Monday, June 17, 2013
Highlights: Let's Play Dead Island (Episodes 1 - 3)
Here's the best moments from our Dead Island Let's Plays. I'm gonna be focusing on ReGeneration for the rest of the week so I might not be updating as much. There's also no other videos planned for this week except the possibility of more older podcasts from ReGeneration being put on YouTube.
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Let's Play Dead Island (Episode 3)
The final episode of this game. Simply put, I posted this early because I'll be distracted tomorrow by E3 which everyone will be watching, so I wanted to post it on a day where it will actually get views. The next Let's Play I'm still working on is Minecraft. I got some solo games I'm working on, too.
Saturday, June 08, 2013
Now on ReverbNation
I've been holding out on joining ReverbNation for a long time for a number of reasons. First of all, historically, I've released new music and previews exclusively on MySpace for a long time because I wanted a central place to place that stuff and at the time it just made sense to do it on MySpace. Now that I have my own website, I've been branching off unto SoundCould and YouTube. Although I may still put up guitar covers and samples on MySpace, I think it's safe to say that's not going to be the home of my music any more. The second reason was that Dead Night Sky was on there is still getting new interactions on there, and because it was a group collaboration to showcase our music in one hub, I didn't have a need to join the site. Right now, the future of Dead Night Sky is a shady one and I feel like it's a missed opportunity to have this stalled group on there when I could be focusing more on myself since I'm actually being active with this stuff. Those are the biggest reasons and now it seems like they are not longer relevant so I decided to make myself a profile.
There are some things to note with this new page. First of all, you won't find anything new there. It's all stuff you've seen before on this site. There are some songs but that's about it. You'll also notice no downloads. The reason is most of the songs I've uploaded I had to downgrade the quality in order to upload it (they must have changed the size limit). I refuse to distribute my music in lower a lower quality than I intended (see my legal page for more info on that). So for that reason, you won't find my music downloadable through ReverbNation.
I also want to note that, at this time, all my music is available digitally for free. It will stay that way in the foreseeable future but I could eventually expand into physical releases and ReverbNation is pretty great for that. Obviously, it costs money to make those CDs (not for me, for the manufacturer and distributor that ReverbNation uses), plus if someone's getting some money off my product, I want to make sure I get a cut. So if I do make physical releases, it will be the first time you would have to pay for something from me, but at least you're getting more out of the purchase with something you can hold. You can expect I'll make a way to make it worth the purchase when it comes to that.
I've had a lot of experience on ReverbNation with Dead Night Sky and I'm looking to transition that to my new profile and hopefully getting the same results. You can follow me there if you like, but I'll likely be more active through my regular pages as always.
There are some things to note with this new page. First of all, you won't find anything new there. It's all stuff you've seen before on this site. There are some songs but that's about it. You'll also notice no downloads. The reason is most of the songs I've uploaded I had to downgrade the quality in order to upload it (they must have changed the size limit). I refuse to distribute my music in lower a lower quality than I intended (see my legal page for more info on that). So for that reason, you won't find my music downloadable through ReverbNation.
I also want to note that, at this time, all my music is available digitally for free. It will stay that way in the foreseeable future but I could eventually expand into physical releases and ReverbNation is pretty great for that. Obviously, it costs money to make those CDs (not for me, for the manufacturer and distributor that ReverbNation uses), plus if someone's getting some money off my product, I want to make sure I get a cut. So if I do make physical releases, it will be the first time you would have to pay for something from me, but at least you're getting more out of the purchase with something you can hold. You can expect I'll make a way to make it worth the purchase when it comes to that.
I've had a lot of experience on ReverbNation with Dead Night Sky and I'm looking to transition that to my new profile and hopefully getting the same results. You can follow me there if you like, but I'll likely be more active through my regular pages as always.
Friday, June 07, 2013
New iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 Cases
If you're in need of a new iPhone 5 or Galaxy S3 case, boy do I have you covered. I just released a bunch of new cases on my store for you to choose from. Why isn't there any S4 cases? Unfortunately, Zazzle doesn't have any available yet. Like I said, there's a lot of cases but here's the long list of new ones. You can click on each individual picture to bring you to the product page or just visit the store to see all my available products.
Uncertain Sound
iPhone 5
Galaxy S3
Dead Night Sky
Galaxy S3
Gaming (Til Plays)
Thursday, June 06, 2013
LPAssociation Monthly Mix-Up for May 2013 WINNER!
I've entered a few of LPAssociation.com's Monthly Mix-Up competitions. Usually I get runner-up or honorable mentions. Today, I'm finally on the winner's board. I actually share first place with an amazing mashup by The2ndHope. You can check out the rest of the mixes here! For my mix, the YouTube and SoundCloud posts are below.
Monday, June 03, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Current Status for Dead Night Sky
Every so often, I'm getting a notice or contacted regarding Dead Night Sky. It's a confusing situation because the project is a weird one, so I'll try to explain the best I can. I also have stuff I want to work on today so I'm going to try and keep this as brief as I can.
Dead Night Sky originally started an attempt to start a band. Depending on who you ask, the origins of it may differ. From my memory, I wanted to hear what my songs that I've been working on would sound like if they were completed since I didn't have a way to do that myself at the time and was looking for help. The band attempt failed many times but I didn't want to give up on it. It was clear I wasn't going to get a band going.
So I re-branded the name as a "collaboration". There are a few people who were interested in working together to make music and collaborate to finish or works in progress. That's still my goal at this time, but things were a bit different then. I had made a CD to copyright my guitar recordings and used them as a basis to work on building the songs. I was working on Wicked Pickles a little bit at a time and showing off my progress to the other members who expressed interest in working on the songs. The idea for Wicked Pickles was basically a trial because it was new territory for me and I wanted to see what was possible. I also wanted to showcase an example of the kind of stuff I wanted to do. So the goal was to work on instrumentals and have the other members provide vocals for the songs.
Things went south, though. Lyrics still were in the works for the longest time and every attempt to get together to work on music, much like the band's beginnings, failed for some reason or the other. Eventually, I temporarily moved to British Colombia which made things impossible but I brought my laptop and was still chipping away at my music. Some of the songs on the EP were actually made and released during that time with my current recordings and Magix Music Maker (terrible software, don't use it!). Unfortunately, I didn't see how it was possible to finish the EP.
This was around the holidays and I guess I got my spirits up during that time because I decided to release the instrumentals anyway to MySpace. I'm glad I did, because I've been getting nothing but positive responses for the EP (you can read a review my friend and fellow musician Mike Haggith made on Facebook). To this day – more recently, oddly enough – we're still getting new fans on ReverbNation and I'm getting contacted through different means about the band, sometimes even for shows to play.
This has positioned me to make different "members" pages on the Dead Night Sky website recently to try and redirect people to our individual work since at this time we're not working on anything. In fact, the Dead Night Sky brand may be irrelevant compared to what the original goal was. As far as I know, I'm the only one working on music in the group and it's for myself right now. So there's a chance that Dead Night Sky could change again. I don't know what that means exactly as of this time, but I'm considering different options such as a new group project, adding more people into the group since I know a lot of musicians who are either not working on anything, no longer in a band, or just do solo work, or maybe even trying to start up a band again.
I'm not sure exactly what's going to happen but, for the moment, don't expect any new Dead Night Sky content any time soon. Instead, I'm working on my own EP and two of the songs for that are available now. I hope that clears up any confusion.
As I've mentioned, Dead Night Sky is not available to play shows but if you still want to contact me regarding the group, you can visit my contact page for information on how to do that. If you want to follow the current members of the group, we're all on Twitter and have a feed for all our tweets.
Dead Night Sky originally started an attempt to start a band. Depending on who you ask, the origins of it may differ. From my memory, I wanted to hear what my songs that I've been working on would sound like if they were completed since I didn't have a way to do that myself at the time and was looking for help. The band attempt failed many times but I didn't want to give up on it. It was clear I wasn't going to get a band going.
So I re-branded the name as a "collaboration". There are a few people who were interested in working together to make music and collaborate to finish or works in progress. That's still my goal at this time, but things were a bit different then. I had made a CD to copyright my guitar recordings and used them as a basis to work on building the songs. I was working on Wicked Pickles a little bit at a time and showing off my progress to the other members who expressed interest in working on the songs. The idea for Wicked Pickles was basically a trial because it was new territory for me and I wanted to see what was possible. I also wanted to showcase an example of the kind of stuff I wanted to do. So the goal was to work on instrumentals and have the other members provide vocals for the songs.
Things went south, though. Lyrics still were in the works for the longest time and every attempt to get together to work on music, much like the band's beginnings, failed for some reason or the other. Eventually, I temporarily moved to British Colombia which made things impossible but I brought my laptop and was still chipping away at my music. Some of the songs on the EP were actually made and released during that time with my current recordings and Magix Music Maker (terrible software, don't use it!). Unfortunately, I didn't see how it was possible to finish the EP.
This was around the holidays and I guess I got my spirits up during that time because I decided to release the instrumentals anyway to MySpace. I'm glad I did, because I've been getting nothing but positive responses for the EP (you can read a review my friend and fellow musician Mike Haggith made on Facebook). To this day – more recently, oddly enough – we're still getting new fans on ReverbNation and I'm getting contacted through different means about the band, sometimes even for shows to play.
This has positioned me to make different "members" pages on the Dead Night Sky website recently to try and redirect people to our individual work since at this time we're not working on anything. In fact, the Dead Night Sky brand may be irrelevant compared to what the original goal was. As far as I know, I'm the only one working on music in the group and it's for myself right now. So there's a chance that Dead Night Sky could change again. I don't know what that means exactly as of this time, but I'm considering different options such as a new group project, adding more people into the group since I know a lot of musicians who are either not working on anything, no longer in a band, or just do solo work, or maybe even trying to start up a band again.
I'm not sure exactly what's going to happen but, for the moment, don't expect any new Dead Night Sky content any time soon. Instead, I'm working on my own EP and two of the songs for that are available now. I hope that clears up any confusion.
As I've mentioned, Dead Night Sky is not available to play shows but if you still want to contact me regarding the group, you can visit my contact page for information on how to do that. If you want to follow the current members of the group, we're all on Twitter and have a feed for all our tweets.
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