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Mick Rippon has done some great work in getting together a community initiative called the Renoise Loop Project. The aim is to showcase percussion loops made in Renoise so that the wider music making community can see it’s potential and also use the loops royalty free in their own music. Already there is a huge pool of great loops, all of which you can easily preview on the site, or download in WAV format.

I’ve quickly made up a contribution of 23 loops, which you can browse here. These are taken from many short ’song sketches’ that have not gone anywhere, with material going back as far as 2003. Please go ahead and use them in your own music!

Some more information for you on the recent album release. You can now download the entire mp3 collection from one link:

http://m.thequietrevolution.net/mp3/2_Smargaid_Maerd_mp3s.rar

The above is a 213mb rar file, which will need un-compressing once you have downloaded it. Later on I’m going to look into bit-torrent to better deliver these large files, but for now make sure you’re ready for a big download if you’re making the attempt. If you so prefer, you can still download each song separately here.

I put some research into pricing of getting this album pressed. This is currently out of my budget and I doubt very much that I’d be able to make my money back with such non-commercial album as this. So for now, I’ve had to rethink my approach. In the near future I will be offering, through the mmd_shop, the ability to purchase high a quality FLAC version of the album. This will allow people to download it and burn their own CD quality version.

To do that I’ve had to organize moving hosts, as my current one is too small to home such large files. So there may be some ‘downtime’ during the move. Once done, I hope to do a lot of re-working to the website to better feature my past works, and some other new bits and pieces for a stronger commercial presence.

Hello everyone and welcome to 2008. Much going on to be written about, but I might as well start off with a little project I’ve been involved with. Behold:

http://www.armidaleanimalshelter.blogspot.com

If you are a New England resident this is well worth checking out. Much of the community is reluctant to know about what has to be done to manage neglected animals. Most cases are due to carelessness, and some animals end up facing death-row as a result. Galloway Street has already seen two young ones saved from such a fate. You can help via adoption or spreading the word.