And a happy Year of the Dragon! We’re enjoying the break and trying our best not to think of being back at work on Monday. I’ve managed to put in some uninterrupted hours’ work on Suncake Lounge Vol.2 – or at least as uninterrupted as it gets with a 4 month old boy in the house. Chris and I are planning to track drums for this project on the weekend.

Enjoy Live Online #137: Dragon

Playlist: (1)Kook (2)Niven (3)Ladybug (4)Obelus (5)Lovecraft (6)Outbound (7)Niko (8)Reels

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on January 26th, 2012.

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Happy New Year to you! Somewhat belated, but still. How’s 2012 been treating you so far? Here’s to a year in which all good things are possible.

Enjoy Live Online #136: Possibilities

Playlist: (1)Angola (2)Benin (3)Taffeta (4)Stalwart (5)Macaronic (6)Latency (7)Elwood (8)Jag

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on January 11th, 2012.

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Here we go, the last installment of the MLO Podcast for 2011. How was your year?

It’s been pretty good this side. I released Groove Suite, and just a couple of weeks ago What Comes Around. Further East saw re-release on CD in Russia. And my soundtrack for the NatGeo production finally aired here in Taiwan.

I mentioned more than 20,000 listening hours on play.fm last week, so I thought I’d see how moshang.net did. According to awstats provided by my host, this website served up roughly 1630GB worth of mp3′s this year. Calculated at 1MB/minute that makes for another 27,000 listening hours.

As satisfying as it is to know that somewhere someone is listening to my tunes, I have a much better reason to celebrate 2011 – the birth of my son, Louis, in September. Can you tell a proud father?

Thanks so much for your support over the year. I love to hear from you, so do give me the occasional shout – I very rarely bite!

Enjoy Live Online #135: Forest

Playlist: (1)Xavier (2)Yano (3)Zindell (4)Taine (5)Quinn (6)Orwell (7)Murk (8)Janifer

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on December 28th, 2011.

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Somewhere in the last month this podcast passed more than 20,000 listening hours over on play.fm. Granted, it’s spread out over 134 episodes, but still I’m pleased and more than a little flattered that people are listening.

I may have to slow down the pace a little bit in the new year and there may not be a new podcast every week – I’m pretty sure quality wins out over quantity and I’d like to present only when I have something new to show. I’ll also be rethinking the membership strategy soon – it’s one of those things that looks good in theory, but in my case falls flat in practice. Try stuff out, but only keep what works…

Enjoy Live Online #134: Festival

Playlist: (1)Caelum (2)Garland (3)Agraffe (4)Bootes (5)Haiku (6)Indus (7)Lovecraft (8)Knight

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on December 22nd, 2011.

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I have just released a new full-length album called What Comes Around. This time not on available on iTunes or one of the other music download stores, but instead it’s available on the Android Market. See, it exists only as an App and it remixes itself on every listen. Listeners also have the option of  turning on the microphone and letting the app mix in environmental sounds. Have a listen to the free version doing its thing below.

What Comes Around [Free] – First Iteration by MoShang

Get the 5-song free version from the Market here, and the 14-song full version here. Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome!

Here’s a video of What Comes Around doing its thing on a walk in the park.

I’ve managed to thank two of them in person on this forum, but again a huge thanks to the creators of the free software that makes this album possible, Miller Puckette (Pure Data), Peter Brinkmann (libpd), and Chris McCormick (PdDroidParty). I’ve left details of my process on this forum (towards the bottom of the page).

Hey,hey! I managed to assemble my Shruthi-1! It may have taken two days and two soldering irons, but everything’s working as it should – and importantly it’s sounding lovely.

You can hear the Shruthi-1 all over the first half of this week’s set, albeit in a supporting role. It’s not that the Shruthi-1 isn’t perfectly capable of holding its own, it’s just not the right place for it here.

To make up for the missed week last week and since it’s almost Christmas, I’m making the complete show available for free download this week. Enjoy! Premium members get the show in 256kbps.

Enjoy Live Online #133: Dialog

Playlist: (1)Turtledove (2)Vonnegut (3)Utley (4)Wyndham (5)Latency (6)Larkin (7)Kai (8)Jamal

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on December 7th, 2011.

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The postman just delivered my Shruthi-1 kit – I’m very excited!

Enjoy Live Online #132: Kite

Playlist: (1)Winter (2)Delany (3)Earpiece (4)Primer (5)Siamese (6)Reboant (7)Clarke (8)Klimt

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on November 23rd, 2011.

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I’ve ordered myself a little boutique synthesizer kit from France called the Shruthi-1. I think it’ll play along nicely with my Doepfer Dark Energy. I’m hoping to play my windcontroller through it, provided I don’t bork the assembly. Now that I’m starting to get a handle on programming sound in Pd, it’ll be fun to get a little insight into the hardware side of things, too. Better start warming up the soldering iron!

Enjoy Live Online #131: Patience

Playlist: (1)Taffeta (2)Yantra (3)Murk (4)Schism (5)Kali (6)Qabala (7)Jive (8)Volatile

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on November 16th, 2011.

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Over the weekend, I started to get familiar with Pure Data, a free programming language for music and visuals. I was first introduced to Pd by Lee Chun in 2008, but I couldn’t wrap my head around it at the time. I’ve since discovered awesome tutorials for Pd on YouTube (the ones by Dr. Rafael Hernandez are especially great) and it’s really helped to demystify Pd for me. Watch this space!

Enjoy Live Online #130: Data

Playlist: (1)Mieville (2)Quillan (3)Kafka (4)Rafael (5)Lovecraft (6)Niko (7)Chastity (8)Knight

This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on November 9th, 2011.

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