Shael Riley and The Double Ice Backfire – Songs from the Pit

Brand new SUPER HI-FI magical purple cassette EP that made it’s
debut at Nerdapalooza 2009! Limited press of only 100 copies each
individually numbered! Get it fast! Each contains one Outworld soul!

Featuring:

Publishing Rights-
How to Fire a Gun-
Asian Kids Have All the Best Moves-
The Other Side of Memphis-
Chinese Ninja Warrior
tip eht fo mottob-

Shael Riley, Ricky Henry, Ty Guenley w/ Shaffer the Darklord and Jon Titterington

Powerglove to start recording new album soon!

Powerglove

From the Powerglove MySpace blog:

And so it is, that after many months of arranging music and watching
professional Starcraft, we’ve now ended up with about two releases
worth of songs. We would probably hemorrhage with pure glory if we
tried to just record them all at once, so we’re going to split this
batch into two albums.

And so it is, that after many months of arranging music and watching
professional Starcraft, we’ve now ended up with about two releases
worth of songs. We would probably hemorrhage with pure glory if we
tried to just record them all at once, so we’re going to split this
batch into two albums.

The
first one will be all of the tv, cartoon and movie themes that we grew
up with, smelted into shimmering metal. The Pokemon theme song is on
this one as some of you know, along with This is Halloween from The
Nightmare before Christmas (one of several Danny Elfman songs we’re
doing on this one, a favorite composer for sure), The Flintstones, The
Real Adventures of Johnny Quest (if you haven’t heard that one look it
up, it’s awesome), and a song that for the moment I’m calling In the
Hall of Inspector Gadget. Also, we have this psychotic arrangement of
Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid with 220bpm shredding and steel
drums that will make you pass out from laughing and headbanging at the
same time. In the next few weeks we’ll reveal some more about it as we
get started with the recording. As to the amount of songs, I honestly
don’t know yet how many we want to put on this release. It could be an
EP, it could be an album, only time will tell.

And the second
one is back to video game music! We’ve got most of the core material
done for that one as well, so we’ll have plenty of time to kick it
around and refine it. I’ll save revealing those tracks for later, but I
recently did an arrangement of Snake Man from Mega Man 3 that I can’t
wait to hear live, should it make the cut. I’d love to have the first
one come out later this year, and the second one in 2010, but we’ll see
how that works out with touring etc.

We just got all of our new
gear together and we’ll be setting it up and getting our tones starting
this weekend. Our drum and bass sounds are already way better than
Metal Kombat, and Saturday the never ending quest for the perfect
recorded guitar tone begins anew.

I can’t really generalize on
the sound for this album, but there are definitely more dark moments
than Metal Kombat, and the gleeful moments of cheer are more intense
and ecstatic. It is also heavier and shreddyer, but every band says
that. So don’t take our word for it now, you see when the time comes.

-Chris Marchiel and Powerglove

Interview and preview tracks for OCR’s Donkey Kong Country 2 Project!

This week on Radio Free Gamer, the project directors for OCRemix’s Donkey Kong Country 2 project join us to discuss this excellent follow-up to the first ever album on OCR.  Not only will we have an exclusive interview, but we will also have TWO PREVIEW TRACKS which you can only hear at Radio Free Gamer (until the album is released!). 

Radio Free Gamer airs live on Wednesday at 7PM EST only at 8bitx.com, and the podcast will be updated on Friday with a full recording of the live show.  Check it out for all the best in free video game music and artist interviews!
This week on Radio Free Gamer, the project directors for OCRemix’s
Donkey Kong Country 2 project join us to discuss this excellent
follow-up to the first ever album on OCR.  Not only will we have an
exclusive interview, but we will also have TWO PREVIEW TRACKS which you
can only hear at Radio Free Gamer (until the album is released!). 

Radio Free Gamer airs live on Wednesday at 7PM EST only at 8bitx.com, and the podcast
will be updated on Friday with a full recording of the live show. 
Check it out for all the best in free video game music and artist
interviews!

FF4 Project Listening Party! THIS SATURDAY!

OA posted on OverClocked ReMix:

To help commemorate the release of OCR’s 14th album, Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption, We are going to be throwing an IRC listening party!

Here’s the INFO!!

WHEN
SATURDAY JULY 18, 9PM EST

WHERE
Channel #OCRFF4 on irc.enterthegame.com
http://www.ocremix.org/info/Chat

WHY
Because album releases are more fun with others commenting on stuff,
and there will be some other fun activities, including trivia for
FABULOUS PRIZES!

The Ocarina of Rhyme

The Ocarina of Rhyme

This is apparently kind of old, but I hadn’t heard of it until today. I came across this today when one friend of mine posted it on another friend’s Facebook wall. The album, as you could probably guess, is an collection of mash-ups of rap artists like Aesop Rock, Busta Rhymes, and MF DOOM with the soundtrack from Ocarina of Time.

You can stream the whole album from here, and you can also download the whole thing. When you click to download, you’re prompted to make an optional donation (you can choose to donate $0) to download higher quality files (320kbps CBR MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, etc., etc.) or download a free version for 128kbps CBR.

Finally you can subscribe to Team Teamwork’s RSS feed to get updates on future releases.

Jeriaska on Radio Free Gamer, Wed. at 7PM EST

Jeriaska (of Nobuooo, Gamasutra, and GameSetWatch) will be featured on this week’s episode of Radio Free Gamer.  We discuss a roundtable discussion he held with four independent video game composers.  We discuss production of music for independent video games and the series of video interviews he did for Nobuooo.  Airs Wednesday at 7PM EST and is added to the podcast on Friday.
This week on RFG, Jeriaska (of Nobuooo, Gamasutra, and GameSetWatch)
joins us to discuss a roundtable he held with four independent game
composers. This leads to an interesting conversation about music in
independent games. Also discussed is his monthly series of video
interviews with VGM artists.

Also, a very special Win of the
Week for all you Valve fans and a preview of Otakon 2009 (or in other
words, I tell you how I plan to distribute the 2,000 business cards I
just ordered!).

Listen live Wednesday July 8th at 7PM EST only on 8bitx.com! The podcast will be updated Friday, or thereabouts. See you then!

RKO 2009-Q2 Torrent

Misser posted on SLAY Radio:

Another quarter has passed, summer is upon us. Time for vacation,
relaxation and getting ready for The Gathering on 08-08-2009. Here is
the Q2-2009 RKO Torrent with 86 new tunes to take away with you.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-2 2009 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Hope this nice new additions will make the sunny days even more enjoyable.

Enjoy

AmigaRemix.com redesign time – designer needed!

Ziphoid posted on remix64.com:

During the summer, AmigaRemix.com will be completely reworked and will
be based on a new engine instead of the current one. This gives the
obvious opportunity to not only change the background system, but also
the frontend into something new and fresh. Because I’m a coder and no
designer, I’d like some help in making it look kickass as well as I’ll
make it have a proper engine to run it on.

What is needed is a
nice and clean design, focusing on the Amiga in a retro or futuristic
way. The site will still be quite ‘shallow’ since it’ll only be a
listing of what tracks are available – apart from the submission system
– which means it shouldn’t be too hard to do this. I’m very fluent in
CSS + XHTML, so that won’t give any fuzz, but if any of you feel up for
helping out with the new design, please contact me here or via the
contact form on the site itself.

There really are no guidelines other than the above mentioned so the
design can pretty much be in any way you create it. Just think of it as
a big listing of remixes + some additional links and info and it’ll be
just fine. :) Also, make sure it’s doable without TOO much graphics involved, since we want it to be lightweight as well as good looking.

…and
yes, I plan to make the site skinnable (which it actually is right now
as well, but I don’t use it) so more than one design can ‘win’ this.

When I get hold of something good as a prize, I’ll make sure to give that to the winning entry. :)

Go ahead – design like the wind!

// Ziph