The making of NNTSo..5

Commence Spring!

justnotnormal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:33:43 +0000

The days are warming and haunt away those last riddens of winterchill
A fresh breeze settles on the coach, and work commences into its finer moments

Or in English; I’ve just started working on the initial track order for Spring.

Spring you say….
Well yes; with the selection of tracks done last friday a new diversion rose to the surface.
And thus on April 4th NNTS06 will see the light with 4 80-min CD’s
It’s natural selection will be the four seasons.

You can fill in the dots there, while I continue work on bringing an order to the first CD….

Ohhhhh loverly

And once again…..

justnotnormal — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:17:13 +0000

NNTS06 starts here!

The first selection has been made and most of the tracks now have a place in the large pool of superb music. At this point I am not too sure yet if it will be 4 or maybe even 5 discs!!

But now that I’ve started again, I realize I missed it. The sheer joy of working with all these tracks, molding them into a very enjoyable mixture and flow is so rewarding already. It will be fun creating a new epic compilation that I am sure many people will look forward to.

Perhaps I’ll not be as wordy as I have been with the 4th and 5th edition, as it will likely only mean repeating my words and motions.

The only thing at this time that is set is the release date:

April 4th 2009
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hey – release day – yay

justnotnormal — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:46:19 +0000

Well oddly this feels a little after the fact as this morning NNTS05 was played in full already and the download links were sent out to all the artists involved, but….

It’s out there!!!

yay!

Enjoy

Last day chores

justnotnormal — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:31:51 +0000

It is 24 hours till release now

And with all the artwork finished and most of the releasepages being ready today entails the bulk upload to both the home-page as well as to archive.org. So for you out there whom wish to have an early view you’ll likely know your way around.
For the more patient ones and less compu-literate you can ofcourse wait untill the official release tomorrowmorning. 24,5 hours from now NTNS radio will start and we will play NNTS05 in full!

I do want to take a moment and thank Nicola incredibly much for being a non-stop support throughout. She did some incredible artwork for this release and was the first to hear and see the initial results of our co-work.

And secondly I want to thank all artists and netlabels involved, the quality of sound I was working with was of extraordinary excellence. The world of free music has greatly expanded in 2008 and hopefully will expand only more in the years to come.

Thank you reader, for taking the time to read my meanderings through accomplishing yet another epic release. Once again I find myself raising my eyebrows thinking; how on earth am I going to surpass the consecutive NNTS series. I don’t know if or how. Time will be the better judge of that.

Thank you for the music!

That is what keeps pushing me

Happy new year!!!

justnotnormal — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:18:19 +0000

That were a quite special roll-over into the new year. One to remember for years to come.

Well, yesterday was a very productive day on this end; and the productiveness will last a lil bit longer. There is only one more design to be completed with all the necessary info, but things are looking good!

I’d say things are looking damn good!

Just two more days untill the official release

Patience my dears, patience

Inbetween (holi)days

justnotnormal — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:12:12 +0000

It’s been some time since the last post here, which basically is because not much work has been done on further preparations. Well tiny bits really sofar.
That is untill today;

As the first designs are trickling in, now the work on the presentation and publication of the download pages is going into steam mode. Only a few more days untill the big release day on saturday. Plenty of work yet to be done, but no doubt it will all be ready come saturday.

Be on the tip of your chair!!!

We’re coming!

Tuesdaymorning truckloads

justnotnormal — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:19:39 +0000

truckloads of work were done the past few hours.

Well, it took a few hours of focussed work, but the result is 4 different playlists; all tracks unisoned and normalized. And well, I do have to admit of having to edit a tad more then was wanted in two or three tracks. I just had to get it to fit on an 80 minute CD so that this would be a burnable project for the listeners to enjoy this away from the computer as well.
I’ve seen the first drafts of the art that will accompany each separate segment and it looked superb. This will become quite the release to be proud of, for all the artists involved and for perfecting this compilation of 66!!!!!! tracks of almost 66 different artists. I am quite the perfectionist and I must truthfully admit to love these tedious jobs that precede this release.

For now I can sit back for a moment and let the entire project imbue itself, settle itself before the next chores come; gathering all the links to artists and albums and netlabels.

I must also confess the words seem stuck for this moment, though I personally know why.

Countdown in progression

justnotnormal — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:34:38 +0000

How time does fly sometimes, but here we are almost identical in deadline time as it was when this blog originally began with the making of NNTS04.

Only 12 days untill the release of its progressor; NNTS05

And that is what this blog is all about; as the work on this new compilation now really starts. And quite a bit of work it will be, but a labor of love for sure.

This morning I’ve created now 4 rough sketch playlists for each of the segments;
yes four segments!!!

NNTS05 will be neatly divided into 4 (80 min) CD’s and will come with some awesome artwork that is being created right this very minute by a dear friend. Prepare to get your socks knocked off!

Countdown in progression….

The earth has a roadmap

justnotnormal — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:54:57 +0000

Well that or a rough playlist so to speak

As a matter of fact I’m still moving about tracks in the Earth segment, but a playlist is there. A moment where the endresult becomes tangible and the sweet taste of joy in creating this. Being surrounded by so many great artists and their music which is a delicate treat to the ears.

Either way, its starting to take shape now, be them just preliminary. There still is a December 20th NTNS radio show to go with tracks yet unfamiliar. Judging by my greediness to just extend way beyond the original 3 hour concept that show will have quite some more tracks for NNTS05. So, untill then I can but only dabble in prepping the three separate playlists and think of designs.

What I can promise you is that hearing this first earth playlist NNTS05 will once again become an epic release.

I’ll keep you posted

Divide and conquer

justnotnormal — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:23:03 +0000

Well, one promise I can make allready

NNTS05 will have 60+ tracks!!!!

And of all the albums played yet this period of time the track selection has been done. Which automatically means asking peoples permissions (although in a sense I don’t need to as all these are CC licensed albums; I know I would appreciate being asked).

One more hurdle got taken this morning too; how to divide 60+ tracks over evenly divided segments. We’ve had a few selections done through some neat segments (AM/PM – Day/Night – Red/Yellow/Blue) so a new process had to be invented. Seeing the announcements to the ‘Day the earth stood still’ it dawned on me. Once again like NNTS04 there will be three segments.

- Earth – warm/homebound
- Moon – Chill/darkness
- Stars – Twinklings/outworldish

I can certainly tell you I will be enjoying this full process once again, but then you know I embrace such projects. And like how this blog started out as the making of NNTS04 this blog will move on into the making of NNTS05.