Mixcloud account deleted is Soundcloud's gain...

Dear all

A belated new year to you all. Hope everyone is keeping well.

Apologies for the extended silence but I have finally managed to move house and we are looking to extend to help with the production of future music. That's the plan though, things don't always happen that way (not in this family anyway). All things hopeful, we should be able to breathe a bit more in the next few months when it all gets done. We will see.

MIXCLOUD vs SOUNDCLOUD
I have now shut down the Mixcloud site as they were putting pressure on me for populating it with "real music" and not rubbish podcasts which they told me was it's sole use. Well, it's their loss, as I am now starting to populate Soundcloud (BUT no cover versions will be allowed there, which is a shame). If you have any requests for songs etc to be loaded up, do please contact me and I will do whatever I can.

What I am most upset by is that I have lost the connection that I had grown with people over on the old Mixcloud site, and have to seemingly start all over again. It's so galling and just another of the industry's knock at any attempts I make. Let's see if we can regain any of this in the near future. I am close to giving it all up though, I hate most of the new muzak that I hear, yet get knock-downs like this. It's quite depressing.

That all said, I have some projects that I would like to see through at the very least; one is the 40 (or even 50) year retrospective set of a selection of all the things I have produced over the years. Add to this the Krisp double CD set that was mastered by me some three years ago that is still needing "finishing". I need to find all the art that is needed for its cover, it will include some rarities from rehearsals as well as the last ever Krisp gig at Chiswick House near Hammersmith.

So.. this one makes it THREE : the final recordings big project that has never got fully started. I have had several faltering attempts at it over recent years; whether I revisit those recordings to be included needs to be thought about hard. There are a couple of brand new items that I would like to use, it would be sad to put them in the bin to be totally discarded (especially having written new pieces of music the first time in decades), but it needs some heart and soul searching first. There are some further re-recordings of old material waiting to be revisited too.

So, all in all, a new year of some variation. Things ahead should be interesting, if I don't allow the knocks of the Mixcloud issue to effect me too badly.

DO please visit and folllow what occurs over at https://soundcloud.com/steve-good-7 if you can.

All the very best for a fabulous 2015.

Steve
Even Newer-Port
25 Jan 2015

In the charts on Mixcloud!

Hi all

Just a quick message to say that an old cover version of mine (Don't Cry For Me Argentina) is currently riding high in the Mixcloud Instrumental charts. A link to it is here:

http://www.mixcloud.com/upload/stevegood121/dont-cry-for-me-argentina-a-lloyd-webber/edit/

Sadly this cannot stay up there for too much longer, I will need to withdraw it in the next few days, so DO try and listen in and make it go higher if you can!

Steve, 1 Aug 2014

Hopefully ... a new retrospective

There are plans afoot to put together a "career long" multiple CD set covering the forty years that I've been making my own projects at home - and indeed FIFTY years at the music game itself. This is ahead of the huge big last project that is still on the chocks but slow in getting off the ground - hopefully more will occur if and when the studio gets its final "relocation" (and hopefully there'll be more on that too soon).
AND more on this retrospective project soon too. If anyone's interested in knowing more, let me know (else maybe I'll just forget about it....but it would be a "nice icing on the career long effort cake" if it happened and made some more money for local charities).

Steve, 2 July 2014

Belated Happy New Year all

Hi all

It's been a terrible start to the new year here, with lots of personal issues and stuff that's taken its toll on things I'm afraid. Needless to say all work on the new project has stopped even before it got past the planning stage. Bear with me on this and I hope to try and get into a position to work on it as soon as things settle, whenever that might be.

In the meantime, I have a few "burns" left for the old "Lest We Forget" CD (ie in the legal contract that I am allowed to produce for the project), these have to be done by the end of April, so if anyone would still like a copy please let me know and I'll get on the case. As a little "thank you" for the project I am contemplating adding a few out-take and pre-mix versions to these extra CDs, so they'll be ever so slightly more collectible.

Also, I am thinking of remastering the previously well received "One More Gesture" album, so again let me know if you'd like a copy.

As ever, all profits will go to charity.

Hope you're all having a good start to 2014... or at least a better one than the one currently occurring here.

Very best wishes for a great spring and summer ahead.

Steve, 10 March 2014

Quiet Time .. until the next project

It has been a bit of "down time" here after the furore of finishing the CD project, and I believe we had quite a little success with what we all achieved, thank you all so VERY much for your commitment to the cause.  

We suffered a little trauma here at home during the late summer (a burst water main pipe under the house) which resulted in much of the contents of the old house being moved about quite a lot, and much of the music gear (and CDs, DVDs etc) being all boxed up... but they will stay that way until we finally move in 2014 (it will happen next year, we have promised ourselves... so put us in your prayers please to make certain that it does... if you're able).

All that said, the offshoot of all the boxing up of stuff here is that I have made a space inbetween all of the boxes to eventually house the digital recorder, and it WILL come out before too long and work will tentatively start on the next (and final) big project! 

In the meantime I have just compiled a little CD of tracks that I found lingering on some old DCC tapes; they are mostly sequence mixes and ISM synch tracks and other non-final mixes of material that I recorded and sequenced back in 1995 - if anyone wants a copy, just let me know (some of it is interesting, if only to see where I was heading when I finished some earlier pieces!).

Anyway, that's enough for now. Hope this late November day sees you all keeping well. Keep the faith all.

Steve
28 November 2013

Final figure now in...

The final cheques and cash have now landed, so the definitive figure can now be published.

Taking into account all outlays, we managed between us to raise an incredible £317 clear, to go towards the two charities (DEC and Cancer Research UK). I intend to put £155 to each, and the extra £7 to another similar charity when I find a good collection box when I next visit town.

Thank you SO very much everyone, you are all heroes in my book.

Here's to the next project (in a couple of years time).

Steve, 4 Oct 2013

Job done!

Thank you to everyone who donated to the charity CD EP project.  The final batch has been despatched so I hope you've all got your copy by now and like it. It is a true rarity as it will not be made available in physical form again. That said, I am contemplating auctioning a final copy that will have a few bonus tracks and will be signed and dedicated, but that is maybe something for a couple of weeks ahead.

The amounts raised will be posted here when I have gathered in the monies from various locations. Thank you SO very much for your kind donations. 

Steve, 4 Sept