Single selections

And this morning the first start of selections has started. Through time I’ve copied the track played on NTNS radio in a separate folder and now of each album one single track is selected for appearance on NNTS05. A long yet intuitive proces that’ll take me down memory lane through all that has been played in the past three months. A fun proces though, don’t get me wrong on that. I love this kinda work!

I am quite curious though as to the amount of tracks I’ll end up with, even moreso the total time of all selected tracks together. Will it be more then NNTS04? Who can tell….

Keep yourself posted with the progress made through this blog!

NNTS05 – The beginning….

It’s nearing the end of November and slowly my mind is yawning after a quiet (well not so quiet at all, but in the NNTS series it has been) hibernation. The thinking cap comes on once again and work needs to be set out once again for a new NNTS series.

Allready I have decided to do two features at the year turn. First off on December 27th will be all about the votes of the listeners and re-playing the best albums of 2008 in as full as they can get. But all that really depends on the response of you the listener. If you want to cast your top 3 vote as well you can; just mail them to NTNSbestof2008 at gmail dot com or go to the NTNSradio profile at myspace to cast votes.

But for NTNS05 things are as usual; another compilation album of the best of October, November and December of featured albums on NTNS radio. The selection process starts here……

Release day!!!

I can rest now!

Well ok, not untill after the radio show ofcourse

Here is the official release data:

Release page

Archive.org release page

Thank you for being so patient! Now go and enjoy
and it would be very nice to hear what you think of this epic release

These words will continue elsewhere

All set; ready – go

Well patience is a virtue for at least some 14 more hours till official release, but as I see it now everything is prepared for take off. All that is left to do is let this machine upload the entire release to archive.org which will start in a bit. So for those that want to get a first impression before the radio show starts in the morning; well… I cannot stop you nor blame you either.

This morning in the irc-chatroom of Stillstream Darrell Burgan said this will be an epic release and I think he’s not far off really. The past two weeks I have worked hours and hours on getting this ready and perfecting the playlist just so you the listener can sit back and fully enjoy the works of some great artists. It is with great respect for these artists that this release has come about. As a musician myself who has taken the path of releasing music for free, I know that free does not at all mean cheap or quick. These artists poor their heart and soul into these sounds and gladly share this to the world.

I can feel it in my body that these past few days have taken a toll of me and honestly I am looking forward to the release also in a sense that I can let go of it all. Set it free and give it to the world.
Where it certainly belongs!

Day eleven: Final day!

It is the last day of preperations; the last day of getting those last little errors out of the way.

And also it’s time to spill some beans:

Your first chance for a glance to which artists made the cut!
One more day untill its official release, yay

Netlabels

It’s all fine-tunings going on at the moment and still there are some odd bits and bobs crawling to the surface that need some attention. The new download-page is ready to go live and right this minute this machine here is happily uploading a 590Mb file!!! Understandibly this is the Full zip version that will be available for public come saturday morning.

I just finished updating the netlabel linklist page which gained 25 new netlabels! I’ve not tallied them in full now, but why not have a look allready
It means that this growing page of netlabels that release experimental music for free is quickly becoming a most valuable list.

Some 39 hours left on the clock untill release!

Day ten: Some 50 hours till release

It is probably a good thing that last night I took a night of quiet; having slept so little the past few days had certainly taken its toll on my body. I was rather tired, if not better to say dead beat!

But with little over 50 hours to go before NTNS radio starts I’ve just finished the final designs for the covers. Another task to take off the to do list. Right this minute the full zip version is being created and today after work all the zip-files will be uploaded, just to get that huge task off my hands. The only designs I need right now are those for promotional purposes and they’ll get taken care of today after work.

I can tell you the excitement of releasing this big project is starting to itch and if it weren’t that there were still plenty of little jobs to do I would have wanted it to be saturday-morning allready, but fortunately it is not that time yet.

Promotion has started

Through the myspace profile that is for now.

Tonight I’m going to take a slow evening and sit back and enjoy the work that has gone into this. I’m not done yet as there are still quite a bit of tasks at hand, but tomorrow is another day and I have well deserved some relaxing time.

Day nine: Concluding

And that my friends concludes creating three seperate pages for each of the three segments. Red blue and yellow now have a page of their own containing links to the artists, the seperate trackdownloads, the album release page and the netlabel.
I can quiet down a bit now, although just a tad bit really. Now starts the perfectioning of each page, get those last errors out of there, check if the links actually all work, tidying up a bit and selecting font-colors. At the same time a downloadpage for NNTS04 has to be created and then the designs for the announcement and advertisings here and there need to be made. All just small jobs really in comparison with the huge workload I’ve had to face in the past nine days.

I should sleep in a little tomorrow as well as when I got up this morning, drowsy and all at about 4.30 am I thought staying in bed would be a nice option. But with all the work that lay ahead yet I figured I’d deserve my rest afterwards and not settle for falling behind on the schedule.

Heh, and to think that I’m done with projects after this is not quite right; october 4th I’ll be performing live again after a year and a half and that needs its preperations (I wish there were a way to introduce the leslie for that event) and straight after that october 7th sees the new releases on Just not Normal. I don’t think I’ll ever be without projects. I don’t even want to!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It sounds like a relief perhaps; it is a relief…

That then takes care of the blue page; this is going better then I had originally thought it would be. Sure, I’m a bit of a perfectionist with a yearning to outdo myself with each new step (which is why sometimes musicwise I can be very silent) but inadvertently my mind slips beyond this project.
As I pass all these netlabel-sites seeking the linkage required for these pages my eyes gaze at all those albums that never were heard on NTNS radio. Artists that still remain anonymous, like a silent movie where all these cover images blurt without a single sound. I have a solid alibi though; there is but only three hours each week to spend on new (and certainly I do try to enter some older works as well) releases. I can’t help but think of all those inexposed and worry if perhaps I should invest even more time in these searches for new material for the show. Then again, the other side of it is that I allready am swamped and short of time for each new show.

Still, I know this will keep nagging me for some time to come.

One thing though I’m almost certain of; I am having too much fun with this entire project. Moreso even it excites me that I finally took up the gauntlet of writing ‘again’. Yes, that is a hesitant ‘again’. During the past 10 years there was a period in which I frantically wrote poetry; partly to conquer even more the heart of the one I loved so dearly, but also a deep yearning to express into words that which occupies my mind. For reasons not really worth this page and out of respect I’ll not delve into that too much. But as said, keeping this blog was one of the best choices I made to accompany the making of this compilation album. It may very well be that this story will be continued once that NNTS04 sees the light and the making has become a virtual product.
At this moment it is something I pre-delight in as it helps to keep all these tucked in thoughts to be expressed and gain form; whether its being read or not (and at this moment the number of readers of these blogs is I believe one).

Before I start to babblemouth too much I best resign from writing duties for the eve and concentrate for a very short period on the tasks at hand and moreso restrain myself a bit of overworking this. Relaxing is as important (especially with getting up so freakin’ early)

Goodnight