Audio check

They All Had Tentacles 
“They All Had Tentacles” 
(Noise Park Activities)

Best described as Nintendocore with an amazing name. Its like some insane 80’s space video game meets grindcore. Track titles like “A gleam of sunshine over a city of shit”. Very disjointed and weird. I can cope with this probably no longer than the 19 tracks in 28 minutes this cd lasts. But what an experience!

www.myspace.com/theyallhadtentacles

Sundial 
“Sundial” 
(Shrunken Head Recs)

These dudes I listened to like 20 years ago while tripping on acid. They were stoner rock before stoner rock was invented. Except they took a lot more acid. They split up after their seventh album – interestingly titled Zen For Sale, but have recently reformed and recorded this newie – still as psychedelic as before, but with some much more gnarly heavy ass fat riffing thrown in. Nice one boys.

http://www.myspace.com/sundial001

More setbacks

Would you believe it. I spent nearly two weeks putting the audio menu pages together for the burnout issue, and tried to format the project into DVD files as a 'demo' for the final thing and discovered I had too many menu pages. Apparently most dvd players will only read up to 99 menus. Well, this audio issue had over 300, one for each band, and separate screens for each track etc...!!!

I can curse all i like but it wont change the fact a menu'd audio dvd aint gonna happen. Ive thought of ways to make it possibly work, and could spend another couple of weeks on each idea and postpone the release indefinately. But i wont. The audio disc is gonna have to be a whole wad of audio mp3 files on a dvd disc. I'll break them up into alphebeticised indexes to make finding bands and tracks easier, so it'll still be pretty accessable.

I'm telling you this disc is HUGE, ive been typing out the audio credits for the past 3 days and am still going!

Okay, time to meditate while hungry, keeps me raw and attentive. Then lunch!

Bad Acid BURNOUT ISSUE progress

Its been a painful process, and seemingly taking forever. The dvd is authored, and is FOUR HOURS long, packed with some particularly amazing clips.

The magazine is complete bar some snagging, there's a few errors to be corrected. Its currently standing at 165 full screens of pdf. It wont be printed this time as the cost will be prohibative. Folks, you wont be able to afford the cover price.

Im currently putting all the audio onto a dvd with interactive menus, and with around 350 tracks this is taking some time! Its MASSIVE. I'm guestimating this will take another week or so. And of course the usual label profiles - this issue we have three of the buggers.

I still cant give you a definate release date but I'm expecting it to be this side of Halloween. It'll be worth the wait I promise!

Anyway, time for breakfast and another cup of tea.