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About foreversonic

Musician, programmer, web developer and SEGA and Sonic fanatic. Jack of most trades but master of none.

Space Harrier Jazz

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About a month ago, I opened Garageband on my Mac and started experimenting with sounds. This led to me recording a twelve bar blues accompaniment with a swinging style baseline. From here I thought, “Hang on, that sounds familar. Why not try it with Space Harrier”; and so Space Harrier Jazz was born!

“So, why are you telling us about this now and not a month ago?”, I hear you ask.

Well, as I normally do with recordings and remixes, I have an idea and then upload it to SoundCloud as a “Work in Progress” track. This unfinished track caught the attention of SEGA Nerds as my SoundCloud feed is linked up to twitter and facebook. You can read the article by heading over to:

http://www.seganerds.com/2013/04/07/fan-stuff-chill-out-with-some-space-harrier-jazz/

As a way of saying thank you to them for promoting my music, I decided to allow them to have the initial exclusive on the track (although it was available from SoundCloud), before I posted about it here.

Sonic Fan Music Festival 2013

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Following the success of the Sonic Fan Music Festival last year, Sonic Radio in collaboration with Sonic Wrecks, RadioSEGA and SegaSonic Radio will be hosting another event this year featuring 12 hours of music from 8 DJs within the SEGA and Sonic community.

Taking place on the blue blur’s birthday itself, June 23rd, look out for the return of the top 20 countdown of which you can nominate and vote on the most popular remixes of this year.

Voting for the Police Commissioner

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So, delivered through the door the other day, came three white voting cards in relation to the new Police Commissioner for our area.

I have absolutely no idea who these people are relying on my vote. I have no idea how many people are standing for election or where they come from,  what their values are or what they plan to do that our current police force fail to pay attention to.

Every day I see cyclists riding on the footpath with no lights on or any care for the pedestrians they crash into.

What are these people going to do about the cyclists that fail to stop at a red traffic light; cars that fail to switch their lights on when it gets dark; motor cyclists that can’t tell which way the arrow is pointing on a one way street; drivers that think that the footpath is an extension to the road; or drivers that think that driving at 35mph in a 20mph zone is OK because there’s nobody to stop them.

There are posters dotted around the streets that claim that “criminals hope that you don’t vote” but I don’t see any reason to do so. I have no idea who I’m voting for or what difference my vote will make. Chances are that whether I vote or not -  whether I vote for candidate A or B – it won’t make the blindest bit of difference.

Finally Fixed Linux Permissions Issue

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You may have noticed that this blog has been rather quiet as of late.

A while back, when configuring another part of the server, I seemed to have messed up the file and folder permissions that allowed me to post and upload things.

This has now been fixed on here and on another WordPress site that I’m hosting and so it should now be, “business as usual” :)

New Recordings

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It’s been a while since I recorded anything and in a rare spare moment, I did just that. It’s a little like double decker buses where you wait for them and then three turn up at once. In a similar feeling, here are my latest three recordings:

Canon – a Remix of the famous Canon by Pachebel

I still haven’t completed my Sonic Unplugged album, so this is a new track for that. Jungle from Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System):

Finally, another Sonic the Hedgehog track. This is the Flickies theme from Sonic 3D: Blast:

All of these tracks are open for downloading if you would like to do that!

Summer of Sonic 2012

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So, the time has come (and gone) for the annual community gathering they call, Summer of Sonic.

Normally, these events are held in London of which I normally stay in a nearby Travelodge – but this year was different. This year’s event was held in Brighton, near the south coast. My very dear friend “Page” invited me to stay with them as they are only two hours drive away.

Having mentioned that Summer of Sonic was in Brighton this year, I offered to drive another dear friend, Beth down there to see her poorly sister.

Disaster almost struck as the event venue originally planned developed an electrical fault midday and so, it was all hands on deck to clear everything down and move everything to another venue down the road. With everyone helping out where they can, disaster was averted and the day went smoothly.

For those who have seen me at other Summer of Sonic events, they will know that I usually take a musical instrument with me. Normally, I take my acoustic guitar, but I decided to do something different this year. Adam, better known as T-Bird made a comment on the Sonic Stadium Message Board for me to bring a saxophone. Now, I don’t own one of these, nor can I played it, so I decided to take something that is a similar colour – my trombone. The number of requests for Casino Night Zone, as the track was featured in Sonic Generations, was greater than the number of fingers on both hands!!

Once again, I was allowed to help out on the day. This included setting up the RadioSEGA live feed, narrowing down the finalists for the cosplay competition and packing and distributing the goody bags to attendees as they entered the building.

I would like to wish a heart-felt congratulations to the core staff and the volunteers for another successful event.

What made the day though is not what was on offer to the attendees, like the goody bags, the live show by Crush 40 and the playing of Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed, but the meeting up with familiar faces and new faces. Having spoken to people online, it’s always great to actually meet them, face to face; and it’s always fantastic to see people that you haven’t seen for a year or more.

One of the personal highlights of the day would be getting lost around Brighton trying to taxi people back to their hotels. Which way is left again? ;)