DVR013 Reverse Engineering Music - Part 1
Dead project?

DVR019 Various - Guide To Successful Party Training Volume 2
New deadline for tracks is Wednesday 15th October I gather. What will follow is anyone's guess. Will there be another CD Keith?

DVR023 Various - http hip hop time capsule
Dead project?

DVR027 Various - Acid Vomit
Deadline's been and gone, which I managed to miss, so I guess it's up to Doug now as to where to go with it next. MP3? CD? Who knows…

DVR031 ROBOstud - Soothing Sounds for 22nd Century Factory Workers
I'm guessing the first copies of this are being distributed tonight. Can't wait to hear it…

DVR033 Various - Mr. Noisy
Deadline's Wednesday 12th November apparently. Knowing Brian, the release will follow very shortly.

DVRXXX iivix voices/music project
???

DVRXXX Various - ∞
Not had a single entry yet. Mind you, I've been very busy of late, so that's not such a bad thing.

Ultimately we have a lot to be proud of right now, so we should start thinking about how we can get our message further out there.

Also, while I'm here, perhaps we could remove the tag cloud? I dunno, it would clean the site up a little, unless people think it's useful? If we took it out, we could use the space for a small news section perhaps? Or a couple of little adverts for the latest releases?

Well anyway, I'd love to make a compilation called "Non-notable" and promote it as all artists that wikipedia has deleted pages for. You could almost certainly get a degree of press coverage with such a stunt, and of course the irony then is that the compilation and artists contained therein would then become notable :P

If you wanna see what else power tripping wikipedia editors don't think is worth keeping, check out Deletionpedia

Basically the idea is to get people to create loops of music that can be played in any given order and form a coherant piece. So say 8 people sent in a loop, A-H. When played next to each other a combination of ABCDEFGH could be shuffled into DGACBHFE and still work as a single piece of music. And that's basically the idea.

What you lot would need to do is create some loops. Now in order for this to work well, all loops would need to be the same length. For this project, I'm setting the loop length as 15 seconds. This means that you could comfortably work with a tempo of 128bpm, or indeed any of the following:

8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512

Alternatively you could make something without a tempo, ie. a drone or noise. However, the precise length of each track would need to be 15 seconds. Not 15.01 seconds, neither 14.99, but 15 on the dot. And there should be no gap at the start or finish of the track - The entire 15 seconds should be filled with sound. If you're doing something with a 4 to the floor beat, the first beat should come in at 0.0 seconds. You get the idea. There's no limits with which key you use, nor with the style of music. (Ab)use of samples is fine.

Format is TBC. Although I'd like to do a CD, I'm not sure it would work conceptually, because usually if you put a CD player on shuffle it pauses between tracks, which would destroy the effect of all these tracks coming together as a single piece. As MP3 software technology improves however the gaps between tracks are almost non-existant now, particularly in iTunes, so I guess this will probably be an MP3 release. Whether that's as a download or a data CD or even a USB stick is still unknown. The added bonus with releasing it as MP3s of course is that extra tracks can be added on at later dates, officially or otherwise.

So yeah, that's the general idea. Some other details for the anally retentive amongst you… Because this is effectively meant to be a single track, submissions should not have track titles attached to them. Also, in a move similar to other short-track releases like No Time To Waste or Sloppy Seconds, you can submit as many tracks as you like, but each one should be under a different name. The release code, if not DVR025, will be DVR∞. :)

Completed tracks should be sent as WAVs to lee.ashcroft@hotmail.co.uk. Any submissions that are either not 15 seconds or contain gaps may be altered to fit the project. If your track doesn't fit and can't be fixed, I'll be in touch.

Have fun!

Thanks.

just my opinion…

Mr. Noisy is all about noise.
For this compilation I'm looking for tracks in the genre of rythmic noise.
This means noisy tracks with some kind of melody, rythm,… in it.
Danceable noise, maybe not really danceable, but noisy tracks that have a good structure.

I hope you all understand what I'm looking for. If not, mail me!

Tracks: 320kbps/MP3
Length: your choise
Deadline: november, 12th

Please don't forget to mention your artists name + track name!!!

Send you tracks (as attachemnt or with yousendit, rapidshare,…) to moc.liamtoh|tseibrednavnairb#moc.liamtoh|tseibrednavnairb

Uncivilized - Tea
Distance -
Solypsis - Emetophilia
misTaKio haCk - This is what boredom sounds like
Beytah -
Ortha -
Hooray - Pulling Out Of Chingford (iivix remix)
iivix - This Is The Phuture Destroyed
FluiD - Betrayed By Salvation
Ehafh - Bisexual vcr music
Ehafh - Our coffin seats 5 and comes with air conditioning
Drive - Dark rev 08

i don't care if it sucks, i wanna hear it.

Maybe I'm just overcomplicating things with this; solving a problem that isn't really there. I dunno. It'd be interesting to hear what you lot think though.

Was planning to launch a new project for D/V once I got 'Let's talk about Sex' out off the way but have had a few bad viruses to deal with which has made me put this project aside for a while…

In the meantime anyhow, I have just registered for this website by Nine Inch Nails - http://remix.nin.com/ and have being having some fun remixing Nine Inch Nails… I have done 2 Distance remixes already and one of them will be appearing on there soon.. I was thinking won't do we all at Digital Vomit have a go at doing a remix or two too and post them up there…

We could also if we want post a load off them together here afterwards as a D/v release afterwards..

What does everybody think?

so far, i believe me and hard off are the only ones who are "official"….i think pidgin is, uh, no longer participating.

also, if a good graphic designer (beytah?) wants to throw a flyer together for us, that would be aces /

Can't wait! Particularly the former (Big In Albania's single) on the basis of the tracks on MySpace. Dat bad bwoy's got dem mad stylee innit.

Check the release page!

I bought at Christmas a Psychic TV 12inch of one of their old acid songs. Apparently,
despite the appearance on the sleeve, both sides are by the same people under different names.
In fact the whole album it comes from is a fake compilation.

I was thinking it would be fun to do an Acid compilation the same way - anyone who contributes a track would do it under a pseudonym they have never used before: you're not allowed to call yourself by your normal "perfomance" name or one you've used before!

Is this a dumb idea? would anyone be up for it? it ain't exactly the most world changing idea as i'd like to keep the sound fairly traditional i suppose.

I guess by starting this thread i am volunteering to curate the damn thing.

any thoughts?

In other news I have updated the release page with a new release. In 10 seconds I will have the link. Here it is. Give us a shout if its been c-cked^* up and I will give it another go.

^{*I'm playing safe.}

as we're currently engaging this issue of physical releases, perhaps this idea will have some merit/

it's been fairly well accepted that the Can Buy Me Love series has pretty much run its course, but it's a model for physical product creation that deserves to continue some sort of life. well then, how about this:

most everyone wants to release an album of their own on CD or vinyl, but few have the money to see it happen. Mitch's problems seeing his album released are a perfect case in point // the desire is there, but the money never seems to be fully available.

now, what if you had "sponsors"? let's say you have a 40 minute album you'd like released and at the end of the album (hell, perhaps scattered throughout the album) there appeared "commercials" provided by various other artists? what if the remaining 40 minutes of the disc were paid for by people who did remixes of the album's tracks, or even with original compositions? perhaps the primary musician could front the bulk of the pressing costs and the rest could be supplemented by other artists who could gain exposure similar to CBML only perhaps at a lesser investment?

i know i would be happy to provide a remix and some cash to Mitch. he's helped ALL of us out here in a variety of ways with his Hallo Excentrico netlabel.

anyways, these albums would obviously benefit from having a very motivated organizer in the primary artist…

thoughts?

Was it all just talk? People like talking.