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Rhythm Sound and Movement finally out A while ago I mentioned the remix I did for New Zealand band, Pitch Black. I'm proud to announce that the remix, entitled "Rude Mechanicals (mistrust's ambiotik remix)"  is out now in New Zealand, and will be released worldwide over the next few weeks…. Here's part of the official press release from Pitch Black's label: "we're [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching up First, a few changes/updates I've made to this blog: - I've reverted to the "everything's gone green" theme from last year (see why below). - Most of my old songs and tunes are now available as free direct downloads in my Music page. - I've reorganised my links on the blogroll-type list, and included some new friends. Still more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young kids and Facebook #2 - Parents strike back Another step in the right direction for parent-power! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep Space Lament remix news I'm really pleased the my remix of Animat's Deep Space Lament is out on 11th May! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young kids and Facebook It really comes to something when your child's Head Teacher has to put a notice in the weekly school newsletter telling parents about the dangers of letting their little ones go on the internet unsupervised. Apparently some of the 7 - 11 year olds at this particular primary school are regulars on Facebook, and are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Fry, blogging and musicians Musicians and bands should take notice of Stephen Fry's comments on BBC's Analysis programme "Stephen Fry: The Internet and Me". Fry points out that Twitter and its ilk have made it easy for celebs to bypass the press offices and gossip columnists, and tell the world what they're doing as soon as it happens. Why though, are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Blackout New Zealand Partly because I've got a link with New Zealand music (because of my remixes for Pitch Black), and partly because I think the new laws stink, I've joined The New Zealand Internet Blackout to protest against the Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A' that calls for internet disconnection based on accusations of copyright infringement without [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Soundcloud in WordPress If you're a Soundcloud user and want to play your tracks in your WordPress.com blog, here's how to do it:  Just copy the link location from the "download" button on your soundcloud player and paste it into your WordPress visual editor (not the code editor). You need to add the usual WP code to it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twitter ye not! Looks like an overload at Twitter HQ! Far too many people using Twitter? Whatever it is, Twitter ain't working. If you go on Twitter.com there's a message saying: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. I hope it's back up soon. I've started to get into [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ping.fm I've discovered Ping.fm, which if it works, will allow me to post messages and updates straight to my blogs etc from one service. Here's hoping! …well it posted ok, but the only problem with services like this is that you have to edit the blog post to add other categories!        Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moodle mania I've got my e-Learning head on today whilst writing this blog. Anyway - the title of this post - "Moodle Mania": Should really be "E-Learning Mania", as all I can do at the moment is think about the resources and ideas that are cropping up in the "Moodle and E-Learning" Roadshows I'm putting on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jorum Forum E-Learning workshop In my role as E-Learning Developer at The Manchester College, I visited the "Jorum Forum" the other day. The Jorum Forum was an event to showcase the latest developments of the body known as Jorum. If you don't know them, they're there to develop and promote an online repository of learning objects and materials that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three-legged cats It's been a funny (as in, "strange") few weeks. I've been on a trip "down south", ended up with a three-legged cat, and been to Silverstone Racing Circuit! To explain more……I took my 4 y.o. son to visit his grandparents at the end of October. They live about 30 miles north of London, so it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rude Mechanicals (mistrust remix) out now My remix for Pitch Black's Rude Mechanicals track is out now!!! You can get it from the following download stores now, as part of the Rude Mechanicals EP: Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (mistrust remix) - buy on iTunes Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (mistrust remix) - buy on Beatport Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (mistrust remix) - buy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'm on iTunes at last The remix I did for New Zealand dub/dance band Pitch Black is out today on iTunes and all the usual download sites (Amazon.com, Beatport etc). It's one of the tunes on the band's 6-track EP "Rude Mechanicals" and is my very first release on iTunes - in fact my very first "official" remix - so [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barack Obama didn't review my Rude Mechanicals remix As you've probably seen, Barack Obama has been doing pretty much anything these days to get the word around and get himself elected. Good luck to him. However, he's obviously been too busy to have a listen to my remix of Pitch Black's Rude Mechanicals, which is out on October 27th. It's even on Amazon.com's [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rude Mechanicals remix on Myspace Following on from my last post about my Rude Mechanicals remix being released on October 27th, I've just got a couple of updates about the track. It's now on the music player on Pitch Black's Myspace profile - in fact there are two different remixes up there: the first one is an instrumental version by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rude Mechanicals official release date My remix of Pitch Black's Rude Mechanicals gets its official release worldwide on 27th October 2008. The band's latest newsletter says: The second single from Rude Mechanicals - the title track itself - featuring Queenstown's KP, is due out digitally on October 27th with remixes from PZ, Sound Guise, Mistrust, and our very own Mike Hodgson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pitch Black Rude Mechanicals mistrust remix As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I'm now officially a "Remixer for Hire"! The official remix I did for New Zealand band Pitch Black is back from the mastering house and going to be released on all the major download sites at the end of October. I've done a couple of remixes before, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing from my iPod Touch I'm finally blogging on my iPod Touch. When I say MY IPod Touch, I mean it's sort of on permanent loan from work. I've had a bit of time to play with it and see what it can do now I've finished the Pitch Black remix. So far, I'm fairly impressed with a couple of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jog the web and e-learning for bands I was at an e-learning workshop yesterday as part of my day job (e-learning developer). I wasn't originally supposed to be going, but my boss couldn't make it and asked me instead. The workshop was about using new and emerging  technologies for work-based learning.  Whilst looking at all the weird and wonderful gadgets and websites [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A "proper" release at last It's taken me long enough (how long have I been making music?), but I'm finally getting an "official" release - as in, on a proper label, legit, and I'll getting a % of sales, licensing, etc. I've done a remix of a track called "Rude Mechanicals" by a New Zealand band called Pitch Black (dub/electronica/IDM [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9-11 7th Anniversary As you all (well, maybe all) know, today's the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 September 2001 air attacks in the USA. I wrote 2 tracks a couple of years ago, using speeches made by George W Bush and Billy Graham just after the event. I'd always wanted to put music over the spoken word and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mixtape, Muxtape, MuddleTape I was quite excited about the Muxtape idea that mentioned the other day, and it even got a mention in Dreamrapper's blog too. However, it's all gone a bit pear-shaped over at Muxtape's HQ and I feel a little bit foolish now. It looks like my twelve tracks have gone from my virtual tape and ended up in someone else's, as there've been one or two problems with their software and servers. On May 21st, Muxtape experienced an error that caused every song in the database to be overwritten with th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Croydon Library track on O'Neill TV I've just found out that my some of my tracks can still be heard on O'Neill TV - the place that all the promos for O'Neill surfing contest are shown. Three tracks (Croydon Library, Never Alone, and Hello) were used in Deep Blue Open 2005. The thing that sets this film apart from all the regular surfing events is that it focusses mainly on the effects of Tsunami on the Maldives. Watching it again recently reminded me of the devastation of the hurricane in Burma and the earthquake in China. C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mixtape, Muxtape Here's a word you don't come across much these days: Mixtape. Remember? The thing you made for your friends or for listening to in your car on a long trip, taping your favourite vinyl tracks or the week's Top 30 on Radio One. The thing you made for your mate's party. The mixtape is now only a mythical beast since the ubiquotous CD came along. Well, I came across a website that will let you recreate your favourite mixtapes online. It's a website called "Muxxtape", which lets you upload upto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advice wanted about the Firewire audio interface More on the possibility of me getting a Presonus Firestudio, I'm a little bit more convinced after reading this interesting article on Recording Review's website: Just ordered a presonus firestudio "So my first goal was to find an audio interface that had a powerful headphone mixing system with zero latency…..I ended up selecting the Presonus Firestudio. It has just about everything I need for $700." It looks like a very indepth review. I'm trawling the web for reviews, articles, vide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids making electronic music 2 Following on from my previous post about how I started making music with various bits and pieces of old radios and things, I posted a comment on Createdigitalmusic's website about all it in an article about Kids making electronic music between the 60s and the 80s. I also I put in a link to "This is the Mood….", the track I made in the mid-80s using just a Jen SX1000, Casio MT31, and a Kay Drum Machine. I was really surprised to get a reply. I maybe expected maybe a "hmmm", or "well, i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Golden oldies - kids making electronic music I often get asked how long I've been making electronic music. The answer is - probably most of my life! My dad was a TV engineer in the 60s and 70s, so he had allsorts of circuit testers and oscilloscopes and other bits of junk that I could mess around round and make odd bleeps and sinewave wails! My dad also had an old valve stereo radio and I used to tune it in to all sorts of weird and wonderful Eastern European radio stations on Short-Wave, and made crazy frequency sweeps. I even hooke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presonus Firestudio - shall I get one? I've been using Acid Pro, samples, plugins, etc for ages but I'm now seriously thinking of going "hardware" (much more fun!). Thought about getting a basic mixer but I need more flexible routing and control (MIDI/Audio), and someone recommended the Presonus Firestudio. It looks like it's the sort of thing I need, so maybe someone who's reading this has used one? I think it's around £500 and seems to be worth it - it includes loads of plugins and comes with Cubase 4 LE, Reason Adapted, and l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything's gone mobile I've just launched a new add-on to my blog/website. It's a mobile website, built on something called Winksite. I came across this through my elearning daytime job when I was looking into podcasting. Winksite lets you make webpages that can be viewed on mobile phone, and it's something I've wanted to do for a while, but never got around to it. I've only added a few things to it at the moment, some things are copied directly from this blog, but I'd like to have some mobile-only content. At t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farewell, Motif! After much soul-searching and discussions with Mrs Mistrust long into the night, I've decided to sell the wonderful Yamaha Motif XS6 that I recently won on the Music Tech Magazine forum promotion. It's a brilliant keyboard and I could spend hours playing on it, but the problem is that I just haven't got any HOURS or minutes to use it. With all the stuff that's going on at home with Paul, my stepson, and his Autism, the only chance to make music is for about 10 minutes a week on my laptop, s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where have all the musicians gone?  I'm still concerned about the apparent lack of musicians who run blogs on Wordpress and (ahem) Blogger, in fact all the other major blogging sites. Come to think of it, there don't seem to be many "bands that blog" on Myspace these days. When I've looked under the "music" tag on Wordpress, the majority of links and headlines that appear are usually from people commenting about their favourite tracks or all-time 100 love songs, something like that. Not a lot from either established acts or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything's gone (Pitch) Black I've been working on the Pitch Black remix for the last week and a half, but I'm getting quite bogged down with it. The problem is that I've been too reliant on sample CDs to find something that fits the existing tune ("Rude Mechanicals") and not really restricting myself to only a few sounds. I use Acid Pro pretty much all the time for getting ideas down quickly, but it's too easy to become lost in all the options that it gives you. My attempt at this remix is a bit "directionless" at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'm in Music Tech Magazine Just to let you know I'm finally in Music Tech Magazine for winning the Motif XS6 synthesizer! The article is in February's edition - but in case you don't want to buy it, the editor sent me a copy of the page, and I've attached it here as pdf (the whole page) and a jpeg (click to see the whole pic). Other news… the manager of a band from New Zealand called "Pitch Black" has said I can have a go at doing a remix of a track from their new CD, "Rude Mechanicals". If it's good enough, i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I've won a Yamaha Motif XS6 workstation! And it's absolutely amazing!!!! I won it in a promo that Music Tech magazine were running on their new Studionet forum. I went down to Yamaha's R&D offices in West London yesterday and got the official Yamaha training from one of their product specialists. I spent most of yesterday afternoon grinning like an idiot after hearing the sounds the Motif can make and just how incredible the whole thing is. I think I can seriously say goodbye to making ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now form a band Just came across an interesting site which gives a really good breakdown on the things you need to do these days to get your music "out there". It's been set up by Last FM, the music networking site, who are calling the site "Now form a band", and has a manifesto of "The Campaign for Better Music". Aren't we all looking for better music? Well, hopefully this will explain…. The Campaign for Better Music is here to say: it doesn't have to be like the old days. We're going to show you ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winner of Star Letter, Music Tech Magazine October 2007 I've tried to write about music-related things recently (when I've actually had time to get on the computer!), as that's what my main interest is. I struggle as a bedroom (or rather, lounge - as in where the tv, sofa, children, wife, etc. live) musician, hoping that my tunes will make it onto some tv or movie blockbuster, so I can invest in some better recording equipment. That may not happen for a while or a long time, so the only way I can seriously get some decent gear is to either steal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More satisfaction recording with hardware? Is there more satisfaction and enjoyment to be had from recording with hardware and outboard equipment, rather than the latest plugins and softsynths? Are professional musicians and engineers drifting away from all things soft and going back in time? I've noticed that a lot of magazine tutorials, youtube videos, and general features on recording (bands, engineers etc) lean more towards recording with hardware rather than soft synths, outboard effects rather than plugins. The people in quest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A career in music? I've always wanted a job in music, maybe as a pop star or producer (only kidding), but resigned myself a long time ago to the fact that it would never happen. I've been working in education for the last 12 years, and recently started doing a lot of e-learning stuff, which involves audio and video production, so thought it's probably the nearest I'd ever get to put my music tech skills and general musical knowledge to some use. However, that may change in the near future, and I may actually ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ning not Facebook or Myspace I've just signed up to a new "social network" for music technology and production people, run by Music Tech magazine in the UK. Called MTM Studio Net,  it says that it's the place for producers, engineers and recording musicians to showcase their music and share production ideas. So far, about 70 people have signed up in only a few days, probably people who read the magazine, but it looks like a worthwhile place to get some new ideas about making music and for people to hear my tracks. It' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youtube and other video sites driving web traffic I'd guess that a lot of people have a video or two on Youtube, Google Video, and some of the many other video hosting sites. Out of those people, how many of them use the videos to drive web traffic to their own, or someone else's website? I've got a couple of the O'Neill surfing clips on Youtube. These are two of the sections that are used in the "Deep Blue Open 2005″ promo film, featuring three of my tracks.  Since I uploaded them, I've have quite a lot of hits, but it doesn't seem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The colour Purple No post for a few weeks, mainly due to family commitments, work commitments, and stuff like that. However, I'm excited right now. I'm finally going to get some tunes played on an upcoming internet radio show. More details to follow after 10pm (UK time). In the meantime, you can get hold of all my music for free. See the previous post for details…. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen and art of selling music Some people have been asking where they can buy my music.  Well, the simple answer is: you can't. It's all free to play/download over the internet. You can listen to it and download it, make your own compilation CDs from my tracks. As long as you don't sell it on or pass it on as youre own, I don't mind. I'm trying to get my music into film, tv, adverts, that sort of thing, so the more people who listen to it, maybe the more chance that some music supervisor somewhere will hear the tracks a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen and the art of music licensing Since I licensed my tracks out to O'Neill Europe for the Deep Blue Open dvd, I've had a lot of people asking for some advice on how to get their music into film, tv etc. Obviously, I'm no expert, and I had a few people give me some pointers before I signed up with O'Neill, but here are some tips from me from what I've learned so far (but don't blame me if this method doesn't work!!!) I was approached by a licensing company for them to use my tracks on an O'Neill surfing dvd and got some inf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen and the art of Myspace pimping image: Big chill night view by Neil Cocker (copyright 2005) (link to Neil Cocker's Flickr page) I tried it once. That was all it took to put me off it forever. Everyone else was doing it, so why should I miss out? That was what I thought at the time. The whole world except me was joining in and I was the only one not doing it. I finally plucked up the courage to have ago…… I'm talking about "Pimping" my Myspace. The art of changing your profile page to make it look funky, smar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Autism and music image: 29 may 2006 - eventful.org.uk - 0008 - (medium) by Headancer/Simon Green (copyright 2006) (link to Headancer homepage) As you'll probably have read on Paul's blog, he's still not back in school. This is having a massive knock-on effect on the rest of family and my in-laws, and is generally causing chaos at Mistrust Towers. Anything from a decent night's sleep to watching tv is being affected as Paul's life is almost completely unstructured and he's having to find things to do all t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving the planet Am I saving the planet by not making any new tracks at the moment? I've got lots of things to inspire me and lots of ideas going round in my head, but can't seem to find the time to put them down on the computer as rough ideas. As for saving the planet, I guess that I'm lightening the load on my carbon footprint by not switching on the laptop and the midi keyboard, but if I'm not making any tunes, the conceited view would be to say that someone somewhere is out burning fossil fuel instead o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attention surfer dudes I got an email yesterday saying that O'Neill, the surfing, skiing, and snowboarding company, have launched O'Neill TV, featuring all their promo films, profiles, and all sorts of other video footage. I thought it would actually be proper tv station on Sky or the Extreme Channel, but it turned out it's just a glorified Flash player on their website. I'm not dismissing it though. It looks great, and there are loads of videos on there, especially for all you surf, ski, and snowboard types out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything's gone green again I'm something of a perfectionist when it comes to something looking right, and usually I get this nagging feeling in the back of my head telling me that something doesn't look as good as it should. That explains why I've changed the look of this blog about 5 times in the last few weeks. I've reused the old "green" header and adopted a more plain-looking body. Hopefully I'll be satisfied now and not want to change it again. I've been trying to work out what to write here because there's just ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life, the Universe, and my alter-ego In fact, I seem to have forgotten who I am. Or at least forgotten that I've got a musical alter-ego who likes making tunes and whose music some people like listening to. There's been so much going on at home and work that it's been impossible to even think about making music recently. Me and Mrs mistrust have been occupied with Paul almost every waking hour (and those times we should be asleep), so there's been no time to think of other things. As you may have read in his blog, Paul has PDD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Odeo, oh dear I wanted to put some of music on the world of mistrust. I've got tracks hosted on Last.fm and loads of other sites, all with wonderful music players that can be embedded into a webpage. However, due to "security" concerns, Wordpress won't let you embed them because they're all Flash-based. That leaves only a few of alternatives: direct text links to my Last.fm MP3s, which force readers to download or play them with their own music player; use a widget that will go in my sidebar; or use the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All the world's an MP3 stage I've been thinking about the number of music hosting sites and MP3 directories that I have my music on. Most of them are free-to-download places where people can just have my tracks for nothing. I started off in late 2004 by choosing just one site - Electromancer.com, which is now no more, just because I lacked confidence about my music and it seemed like a good place to start when I'd never even considered putting my music out to the public. In fact, even though Electromancer closed down l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Licensing Someone on the Big Chill forum that I occasionally visit wanted some advice about getting his music marketed through a music library and wondered if he had to sign up with MCPS and pay £100 for the privelege. As you may have read on here, I've recently signed a non-exclusive agreement with a major UK library, and haven't had to register with MCPS, so something doesn't add up if this chap has been told otherwise. As far as I'm aware, the agreement I signed sorts out pre-clearance for my trac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking for music blogs I can't seem to find many musicians who are blogging. Maybe everyone's too busy making music or playing live to keep a diary or blog of what they're upto. What's the point in blogging anyway, you may say. If you're a musician, unsigned or not, please post a link to your blog and I'll have a read and see what you're upto. I'll even add you the my "recommended" list. I know that Moby blogs on his myspace page, that's about it as far as I know. I blog so that I can a) promote my own music to p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website