C64 bleep, Lifeform torrent, Gama fun?

Ahead of whatever weekly review gubbins I may or may not get to, let's try a little update on random music label, BitTorrent, and website fun I've been getting up to.

Firstly, a new release on our net.label Monotonik today. We've been releasing electronic music on Mono for over 8 years now, and even though my work schedule is reasonably packed, it's wonderful to come home at a weekend and put out something new for free on MP3, in this case, Aleksi Eeben's 'The White Box'. Aleksi 'Heatbeat' Eeben was simply a legend on the Amiga demo scene in the early '90s, making some amazingly groundbreaking .MOD music files, and this compilation of his recent Commodore 64 .SID tracks shows his abstract, wonderfully bleepy stylings. Plus, there's a great bonus track, featuring the equally legendary Juha 'Dizzy' Kujanpaa doing a jazzy real-instrument mix of an Eeben tune.

Secondly, LegalTorrents, the legal BitTorrent site I founded about a year back, is only getting more popular. It's been featured on NPR and Reuters, and I was recently interviewed for Wired Magazine about it - we've done 14.65 terabytes of Creative Commons-licensed content since we've started - I think that's over 2 million songs from the music section alone, by some very amateurish calculations. Anyhow, the latest compilation is the Lifeform Project Archives Vol.1, the first 8 releases from the great Atlanta-based electronica netlabel - worth checking out for the phenomenal Inceptdate mini-album, and, come to that, all the others.

Finally, my dayjob on Gamasutra at the CMP Game Group is still going wonderfully. For the last couple of weeks, we've managed to put up a feature every weekday (up from three per week normally), as well as our requisite 30-ish news stories per week. Since I'm going to be helping out in other departments at work (more on that soon), we'll probably drop down the features speed a little as we track toward Christmas. But it's all about quality, not necessarily quantity - our UK news guy, David Jenkins (now the Teletext games correspondent, as well as an Edge contributor!), is doing some great analytical news, as is a fresh freelance face, Nich Maragos (formerly of 1UP). So... yay, basically.