Joomla! site syndication http://dratomic.net/home Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:10:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://dratomic.net/home/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://dratomic.net/home Joomla! site syndication http://dratomic.net/home/content/view/148/37/ Last night and today I have been working on re-structuring the site a bit, mostly when it comes to the free downloads thing. For years I've struggled with forming a musical identity in the internet age. Since electronic music has mainly one performance outlet (DJing) and as I've lost my taste for staying out til the wee hours, its hard to make a real world connection with an audience. So that leaves the interweb. A friend turned me on to an amazing document about new music strategies in a post-record company world and its opened my eyes quite a bit. One of the direct results of that is breaking down the wall. Attention spans are short -- hey, are you still with me? -- so whats needed is simplification and speed. You can now go directly to the FREE MP3s section, instantly listen to a preview and then download yourself into delirium. The only exception is the Unauthorized Remixes which, for obvious reasons, is still locked away in the DRs Lab and requires a password to get in. That's it for now! More to come! Music - Music Blog Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:34:50 +0100 http://dratomic.net/home/content/view/142/28/ Iron nuts. Nuts that clang when you walk.Impenetrable testicles with built-in airbags: Executives of Detroit's Big Three automakers traveled to Washington on Thursday to press their case for more financial aid (http://www.truthout.org/110708LA) from the federal government because of the bleak prospects for their industry. Wow, lets see. Global warming, the destruction of community in America, the murder of various mass transit systems (http://www.truthout.org/111708C), massive death from pollutants, global warming, lobbying against fuel efficiency (http://www.truthout.org/120808EA), a history of technology suppression and oh, did I mention global warming? Yes, they DO make balls in Detroit. Blog - Brain Spasms Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:15:12 +0100 http://dratomic.net/home/content/view/141/28/ Its kind of shocking to read some of these stories and realize how, well, how shocked I don't feel. Is the modern nervous system so overstimulated as to be insusceptible to such outrageousness? No doubt the nine banks into which the US is planning to inject billions in capital - again, all taxpayer dollars - have their lawyers searching for those escape hatches. ...the Institute for Policy Studies calculated that last year the CEO's of those nine banks took home on average, $32.2 million each, nearly triple the average CEO pay at the 500 biggest US companies. This is more than $600,000 a week. Apiece. I mean, this is just utterly incomprehensible, this volume of money. And yet my emotional reaction is meh. About five years ago I created some Flash animation for this website... a bold, but flickering statement IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPIRE. (You can still see that when launching the media player.) While obviously prescient, I had no idea how profoundly overstated this Empire would flaunt itself. Hence, perhaps the deer in headlights feeling while reading these stories as of late. Its so brazen that one actually can't process it fully. OR, I've just gotten so used to the idea of the end of the world as we know it that these things no longer surprise. Truth has certainly out-stranged fiction and this hazy incomprehensibility is in need of a new word. Blog - Brain Spasms Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:40:09 +0100 http://dratomic.net/home/content/view/136/49/ This is sensational. R_bvW59BEYo Atomic TV - I Heart the Net Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:46:29 +0100 http://dratomic.net/home/content/view/132/37/ Recently a friend turned me on to some excellent mastering software, so I crunched the ones and zeroes, fattened up the bass and fortified the funk. (Oh man, its hard writing this cheeky editorial crap). Anyway, posted the following... * remastered versions of the instraMENTALs collection * five remixes of some favorite tunes * a new dancier version of Crop Circles (from Hallucignosis) * remixed versions of two old tracks to be found in the Rarities section Log in, download and turn up the speakers! Music - Music Blog Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:34:50 +0100