ministry of music

RPM2011 is 9 days away and it seems appropriate to finish this retrospective series before RPM starts.  Part 1 of this series covered the early beginnings of my interest in music up through high school and eventually turning to the computer as a means for producing and recording music.  Part 2 will cover how that […]

This is something I would never do: try to create a hit pop song in 8 hours.  It’s not that I couldn’t, it’s that I wouldn’t.  These guys, on the other hand, did.  I think it’s awesome. You can download their song, “Lights, Camera, Action” here.  (right-click, save as…)

Today I’m going to do some shameless self-promotion for the random song of the day: my remix of Amanda Palmer’s “Map of Tasmania” from her new album “Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under.”  To be brutally honest, I don’t really like the song all that much.  I saw “remix contest” and I jumped to enter before […]

Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve done one.  I’ve been waiting until I had a chance to figure out which one of @TheBoyEllis’ songs on Soundcloud I should use.  In the meantime, this one comes courtesy of @tpbdotorg: Now I’m going to go download his album, which you can do, too, right here.

For anyone curious, here’s a copy of my notes (an earlier draft, I’ve added to them a bit since).

Mark started his history of music production yesterday, and I thought I would follow suit.  I’ve never documented the process.  As I warned on his blog, my history is messy and doesn’t involve fancy equipment.  In fact, to a large extent, it mostly involves the cheapest equipment available.  But I’ll get to that. It all […]

For no good reason, I sort of decided to video blog my progress in RPM2011.  This is my first update.  It is 21 days until RPM2011. Sign up for RPM: www.rpmchallenge.com Or, if you’re already signed up, sign up for the 2011 Blind Chaos experiment here.

It’s getting to be that time again.  The time where musicians vow to create and complete album of 10 songs or 35 minutes in the 28 days of February.  I’ve officially signed up, making this my fourth RPM (I didn’t finish my first attempt for RPM07 due to some overly ambitious goals subsequent technical issues). […]

I’ve been listening to Daft Punk‘s soundtrack to Tron: Legacy. It’s interesting. Not what I expected. I sort of expected a soundtrack full of blips and bleeps like “Around the World” made into a score, but in fact it’s actually a fairly soundtrack-y soundtrack. Not that it’s a bad thing; it’s a really good soundtrack, […]

This is another one from @slighter from his brand-spanking-new (but actually old) free collection of remixes on bandcamp.  Possibly my favorite track from the LP.

I’ve been thinking a lot about covers recently. I have a sort of tradition — that started probably when I was in junior high — of giving my dad a mix tape for Father’s Day. There was a span of many, many years where I did not continue the tradition, but a few years ago […]

Sick of the @artfulmark random songs yet? I’m not. I can’t think of an album I’ve looked forward to more than this new one from The Artful Dodger. This track features @cydneymarieuk on vocals and shows you how 3/4 can still groove. Beat Harder by artfulmark