And in related news....  2007-11-18 

I've joined the group known as Chimera as of today, they're a fairly underground
tracker label (one of the last I suppose) that still release their mods online.

http://www.chimeramusic.net

I'm really honored to be part of a group that still honors a dying legacy.

Edit: *blushes* erm.. I forgot to make the link into a clickable one .. pardon me :P

Now for some serious insane tracking...


links: CTG | Archive.org | Modarchive.org | TiS



//John Marwin

And here we go again! 2007-11-16 

Sorry people, haven't got any new songs for you this time around.. oh ffs, hold on, I feel guilty
for having +10 songs unfinished, so I'll finish one now! 

Update: due to unforseen events, I won't be posting the track today. I will instead post two tracks tomorrow, sound good? 
I wrote one of them during an hour just now, I'm feeling incredibly bad emotionally, so I'll just end this by saying 
"Let's all die a little bit on the inside shall we?"  and leave it at that."

Update @ 2007-11-17

They're finished finally, do enjoy, and if you don't, be sure to send me some hate mail ok?

Tearing A Hole In The Sky

Let's All Die A Little On The Inside Shall We?


links: CTG | Archive.org | Modarchive.org | TiS



//John Marwin

Major changes in life 2007-10-12 


Where do begin? My 7 year old relationship with the missus has ended, it has fortunately made me a bit more
productive as far as music goes. I rummaged through my onway dir and finished not only one, but THREE 
songs at once. They were just in need of some polishing after all! Anyhow, here they are:

Life Interrupt 

This is my song where I try to deal with this sudden change in life, if you want to read the story text you'll
have to get the eight meg version from the site. Trust me, it explains alot regarding the song!

Tower Of One 

This was written for a game, but since the dev hasn't been in contact with me regarding it's usage
I figured I'd release it online for everyone to enjoy!

Commands

This third song is only available for download if you register at traxinspace, and the reason for this is that it's a 
song which is made to show off the capabilities that Renoise has to offer. So, unless you're a Renoise
addict, you won't really need to listen to this as it's not very melodically interesting.
However, if you truly want to listen to it, you can always stream the damned thing!  Just don't say that 
I didn't warn you regarding it's suckage!


Also, this month I'd like to point all you sci-fi nerds to an online book which I've been reading alot lately,
it's called Street simply, and it's about a bleak future in which Gina, a girl with a very colorful past 
tries to survive on the street. And no,it's not one of those "IMMA HOKKAH" books, it's actually a pretty
dynamic and detailed story. Personally I get so caught up in the scenes that I almost smell and feel everything
that goes on in them and at one point, I flinched when something sudden happend in the story!

So really, I love this online book, and even though I want the author to become filthy rich selling it, I'm
hoping he won't sell it until it's finished, because I'm out of cash :D

Street






links: CTG | Archive.org | Modarchive.org | TiS



//John Marwin

Setting the record straight (2007 07 11)

Alot has happend since last, TiS has gone online, and so has another profile of mine over there aswell :)
Also, I've got a project going aswell over here now, I'm writing a soundtrack for a game (coded by cactus, same guy that 
made "Clean Asia") called Akuchizoku which is basically a sidescrolling shoot 'em up :) (but it's got a whole lot of twists
might I add) Now, everything would be glorious if it hadn't been for one itty bitty annoying detail that's happend..
Gametrailers picked up the trailer and apparently saw fit (for some reason) to replace the audio with a track from
Cave Story. Now, the problem is now that everybody thinks I'm a ripper or something, which of course is far from the
truth!! And of course, people are putting up this bad trailer everywhere online aswell, but I'll comment wherever I find
them and set the record straight that it's not my fault. As for the gametrailer people, I don't know what they're on, but 
it's pretty annoying that they didn't mention that they had botched up the audio like this, it's damned annoying to be
labeled a ripper just because they can't handle some audio issues!

At any rate, here's the link to the site of the game: http://www.akuchizoku.co.nr/

And do note that the trailer does have audio quality issues, (HIGH BASS) which is a direct result of FRAPS being a bitch 
I'd suspect. 

links: CTG | Archive.org | Modarchive.org | TiS

Misc. updates (2007 04 21)

New songs are up, in case you've missed them at both CTG and The Internet Archive, the ones to look out for are "Doom Mood" 
which is a rather nice and calm little thingie, and also "My Castle In The Clouds" which is a very nice and subtly cheesy tune aswell :D
Also, there's the third and newest song which is called "Complete And Utter Defeat" which basically is me being emo about my life.
(however, fear not, life has improved alot since that was written)

All these songs are available at the internet archive atm, and if you wish to comment easily on them, send me an email or find the songs
on my CTG page! (you don't have to register to comment at CTG, all you need to do is to verify that you're not a bot by entering a security code
which is displayed next to the field where you enter the comment). AND, although it may not seem that way, I do like comments on both my music
and my stories, in fact that's the main reason I'm releasing these publically at all. Really, if nobody bothers to comment on my stuff online, I might
aswell just release them to those that I know will comment (*smiles and waves to everyone at both MSN and IRC*)

I just want to know that there's somebody at the other end listening, because if there isn't, this is just uneccessary work for me and even worse..
a fucking waste of time! (and since I started my internship, it's really important to start managing one's personal time)

Also, another note, I will have to create a proper frames webpage and start cataloging my releases in a more efficient way, because this isn't
really working out for me at the moment. What I'm going to feature is a story section where all my stories are going to be released in TXT format
because archive.org org automatically makes five versions of my original song I upload, and those derivations don't contain the mp3 tag which 
has my stories in it, SO IM SORRY THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE DOWNLOADED A VERSION THAT DID NOT HAVE A STORY IN IT!
However, if you download the 320kbps version, there will always be a story tag in there, mainly because it's my original song that's been uploaded.
Anyhow, that's about it, I hope I can perhaps get the frames version operational by the end of this weekend, but that's alot of HTML to relearn :P
(and it's NOT going to be pretty, but it'll work!)

Also, that frames page will have annual archives of some of my previous tracked songs, mainly to show more of my journey in music throughout
the years. However, as there are some songs which are made for specific people only, I'll have to screen those out before I zip up the modules.
(and that'll take time.. goddamnit.. so many things to do, and so little time in doing them!)

Btw, here's a picture of the month :D 

And oh yeah, the poll at CTG is getting closed today, the verdict is in, since not enough people voted, I'm not going to release my sources
online, however, drop me an email at my adress listed at CTG if you want to see "how I did it". I will honor anyone's request.

So, that's really it for my montly update!

links: CTG | Archive.org | Modarchive.org

Alright, finally it's completed! (2007 03 19)

I've finally managed to get my song "I Strogg" finished, it turned out very differently than the original test song was.. but I guess that's all good :D
Clean Asia continues to gain popularity and that of course means that the forums around the net are boiling with comments about the game
and of course, it's music... I thought I'd get used to hearing positive stuff about the songs in that game, but apparently.. I can't adjust :P
Anyhow, here's the actual link to "I Strogg" aswell, if your player supports viewing ID3v2
tags I suggest you take a look at the story I wrote in that song aswell, hopefully you'll like what you read.. comments as always are always welcome!

And again, if you like to see my Renoise sources online, do vote at my CTG page, if I don't get enough votes (at least 40 in total) I will declare this poll 
as lost and assume that nobody except a select few people care about seeing how I make my tunes, however if I do decide to only release in mp3 I will
still honor any email that comes in with a request for a source file, so fear not you people that want to see the source, you'll get it either way!
(you just have to get off yer arse and mail me to get it)

Well, that's it for now, see you around!



//John Marwin


What a difference a few songs can do! (2007 02) 
Wow, sometimes you go through a week, releasing your stuff.. thinking that nobody cares.. when
something like THIS happens to you, and you're completely stumped for words.
Yes, apparently I had a rather major impact on some people around the world, and now thanks to that, Cactus game secured the number one 
spot in the competition in question. Now, I'm the first one to admit that Cactus game alone would have probably snagged no 1 anyway, but 

I really can't do that since I'd be going against the ruling of the three judges that decided that it was a major factor. So here I am, stumped for words
that there are people who not only understand the style of music that I make, but also like it ALOT!

Now, I very rarely hear from my fans, there's the odd email here and there, and there's also the odd comment on CTGMusic.com aswell. But most of
the time, the feedback I get is requested by myself from friends I know both online and offline.. so really when I say that all 
this massive positive feedback is a bit overwhelming, you really have to put it into that context first :D

Now, as you may have noticed, this page isn't going to be reactivated anytime soon, school is a bitch, life is a bitch, the girlfriend is a bitch :P
It all adds up, at the end of the day, I'm lucky if I can squeeze in an hour of tracking.. and most of the time spent there is wasted because it's rarely
that hour of the day when my inspirational muse is with me. (she's a fickle lil thing haha) 
So the net outcome is that I don't release as many tracks annually as I used to, hell.. last year was a fucking DISASTER in that regard!
 (then again, last year was a total disaster overall.. so no suprise there!)

If I do get the time to get this thing into gear, I'll throw up zipped files of all my work I deem good enough for release, I'll start with the 1999 year
and go up to my most recent years and collect them all into annual zips, that'll will save both you and me some much unneeded hassle I suspect.
(after all, you wouldn't want to click +100 links now would you?)

Anyhow, thanks for everyone's feedback and for your trouble's, here's my two most recent releases:

6¶wÎ¥Ðe¥9¨¿ <- Made for somebody who thought I'd should be more experimental than I already am.
Agent Theme <- A nice tune which is heavily influenced by the show alias :P

As always, this has been:

//John Marwin


Alright, time to reactivate this page again!

Heya people, missed me? Haha, you probably didn't :P Anyhow, since the last time there was anything
of value on this page, ALOT has happend, a SHITLOAD OF ALOT to be honest!
Alright, alright.. where to begin.... hum hum....

Oh yeah, there are some new files up for downloading, first up is the last song of the previous year called
2006, get it here why dontcha?
Also, while you're at it.. you might want to take a gander at the COMPLETE $l@$h Puppy Storyline!

Oh yeah, as you might have noticed, that 2006 was an mp3, the reason for that is simple.. I'm no longer using FT2
to make my modules! (DUN DUN DUN! ) yeah, I've upgraded my computer which means that I can run some
more heavy software, which in turn means I can do more shit, so in the end FT2 became too small for me.
Granted I could have continued with it and probably still be able to bend, if not flat out CRUSH, most of the
rules of that tracker.. but somehow it felt like I was holding myself back.. that and the ridiculous notion of me
having to use a particular computer just for that one application.. (hardware compability issue) made it
really hard to stick with FT2. So, in the end I upgraded.. and HELL what an upgrade it is!
Renoise virtually does everything I want it to, well except store all VST/VSTI's in a single module allowing 
me to save it once and for all and be done with it.. :P

My plans for renoise originally were to release the source code for all my songs, but recent events have
forced me to reconsider that option. 1) some fuck named timbaleinen (timbaland) ripped a song and used it without
the original authors permission 2) I've gotten incredibly lazy and can't be arsed to compile the VST/VSTI's into a zip
So, if you read the two reasons, you quickly realize that the real reason behind me pondering if I should release
into mp3 only is that I'm lazy :P So, I've decided to do a smart thing here, I'm putting up a poll on CTG which 
basically helps me decide exactly how worthwhile it would be to keep releasing in modular format.
I mean, releasing in a modular format is really useless if nobody is going to download it right?
So, if you want source files in renoise format, jump over to my ctg page and vote NOW!

Also, I'm currently suffering from an extreme writers block due to my transition to renoise.. I guess
having unlimited power means that I'm blind because of all the possibilities.. however, I might have a little
oldschool surprise for everyone soon :P (hint, it's something I forgot about!)

Anyhow, if you're reading this, thanks for paying attention to this meager page which essentially doesn't 
do anything but serve as my goddamn musical blogg :P

Thanks for reading !

//John Marwin


And oh yeah, I like these things in life:





			
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