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8-25-2007
     A pretty big update this time. Tons of new photos. Enjoy a peak around the
world, a few times..seriously.

7-11-2007
	Whew! been awhile since I last posted. More than a year! Quite a few things
have happened since the last update:
I suffered a catastrophic hard-drive crash and lost all the work I put into
developing script and things for this site. I also lost a TON of source photos
I used to develop the photography section :( What this all means is that
in order to add new music to the site, I'll have to go back through and
recatalog ALL of my music again and rewrite all the extraction scripts to get
the info out of the music. BOO!

Since that didn't take all that long in the first place, why didn't I just go
ahead and do it? Check out the photo section and I think you'll see why. Not
long after the harddrive crash, I took a new job that has had be traveling around
the world at least 4 times already! I'll be processing and putting up photos
as soon as possible. The first set is done, Baghdad, Iraq! This is a huge photo collection
that I hope ya'll will take some interest in seeing.

Enjoy!

5-27-2006
    Some new stuff up under Opiate, Kombo and Chaos Theory.
I'm planning a much larger update soonish and I'm just prepping
the files for now. Hopefully this will tide everybody off for a spell
till I can get the new updates all ready. I also have some pictures I
need to get up and ready soonish. Some great stuff.

5-6-2006
    Finally! Alright, it's been ages but the wait was worth it. I put
up a music disk "Intertribal" under the Chaos Theory section.
Some of it is my better stuff and it falls under a mix of styles so if
you don't find something you like at first, try the rest. For fun I put
the development tracks up as well under the "Unfinished, Rejected,
Prototypes" or URP as I'm apt to call the section. Enjoy!

4-10-2006
    Some new stuff under mostly Terraformer, but you'll find a bit more
here and there.

4-5-2006
	Added a links section. Because I'm horribly lazy, I've had Google
generate the links for me. Rah Rah! I've also managed to finish up a
complete rewrite of "Through Children's Eyes" which I'll put up as soon
as I'm satisfied it's actually really really done.

3-19-2006
     A bunch of new songs. Mostly under the Chaos Theory group but
you'll find some under KOMBO, Terraformer and others. Updated the
playlist also! The updates are going a bit easier now that I reorg'd
a bunch of stuff on my local machine. This update took quite a bit
less time than I thought.

3-12-2006
     Ok, Real Life (TM) = teh sux0rs. I've finally gotten around to
doing a major update. Quite a few new songs, mainly from my Terraformer
days and my Chaos Theory days. I'm getting ready for a much larger
update soon (talked about last update). I have most of my songs indexed
and mp3'd, now I just need to get the html generated and I'll put them
up!

2-26-2006
     Ack! I know that it's been..<checking> 15 days!? since the
last update. Apologies all around. But I've been doing some internal
organizing as of late that should help smooth out some of the update
process and help me to get my discography up sooner rather than later.
Also, I have tons of other non-music stuff to put up and I'll be
needing to get all that organized, catalogued etc. Sorry for the dearth
of new music. I put up a tune just to keep ya'll interested, see if
you can find it!

     Also, finally got around to putting up a little "about me". I hate
making those things (they always sound so narcissistic) but I figure
people want to know about who's making this trash anyway.

2-11-2006
     I put up a few more WIP tunes as well as some other songs. Notably
a goa tune for goa lovers. I never made too many of them to enjoy it if
you like the genre. There is a couple of buzz files there with that
tune, though they aren't what I would call "real" buzz songs. I just
used buzz and the tracker generator as a real-time effect processor.
The mp3s of the buzz versions sound a bit different than the Impulse
Tracker versions. Also some internal revisions. I know that I've been
very lazy in putting up song descriptions and WIP reasons and such and
I promise I'll eventually get around to it.

2-9-2006
     I actually had a set of releases ready awhile ago but got
sidelined by Real Life (TM). Anyways, I've been working on organizing
my WIP section a bit more so that I can bring those releases up to
a better parity with the release section. There are actually a few more
WIP tunes than release tunes but I'm releasing them way slower.
     Anyways, I've updated the WIP section and added afew more songs to
the Releases section. I'm also working on a new Blog piece so we'll see
if I ever get it done. Enjoy!

1-31-2006
     Finally a decent set of releases for the people who come here for
the music. Some exciting things here, an unentered NAID '96 tune in the
NAID '96 section called "Unimaginable Power" (also logged in under the
Terraformer group), an unreleased soundtrack to a cancelled 3STF demo,
one of the BMP Compo 2 entries called "A Direction" under the KOMBO
brand and finally two ancient adlib only s3m's released under Terraformer.
Enjoy! ooh! and I updated the master playlist for the whole site. W00t!

1-30-2006
     A few more songs are up, in the Kombo section an unreleased tune
called "45 Minutes of Fame" and in the Terraformer and Opiate sections
a Cross Group release called 20 bubs in a zhweel. Many more to come!

1-27-2006
     And a bunch more photos are up! That should be it for a while
photowise. Check out the mega section on South Korea!

1-26-2006
     A big update, but not for music. I'm putting up a bunch of
processed photography that I've taken with my cheap digital camera.
Enjoy it all in the new Photography section. I
promise I'll get away from this slight digression so that I can put
some more music up! Just taking a quick break.

1-22-2006
     A small update. Only one song. I *almost* had another ready to
go but it's late and I have to get up early. Coming soon, some
photography. Nothing fancy, I'm not much of a photographer but maybe
interesting to a few folks, stuff from all over the U.S. and Korea!
I'm still processing/choosing/organizing the photos but it'll be a nice
addition to my site when it's up.

1-19-2006
     Fairly big update today. A few songs added to the Chaos Theory
section (unreleased woo! so never before heard!), as well as some
Audic releases. I've also updated the WIP section with a few more
tunes from my time w/Terraformer. As a result of all the new additions,
I've also updated the playlists. As usual, mp3s up for all.

1-14-2006
    Ack! Stupid Real Life (tm) interfering with my releases! Anyways
I added a few things included the many mixes of Kanamon worms. I also
fleshed out a couple of sections and included more group info.

1-10-2006
     A coupla new entries under the releases. One is a cheesy old tune
I did as a Terraformer member called Mr. Wordsworth. The other is a
sample showcase called Section Ng. Enjoy! I'll be updating the playlist
soon after I put a few more things up.

1-9-2006
     A few cosmetic changes in the WIP section. Now you can tell my
group affiliation when I made that snippit. Fun! Also I put a couple
more WIP tunes up.

1-8-2006
     *update*
     A few more WIP tunes are up as well as some misc tunes. Enjoy

     I finally collected everything I needed for a little side project
I've been working on - a NAID '96 memory page.
Check it out. Having a giant ego, of course the entire thing is focused
on my participation at NAID. Enjoy! The montage clip is pretty fun too.

1-7-2006
     Finally some more tunes! I put up my Terraformer era music disk
"The Land" done with Future Crew's music disk maker tool thingy. The
software doesn't really work on modern win32 OSs but I pulled out the
songs and did the mp3 magic on them. Some of it is my more...
experiemental work. I dunno if I really like all of them but a few have
grown on me over time.

1-5-2006
     Whew! 3 days since the last update. I've been a bit tied up with
real life (TM) stuff for a while. No new songs but something else
that's fun. A poor man's stream radio of sorts. Basically it's just a
winamp playlist of all the songs on the site. Let me know if there are
any problems. I'm working on a few more variations of the list and I'll
try and keep the playlists updated as I update the rest of the site.

1-2-2006

     Noticing that the WIP section was looking a little spare, I've
put up a few things. Enjoy the sounds of ill-advised, broken, poorly
written and abortive projects!

1-1-2006

     I've put up some more tunes. This time, my MC2 entry is up
(though it didn't do so hot coming in 27th in the veteran division),
one of my CT tunes called Introspected Monastary, and an Audic
release called Living, again and again. Gosh the holidays are
great for free time!

12-31-2005

     As a little New Year's present, I've put up my very oldest stuff.
I know I talked about this yesterday, but I got around to writing an
.mtm extractor and used it. Every song I've written (and still have),
before I joined my first real group, I've put up. mp3 goodness of coz.
Enjoy!

12-30-2005

     Alright, at long last I've started to put up my old stuff. And I
mean my really old stuff -- including my very first song ever! Right
now they are under the "Groupless" section but I'll update the releases
page tomorrow sometime. mp3s for all. The .mtm songs will take a while
longer to be up since I need to write an extractor for that format.

12-29-2005

     Apparently I need to pay attention more and check to see if the
mp3s are getting up alright. A few of them are getting truncated so
I'm reupping some. So far on the list are:
The 7 Microns
Dreamstate
Iron Ra (actually wrong bitrate)

So if you were trying to listen to these and thought "hey, these songs
are kinda short and they stop suddenly" that's why.

     I also added a bunch more mp3s to the rejected/incomplete section
of "The 4 Winds".

12-28-2005

     I put up In the System, my first entry in
the Groupless category of tunes made while I
was sans group.

12-27-2005

     I've added some mp3s for some of the Incomplete songs under "The
4 Winds". I also updated the Incomplete Combustable Rain (remix) as
it had an error in the module that would foul up the playback when the
remix started.
     I also added two releases: Subject #9 (radio edit) and Upon My Soul


12-26-2005

     Strange how hours of work can seem like so little. I've converted
my blogspot blog over to here and I'll probably be ending that.
     I've also setup the WIP which is a bit of a
misnomer but it'll have to do. Basically, as I've been going through
and cataloguing all my music, I've come across a few hundred songs that
I never finished, I'll be dumping them there rather than putting them
up in the releases section. Also poke
around the releases section for some new releases.

12-23-2005

     A bunch of minor organizational changes and a few releases. I've
added a Terraformer release, a Kombo release, reorganized the 0.020
releases which has come of a result of me more or less finishing the
task of categorizing and the beginning of cataloging all my stuff.
Turns out I have several "versions" of the same songs. My binary
compare tool says they are different files so there must be
something different that I just can't tell upon first look. So I've
decided that for the sake of completeness, I'll release them all.
     However, I'm only planning on putting up mp3 versions of the
definitive releases. For example, if I have a full sample size
version of a song, and a "small version" (meaning the samples were
resized to make the song smaller at a time when people were still using
dial-up) I'll put an mp3 up of only the larger sample version (read:
hi-quality version).
     I'm also planning on moving my blog over to here,
it's nothing fancy but I think that I'd like to keep everything
together in one place and make this more than just a release point for
my old music. This being a holiday weekend, keep checking back for tons
of new updates.

12-22-2005

     I re-upped the "Singular Expand" mp3 as a 128kps file to keep in
line with everything else that's up. For some reason I had it as a
256kps version. Big. :(

12-19-2005

     Finally a fairly recent tune (2001) to enjoy. One of my last scene
releases before my temporary retirement when I belonged to Coplan's
Audic group...Trace Thoughts.

12-18-2005

     As it turns out, S3Ms are a bit harder to parse out than
Impulse Tracker files. But I managed to get a cataloging tool working
so I can finally start putting up some of my older stuff (once I get
MTM's and MOD's to work then I can put up my REALLY old stuff). To
celebrate this, I'm putting up my first entry under my first group
Terraformer. There really is nothing like
your first demogroup - it's exciting and fun and everything seems
possible. Every production teaches you about your limitations while
simultaneously surpassing them. In the light, the first song I'm
putting up is my semi-famous chip tune Dual Complex.
    It took 1st at the NAID '96 chip tune compo and I credit that to
its using only 2 channels instead of the max of 4. Modern trackers
really have a hard time understanding the point of channel limits with
all their new fangled software. But back in my day, a decent song in
two channels (and under 30k) was a technical tour de force. I'm still
very proud of that win as the winnings from the compo paid for my trip
to NAID.

12-17-2005

     I've put up my first release from Kombo. That
was a fun group to be apart of and I chose my second release under
them. A song called Singular Expand.
I've put it up as an MP3 and I've put up and MP3 version of 0.020.

12-15-2005

     And now the rest of "The 4 Winds" directions are up as MP3s. The
B-sides stuff is not up just yet.
	Also apparently there is a vandalism war between a user "Slate" and
"Nlu" concerning my entry in Wikipedia. I don't know who either one is,
but my user page is now marked as a sock puppet by Nlu for this Slate user.
Personally, I don't care much for Wikipedia's way of doing things and
I'm happy to have just a userpage, but if you think that I should have
a page on the 'pedia, make an entry for me! I'd like some third parties
to get involved! As a matter of fact, lets all work to flesh out the
"tracker" page!

12-14-2005

     Apparently somebody went through the trouble to make a Wikipedia
entry about me. Well, actually they just copied my user page and
updated it a smidge. Thanks to whoever! I'm flattered!

     In other news, I've added an MP3 version of "The Focus Stone".
For all you who are tracker impared this might be an alternative. I've
begun converting all the "The 4 Winds" tracks to MP3 and will be
updating as I have time.

12-11-2005

     Okay, so maybe I'm not entirely spent. I organized the "The 4
Winds" releases onto the release page, that might make navigation a
little more clear and quick if you don't want to visit the actual
music disk page. I also added the first non-disk release "0.020" from
my time with the group "Chaos Theory" (for fun
there is an unreleased version of the same song up as well.

12-9-2005

     And I'm spent. The entire "The 4 Winds" disk is up. I've also
included some interesting goodies such as the original artwork,
rejected songs and incomplete songs (with reasons!). Enjoy!

12-8-2005

     The "North" section of "The
4 Winds" is up! I wrote a little script to help automate much of the
process of making the various parts of each page. Woo! Perl=Dope.
Enjoy!

12-7-2005

     The first releases are up! Sorta! It's actually the "East" portion
of my "The 4 Winds" music disk circa 1997. If you've never heard of it
it's probably because it was never actually released (and neither were
most of the songs for that matter). It actually has some pretty good
music IMHO for the time. A few of the songs were repackaged and
released by themselves but much of this music has not been heard in
the scene at large.

     The history of the disk is a long one and ultimately too
complicated to get into in any detail (or at least the details I
remember). Suffice it to say that it was intended to be released as a
win32 application (it would have been one of the first demoscene apps
to run in Windows). Artwork was done up (I'll be putting up all the
original artwork files after I get the rest of the music up), a
programmer was acquired and work set off. Before too long real-life
(tm) interfered and my programmer had to stop work. By that time the
disk had been in development for quite some time and I felt that the
music would be too dated by the time I secured another win32 capable
programmer who could handle the task. So it was shelved.

     In an effort to bring my humble dream to some sort of zombie-like
life, I've recreated most of the original interface and artwork for
this site. All the links should work, just...well...most of the other
cardinal directions don't have anything up yet. They should soon though
as I archive and index everything for those songs. You'll notice that
when you click on a song you get an info page with download links,
info links, sample lists etc. That way you can see all the comments
and "artwork" that may exist in the files before you download. To save
myself some direct embarrassment, I fixed a few obvious errors in
spelling and grammar (for example, my propensity to spell "original"
as "origional"...go fig.).

     You'll also notice that there are some inactive links for MP3 and OGG
download. I intend to someday make those active by actually making the
MP3 and OGG files in case somebody wants to listen and doesn't have
a proper player. This should generally be the format for all the future
releases on this site. Enjoy!

Disk East of The 4 Winds can get be found here.

12-4-2005

     So here it is, at last. A home for my stuff. Big thanks to the
guys at untergrund.net for the space!

     I'm currently working on indexing and preparing all of my
music to put up here. It's a large task. Expect to see everything from
music disks to individual releases, old stuff and what may be
interesting to some people, unfinished work. Why unfinished? Well, the
tracking community gave an awful lot to me for many years. I found that
one of the best ways to learn was to look at other people's music.
However, seeing the "correct" way to make something is not always the
best way to learn. Often it is the mistakes that teach the most. While
it may be embarrasing to a point to release these "stillborn" tracks,
I hope that they are instructive to some up and coming trackers.

     Keep an eye out here for info on new releases and check out the
"releases" section for downloads! The WIP section will eventually
contain songs that I'm currently working on.

-El Blanco out-
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