Ian Dixon: Music

Music in 5.1 DTS surround sound

Fri, 25 May 2007 09:13:53 GMT

As readers may know last year I bought a Denon AV receiver and it's connected to my Xbox 360 via optical cable and matched with Mission speakers . I love watching movies in 5.1 surround sound and also live music concerts are great too. But recently I got the new remastered and 5.1 mixed Genesis box set and listened to A Trick Of the Tail in 5.1 DTS (at 96k) and it sounds fantastic. I have listened to the original version of this album many times but listening to it in 5.1 is amazing. You can hear sounds that you never really noticed before and it's an truly amazing experience, the Mellotron strings on "Dance on a volcano" sound out of this world.

The Xbox 360 makes a great player too, I am totally in love with the music again!

Technorati tags: Music, Genesis, DTS, XBox 360

Got my Genesis tickets!!

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:51:36 GMT

See you at Old Trafford July 7th 2007, front block for the Genesis Reunion.

I have been a fan of Genesis since I was 14 back in the 80's and for some reason never got round to see them live, but this time I have.

Tony Banks (keyboards) is one of the most underrated song writers in the world.

Genesis Reforming, with picture!

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:18:58 GMT

Ok not Media Center news, but i have to blog this. Tomorrow (Tuesday 12pm GMT) Genesis will announce some kind of new tour for 2007.

Genesis are one of my all time favorite bands and Tony Banks (keyboards) is one of my music hero's, ok the pop of the late 80's may not be in vogue any more but the quality of the song writing and play is fantastic. Check some of the prog rock from the late 70's and early 80's.

Duke (1980) is my favorite (well if you take Misunderstanding off it)

And here is a new picture of then rehearsing, probably for the first time in 14 years!

Producing a CD

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:49:01 GMT

Now I finished my CD I was thinking on how to sell and distribute it. I know I am not going to sell many (if any) but its something I have always wanted to do. I know Cafe Press do CD distribution and they have the kind of model I want (ie no minimum quantity) but is there a better service around, is there a UK based one?

Any ideas?

If you want to download some tracks for free go to

http://iandixon.co.uk/nuke/NewCD/tabid/137/Default.aspx

Want to name a track?

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:39:03 GMT

As I said in my other post I still have some tracks that need naming for my album.

How about a name for this track?

Either leave a comment or send via email (isdixon at gmail dot com)

Finished My Album - Now what?

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:26:49 GMT

So on and off over the last 4 years (and an intensive last 3 months) I have been working on an album of original music. Now that I have finally finished it the question is what to do with it.

Do I setup a myspace account and put out the songs there or as I host my own web site (iandixon.co.uk) do I setup streaming from there?

I would like to sell a couple of CD's just so I can say I have done that.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I still need to name a few of the tracks so any help on that would be good :)

So to give you an idea of what I have recorded have a listen:

Over and Over (it has a very long into, but does feature some vocals)
The End (properly the last track on the album)
Milestone (the first track, I wrote 4 years ago)

More details on the equipment used and how I record soon, and if you have a listen thanks!

Picture of my keyboard setup

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:45:10 GMT

As I have said on the Media Center Show before I am working on a new CD of music and have been playing the music on end of each show.

So I thought I would post a picture on my keyboard setup including the vintage 80's Yamaha DX100 (they keytar style one)

Vote for my music

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:18:04 GMT

Over on Karma-Labs forums (the forums for the Korg Karm Synth owners) they have a competition for music created with the Karma Synth. I have entered my song "Milestone" in the Karma Only category and currently the song is in 2nd place in the first round.

I have played Milestone on the Media Center show a few times, so if your a member of the forums vote for my song

Click here for the forums and vote page

You can download or listen to Milestone HERE

Excellent gig last night

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:08:51 GMT

I went to a great gig last nigh, I saw Paul Carrock at the Lowery Centre in Manchester.

Paul is a fantastic musician, playing guitar, piano and a mean Hammond Organ.

When you tell people your going to see him they always say who?

Paul has written and recorded some classic songs, such as "How Long" , "Tempted", "The Living Years" and "Over my shoulder" (with Ace,Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics)

I great night out, I love seeing live music

RSS feed for my Music

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:14:54 GMT

I have set up an RSS feed complete with enclosure support for publishing some of my music.

My plan is to put out a track each week, if I have stuff to put out.

The RSS feed is http://iandixon.co.uk/nuke/DesktopModules/NukeSyndicate/rss.aspx?tabId=80&mid=426

So using your podcatcher software you can have the tracks delivered automatically.

If you don't have a podcatcher and you are using Windows Media Center you could use my RSS reader "mNewsCenter" you will be able to listen to the tracks directly from Media Center.

Please let me know what you think.

To click it off I have put out "Water Fall" (the long version)

Chill Out to my latest Track

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:25:41 GMT

I have just uploaded a track I recorded yesterday

It's called "Water fall" it's very chilled out, ideal for a Sunday Morning

Listen to it here and more of my music is here

More of my music

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:26:32 GMT

Seeing as someone listened to my music I posted the other day (thanks Garry!) I thought I would post a link to some other music I have done

http://iandixon.co.uk/nuke/Music/tabid/80/Default.aspx

Have a listen, there is some old stuff and some new stuff on there.

If you like any and want to using any of it for Podcasts etc feel free just let me know

New Music

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:59:37 GMT

I was playing around on my keyboards over the weekend (Korg Karma) and record some new music.

I came up with a fantastic distorted atmospheric guitar sound, shame I didn't have time to record it, but I did get chance to record a mellow track I have called September Morning for want of a better title.

So relax sit back and have a listen to this ,please let me know what you think.

I hope to get back in to writing and recording some more music soon and I will get round to recording that guitar sound

Download September Morning here

Goodbye Bob Moog

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:07:48 GMT

Sad to say, one of the greatest inventors of music instruments Bob Moog has died yesterday.

Bob was the inventor of the Moog synthesizer that changed the face of music. Listen to some of Jan Hammer's 70's music to hear a Moog sing.

Via Engadget

New Music Downloads

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:25:38 GMT

I thought I would post some some new music I have written.

All 3 tracks are writen on my Korg Karma workstation with some help from my Korg MS2000.

I going to get back in to doing some more writting so I will post some more music when I have some.

Please have a listen and leave a comment

Track 1 - Milestone. A Vocoda,Guitar,drums and Mellotron workout
Track 2 - Wedding Day. A mellow track writen for a wedding video
Track 3 - Walk to Far. CP70 Piano and Mellotron

I have added the Video for Wedding day here

Other tracks I have done can be found here and here

My Music

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:42:08 GMT

I have a site with some music I have writen and recorded over the last few years

listen here: http://www.geocities.com/dixonsmusic/

Please have a listen and tell me what you think