ambient house power station" (maybe i should paint "Battersea" on the side of it) up tonight.

immense success? haha.

2008-05-03T18:53:57Z

“These figures are quite alarming and urgent action is needed. Overall prevalence is up 2% and in some categories, such as 18-29 year old women in certain social classes, smoking levels are at 56%. The Government has set a target of ‘A Tobacco Free Society’ and these figures clearly show that no progress is being made despite the immense success of our workplace smoking legislation”, commented Prof Luke Clancy of ASH.

http://www.irishhealth.com/?level=4&id=13494

no progress equals no success. these people are delusional.

good FSOL article

2008-05-03T18:02:19Z

here's an interview with the Future Sound of London where they talk about their new method of digital distribution via the internet.

in 1994.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/aug94/futurelondon.html?print=yes

your daily dose of taking the radiophonic piss

2008-05-03T10:57:36Z

yeap. that's dan ashcroft, ladies and gentlemen:

300 + gig of this shit.

2008-05-01T12:06:06Z

View Poll: the archive. the question.

and it seems that i was incorporating "Stratosfear" into "Blue Monday and Doctor Who"

this current transfer also features "Heaven Knows I'm Fucking Miserable Now" and "The Chase AKA Turkish Prison Guard Part II"

fave spam subject header of the day

2008-05-01T09:13:08Z

subject: erwill your a moron

so i'm watching "Pump Up The Volume: The History of House"

2008-04-28T10:40:39Z

and i need to mention that Derrick May seems like a totally awesome dude.

along with DJ Pierre, Marshall Jefferson, and Orbital.

bugaboos:

a) it was nice to see Youth, but The Orb only "invented" ambient house because it was originally a Jimmy Cauty/Alex Patterson thing. "Chill Out" by the KLF pre-dated "Fluffy Little Clouds" by 11 months, which is an _eternity_ within that history.

b) Goldie is a bit of a twat. so he released some drum n bass in 1995 ... LTJ Bukem dropped "Demon's Theme" in 1991. Goldie got interviewed to hell, and Bukem wasn't mentioned.

3) the inclusion of "UK Garage" as the current sound of dance music is pretty funny. especially when the documentary doesn't mention the Paradise Garage at all.

part 3 is well naff. parts 1 and 2 are really fucking good. that's my review.

suitandtieguy @ 2008-04-26T15:10:00

2008-04-26T20:11:38Z

this is an amusing blog:

http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

however it seems more like "dumb chicks with douchebags." still amused though.

no, Chris Morris did not make this up.

2008-04-24T18:34:50Z

it goes without saying that this is definitely safe for work:

Her Majesty's Treasury commissioned a new logo for the Office of Government Commerce based on the image of a man pleasuring himself.

this quote is pretty good:

"... it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”

in addition to rants, synths, arts, and cookings, i also make browser-incompatible posts.

2008-04-22T17:42:11Z

the previous entry contained an embedded U-Toob video. this used to work, but apparently for some people is not. i changed the embedded video to a simple link.

in addition to ranting and building synthesisers, i make art too.

2008-04-21T20:28:33Z

here's a couple examples.

the first is one of those "pieces with a message" types of plunderphonic pop art. clickey the piccey to admire my attention to detail. it's based on this.:

and the second is me playing some music last week and people decided to gather round and record it. i'm sure i've done better work but this is the most recent work i've done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQH8l8sOJg

thanks to Cary Roberts for posting that. very nice of him.

no ponies, but a poll instead

2008-04-21T10:33:39Z

i have recently become enamoured of the washed bags of green beans in the produce department. i've never been one for any more than the occasional potato or tortilla chip/crisp, so this is quite nice.

"baby" (ie: a sanded portion of) carrots have always been around, but i'm not too into root vegetables, except for the lighter ones such as radishes. i've always been far too lazy to cut and wash the green beans (cut/wash potatoes? no problemo. beans? tedious as a motherfucker) so this is quite exciting for me.

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