And so to the traditional half-monthly babble about all things DG related. What’s happening, what’s not happening, what we’re trying to make happen, what’s still not happening, and so and so on.

Firstly thanks again to everyone who has downloaded DG5 since it came out a couple of Sunday’s ago & for all the positive feedback. It’s not going anywhere fast & you can still download it from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e7bd6c08e4cf772fd5a101cf914073b4d2181f8e396ef6b2

Because of it’s larger than normal size (and audio quality) it’s split into 6 manageable parts which in turn can be burned onto 3 lovable discs. So if you’ve not gotten round to downloading it, you still can – pick a disc at random (they’re all great) and take it from there. If you dig it, come back and dig it some more. There is plenty of new music for you to find, and music may not make the world go round, but it allows it to revolve in a much smoother way. Or something. Oh fuck it. Just download the fucking discs will ya!?

Actually DG5 is not quite finished yet – next couple of days I promise I will shake myself out of the post-comp stupor and get to tidying up everything that needs tidied : the links that are broken on the site, the names that are spelled wrong on the discs and the cover, the fact that 1 of the 3 discs is unmastered and the 3rd is about 80% levelled out (that may take some Herculean willpower to go back and do it all again but it’s for the good of the cause, right?), the cover at the proper size unpixelated will be made available so as you can print it off and your grandchildren will at least know what the fuck it is they’re listening to many years from now (assuming they’ve not all gone back to vinyl, or invented some other kind of crazy device), then there’s the small matter of the remaining Singles to get posted on the site along with reviews and links and lovely pictures that probably need resizing and squaring and… ah.

I’m exhausted just thinking about it.

So in the midst of all that weirdness & so much needing done, I probably picked an inopportune moment to finally get the DG Forum/Army up and running here:

http://daydreamgeneration.freeforums.org

you can have a look for yourself and see what you think. Help out if you can, ignore it if you want, but just be aware that it’s there and over the following months it’s likely to be the place where ideas get generated & discussed, projects develop, new bands are discovered and so and so on. The main site is here to stay along with this stuff, reviews, news, interviews etc. but over at the Forum you can have your say, you can help guide the ship and take it where you want to go. It may on the surface seem like a dictatorship, but too many hands on the wheel make for nasty accidents – I’ll steer, you give directions and enjoy the ride. That make sense?

As you’ll also be able to see it’s a slow start. It takes a while I guess to build an army & it doesn’t happen in 3 nights, much as I’d like it to. So I’ll keep my chin up & you post something – yes? OK. ;)

And that comrades thank fuck is that.

Oh shit! Actually it’s not quite it. There’s the small matter of this year’s Dreamstream 08 to discuss. Aiming for early November again, I thought it might be an idea to stream a series of pre-recorded podcasts on the day from all over the world, playing songs from the DG projects, from your friends, new stuff, old stuff, just as long as it’s mainly undiscovered stuff. So can anyone out there contribute? And what do you think of that idea?

p.s I’m sure this will be getting discussed at more length on the Forum so if you’re interested then that’s probably where you should head.

AND THAT IS MOST DEFINITELY THAT!

Ha.

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