Basically, its another collection of pointless links mostly nicked
from other blogs
Is That It?
Well, no, one day, I hope to break free from the bonds of having a day job and spend my time
floating round the med,
knocking up the occasional track for a cool label. Till then, this is my only outlet for
my compositions.
If you like Progressive tracks with nice breaks, you might like to listen you my latest, finished creation...well,
actually, its my only
*finished* creation, Celestial.
Download the MP3, Or stream
it.
The excellent vocals (in case you're wondering) were taken
from a track by Loreena
McKennitt called 'The Mystics Dream'.
One of the problems I have is actually finishing a track... No stamina y'see ;) I've got round this (sorta) by
stuffing all my unfinished
tracks into
Acid and creating one long mix. Whilst unfinished, they also represent the best stuff I've produced to
date...without sounding
self-congratulatory, its easily as
good as any of the other mixes...but just pure, homegrown Roguetrooper. Enjoy...(and play loud) Clicky Streamy Clicky downloady
The track I'm working on at the moment is a bit of a departure
for me. Normally I don't like long intros, but the beginning
to Gravity developed into this dark, broody soundscape. Its
a full 4 mins till any proper percussion kicks in which sounds
a long time, but its just right for the track (currently running
at 12 mins). Anyway, you can Stream the MP3 hopefully...
or download it(11Mb)
Heres what happens when you use Acid Pro as an mp3 sequencer..nearly an hour of beats n breaks.
Have a listen to Methodical or download it.
Want some more? heres another with Leftfield and
Hybrid (to mention a few). You
can download this too if you like.
Think I'm going to have to find a more permanent home for the mixes and stuff. judging by the amount of stuff I'm
churning out of the
Triton... Anyway, heres the Adam Freeland stuff mix from below on the blog...nice trancy, break filled mix that
hardens
somewhat towards the end when Joujouka arrive..However, its still only 135BPM and doesn't disrupt the flow too
much... Same as usual, you
can stream it or
download it...beware though, its
20Mb. Sounds best about
4am Sunday morning. Enjoy.
I was looking through my mp3 collection the other day and came across some depeche mode stuff I never realised I
had. Perfect excuse to
mix a few tracks up in acid and give the Basildon boys a breakbeat flavour. Its still a work in progress at the mo,
but I've since discovered
that DM and Breaks were made for each other. Have a listen and you'll hear what I mean. Download or Stream
Kontact::
"I was duped into
coming here!!! I want my money back!!! Who do I complain to?"
Seeing as my logfiles report that most people come here looking
for the excellent DNA java trials bike game, heres
a link so you don't have to scroll through all my archives....How
good am I?
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I love Edward Goreys stuff, for lots more about Ed and his stuff, you should wander across to goreygraphy.com
I had a few days off at the end of last week thanks to a nasty bug that seemed determined to turn me inside out.... Theres nothing worse than being sick when you know its not alcohol induced.
Anyway, all is well now, normal service is resumed...
Great News! The Friday Thing team, who produce one of the most topical, satirical, outspoken and thoroughly excellent weekly news thingys have started The Friday Thing News Blog Like the Friday Thing, every day, for free!!
Are you a country who's towns and cities are looking a bit delapidated and in need of a lick of paint or new rendering?
Then why not turn your leader into an evil dictator so you can get a lawless coalition to bomb the feck out of you before re-building your houses and shopping centres with nice, shiny modern stuff!
I want one of these!!! Apparently, in certain parts of Denmark, the water supply has a high copper content which has produced some unusually coloured wildlife... Go and have a look at them here
All the news from the 'war' in one handy place...The Command Post - A Warblog Collective... Hmmm, warblogging...is that like, where you go round and chalk mark blogs you've found?
I've begun to sift through the masses of photos we've taken with the new camera.. Heres a recent one of Alex... I can't believe he's 6 months old next month. Also, heres one taken from inside a cave, looking out to the hills around rydal in the lakes.
Candidate for the most difficult game ever??? Cave Hunter requires you to navigate a never ending tunnel while avoiding rocks n stuff....Requires a lot of skill, but if you like flight games, you should do ok. Link thanks to Ultimate Insult
Jessica's coming down this weekend...Think she'll like this one.
Its called Globulos , its multiplayer and is made up of 3 very nicely done little games...
Todays excercise is to take my mind off the doom and gloom by playing lotsa games.... Heres a good one to start with. Very similar to a Playstation game I used to have whos name escapes me at the mo.
I went to pick Alex up from nursery yesterday and while waiting, I came across a bracelet-like toy made from small, coloured, jointed sections...I picked it up to have a look at it and found myself instantly hypnotised by its lovely tangly-ness..10 minutes later, Wendy had to virtually drag me away from it...They're ace. Very soothing and relaxing....definitely not just for kids.
Remember that bonkers media mogul in Tomorrow Never Dies...Elliot Carver I think...Well, fiction looks likely to become even more a reality this time around...Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event
Did you ever wonder *just* what the internet was capable of? Manic at bloggerheads, it would appear, does little else. Never one to rest on his laurels, he's come up with another 'Can Weblogs....?' project.
Scott at ultimateinsult is after a new job. Manic is one of his biggest fans, citing Scotts site as "the weblog that finally prompted me to get off my arse and stop feeding my discoveries and thoughts into Usenet and a range of web groups. It's thanks largely to Scott that I can now coordinate support for a wide range of people, companies or causes"
As a small token of his appreciation, hes decided to see if he can help Scott get the job he's after by getting him some exposure.. and what better way than getting loads of bloggers to link to your new project and send Scott shooting up to the top of every web diffusion index grabbing everyones attention on the way.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that this is Manics way of teaching the Raging Cow peeps a lesson in how to pool support from the blogging community to help market something...of course, I could be wrong there..
How can someone who thinks the forthcoming bloodbath is a sham end up at number 2 in Yahoo when you search for pro war on iraq propoganda pics...Oh yeah, that'll be the internet...Doh.
Its not often, but sometimes, the attitude of some people *really* pisses me off.
Last week, it was my mums partners 60th birthday. He's a top dude who's one of the most creative, funny, artistic, skilled, modest people I have the pleasure of knowing. So I was really looking forward to the get together... Actually, it was a quiet do really... Me, Wendy and Alex went round to my mums to wish him happy birthday, have a few drinks and give him his present (a book about Shackleton). They've been together for about 20 years now and hes like a 3rd grandad to Alex. He has 3 children of his own from a previous marriage. Annie, Nicola and Alistair.
Annie, the youngest in her early 20's has recently finished a teaching degree. However, Annie is very lazy and relied on her dad to produce any and every creative piece for her coursework. He helped write a lot of her essays and proof read / corrected her dissertation. Without the help from her dad, Annie would have undoubtedly failed her degree. Now, however, it appears that being a teacher is too stressful and too much like hard work so she's thinking of giving it up...nice one Annie.
Nicola is in her early 30s and a nurse. Despite this, she's a complete airhead who's incapable of anything other than....well, I can't think of anything actually...she can't even cook. She goes round to her mums and lets her do it. This is a girl who rang her dad up the other day because she wanted him to come round and remove a pair of knickers from the hoover that she's accidentally sucked up, blocking the hoover. She also once left a message on her dads answerphone asking to ring her urgently. As it turned out, all she wanted was the phone number for the local tandoori because she couldn't be arsed to look it up in the phone book.
Alistair, a social worker pretty much keeps himself to himself, but his wife is a cello playing weirdo who... well, I'll save him the embarrassment and not mention it.
All 3 of them are a total and utter waste of space. Not one of them bothered to get him a present, a card or even ring him to wish him happy 60th birthday. I doubt they even realised it was.
All 3 of them live within a few miles of their dad, but they never call round (unless they want something in Annies case)...and he hardly ever see's his grandchildren.
Annie, Nicola and Alistair...I have this to say to you.
You are without doubt the most horrible, selfish, thoughtless people I have ever had the misfortune to hear about.
Throughout his life, you dad has given you all the love, help and support he was capable of giving and you repay this by barley recognising he exists. Of course, I don't lay ALL the blame at you feet, some of it has to be attributed to your insane, god-bothering mother (also a nurse) who has obviously totally fucked your heads up. This is a woman who once picked all the apples from the tree in her front garden, piled them in her living room, then left them to rot for nearly a year.... A woman who thought microwaves cooked like normal ovens put a potato in on full power for an hour...This is a woman who works on a helpline, giving medical advice to people.
I don't consider myself a malicious person in any way, by I really hope your pathetic, miserable lives continue like that for years to come. I'm SO glad I've never met you and pray that we never will.
The BeastieBoys have summed up what most people seem to be thinking about the impending conflict with a new track called "In A World Gone Mad..." that you can download for nowt. Go Listen.
The US Central Command website is mostly pro-war propoganda with loads of images of determined young American servicemen and women and articles about 'the truth behind Saddams use of oil for terror'...Zzzzz However, they also maintain a gallery of all the leaflets they've been dropping on Iraq which makes for some interesting reading, they've even imitated the middle-eastern poster naffness....I hope they used recycled paper :: CENTCOM Leaflet Gallery
There seems to have been a surge of interest in Edward Goreys 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' this week on Blogdex, linking to this site but I can't understand why? Its not like its new to the net or anything. Its been around on the web for at least 5 years and its been here on Blogtrooper for months now...Still, if it means that more peeps are getting into Eds stuff, that can't be bad.... PS, my images are better ;o)
More about Dr Peppers milky-milky-drinky-bloggy ad campaign....
Over at bloggerheads, Tim Ireland has started a Raging Cow Boycott. Tims campaigns are pretty successful (See this about Tony Blairs email address for a good example)...If thats anything to go by, this is going to get *very* interesting.
I really like Massive Attacks stuff, and their new album 100th Window is excellent. I was quite surprised (as I'm sure many were) when 3D was collared in connection with the current far-reaching police investigation into child pornography...as my mate Sonikhead put it... "Pete Townsend fair enough, but not our 3D"
Then I came across this in last Fridays edition of The Friday Thing and suddenly everything stated to make sense...
CONSIPIRACY THEORY CORNER
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Musician who has been most vocal in his criticism of Britain and America's proposed war against Iraq: 3-D from Massive Attack.
Musician who has just been arrested on 'drugs and porn charges': 3-D from Massive Attack.
Agency responsible for the vast majority of Britain's Internet porn tip-offs: The F.B.I.
Hmmm... Dr Pepper, it would appear, are attempting to market a new product using a fake blog....bloggers smelled a rat straight away and it looks like the plan might backfire and rapidly turn into a Spar carrier bag...(one of those things you just *don't* want to be seen with)....though it is riding high on Blogdex today...techcentralstation has a good angle on it.
Its Wendys second day at work today and things are going pretty smoothly all in all. Getting up before 7am isn't proving to be as difficult as I thought it might thanks to Wendys new secret weapon, Alex.
While she's up and about doing what girls do in a morning (circa 6:30) she's started putting Alex in bed with me, *just* in range of my head, which he happily pounds away till I get up...neat trick Mrs T.
Bike-wise, I'm failing dismally using the excuse of accompanying Wendy to the nursery to drop Alex off in order to cadge a lift to work....Well, it *was* raining. On the plus side though, now that I can't go home for dinner, I'm only bringing to work a small, but sufficient lunch...and no change for the buttie/choccy/poppy machines.
Alex seems to be enjoying nursery and the girls that look after him say that he happily plays for most of the day without making a murmur. He seems to be trying to copy stuff we do too.
Wendy was giving him his tea the other night and blowing on the spoon as the butternut squash and potato she had made was a bit warm (butternut squash..... When I was his age, I was lucky to get shredded newspaper strained through an old sock for tea..I ask you...)
Anyway, Alex now thinks that this is the done thing when you put the spoon near his mouth. We're thinking of letting him loose on some canvas and entering him for next years Turner prize.
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