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Synerdata Net Radio
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Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer for Spring 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 7:27 PM
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I was delightedly surprised by the large number of new releases in Harvest 89 at ArtistServer.com for this spring's presentation on Synerdata.Net Radio.
I have arrayed close to 100 hot new releases from ArtistServer.com alone, and as usual we have new releases by each of the most prolific ArtistServer.com electronica artists who continue to maintain their strong presence in each new harvest, like David of Focalized, and Andrew of Uncle Reg, and Clajs and Subtronik and Wintermute and Sinus and Satorbass and others, while introducing a full array of newcomers to ArtistServer.com as well!
In this harvest I have focused mostly upon ArtistServer.com, but rounded the show out with a small cross section of releases directly from actively releasing artist home sites who the station is known to follow the work of, along with other special surprises.
This is a really groovy new cross section of the hottest new releases of 2012, and it has been a real pleasure to mix all the hard work everyone has been doing.
Come and help lift everyone up in the Shoutcast.com station charts by listening to Synerdata.Net Radio when you want to hear what 'everyone' has been up to.
Enjoy!
-Gordon
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Synerdata Net Radio
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Location: Canada
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Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer for Spring 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM
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Well I thought it was a good show, myself.
I gaze upon the bleakness, and revel in the silence, where to an artist,
a negative reaction is better than none.
I question the value of my community service, and the time and effort
made to appreciate the work of others. Don't get me wrong, I do it as
much for my own appreciation as for that of others, and for that reason
alone, I would continue, even though, it is hardly a collaborative process
anymore, and the complacency of the artist community has become nothing
short of mind numbing, that if the artists themselves do not care about the
music, one can hardly blame the public if they ignore their work, as well.
Everyone is a media producer now, and the internet is awash in deliriously
large amounts of creative media and entertainment, diluting the finest
works, and leaving people unenthusiastic in general.
Okay, so the heyday of digital music presentation, promotion and distribution,
is past, and the excitement is long since gone... We ride the long train to nowhere
in our respective isolations and solitudes, and no longer humor the past hopes that
the internet held in potential, and have gotten on with our lives, yet still maintaining
the old projects which are easier to keep going, than to put to rest, and no one asks
why.
How dare I accurately describe the conditions, instead of expressing great enthusiasm
and billowing praise upon the finest works of art, and those who pointed and clicked
their way through their laborious automated creation.
Well, if you are not going to listen to the show and help promote the community then
you are going to read my writing about what it was like when there was one, and we
all lifted one another up together, and found camaraderie by helping one another to
achieve what none could achieve by themselves alone.
Please pardon my being human, and taking this opportunity to just moan about the
effervescent disinterest... It points to something greater that is happening to all of
us, meaning all mankind...
I am just writing this to poke others, and to suggest we gotta do something about
what is becoming of us all... Or, maybe, we don't.
I am wondering, how many of you feel disconnected, uninvolved, isolated, caught up
in one's own things? Why do you make music? Why do you upload it for others to hear,
and presumably, appreciate? What would you like to come of your art?
If I don't ask, who will?
Sometimes, it's like everyone has forgotten how to love one another.
Maybe I am alone in this, but I care. I will speak, and I will say I care, and I will ask:
Who cares?
Okay, so perhaps by now it is obvious that you are not going to be famous, or get a
record deal with the lucrative competition. By now, you keep making music because
you like making music, and it's something you can share, and a compliment is your
only paycheck, and even one is like a million dollars, you know what I say is true,
perhaps having received some compliments, which made your day, and made it all
worthwhile.
It's only art, and everyone is an artist.
Shall I inspire you, or shall I cause you to question why you even bother?
Shall I lift you up, and point to you, and applaud, or shall I say, here comes
another one...
I hope I am not being too esoteric here, perhaps a little poetic in my increasingly
over-the-hill angst, and backward looking optimism.
What are we doing here?
Isn't that a good question?
It is all getting to the point where I am feeling like making a song about it, but then I
sadly find myself faced with the question, why bother? So I can appreciate it, is the
answer.
I am not afraid to open up, and to write here, in this sleepy hollow, and to make some
noise, and to rile some feathers. I am just another artist, with a weird radio show,
and computers that do my speaking for us. If I were half as good at making music as
those I present on the show, I would probably have a new album out by now, but I
have come to doubt that would ever happen again... I should not need to pretend I
am not human, and I should not need to uphold such a professional disposition, for
I am no less peculiar than any other given artist may be. I keep it quirky, and a little
off the wall. I challenge notions. I do what I can, and what I have loved to do, even
for the same reasons that Gideon made this site. Even in the same spirit of community
and service. I love what we are doing, but sometimes feel like I am the only one who
is loving what we are doing. I know that's not true.
What is the value of what I am doing, aside from myself getting to hear the community
together, and what is new, in my own interest as one who likes to listen to music while
I am writing, and taking over the planet as written.
Perhaps it -IS- all in vain, but I don't think so. I shall not presume to estimate my work
in radio to be of importance. My radio show means as much to me as some people's
music means to them. A labor of love. An art, and a contribution to human culture,
and to history. But it's not important. I saw a need, and I filled it. I did not fill it that
I should gain anything from doing so. I have no illusions about it now, no expectations
other than maintaining the option for others of hearing what Gordon found in the latest
cross-section of what the actively releasing artists of our time are producing. I want to
hear. I want to appreciate. I want to know you. I want to know what you care about.
I, too, want to belong.
Gordon
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Focalized
Joined: 09/02/01
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RE: Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10:05 PM
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You've got a lot spinning in that head of yours.
I appreciate seeing some of my tracks on your lists each time. Thanks.
Too bad this forum isn't used anymore. I use http://www.idmforums.com/ mostly. Maybe some will enjoy your station over there? The listening booth forum moves pretty fast.
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Synerdata Net Radio
Joined: 04/01/04
Location: Canada
Posts: 102
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Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10:56 PM
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Focalized wrote:You've got a lot spinning in that head of yours. I appreciate seeing some of my tracks on your lists each time. Thanks. Too bad this forum isn't used anymore. I use http://www.idmforums.com/ mostly. Maybe some will enjoy your station over there? The listening booth forum moves pretty fast.
Thanks David,
I was feeling a little down about the lack of interest this time, and so I thought I would
try to shake things up a bit.
I always love being able to keep you in high rotation in each show with new work,
you are most prolific.
I used to write at IDM forums but they banned me for promoting the artists and shows,
as previously approved of, and so I never went back. It's not like I am doing this for
money or my own (lack of) music, or something. I remember fondly when promoting
one another was the way things worked, but the attitude in general up now seems to
be everyone for themselves, and the concept of strength in numbers working together
seems to have just disappeared, where most systems and sites seem more concerned
with preventing artists from being visible, and not availing tools for promotion, which was
the whole point of uploading to music hosting sites.
Keep up the great work guy! Burlington is on the map!
Cheers,
Gordon.
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Sonic Wallpaper
Joined: 05/22/01
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1266
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Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer for Spring 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 10:50 AM
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Hi Gordon - My apologies for not responding to your community posts. I do read them, I've just been running short on time since 2012 started. My work load always picks up during Jan-April due to my main client, and added to this, I've been spending my free time working on the next version of ArtistServer and enjoying my family.
These forums have run dry - but the site certainly has not.
While it is a shame about the forums, I understand that the Web changes, and that the demands of being 'social' online are quite high. People feel the draw and pressure from Facebook, and tend to stay there. To me, it is the AOL of the modern era - a Web within the Web - one that isn't as free as the real Web. As with all giants, FB will fall - which is fun to refer to right now as they approach their massive IPO.
So while ArtistServer isn't a social hub  we continue to be a music site, which is what we've always been. The new version of the site will make this even more apparent as we step out beyond the competition and show them how it is done. 
Gordon - I hope you didn't take it personally that you got kicked from the idmforums, and that you continue to harvest joy as you harvest the music and share it back to everyone. Just be sure you are still doing it for yourself too.
Have a good one guys
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Synerdata Net Radio
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Hottest New Releases @ArtistServer for Spring 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 3:59 PM
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Hi Gideon,
I like and agree with your observations about FB, which is a site I personally never
liked, and tend to avoid. It is interesting to think about how it would fall, for indeed
an online service can be such an up and down business.
This is the first I have heard that you are working on a new version of ArtistServer.com,
which is really exciting news, and I love your attitude about showing others "how it is
done", and stepping out "beyond the competition". Good changes and modernization
can be really exciting, and indeed, the net has changed and how people use it as well,
and you have inspired me today that perhaps I should be thinking the same about the
station I am running, which might do well with some site modernization and things.
I have also found myself busied by other work in recent times as life goes on and there
are other things to avoid neglecting, and competing for my time, while still maintaining
the station as a venue of "out-there" exposure to draw people to artist pages.
Thanks for the uplifting inspiration and the exciting news you are doing a new version,
which I am now very curious about.
I was not really phased about the IDM forums thing, it's their choice to be so strict,
and I respect it. Indeed I continue what I am doing because I just love to hear everyone
making music (all) together, and view the making of new shows a form of historical record,
and having so much incredible and obscure music to showcase to new people has
become very meaningful to me, such that I just continue, though I have slowed down
over the years, and much of my own original zeal has faded somewhat.
I have been striving to discontinue my comparisons with "how things were" in past,
for we are all evolving, and have to continue evolving and adjusting to the changing
network landscape and popular new systems that come and go in time.
I look forward to hearing more about your new version of this site as we move ahead,
and would put some thought into modernization that I could do for the station, which
I have been working on making more socially integrated after years of not working on
it's website interface.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Gordon.
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