Harvest Number 89 - For Spring 2012

The hottest new releases for Spring 2012 are now [ON-THE-AIR] on CMP3-FM Synerdata Radio!

I have over 150 phenomenal new releases and things finely blended for Version Zero of Harvest Number 89, making for a really excellent sounding new presentation of the state of the art in 21st century electronica, and things.

In this harvest, the vibrant artist community at ArtistServer.com has clearly been working overtime, with a strong showing of almost 100 hot new releases since our last harvest that I have selected to blend into H89, and so most of the artists presented in this harvest are from among that community, which the station and it's harvesting are based in (while harvesting from any and all sites).  

As usual, we have the latest tracks from the most prolific artists like Focalized, Uncle Reg, Akinesie, Satorbass, Elika, Fex, Ned Coleman, Wintermute, and many others, as well as a fine showing of new artists we are pleased to introduce.  I make a routine of reviewing all the newly releasing artists at ArtistServer.com in consistency from one harvest to the next, and this way any artist who would like to be on the show only needs to sign up for a free artist page there, and release some of their electronica, and I am able to get it into the next harvest...   Meanwhile, I continue to harvest from the full array of popular and altruistic new release sites and artist communities and artist domains, to round out each harvest with a full scope cross-section of what the best electronica artists of our times are producing.  Be sure to help lift your favorite artists in the charts by downloading their new releases while they are still free, and buy their albums to directly show them your support!  That's how the system works, up now.

I am pleased to introduce the listeners of Synerdata Radio to a very notable record label based right here on Salt Spring Island in Canada, called Interchill Records (Interchill.com), which is representing some of our favorite independent artists from across the past decade.  In the coming harvests I would be presenting a broad selection of tracks from their catalog, including the works of well known independent artists like Eat Static and BlueTech, and many others, making for a really special treat from some of the finest independent artist's who's work we are known to follow.  You can buy the featured albums at interchill.bandcamp.com.

You can view the initial playlist for the latest Harvest at Playlist.Synerdata.Net, including written URL's for the artists.

Enjoy!

STARK

Live MP3-J Update

I thought I would just like to let you know about some of the cool things that have been happening here @synerdata this spring.  As much as I love to write, and do so throughout each revolution of the planet, one would not discern as much from a look at the station's MP3-J log, where I have somewhat raised to a fine art the processes of literary minimalism, infrequence, generic description, and personality-free publishing sensibilities, echoing that time-worn refrain...  Synerdata is a radio show, not a website.

My apologies for having remained so obscure over the course of the past decade on the air while preparing the station for launch, for it has not been intended that I should always be so minimally vocal and written here, where in fact I do have many things which I look forward to speaking about in the times ahead, about the experience of finding and tracking and lifting up the best free artists of the 21st century, and of producing the special program that presents us with such a rich and wide scope of the true sound of mankind, way up now.

As of 2012, I have been given to complete a much needed upgrade of The CTRL-ROOM here on SSI, replacing all the well worn systems here, and this presented me with a planned opportunity to process the entire archive of past programs to begin assembling The Big Strand of The Song of Songs, and recording updated versions of all past harvest programs. 

While I am working on these programs at intervals, we are in the process of touring the complete history of Synerdata.Net Radio for the first time, to hear all the best releases in independent music of the 21st century.  At any time I may be presenting a past program while recording it in podcast format for listener download in the future.

I have been working on Harvest Number 89 for some time now.  After so many years, the processes of reviewing and downloading and tagging and mixing hundreds of new releases all at once has come to be a decidedly unhurried affair, stretching out as much as a month of longer, down from two days going like mad in the early days of internet history.  I am just at the mixing stage of production on the next harvest, which I expect to have on the air live in an unspecified number of days and/or hours.

It says here that a Twitter account is expected up now, lest you are not normal, or something, and so I finally gave up, and activated @synerdata, which I have absolutely no intentions of using, but there you go.  Perhaps I would learn to use it, and announce new harvests and things, and so if Twitter means something to you, we got you covered.  

Anyways, just thought I would say hi, and let you know how things are going with Harvest Number 89 and things...

Cheers!
Gordon

Signal To Noise from Douglas Koke on Vimeo.

Here's a little something to get you in the mood for the Science Electronica Sub-Strand!

Harvest Number 88 For Winter 2012

I have just completed Harvest Number 88 for Winter 2012.

In this Harvest I once again visit a broad cross-section of independent artist release sites to review and harvest the hottest new releases in Trip-Hop and other new electronica, and things, and we have a great new program of some 267 awesome tracks, as well as a special presentation of the Science Electronica Super-Strand, to round out this program.

For a large part of the previous orbit, I have been playing recorded versions of the past 6 programs in general rotation while I have been occupied attending to a national security crisis, as well as upgrading the station's systems, but as of Harvest 88 I am pleased to be streaming live 24/7 again, and to be mixing daily and things as history proceeds.

Make yourself a fresh hot coffee, or the like, and sit back and get into a phenomenal new cross-section of the hottest new releases in electronica, and things, for Winter 2012.

You can view a playlist for Harvest 88 HERE (Mix may change over time)

STARK

Windows 7 Shoutcast Player Gadget

I just thought I would point out a great gadget for Windows 7 which allows you to play shoutcast streams from your desktop, for anyone interested, click here:

blog.orbmu2k.de

Just download the Shoutcast Player Gadget, and then type in Synerdata's server address:

http://50.7.70.66:8235/listen.pls

I am just in the process of producing Harvest Number 88 which should be on the air shortly.

It Rocks!

STARK

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.