Workbench Music

Zoo & Satellite are now both available as podcasts (iTunes). Satellite turns ten this year, and is now free.

Detour, Antistatic & Dream of Silence can also be purchased via the iTunes Music Store. The cost of albums on the IMS is fixed at $9.99, so to be fair to everyone I have adjusted the cost of albums in the local shop to match iTunes. I would have preferred to sell for $7.99 on the IMS, but $9.99 is still a very fair price for over 70 minutes of music, considering that most albums are under 60 minutes. And the free stuff isn’t going away either — more on that soon.

Welcome to the flip side of version 4.0. I sincerely apologize for the downtime—I tried to keep it as short as possible.

The purpose of this facelift was to (1) bring the design up to date, and (2) address some issues with the inner workings of workbenchmusic.com. I was never happy with version 4’s news & feedback system. It did the job, but it wasn’t flexible. Another quirk of version 4 was how vertically challenged it was, and that will no longer be an issue.

On the music side, also new is a very, very short preview of my current project. You’ll find it here. Keep in mind that I’ve only been working on this for the past couple months—it’s pretty fresh and likely to change before release.

This next album will have a different sound, and I thought it’d be fun to share some early stuff with you (It should also answer the “are you working on a new album” question).

Many of you have taken a few minutes to leave a note on this website and others, or simply to write in with comments. Feedback for Zoo has been overwhelmingly positive and is a powerful source of inspiration and motivation for the future: thank you!

On another note, Zoo was just re-released as part of the Kahvi Collective (release #203). You can check it out by clicking this link.

The Kahvi catalogue is quite large, but a few gems stand out from the rest—if you haven’t heard of esem, badloop, recue, url, introspective, mosaik or slem, to name just a few, look them up on Kahvi—you won’t regret it.

You can download the entire thing from… the album page. Online only for now, but a CD version should appear before the end of the year.
I also have a lot of left over material that is either unfinished or just doesn’t fit the album—so I’ll try to tie-up those loose ends before I move on to the next one. And I’m going to take a break, too.

I hope you’ll enjoy this album. Don’t be afraid to let me know!