Hello friends,

Just letting you know that i've updated the ol myspazz page player with three new tracks today.

(preview version!) Telepathic Cascade is for an upcoming compilation on Brainstorm Lab. I've grabbed the moment just before the peak to whet your brainwhistles. This one sounds like i've been dosing myself with tryptamines much more than i actually have... blame insomnia, i guess. Expect the compilation to drop FOR FREE in the next month or so.

The Sandpants Lovedance [live edit] is a track that has been kicking around the studio for a few months now, and though this version is already different than the one that will be on the album, whichever/whenever that album is announced, i find it good enough to share... check it out. It's got bassoons!

Onebeginsagain [live edit] was submitted to a free compilation called soulseekers vol.1, available on the underground idm trade blog over here. download the whole thing from that page.

In release news the upcoming EP Detroit Nocturnes is so close to being finished i can already hear it blasting from your stereos in my two-month-into-the-future time machine. It's really been a great process, writing an album for the city that made me... the final work on the last track (featuring vocals by Tamara Finlay) is to be done this weekend, and the graphics end is nearly complete as well. It will be out on MMR sometime soon, expect a release date to drop in the next few weeks.

Finally i'd like to let you all know about another site that i've started dropping tracks on, it's called thesixtyone and is a combination game/social/music site. The game aspect will get some people (it got me... it's like a mini rpg of musical discovery) but the amount of unknown, fantastic producers on the site will get most people. Check out what i've posted there by clicking here.

OK Autumn has come and the studio beckons... be well, friends.

With love,
c. todd
phylum_sinter

Hello Friends,

I'm happy to report some press has started flowing regarding my most recent album. 

Find a review of 'From Unity to Segmentation' at Headphone commute here, and a related TANTALIZING interview over at the same site right here.

Still working on finishing up the next EP 'Detroit Nocturnes' for MMR, one track to go!

Then the big LP 'Amongst Fauna and Wiring' for Tympanik Audio, an album also lovingly codenamed 'The beast' as i've begun calling it goes into high gear in hopes of sculpting 5 years of research into a cohesive album by the end of the year.  I talk about it in the interview above, hope to have you all on board the good ship Sinter once the work is finally completed.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

-c. todd

Hello Friends,

I've had the privilege of being the part of alot of labels this year... and along with releasing them, sometimes those labels are good enough to get showcased on radio. As luck would have it, two of the labels i'm working with currently have had just such a thing happen.

The first showcase is on Proton radio, showcasing artists on MMR. I'll be releasing an EP with them and i'm told a few tracks from that release are included in the mix Episode is titled "Lorin MMR" click here to listen+download the show. This one may be recurring, so check back sometime later too.

The other showcase is having its AM broadcast debut tonight on KYOU 1550 San Francisco tonight, but on the internet time doesnt really matter (does it?). Solipsistic Nation interviews Mike Cadoo (of n5md/Enpeg Digital), who has put together a nice mix of tracks from new and upcoming releases on the labels... including one by me. clicky clicky.

Oh and its not a label showcase, but i've also had some play on Hidden Forms Radio on 89.1 WNUR (Chicago) - a full playlist and links to listen are available here.

Enjoy! expect my next release date TBA in the next month or so.

With love,
c. todd
phylum_sinter

p.s. quick poll: are these announcements too wordy? i tend to write these after way too much caffeine... let me know and sorry if it is, i'll work on it!

Hey Folks,

My latest album is now available worldwide through multiple digital outlets ~

If you prefer your tunes in the high quality FLAC format, you can get it from the Enpeg Digital page.

Or if you prefer mp3's, you can purchase the album from a variety of distributors; including Amazon, djTunes, eMusic, and that wonderful superstore iTunes.

Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement - the best is yet to come!

Much love,
c. todd
phylum sinter

p.s. big ups to Fell and Ruxpin's latest albums @ Enpeg too - they're all worth getting!

Hello Friends,

Life has been trying for me lately. My dad has been hospitalized rather mysteriously since April 16th and has gone through a rollercoaster set of symptoms and diagnoses. Currently he is largely incomprehensible, unable to walk and in desperate need of Gall Bladder removal. If you consider your thoughts able to influence what happens in larger reality in any way (via any type of prayer, wish, burnt offering, shout at the sky, etc.) please take a moment for James Todd's wellness. Thank you.

Even though this weight has burdened me and my family rather significantly, i have managed to stay productive. I recently accepted and finished a track for a compilation called Exception A.M. - music for hangovers. The compilation will include my track entitled 'To See or not See Bee' and will be available on June 20th as you may have deduced by the picture above. There is also a release party in Chicago (i will not be in attendance unfortunately) associated on the same night, click the image for more details.

And finally, i've navigated the 'smert 2.0' labyrinth that is Facebook well enough to get a proper music profile on it. My page contains 100% fresh copy, though if you follow my myspace updates at all none of the information should strike you as wild, just entertaining and incredibly witty in a wry Germanic way. Check it out and become a fan by clicking here. I'm hoping it will allow an easier dialogue to happen via the comments and such the it is organized over there. Also the page has a section for reviews too... nice.

Oh a final note: Anyone that has been waiting for my album 'From Unity To Segmentation' to release on mp3 should bookmark this amazon page. It will finally be available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon.com and other digital retailers on June 9th!

Much love and thanks to all those who have shown their support, it has strengthened me these past few months.

Sincerely,
c. todd
phylum_sinter

!~-NOW AVAILBLE IN FLAC FORMAT-~!
JUNE 9th FOR the MP3/iTunes CROWD

click here to go to the purchase page!

Hi Friends,

My album is out now in FLAC(the preferred/higher quality format) - go grab it and let me know what you think!

I encourage all of you -- especially those among you with a severe slant towards exceptional experimental electronic music -- to nab and have a nice long listen to this album. It's taken me nearly 3 years to manifest in its current form.

Cheers to everyone that has supported and encouraged me to get to this point.  And remember what i mentioned: there's incentives to leaving some thoughtful feedback, primarily in the form of mysterious gifts.

Much love,
c. todd
phylum_sinter

Hello Friends,

Just a note that i've uploaded the Inter[mediate] EP from 2006 to the myspace page player -- partially for those new to my discography (protip: check discogs.com for a near-complete listing), but also i was listening to the album the other day and decided it was still a good album.

So yeah, check it and either reminisce or hear it for the first time with me.

Still ramping up the promotions/visibility re: my enpeg release. If you haven't seen the blog post yet with full details you can do that here. The gist -- release date is May 12th for those on the mailing list, and June 9th for the general public.

Also recently: pounded out a gross little rant that ties into the album a few days ago that can be read here. It reads as perhaps little more caffeine-induced and wild in hindsight, but stands true.

In the current: Work on the first of two EP's for MMR is nearly complete, it will be a 5 tracker.

As the Enpeg album and this MMR EP line up for public consumption, this summer continues to reveal itself as my most travelling, touring summer yet.

Exciting! Do you live in a city where what i do might be a good idea to do live? Still wanting some help from you guys on ideas for where (cities or venues in particular) to stop on tour -- Portland Oregon, Chicago and NYC are definites so far. Denver looks possible too.

Let me know!

Much love,
c. todd
phylum_sinter

Hello Friends,

Again i'm stuck grasping the mirror for insight into myself when i know damn well that a better reflection is seen by remembering all life has shown me (outside this body). 

Like many people, i grew up feeling more alone than with others, strikingly scared of the possibility of what others might have had in mind for myself and ceased to ever reveal my incredible designs that would have been well in their company. 

I isolated myself, i still isolate myself every day from something it seems. 

Somehow i've grown comfortable in this, and though i'd admit my grasp of communication's verbal limits might be a little better than average nonetheless i'm stuck in a pattern of making plenty of perfect masks for me, ones that deliver a very specific message that (although genuine) is blind to the big picture -- that thing i really am trying to express.

At the very beginning and very end of every day the same questions appear: did i follow my heart? -- what is in my heart anyway?  ...And damn the loving piss out of every single one of you that can do this better than me.  Hi i'm some kind of alien whose most basic of expressions are connected not to the body in which i inhabit but the mind in which is patterning everything everywhere all the time.

The core of knowing yearns to be revealed, somewhere behind that stupid, nearly invisible veil that chooses to ripple only when the most intimate of encounters blows through me and rapturous and true "ness" of everything drops the whole diorama as if it never existed for just a brief moment. 

That is noticing a most primal togetherness, one outside of petty criticisms or internal segmentation of any kind.

Yes, those are the moments and connections that i seek.  Yes, that breaking of my own model that leads me to believe i am not alone, that this shell is just a temporary and often painful test to see whether i'm capable of noticing anything other than myself in the long run or not.

'From Unity To Segmentation' is an extended meditation on this, focusing on the struggle to get some kind of perspective that is hyper-aware and outside of its own measuring capacity.  It is the idea that i know where i came from but forgot -- but know that someone here knows it... in fact, the whole thing rests on the belief that everyone knows it already somewhere inside them. 

Maybe it's not the first time this has been noticed.

The album is an expression of desperation and heady filth, the kind of thing that even if not a single person buys it but someday validates through all the classical stances, dsp routines and countless obscuring methods used to communicate things that are better barked at a sweatlodge i'll be happy to be known, that my lines will blur with yours for that brief moment if only by another part of this huge whole...

This huge struggling flailing blind and futile thing that has no idea how great and perfect it was to begin with.  Yes, i'm talking to you, life.

Just one of many, but one altogether someday.

disclaimer - the words here express but a passing glimpse and may or may not withstand the greatest of trials (time) but were deemed genuine at time of keyboard pounding (7:51am, April 23, 2009) and thus are for discussion and historical document more than any sort of ethos-founding.  But if you did build an ethos on any of this, i'd love you all the more for it.

DROPS PUBLIC JUNE 9TH!


Today has been a magnificent day. 

After more than 2 years of writing and development, in and out of hospitals (and minus at least one spleen) i can finally say that the work on 'From Unity To Segmentation' has come to fruition.

In the label's words:

The release page is now live, and you can hear samples of it by clicking here.

The album will be out for purchase via En:peg Digital and other digital retailers for $8.99 on May 12th (for n5md mailing list members). Public release date is June 9th.

Downloads will presumably cripple the internet (ha) when the purchase links go live... both on May 12th and AGAIN on June 9th when the entire row of DNS sameservers will explode as the world attempts to simultaneously go to the release page. Dream a little dream with me.

BONUS!  If you purchase it and let me know here i'll send you some stuff -- mysterious, awesome stuff.