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Alex Strain has put up a mini album of new material. Its release is a little premature given an unforgiving hard drive crash, and thus became titled The Album That Never Can Be (but Almost Was). The sound is raw and warm techno with analog elements. It’s certainly a cousin of our co-op album we released earlier this year, mmd_as.

Last year Alex paid us a visit in Armidale. We got some time to work on some tracks, including the song “Green”. It’s a track we both tweaked and morphed – and I recorded a bassline live. Have a listen and let Alex know if you like it.

The new mmd_as album has made its way around the wide world of web 2.0 and made its sounds available for free where it went. Probably only two places of note are mmd_as – last.fm and here on the Renoise Forum where some people have given comment. Everything else out there is either too minor or so messy that it’s un-presentable. However, if any discussion of note appears I shall share it here. If I were more the virtual-social-butterfly my reach may have generated more of an impact, but no use in pretending to be something I’m not. One place that I’ll be endeavouring to polish up for networking purposes is a new Facebook Page that at the moment just barely features the mmd_as material.

The good news is that I’ve added the new album to the mmd shop, available as a high quality FLAC download for a realistic $10AUD via paypal. Again, we wish that this could be a physical copy of a CD with cool artwork and such, but for now a FLAC version will have to do. Think of your purchase as a ’show of support’ as any donations are halved between Alex and I. I don’t expect a heap of interested (my last album only sold about 5-6 copies), but we’ll put the option there for you just in case.

And of course, any comments and reactions from yourselves to the album would be most welcome to us. Please lets us know what you think of what we have done!

Over two years in the making it is finally here! Alex Strain and I have finished our album and it is up and ready to go! Visit this page:

mmd_as

Download the new mmd_as tune: Saint Santa

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A little xmas gift for you all before we wind up business for the year! This is a preview of an album project Alex Strain and I have coming out early 2009. We both though that we’d honour the spirit of the season and offer you all a fun free gift that’s a little more on the lighter side of the project, just for a smile.

The middle section features local hiphop sensation and web2.0 megastar MC Wrap Present.

Enjoy.

Alex Strain paid a visit to Galloway Street to meet me in person for the first time and set to the task of sorting production issues and having a little sonic fun. Much delight was had with his new toy: the Yamaha CS-30 synth. For someone who works probably too much in the digital audio world to hear this heavy bit of kit producing sounds of of this world via strictly analogue processing was fresh to the ears. Recent fascination with FM matrix routing meant we conducted an experiment in Frequency Modulated routing and noise modelling. We recorded a bit of it which you can hear here:

The Amazing Analogue FM Journey

Alex and I are hard at work with a few more tunes which upon completion will herald the release of a new ‘collaboration website’ to showcase our work. We have quite a few tasty treats on the boil! As always stay tuned…