Free download of the new Del album

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Download Del’s 7th album, Funk Man, here for free.

From Wikipedia:

“On March 31, 2009 Del’s new album Funk Man was made available for free download on the internet for one day only. The album will be released in stores on April 7th, 2009.”

Better hurry if that’s the case! Grab the Leak Packs while you’re there too.

There are tons of other artists on that site too, most of whom I didn’t recognize.

April 2009 Releases

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of April that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s under the following Tuesday.

April 07, 2009

Blu-ray

• Above the Law [1988]
• American History X [1998]
• John Q [2002]
• No Country for Old Men: Collector’s Edition [2007]
• Tango & Cash [1989]
• The Wedding Singer [1998]

CDs

• Mobb Deep – The Safe is Cracked

PS3

• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena – profile
• The Godfather II – profile

April 14, 2009

Blu-ray

• Rounders: 10th Anniversary Edition [1998]
• Strange Wilderness [2008]
• Universal Soldier: The Return [1999]

CDs

• Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
  
• Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture Instrumentals

Nintendo DS

• Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled – profile
• C.O.R.E. – profile
• The Dark Spire – profile

PS3

• Flock – profile
• Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic – profile

April 21, 2009

Blu-ray

• Blu-ray Cult Classic Bundle - Amazon.com exclusive
  • Edward Scissorhands [1990]
    
  • Donnie Darko [2001]
    
  • The Boondock Saints [1999]
• Hellraiser [1987]
• Sin City: Unrated, Recut & Extended [2005]
• X-Men [2000]
• X-Men Trilogy
  • X-Men [2000]
  • X2: X-Men United [2003]
  • X3: The Last Stand [2006]
• X2: X-Men United [2003]
• X3: The Last Stand [2006]

CDs

• Abstract Rude – Rejuvenation
• Bicasso – Rebel Musiq EP
• Black Label Society – Skullage CD/DVD compilation
• Chimaira – The Infection
  
• Daath – The Concealers
  • I preordered mine here for $14 after shipping. Supposed to be autographed. We’ll see.
  • 04/20: Yep, autographed and arrived early. It fucking rocks. Fuck yeah!
• The Grouch & Eligh – Say G&E!
• Jane’s Addiction – A Cabinet of Curiosities b-sides collection
• Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
  
• Mr. Lif – I Heard It Today
• Seventh Void (Kenny Hickey & Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative; Matt Brown of Uranium 235, Supermassiv; and Hank Hell of Inhuman)- Heaven is Gone
  

Nintendo DS

• 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix – profile

PS3

• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 – profile

April 28, 2009

Blu-ray

• The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut [2006]
• JCVD [2008]

CDs

• Heaven and Hell (Dio Sabbath)- The Devil You Know
• Method Man & Redman – Blackout 2
• Tech N9ne – Sickology 101
  

Nintendo DS

• Elite Forces: Unit 77 – profile
• Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier – profile

PureText

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I’m always having to paste copied text into Textpad (Notepad works too) and then copy it again so I don’t get all the formatting of the original text (tables, style, etc.) especially when I’m writing Posts for this blog. I was going to download a Firefox Add-on to either 1) force plain-text copy or 2) paste with no formatting. However, I came across this handy little app called PureText that sits in your tray and lets you paste plain-text with a configurable hotkey combination (default is Windows Key + V, which works for me). I’m using it on Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit; I know, I know, this laptop only has 2GB of memory…) with no problems so far.

More info and download link can be found here.

Akai MPK49 firmware update

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Yesterday Akai released firmware v1.05 for the MPK49. From the release notes:

New Features / Changes:

1. Added the ability to save PAD THRESHOLD, MIDI CLOCK, TAP AVG with SAVE GLOBALS
2. Fixed issue where ports would not show correctly on Mac OS 10.5.6
3. Fixed issue where assignable switches could not send program changes above 32.

Download can be found here.

If you’re using Reason, which is pure bliss with the MPK49 when it’s set up right, make sure you have the latest Reason Remote Files (available on that same page). I had an issue with Pitch Bend where after using the Pitch Bend Wheel on the MPK49 and letting it return to center, Reason would leave it fully ‘up’. I’m using Reason 4.01 and don’t know if the problem applies to earlier versions.