Blogger turned magazine publisher (or whatever) Josh Marshall did exemplary work back when Bush II was trying to privatize Social Security -- his blog kept running counts of which Democratic congresscritters were betraying their own constituents and eventually helped shame enough of them to thwart Junior.
This time around he's an Obot and only just woke up to the fact that fearless leader is proposing cuts to Social Security under the guise of "chained CPI" (a "settle for less" index). People, Obama isn't doing this to compromise with Republicans. He genuinely believes Social Security is "in crisis" (it's not) and has been saying so since the 2008 campaign. This is why it was hard to get excited about him in 2012: he stood a far better chance than Romney of sticking it to the old and infirm (despised by technocrats), because people think he is a liberal. Now he's doing it.
April 2013
"Nine Inch Bells (2013 Mix)"
"Nine Inch Bells (2013 Mix)" [mp3 removed]
I did this in 2005 and still like it pretty much. Two things I have learned since then: (i) a brick wall limiter is a good thing to have and (ii) when you have one minute of material don't make a 2.5 minute song. Hence this remix.
"Rack Dance 2"
"Rack Dance 2" [mp3 removed - a remixed version of this track is on Bandcamp]
Still Octatracking modular synth recordings.
This song was made with six 64-step loops (two with beats, four with synth lines), all recorded with sounds from some combination of Eurorack modules.
The beat loops are sliced and individual slices are played as added beats, some with reverb and retriggering effects.
The beats were originally digital rhythm synth hits, saved at 22.5 KHZ sample rate and played with the ADDAC wav player, with LFO-d analog filtering that varies the pitch and texture.
Update, Aug. 2013: Bumped the volume and re-uploaded.
