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October 29, 2011
Back in 1995, I was living in Tucson, AZ and working in a record store. The "senior" staff there had control of what music was played over the sound system and, aside from a number of industrial dance beat shifts a week, it was a great place to be forcibly introduced to new mu...
November 21, 2010
It feels like it's been a year in mixing, but finally it's done. Or I have given up. Or whatever. I'm pretty sure it sounds great. I've been enjoying listening to it while updating all the web sites and what not. The album art is, as promised, Night Of The Living Dead "themed"...
November 15, 2010
As you may have heard from Facebook updates, a couple of weeks ago, I took a week off from work to write and record a new album. I did the same thing with Sour Grapes two years ago (almost to the day) and was very pleased with the outcome. "Get to some place locked away and li...
December 12, 2008
All set, folks. I have uploaded all of the recordings, entered the lyrics into the database, uploaded album art, added the album to the jukebox playlists, etc. The only thing that isn't working currently is the big zip file with very large album art images for printing. It tak...
December 2, 2008
I have reached what seemed to be final mixes yesterday, but have since decided to rework the drum programs. The feedback that I have gotten thus far is good, but the thing that keeps coming up is realistic, but repetitive drum programs. Due to the nature of programmed drums, y...
November 7, 2008
As you can see, the blog styles have not yet been updated with the new look from the main site, but it is coming soon. As with the MedinaLine.net site, the new design utilizes a more efficient menu bar image, so page load times should be decreased significantly. Also, there ar...
October 28, 2008
I have moved the old band page to http://medinaline.net/band/. http://medinaline.net is now up and running with a new visual scheme, running a parallel with http://thejamesmachine.com. The logo and buttons are still randomly generated images. There are 31 different image schem...