Yet another reason as to why I enjoy Erasure  - the group has provided a free download of A Little Respect for the Holiday season.

I just get the feeling Vince and Andy ‘get it’ when it comes to fans.

Thanks for this!

A number of years back I started a project music by the name of Arrangements for Sex (The E.P. can be found here, and the ‘Naked’ remixes can be found here) that was background music for, well, sex… actually, it was more for relaxing than anything.

Truth be told I simply couldn’t skip the name.

My intent for the project was to have a continual catalog that would be created, all of which could blend together/be interchangeable, that would eventually create on giant “album”. As the arousal of the mind to create music doesn’t always happen on command the project has gone through periods of hiatus; however, I’m back in the writing mood and “Arrangements for Sex, Volume 2″ is now under way.

The first demo off the next E.P. brings the return of the strings I love so well, and provides a glimpse into what will be coming in the next several weeks.

So, without further delay, here is the 1st unmastered demo track - Thoughts of Reality in a Never Ending Moment of Denial

And here we have the 4th demo from the Enhanced series.  This track makes me want to continue down the “Enhanced” series. As there were only expected to be 4 tracks with a general production theme, this one put a bump in that plan.  I think this has turned into something greater than the original plan.

I’m actually quite happy with the way this has turned out…what started as a mistake turned into something that really puts a smile on my face.  A few things to note – as always, this is not EQed/mastered.  There is a bit of time displacement on the crash symbols due to reverb but that will be fixed in the final recording.

So… that said…

Download Enhanced (track 4 demo)

or take a listen

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Back in December I started to do some tracks that were a bit more dark and aggressive than I had in the past.  I lost the desire to do anything ambient and went full bore into a new style for me.  

The first track, Enhanced, was done over a short period of time.  Then life got in the way, I simply didn’t have time or motivation.  Finally, I got back into the studio and re-started my production efforts and the next demo just came out…

As always, this is purely a demo.  Nothing mastered, sound levels are off, the full FX were not applied to the mix.  If I ever actually do record this for some type of release, it would end up sounding significantly different… much more polished.

So, here you go, the demo for Enhanced.2 

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And you can download it from here (right click and save as…)

Welcome to day 9 of “31 days of Music”, and today we have a great one!  We have The Orb’s Resident Advisor Podcast.

You can download it here!  Enjoy!

Welcome to day 5 of the 31 days of music!  Today is a really, really rare recording – The Orb Live at Glastonbury back in 1993.  Finding this one really triggered some memories for me.

I hope you enjoy.

The tracklisting:

1. A Morphine Drip
2. Little Fluffy Clouds
3. Sunburst
4. Blue Room
5. Towers of Dub

Well, with the things I have experienced the last few days I took my energy and focused on a new track – but it is for another project, not the one I had been working on the the last month.

Here you go: JP/VMS – Enhanced (Demo)

As with all other Demos this is not mastered and is in no way the final product. Rather, this is 6 hours of getting the form and structure down for the rewrite.   Some studio notes…

1) Need to change the lead guitar (maybe)
2) Remove the reverb/echo on backing hit
3) Rearrange lead synth, keep pattern
4) Shorten the high hats echo
5) Remove 32 beats from break, 32 beat from second lead, remove 32 beats from end

All things considered, for just sitting down in a few hours and putting something together, this is not bad at all.  With some polish this has a lot of potential.

Found this on a message board this evening – Meat Beat Manifesto Live at Maritime Hall in 1997.

The sound quality is quite nice, 11 tracks in total.

(as always, I have no connection to this upload – it was found via search engines and patience)

This live set has been around for some time but it is still a great download! Here is Paul Van Dyk DJing live @ Fritz Soundgarden… and it’s almost a 2 hour set.

Paul Van Dyk – Live @ Fritz Soundgarden

The following are new live sets equally worthy of downloading as well…

Paul Van Dyk – Enis Live Rocker

Paul Van Dyk – Sonyc Sessions (11-20-2008)

Please note: I have no connection to these files, I found it via my Google Alerts.

For anyone who is interested in a Fatboy Slim live set, head on over to dailybeats.de for a download.