Music Downloading Tips:

Some people have wondered when visiting some artist's sites at BandCamp.com how to freely download the music, where available as such, and where it says:  BUY NOW name your price.

This is what is displayed when an artist or band's tracks are available for free, and one need only click on the BUY NOW link, and then name your price by typing in 0.00 (zero dollars), and then you are granted access to the download link for the featured album for free.

Cheers!

Gordon

Harvest Number 87 For Fall 2011

I have Program 87.1 on the air.  It's about 150 tracks by the best Trip Hop and Electronica artists of the 21st Century.  In this harvest, I have intentionally sought out the best artists in a pre-meditated manner, specifically building up a show of music by a cross section of the finest actively releasing artists of our times, along with new releases in Electronic music from ArtistServer.com, in specific.

Enjoy!

STARK

Special Programming

I have been working hard in recent weeks upon harvesting and producing a series of new, special  subjective sub-strands of electronica, while working on the development of our live announcing software technology, and in particular it's new program scripting capabilities, which I am to be fully exercising in these special program segments, and in enhanced harvest presentation and play by play announcing.

The first of these segments (all to have visible Sub-Strand names after the program part number), is the Roboticus Electronicus Sub-Strand, or Part Zero of Harvest Number 86, upramping into the harvest which commences with some new robotica electronica by Vostek.  

In each of these special Sub-Strands, rather than just the cryptic trickle of data which we usually present, there is scripted announcing, in where full explanation of the Sub-Strand is presented to bring together the additional content of Synerdata in a more coherent educational entertainment format, and/or to otherwise open up the CTRL-ROOM to a greater degree of hosted presentation of new art and information in each new harvest.

I am really quite excited about the new programming that is coming together here at this time, and hope that everyone finds enjoyable and entertaining this process of developing our Shoutcast Station Live Announcing and Program Production Technology at this time, as these new features are rolled out into regular programming.

In this first Sub-Strand, The Roboticus Electronicus part, there is an expositional introduction to The Technology of Life, and Solid-State Prosthetic human bodies, and new releases about this subject matter and stage of human evolutionary progression.

Cheers!

Gordon

Harvest 86 Update

I have just completed an update to Harvest 86, so that in addition to new releases from Jamendo.com, ArtistServer.com, SoundLift.com and BandCamp.com, we also have just over 100 new additions from mp3.com.au, where I reviewed all the Trip Hop artists at that classic site, and more new summer releases from ArtistServer.com, and elsewhere, for over 300 new additions to the Independent Electronica Archives...

Enjoy!

Harvest Number 86 - for Summer 2011

I have just completed harvest Number 86, for Summer 2011.  In this harvest, I have once again reviewed all the new releases and artists at ArtistServer.com since the last harvest, and so I have over 70 hot new tracks selected from the artist community site the station is based at, and then to round out the harvest I have once again visited other community sites, which in this harvest were Jamendo.com, and Bandcamp.com.

As I continue refining the mix and producing new versions of the program I expect to continue adding new Trip Hop releases alongside the Ambient Drum Electronica spanning the greater part of this harvest, as it continues.

Enjoy!

Harvest Number 85 - For Spring 2011

I am delighted to have Harvest Number 85 on the air for Spring 2011...

Once again, it is a phenomenal cross section of the hottest new releases of the 21st century in electronica and trip hop, presenting a broad scope on the state of the art in contemporary electronic music.

In this harvest, we have the hottest new releases from ArtistServer.com since our previous harvest, and in this harvest, we also visit SoundLift.com, to present a full array of the finest trip hop artists, along with new releases from SoundCloud.com, and a full array of the latest work by the best artists of the 21st century, who's ongoing work we continue to follow closely over the years through their home sites.

We have over 200 excellent tracks arrayed for harvest number 85, for just over 13 hours of phenomenal new releases, and things.  At times, I am playing pre-recorded multi-part advancing versions of the new harvest, while at other times, I am streaming (and remxing) live from The  CTRL-ROOM on SSI as the program continues evolving each day and night.

For those wondering why we sometimes stream song titles while at other times do not, it has to do with a limitation of our automatic level (gain) controls, such that when there are no individual song titles in the stream metadata, it means automatic level controls is activated, and so the stream sounds it's best, and the volume remains the same from one track to the next, but when there are song titles, it means we are streaming each track at it's own individual inherent levels, and so the volume may increase and decrease from one track to another.  I sometimes stream track titles so that the artist url's are literarily visible to listeners, so you can download the music from the featured artists and buy their CD's and the other things.

Enjoy!

Stream On Demand Program Playlists:

If you would prefer to listen to a specific program in stream on demand format, you can select from an array of programs listed at Synerdata.Net Radio's ArtistServer.com Station Program Playlist Page.

Stream on Demand Playlists allow you the ability to simply click to download any featured tracks from ArtistServer.com artists that you like, or to otherwise click to visit the featured artist's song page, as well as the ability to remix the programs to suit your preferences.

Our latest Harvest for 2010 is located HERE in stream by Request format...

Enjoy!

Stream Consistency Issues

While the station is fully operational, we are still awaiting the installation of our normal networking service provider at the new location, which is now re-scheduled for Monday the 22nd of November. When we have been streaming live from here over an alternate network (an ethernet), there have been stream consistency issues during the peak traffic daytime hours, and so, during such times I have taken to streaming directly from the server, at 192k, until our usual networking service is activated at the new coordinates. Sorry for any inconvenience in this delay in returning to normal professional quality radio streaming in our new location on SSI. While streaming directly from the server, in Chicago, there is no announcing, and so it's just the tracks, Jack.

Enjoy!

Harvest Number 84 - For Fall 2010

Everything is going well in getting settled into our new coordinates, however work continues on resolving some networking issues. Specifically, we are streaming via the Shaw Ethernet, rather than our usual Telus ADSL service which has yet to be activated at the station's new location, and so during peak periods there have been issues with streaming over the shared bandwidth of the Shaw network here on SSI, causing stream consistency issues. I apologize for this rare blip in stream reliability while we are streaming temporarily over an Ethernet service. North American daytimes can be problematic, but night time bandwidth is generally unconstrained.

Thank you for your patience with technical issues while we temporarily stream via the Shaw Ethernet service until our regular Telus DSL service is re-activated at the new location.

Harvest Number 84 - For Fall 2010

Now that GarageBand.com has been destroyed by the competition in their decade long war on networked independent artists and communities and services which promote them, the global independent artist community landscape has been virtually clearcut now, as that gathering of the greater portion of the vast original mp3com artist commmunity was skattered and disconnected. The result of this is that most of the big independent artist sites have now been destroyed, leaving sites like SoundClick.com, and ArtistServer.com among the few remaining original community sites which have survived this past 10 years in the war on independent artists...

In this, the 84th harvest of all new releases in electronica, The International Harvester has focused exclusively on the vibrant independent artist community at ArtistServer.com, and so we have over 100 of the best new tracks in rotation now, and this show rocks! As the days pass, I expect to be given to add further tracks to incremental versions of this harvest, along with other special surprises. We are listening to the hottest new releases since June 2010, and other excellent tracks uncovered in Harvest Number 84 from ArtistServer.com.

Enjoy!

-STARK

Live Stream Status:

I have just been performing some live stream tests on a new network, mostly in the night on this side of the planet. When doing so, I am playing a special hybrid mix of Harvest Number's 78 and 79, from ArtistServer.com, and it rocks, Most Highly! I have been streaming at different bitrates while testing out the network, between 128k and the usual 160k, and when I am not streaming live, the show is at 192k from the server.

Still working on getting the new studio set up here on Salt Spring Island (SSI), and so please bear with me while I am being given to work on the systems and things.

Live - From The Canadian Wilderness - This is Synerdata.Net Radio!

Enjoy.

Temporarily Off The Air

It has happened again that we are relocating the station, and so we would be off the air for a short time. We hope to be back on the air within a couple, or a few weeks.

GarageBand.com Closing

Another one bites the dust...

They have been dropping like flies, and the next one to be shut down is GarageBand.com, which we have been harvesting all electronic music from for over a year, in anticipation of this eventual, and predictable news.

GarageBand.com is scheduled to be "retired" on July 15th, 2010.

And so in the next couple of weeks, I expect to be making a concerted effort, as when mp3com was destroyed in late 2003, to harvest all the electronic music at GarageBand.com to try to rescue everyone in the former mp3com community which largely moved to GarageBand.com when mp3com was destroyed, in an effort to continue to keep the global community together as it is scattered from one after another shuttered site.

With Data from Gideon, at ArtistServer.com:

Closed/Shut Down/Destroyed Between - 2001-2010 (Partial List)
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MP3.com
AmpCast.com
Epitonic.com
BeSonic.com
IUMA.com
Riffage.com
THeDnB.com
JavaMusic.com
ZeBox.com
FunEnder.com
MusicV2.com
SonicGarden.com
GarageBand.com
Music.Download.com

Still running: (Partial List)
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ArtistLaunch.com
ArtistServer.com
AudioStreet.net
BroadJam.com
DMusic.com
Jamendo.com
LastFm.com
MySpace.com
ProjectOpus.com
PureVolume.com
ReverbNation.com
SoundClick.com
SoundLift.com
SoundCloud.com

SoundCloud

I have just been watching as the new SoundCloud music sharing site has been growing in popularity among the independent artist community, and I noticed they have a drop box feature, and so I have signed the station in to their site, and I am just trying out the service as a way for artists to conveniently sent their music for airplay.

In general, I like the SoundCloud service, from what I see, however, after I signed in, I saw that their free account only has a 2 hour limit upon it (ie: 2 hours of music uploaded), after which, serious monetary investment is required, and so it looks like it would be a limited trial of their otherwise useful service, but we'll see how it goes.

But for now, you can click the dropbox link below my picture at right, or Click Here, to send me a track you would like featured on the show!

Harvest Number 83 - For Spring 2010

I have just been rendered to complete Harvest Number 83, for Spring, 2010. This is a huge, double sized harvest of over 400 tracks. To start out, I was given to harvest over 80 of the hottest new releases at ArtistServer.com, and then I proceeded with the ongoing wide-swath harvest of GarageBand.com, where I harvested everything by everyone from 1500 to 1600 in the database, for over 300 more tracks in this harvest of the best 21st century electronic music, and things.

For this harvest, we are also featuring new works by Sunburn in Cyprus, as well as the hot new album by Repose, as well as the new album by Weed, all of which made it in time for feature in this harvest.

For the past few months I have been working on upgrading the station and repairing it's capacity and things, and so much of the programming has been in recorded "podcast" format while I have been working on things, however I am back on the air live again now, mixing nightly and the like, as we proceed into the spring and summer programming.

Synerdata.Net Radio Continues.

Cheers!

Enjoy!

Support The Arts

Harvest Number 83 is underway, and should be on the air within an unspecified roman numeral of days.

In the meantime, why don't you take a trip back into simpler times in human history with me, and float around in the air in the Sistine Chapel, in Virtual Reality, to admire the state of the art in photography a few hundred years ago...

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

(Warning: Contains Nudity and Suggestive Scenes and Religion and Violence and the other things).