I thought this video was pretty sweet, check it out.

I want to drown in an ocean of music. I want to make my mind numb, and be in the music, be the music. I want to be absorbed by the music.

I want to drown in the music.

I am not trying to mislead you with that news title.

Since I'm one of those audio fags, I'd like to advertise the audio chat room.
Many people have a hard time connecting to IRC, so I made it nice and simple.

Just go to this url:
http://michhimself.com/ngachat/ <- easy to remember, right? Might as well bookmark it.

If you want to be a nice person, you can click the ads below the chat, to help sponsor the hosting costs.

For those with a client, the info is:

Server: irc.quakenet.org
Channel: #newgrounds_audio

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Maybe not many of you know, but there's been an IRC room for Newgrounds for years. You can all go chat there, but maybe a lot of you don't, simply because connecting to an IRC server is difficult or whatnot.

Anyway, for those people, I made this, to easily connect to the Newgrounds.com chatroom.

http://michhimself.com/ngchat/ <- a pretty easy to remember URL if I may say so. On there everything explains itself. If you want to be friendly, you can click the ads below the chat, to sponsor my webhosting costs.

If you want to connect with an IRC client, use this info:
Server: irc.webchat.org
channel: #newgrounds.com (with or without the '#' depending on your client.)
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See you there!

Welcome to Mich's guide to Newgrounds Audio!

This is a project I've been working on for a while, in order to create a structured guide to the audio sections of Newgrounds. It's divided in 6 articles.

[1] New to the whole audio thing
A Brief guide to get people who are new to audio started in creating their own pieces.

[2] Getting your music on Newgrounds
An article that tells you all you need to know in order to get your music on the audio portal.

[3] Rule clarifications
A guide that hopefully answers all your questions concerning the rules for submitting audio to Newgrounds.

[4] The Audio Portal itself
An article that explains what you see on the Audio portal page, and how it works.

[5] Exposure and improving
Tips on how to get exposure for your audio work. Explanation of the zerovoting problem. Tips on reviewing, and improving your music.

[6] The Audio Forum
An overview of the important threads in the Audio forum.

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And that's that. I hope the articles can help out people. Thanks go out to loansindi, Sinerider and Knoxius (Thomas) (for proofreading), to all the people who made the threads I linked to, to Newgrounds, for existing, and giving us a place to upload our music, socialize, learn new things, and so forth.

Also, I would like to link to TMM43's 'The NG Audio Portal table of contents' - He did a terrific job indexing a crapload of helpful link. If you need to find anything audio related on Newgrounds, just browse through his library, and you'll find it in no time!

I think that is all. Comments on the overall guide go here, comments on the particular articles go in the comment section of those. Thanks for your time!

And I'm not sure if you can still make front-page newsposts after the change so yeah.

I'm going to request to change it from MICHhimself to just plain 'Mich'.

Yes, I do realize that's taken. The account is completely inactive though; so I assume that shouldn't be a problem.

Anyway, this is just to let people know that I'm not gone, but that I simple had a name change if you can't find me anymore.

Now let's pm Tom...

EDIT: Namechange done as you can see.

So yeah, my old post was getting... pretty old.

I'm going to feature a recently released song (as long as there's a HQ youtube video available) on here, and pick a new one every once in a while.

Sunday 20 September 2009 :

Veselin Tasev - After Sunset 2009 (Arctic Moon Remix)

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Previously featured videos:

Wednesday 2 Sept. 2009 : Bobina - Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten's touch mix)

Yes, as you can see, I changed my aura from 'Light' to 'Neutral'.

Not because I think it looks better, but because I'm changing my voting behaviour. I will now just vote what I think your submission is worth. Not a five because I like who you are. Not a 0 because I don't like who you are. (which I wouldn't do anyway, that's idiotic.)

From now on, I'm just voting honest. And I'm sorry if that's not a five. I'm just sick of people begging for fives. So next time you do, think twice, because I vote what *I* think it's worth, not what you think.

I'll make an exception for this when I think the score is horribly low when it's actually a good submission. Questions?

note: I mainly vote on audio

EDIT: changed the aura itself back to light, because people recognize me easier on the forums that way. My voting behaviour stays changed though.

I finally got around taking some time to assemble my own computer (choosing all the parts myself, and putting the whole thing together.

I made a list of components fro the beast, and now started getting all the pieces. The biggest deal will be purchased in a while, but I just want to make a little newspost and post updates about the 'project'.

The system will be running windows XP professional, which uses far less system resources than Windows xp. This so I can get the max out of the computer for my music production.

Anyway, here goes the component list + statuses.

Computer Case : Mad X Black + 550W Power supply -> Bought, put aside for when I've got everything. PIC

Motherboard: ASUS P5QL PRO -> Not ordered yet.

Processor: Intel core i7-920 -> Not ordered yet.

Memory: 3x Kingston Valueram memory 2GB (DDR2) => 6GB total -> Not ordered yet.

Storage: HDD/Cuda 7200.11 320GB SATA -> Not ordered yet.

CD/DVD : Asus DVD Rw 22x Dual layer (IDE) -> Not ordered yet.

Graphics: ASUS EN8400GS -> Not ordered yet.

CPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper TX2 -> Not ordered yet.

Mouse: Logitech MX400 -> Not ordered yet.

Keyboard: Logitech Wave Keyboard: Bought, typing this with it now.

All those things that say 'Not ordered yet' will probably be ordered at once, somewhere during the next few weeks/months. See how things turn out.

4 hours worth of pure Trance!

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f92 200dd3c13f1cbd5a101cf914073b486e345e6f 1ebaae5

It's divided in rar parts, because Mediafire only allows 100MB per file, and it was being annoying earlier, so I lowered the filesize per part... so more parts.

Download all the parts and then open op part01 using winrar or something similar.

This was made for some DDR thing for someone, and needed to be all at 140BPM. That's why some songs sound a bit sped up, as they are.

Technical data:
File Type: mp3
Bitrate: 160 kbps
Length: 3 hours, 58 minutes, 49 seconds
Total file size: 273 MB

Playlist:

Alice Deejay - Better Off alone
Simon Patterson - We'll see
Above & Beyone - Home (Club mix)
Armin Van Buuren - Intriacy
Paul Van Dyk feat. Lo-fi Sugar - Castaway
Ferry Corsten - Radio Crash
Tomena - Moonlight Sonata
Wavetraxx - Stay (Spacewalker mix)
Armin Van Buuren - Communication 3
Nitrous Oxide Vs Cell X - 414
Plastic Boy - Rise Up
Simon Patterson - Whatever it takes
Human Interface (DJBrixX and Kazm0)- Arctic Bliss
Karco - Contrast
Mike Michol - Durado
Stoneface & Terminal - Endorphine
Ben Gold - Life
Arctic Moon & Truewave - On Silver Wings
Ben Gold feat. Senadee - Say The words (Johan Exman Remix)
SQ - The Message
Talla And Ace - Redrum O.T.D. (Club Mix)
Nitrous Oxide - Accelerate
Beta-Blocker - Still Searching For Myself
Jonathan Allyn - Luminate
Ronski Speed - All The Wave
Dereck Recay - Dream Way (Arctic Moon Remix)
The Green Point - The Power Of Love
Manuel Le Saux - Forgive
Markus Schulz Feat Departure - Cause You Know (M.I.K.E.'s Progressive Remix)
Trance Commando - Phunkless Existance
Sterilis - Lost
Artix Vs. Glacial Storm - Angel's Touch
Mrmilkcarton - -One Wish-
Ferry Corsten - Sublime
Armin Van Buuren feat Audrey Gallagher - Hold On To Me
Sam Sharp - Roundabout (Simon Patterson Remix)
Johan Ekman - Future vision
Radience Side - Awakening (Nick Rowland Club Mix)
Future Disciple - The Protector
The Gift - Blue Lights