Taken off of SA forums:
Feel free to skip ahead to the bottom of the post and download the album if you don't wanna read through all this "what the band is all about" stuff.
Goon Aquavita and I are releasing an album on November 10th, and it’s doubtful that this CD would exist without the Musician’s Lounge of these here somethingawful forums. Our band is called Stabilizer and our first album is called “A Project Called Red”. Our sound is pretty diverse and ranges from new age style piano solos(struck) to hard-rock influenced electronica(Movie Star) to Black metal techno(run between the raindrops) to Massive Attack-influenced downtempo(Grey to Green) to ambient. One of the great things about this CD’s production is that the main contributors have never met. About 6 months ago, I had made a post in the Musician's Lounge requesting potential guests to audition for a new musical side project I was starting. I received a few excellent replies, but Aquavita’s really stuck out. I was so impressed by his audition that I asked him if he’d lay his vocal and guitar skills over more than one track, essentially making him the lead vocalist/guitar player of the project. Now, about 6 months later, we've put together an entire album without really knowing who the hell the other person is. All of our collaboration and exchange of ideas has been sent solely through IM and email. I'd play the songs for friends and when they'd ask where the band is from, I'd emphatically reply- "from the internet!," as we were separated by a few state lines during the creation of the CD. Also along the way we received a guest track sung in Mandarin by goon 6stringsamurai, 3 guest guitar spots from danoteck, and a guest female vocalist spot from a friend of mine named Morgan. All in all, the contributors ranged from Florida to Philadelphia to Texas to Taiwan to Australia(which is where the graphic artist for the CD was at the time). The album will be officially released on November 10th and within a month or two the tracks will be on itunes, cdbaby, amazon, etc.
The artwork for the album cover was put together by a goon(Fendahleen) and can be seen right here:
http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/...zercover5fe.jpg
This is a 4 panel poster-style foldout. Only the upper right panel will be visible from the sealed cd. Also the final printout is slightly darker than what is pictured here.
I’m offering up the entire album at 192Kbps for free to download to all the members of the forums. I’ve gleaned a lot of humor, information, and boredom relief from these forums over time and I see this as a good way to give back(and its appropriate that I give it away here, seeing as the SA forums are the landscape where the roots of this project lie).
If you like what you hear with this music, then please support us in one of the following ways:
1. Copy the album for someone- Part of the whole concept of this album is that we're trying to encourage the fans of the album to spread word about it.
2. Help me mirror this! I’m sure that even though I beefed up my hosting, I’m due for some extreme bandwidth rape. If you can't mirror, then seed the torrent.
3. Purchase our stabilizer and other merchandise for really cheap(5 bucks plus shipping if bought straight through me) over here in this SA-Mart thread:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=1713279
Why buy it off me when you've got it downloadable? Because its cheap and will expedite the process of me putting out other quality music for cheap. Otherwise, the #1 and #2 ways are just as important a means of helping us out.
Here are some full tracks uploaded to Tindeck for your sampling pleasure:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/files/...samplerfull.mp3 - A sampler track containing bits from most of the songs on the album.
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/files/... Movie Star.mp3 - Movie Star, the album's first track.
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/files/2btyn-16 Struck.mp3 - a piano piece.
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/files/...ry Standard.mp3 - Hard electronic rock instrumental
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/files/...ey to Green.mp3 - Features female vocalist.
Here’s the torrent(use this if you want to minimize my bandwidth rape):
Download torrent81 (1 file; 94.90 MB)
View torrent stats
http://alluvion.org/qstats.php/28e52218aac733bf2d61a5a5be5ecac48cd0e068
I'd like to encourage everyone to share the torrent with anyone they know and any forums they're on. However, I'd like to keep the direct link generally goon-only.
Here's the direct link to the 192Kbps MP3s of the full album:
http://www.nonexistent-recordings.c...ctCalledRed.zip
Also use these mirrors thanks to legalcondom:
http://relay-5.gbstv.info/sa/AProjectCalledRed.zip
http://mecca.hostdime.com/AProjectCalledRed.zip
http://hostdime.com/AProjectCalledRed.zip
and mirror from Mr. Nilo
http://fp.thingie.net/pcr/AProjectCalledRed.zip
I’m also in two other bands(Blood&Batteries and Psychaesthetic) and if you’d like to get more information on these, stabilizer, and other random stuff, please visit http://www.nonexistent-recordings.com where you can also learn about Blood&Batterieshttp://www.bloodandbatteries.com and Psychaesthetichttp://www.psychaesthetic.net. Thanks alot to Sasquatch! for stickying.
That’s about it. Enjoy “A Project Called Red!”
Spread the album. they want internet notoriety.
