07 Jun 10 Coffee Break: 64-bit

New studio setup now includes Logic Studio 2 and it works great! Took a little while to upgrade and update but oh yes…. we like it a lot here in the 64-bit mode environment. If you are a Logic 8 user, it is very much worth it to move on. Allright, hear hear, good music for you: first of all we found this track by Mosaik called Imogen Heap which is a nice kick off for this Coffee Break. From France comes the one and only Alexel and we’re proud to have him on the show playing two tracks from his soundtrack ‘No Gravity’, the PSP game out there. We already knew that New Zealand is a beautiful country and it certainly brings us excellent cinematic music performed by Crash. Mike Beaver has released one of the best series we’ve ever heard: Music for Films volume 1-4 are available. Everybody should get a copy and play at their homes… no more stress! The same goes for a very pleasant meeting we had with D.P. Kaufman. His brand new album ‘As The Ruins Falls’ has a place on our iPod now and will stay there…The music can be described as dreamy and trippy, various styles combined on one album; soundtrack meets IDM, Electronica meets Ambient. File it under ‘Refreshing’ and ‘Reload Yourself’… we love it! Off the Sky offers you the deep part for this show. Finalized by Anton Kapela and Arthur Durkee playing loops and guitars that simply sound very ambient. Enjoy this show!

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Coffee Break Storyboard:

[00:00]Welcome to the Coffee Break for June 2010

[00:15]Open the gate…

[06:08]Mosaik (Rymdlego RMX) - Imogen Heap

[10:52]Alexel - 6 Days (No Gravity soundtrack)

[15:27]Alexel - Ultra (No Gravity soundtrack)

[18:50]Enjoying the 64-bit mode after necessary updates…

[21:54]Crash - Everything I am is Everything You were

[26:02]Crash - America

[34:28]D.P.Kaufman - The Second Beginning

[38:11]D.P. Kaufman - Inside the Hopeful Machine

[45:28]Time to dive into the deep…

[46:00]Get the Spacemusic App here

[46:12]Off the Sky - Sea Ghosts

[51:42]Off the Sky - Du Soleil (Off the Sky RMX)

[58:58]Anton Kapela + Arthur Durkee - Head Space (exclusive track)

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Coffee Break recipe: as so many people ask me about the show and what I use for the production, here’s how to make a show in less than 1000 words…. Collecting and compiling the best music from all over the world, glue them together or bundle them like they really fit together, editing EQ and start-end points where necessary, collecting necessary information for being able to publish where to buy the records and find out more about the artist. Then: record the show and don’t forget to get a big cup of coffee…

After recording comes the mastering, bouncing and compression to mp3 format at 192Kbps stereo for best listening experiences and acceptable audio file size. All things on a Mac: the production of the show in Logic Studio. We also use this for bigger projects and it’s the best we know. Microphone: AKG Perception 200. Alesis Audio Interface io2. Meanwhile: create shownotes for the show, that is the storyboard with time codes for all tracks. Include links to iTunes Store or the artist website, whatever is most handy for a track in particular. Shownotes need to be saved as a text file, copy/pasted this into the actual post on the Spacemusic website later but also paste to this new pdf file for the Spacemusic App on the iPhone/iPod Touch. iTunes: add the compressed mp3 file and tag the file with all data, title, album, genre, lyrics, illustration. Front-end listening to the entire show before uploading to the server, if there’s something wrong one needs to re-open the project and filter out the error, compress it to mp3 again. Upload the mp3 file to the server.

Creating the RSS post on the Spacemusic server, add tags and SEO info. Adding the ‘podcast’ play arrow. Adding the photo/logo for the episode. Adding the media file: the actual show mp3 that was uploaded to the Libsyn server. We also create an extra post on this server for the parallel iPhone App feed with the same enclosure: the show mp3. Tags and bonus content for the iPhone App: the PDF file that has been created earlier plus some fine artwork in .jpg format. Open up Photoshop for making the 100% version and the 33% transparent version cause one needs to be able to read the shownotes with the artwork in the background. Credits to Shinsou for designing the Spacemusic App Artwork. Are we there yet? Let me see: checking all links from the shownotes to see if they work well. If yes: hit publish on both servers. Testing both the RSS feeds. Downloading the files and play the files. I think that’s basically it…. per show it takes app. 8 hours to do the job, depending on the availability and quality of the music of course, sometimes longer, never shorter Enjoy your coffee!

Tags: 2010, Alexel, Anton Kapela, Arthur Durkee, Crash, D.P.Kaufman, Mosaik, No Gravity, Off the Sky, podcast, PSP, Sony, spacemusic