Hello all, before I continue I'd just like to make this disclaimer that although this is only my second post in these forums, I did not join in order to promote myself, I joined four weeks ago to answer someone's hardware question. But a couple of days ago I got an email from CD Baby that they are going to throw away my CDs if I don't pay to have them shipped back to me. Since that would cost more than it would to produce new copies, I've decided to deeply discount the remaining stock on CD Baby, in hopes that they actually get heard rather than destroyed. The CDs which cost $9.99 yesterday now cost $4.00 - the minimum amount allowable. At that price I don't make any money at all, but again at least they wont be destroyed if someone buys them...
So, if you like experimental electronica with an aim to be listenable and even 'catchy' at times, then you might want to take advantage of this tremendous deal! Note, however, that I don't care whether these get sold or not, since I make no money and they will be destroyed anyway, and I don't care much whether anyone ever hears it, enough people have heard my music already to satisfy me. So don't buy these out of charity because you pity me, buy them if you think you'd actually like them and think they might be worth four dollars, otherwise don't bother because only CD Baby profits if you buy them and I don't like CD Baby anymore...
The following CDs are available for $4.00US each, plus shipping I guess, from CDBaby:
Experiencing Difficulty - Future Failure
Experiencing Difficulty was created in Vancouver, BC as a broadcasting & recording project on The Summer of Hate radio show on CiTR 101.9FM campus radio, in 1993 and continued for several more years on the Plutonian Nights radio show, also on CiTR in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band has released four albums and one collaborative album with South Korea's Rainjacket. The fourth and most recent album, Future Failure, was released in 2007 and consists of recordings from broadcasts that occurred from 2000-2003, as well as two sessions in my home studio. Experiencing Difficulty consists of two main members, Haitch C, of post-electro outfit Haitch C Soundcraft, currently living in Vancouver, BC by way of Birmingham, UK, and Caffeine Charlie of electronic act Morning Gold Fix/Mobile Glitch Factory and industrial/noise/acoustic folk ensemble Caffeine Charlie's Wake-up Service, currently living in Vancouver BC by way of Iowa, USA. On Future Failure they are joined by several guests, including Unjin of Rainjacket, currently living in Seoul, South Korea but living in Vancouver BC at the time of these recordings, Greg from Santa Cruz, CA, who records under the name Pitchfork, on toy guitar, and his girlfriend on keyboards, who were visiting Vancouver BC, and Sean from Maple Ridge, BC who records goth-ish drum-machine-backed alternative-rock (think early Sisters of Mercy) as Sense of Scenery, on bass guitar. You can also find Sense of Scenery CDs on CDBaby but they cost more than four dollars.
Experiencing Difficulty eschews the term 'improvisation', instead claiming to specialize in "spontaneous
composition", as every track is created in a spontaneous manner. No overdubs are used, but the results of each radio performance, which typically lasted two to three hours (the radio show ran from 12am-6am on Saturday mornings), are heavily edited to provide only the most cohesive moments in what all-too-often would drift away from cutting-edge experimentation and toward cacophonous mess. Inspired by foley work and tape-loops, instrumentation ranged the gamut from analog and casio keyboards to found-object percussion wired to contact microphones, lo-fi 'yakbak' sampling, plucked and strummed violin, toy electric guitar with piezo pickup, and anything else we could get our hands on.
Buy the CD for only $4.00US here:
Experiencing Difficulty | Future Failure | CD Baby Music Store
Mobile Glitch Factory - Hi-Fi Digimonster
Named after an infamous Canadian terrorist device, Hi-Fi Digimonster finds the recording artist formerly known as Morning Gold Fix changing things, including the name of the project, up a little. Originally conceived as a more consumer-friendly side-project to noise/prank phone-call act Caffeine Charlie's Wake-up Service, Morning Gold Fix contributed tracks to several compilations, including Arts Industria's critically acclaimed Art of Brutality compilation in 1994, appeared on a split cassette with Experiencing Difficulty in 1995 and released two CD albums and a 3" CDEP in the 2000s before changing the name to Mobile Glitch Factory for 2010's Hi-Fi Digimonster. Adding glitch-hop production to the already heady electronic stew Morning Gold Fix was known for results in a particularly potent mix. Featuring circuit-bent MIDI keyboards and original chiptune elements, (there's no "old video game music" being ripped off, despite the insinuation in the review provided below) punctuated by innovative record scratching techniques, Hi-Fi Digimonster aims to please even the most discerning electronic music connoisseur by exploring a retro-infused amalgam of beats, bloops, skronks, and even the occasional melody.
Here are two unsolicited reviews of the album from iTunes:
"Old School Meets New School
This album is basically a fusion of old video game music and modern techno. The combination is somewhat addicting, but at the same time, it is entertaining. I believe many people will enjoy this odd, but cool album."
***
"Well done
a very original way to combine sounds. Something new, kids love it. It is moving, kickin', swinging, out of the ordinary. Really good !"
Buy the CD for only $4.00US here:
Mobile Glitch Factory | Hi-Fi Digimonster | CD Baby Music Store
So, if you like experimental electronica with an aim to be listenable and even 'catchy' at times, then you might want to take advantage of this tremendous deal! Note, however, that I don't care whether these get sold or not, since I make no money and they will be destroyed anyway, and I don't care much whether anyone ever hears it, enough people have heard my music already to satisfy me. So don't buy these out of charity because you pity me, buy them if you think you'd actually like them and think they might be worth four dollars, otherwise don't bother because only CD Baby profits if you buy them and I don't like CD Baby anymore...
The following CDs are available for $4.00US each, plus shipping I guess, from CDBaby:
Experiencing Difficulty - Future Failure
Experiencing Difficulty was created in Vancouver, BC as a broadcasting & recording project on The Summer of Hate radio show on CiTR 101.9FM campus radio, in 1993 and continued for several more years on the Plutonian Nights radio show, also on CiTR in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band has released four albums and one collaborative album with South Korea's Rainjacket. The fourth and most recent album, Future Failure, was released in 2007 and consists of recordings from broadcasts that occurred from 2000-2003, as well as two sessions in my home studio. Experiencing Difficulty consists of two main members, Haitch C, of post-electro outfit Haitch C Soundcraft, currently living in Vancouver, BC by way of Birmingham, UK, and Caffeine Charlie of electronic act Morning Gold Fix/Mobile Glitch Factory and industrial/noise/acoustic folk ensemble Caffeine Charlie's Wake-up Service, currently living in Vancouver BC by way of Iowa, USA. On Future Failure they are joined by several guests, including Unjin of Rainjacket, currently living in Seoul, South Korea but living in Vancouver BC at the time of these recordings, Greg from Santa Cruz, CA, who records under the name Pitchfork, on toy guitar, and his girlfriend on keyboards, who were visiting Vancouver BC, and Sean from Maple Ridge, BC who records goth-ish drum-machine-backed alternative-rock (think early Sisters of Mercy) as Sense of Scenery, on bass guitar. You can also find Sense of Scenery CDs on CDBaby but they cost more than four dollars.
Experiencing Difficulty eschews the term 'improvisation', instead claiming to specialize in "spontaneous
composition", as every track is created in a spontaneous manner. No overdubs are used, but the results of each radio performance, which typically lasted two to three hours (the radio show ran from 12am-6am on Saturday mornings), are heavily edited to provide only the most cohesive moments in what all-too-often would drift away from cutting-edge experimentation and toward cacophonous mess. Inspired by foley work and tape-loops, instrumentation ranged the gamut from analog and casio keyboards to found-object percussion wired to contact microphones, lo-fi 'yakbak' sampling, plucked and strummed violin, toy electric guitar with piezo pickup, and anything else we could get our hands on.
Buy the CD for only $4.00US here:
Experiencing Difficulty | Future Failure | CD Baby Music Store
Mobile Glitch Factory - Hi-Fi Digimonster
Named after an infamous Canadian terrorist device, Hi-Fi Digimonster finds the recording artist formerly known as Morning Gold Fix changing things, including the name of the project, up a little. Originally conceived as a more consumer-friendly side-project to noise/prank phone-call act Caffeine Charlie's Wake-up Service, Morning Gold Fix contributed tracks to several compilations, including Arts Industria's critically acclaimed Art of Brutality compilation in 1994, appeared on a split cassette with Experiencing Difficulty in 1995 and released two CD albums and a 3" CDEP in the 2000s before changing the name to Mobile Glitch Factory for 2010's Hi-Fi Digimonster. Adding glitch-hop production to the already heady electronic stew Morning Gold Fix was known for results in a particularly potent mix. Featuring circuit-bent MIDI keyboards and original chiptune elements, (there's no "old video game music" being ripped off, despite the insinuation in the review provided below) punctuated by innovative record scratching techniques, Hi-Fi Digimonster aims to please even the most discerning electronic music connoisseur by exploring a retro-infused amalgam of beats, bloops, skronks, and even the occasional melody.
Here are two unsolicited reviews of the album from iTunes:
"Old School Meets New School
This album is basically a fusion of old video game music and modern techno. The combination is somewhat addicting, but at the same time, it is entertaining. I believe many people will enjoy this odd, but cool album."
***
"Well done
a very original way to combine sounds. Something new, kids love it. It is moving, kickin', swinging, out of the ordinary. Really good !"
Buy the CD for only $4.00US here:
Mobile Glitch Factory | Hi-Fi Digimonster | CD Baby Music Store
PS: I will never send CD Baby another CD as long as I live, so this may be your only chance to get a full-quality physical copy of this music. The $4 sale will last until the CDs run out or until CD Baby destroys the remainder on April 12th, 2015.
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