Torley Lives

Awhile back with solo piano 7 — now downloaded over 100,000 times on the Internet Archive — I encouraged prospective remixers to do their best and take my works in new directions. I was more interested in experimental/glitchy remixes still retaining strong melody than, say, 4/4 straightahead dancefloor looping, but Maximus Fowler of Maximus Productions has come up with the best of both worlds! Listen to his remix of "Swayless" which you can DOWNLOAD (MP3, no crap DRM!):

and here's the my original which you can also DOWNLOAD:

What I particularly enjoyed about his take was the bleeps and stutters he added at points; somewhat reminiscent of the transcendental collaborations Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto mastered, with a twinge of BT's This Binary Universe (one of my faves). Always luv influences coming back in a fresh way!

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Ah, the paradox of “short and sweet”: make it longer, and the sense of novelty wears off and you’re left feeling unsatisfied as you might’ve been with a tighter package. This is why great comedians don’t drag on the punchline. This is why great advertising gets to the point, even if it’s a mysterious one. And this is why, despite the better part of myself wailing, “Why won’t they make more levels!??”, that likely won’t happen. But for what it’s worth, Transmigration is a fantastic audiovisual feast:

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If you like excellent dancefloor fillers — COMPARE! Esp. towards the end:

Sasha - “Who Killed Sparky?”

Nathan Pink - “The Sky is Pink (James Holden Remix)”

The first came second. I haven’t heard the two mixed adjacently in a set yet, but here’s an op. Both are magnificent tracks, but I prefer the former because it has a subtle edge of variation and excitement which I’ve hardly heard since Holden’s own “A Break in the Clouds”, prolly one of the bestest electronic musics of ALL-TIME.

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In recent weeks, an increasing number of people have noticed YouTube squashing the heck out of volumes, distorting louder passages, and quite frankly, buggering their videos to heck. While thought to be a new problem, my avid reader, you've noticed that I observed this back in April 2008! And let’s not forget the sucky customer service, either. My bug report was clear and concise, and YouTube ignored me. Fast forward to the present, where they've replaced official support contact links with links to their community forums, and lo and behold, what do I find within? Numerous reports of this very problem! That's an improvement of knowledge-sharing, at least.

(But, to add insult to injury, there’s a bug affecting forum logins: even when signed in with your YouTube account, it still asks you to sign up. Due to this, I was able to post to the forums earlier, but now find myself unable to post.)

Originally, a variation of this problem only affected high-quality videos, but now, it's spread to regular-qual ones as well, getting heard evermore in the process. Thorough testing and intricate workarounds have popped up, and even Wired Magazine has done a piece on it — I earlier edited the Wired How-To wiki to make note of this issue — and in addition to being Slashdotted, it can't be long before more press appears.

(Read more for comparison videos.)

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