We need everyone voting for us everyday (or at least as often as you can remember). To help you remember we’ve set up a “daily reminder” email list. Sign up and get a Sinch Random Fact of the Day(TM) emailed to you every day between now and June 30!
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Thats almost 40 days of awesomely random facts that most people don’t know about Sinch! Collect ‘em all!
And you better be paying attention because there WILL be a quiz later! Everyone who aces the quiz will be eligible to get a hold of some cool Sinch stuff you can’t get anywhere else! So sign yourself up, and make sure you read (and vote!) every day!
If you’re worried about spam, don’t be… Once the voting is closed, we’ll be deleting the mailing list and we’ll never email you again. We just figured this would be a fun way to remind everyone to vote everyday.
This version of Sails originally appeared on 94.1 WYSP in Philadelphia on the Sunday night new music show “Exposed.” It was a show hosted by Spike, a guy who’s really helped us out over the years. In this case, he let us come on and pretty much take over the whole show - doing an interview, playing tracks from Clearing the Channel, and doing some acoustric tracks - to help promote the release of the album back in March 2005.
SinchCast #16 - Sails (Live at WYSP)
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Pretty random, but I thought it was worth a post. Them Nascar-ians is crazy!
From insiderracingnews.com:
“folks on Staten Island are lining up and taking sides, either for or
against the building of the new track. Those against the track are
identified by the acronym SCAT (Staten Island Citizens Against the
Track) and those for it are called SINCH. (Staten Island NASCAR Hopefuls)”
I just watched a special on this on NJN this past week. A group of students get together & create sound in a live setting using networked laptops & custom audio software called, “Chuck” (free download!). While the, “music” wound up sounding more like ambient noise most of the time (which I enjoy, but others may not), the concept behind PLOrk is what stands out. Very cool.
From the PLOrk Website:
“The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) is a newly established ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments. Each instrument consists of a laptop, a multi-channel hemispherical speaker, and a variety of control devices (keyboards, graphics tablets, sensors, etc…). The students who make up the ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers, and software developers. The challenges are many: what kinds of sounds can we create? how can we physically control these sounds? how do we compose with these sounds? There are also social questions with musical and technical ramifications: how do we organize a dozen players in this context? with a conductor? via a wireless network?”
More links:
Wired Magazine
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Guardian
We’re in another contest! Sinch is now entered into the Zippo Hot Tour 2006. There is a $100,000 prize package at stake as well as a slot on the 2006 Zippo Hot Tour with a yet-to-be-named national touring band.
Once again the first round is online voting. The difference with this contest is that you can vote ONCE A DAY! So we need everyone who’s willing to spare some time to try to remember to come back every day and vote for us!
We should mention that the website is a little confusing. You’ll have to enter your birthdate and email address and some other stuff so that they can keep track of how many votes you have. Feel free to give fake info, but make sure you use a working email address.
Once you do that, you’ll have to click on Philadelphia on the map and then scroll down to find SINCH. Next to our name there is an empty checkbox that says “NOT.” Click on that and it changes to “HOT” and then scroll down and click the “These Bands are HOT” button. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, but there’s not much we can do about it. It’s a little bit easier after the first vote, since all you need to do is put in the DOB and email you used and it will remember you.
Again, you can vote once a day in each city. Voting is open until June 30th, so remember to come back and vote as much as you can.
And if you want to help spread the word, you can copy and paste this html to post the banner on your myspace page or other website.
You can find more banners and downloadable flyers here:
http://www.zippoforbusiness.com/mediaCenter/graphics/hotTourBanners.aspx
Technically this track isn’t unreleased. It originally appeared on the album Diatribe that we released in 1998 with an extremely limited run of 500 copies. We recently found some copies that we didn’t realize we had, so we put them up for sale here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sinch2
There aren’t that many left so get it while you still can. We know a lot of people managed to find this album online, thanks to the magic of file sharing, and we have no problem with that. We’re trying to make a career out of this though, so if you’d like to help us out, buying one of these discs is a great way to do it. Also, we’ll be making the tracks available through our new DRM-free, high-quality music store which we plan on launching this month. Again, we know you can easily find this stuff elsewhere, but buying it from us really helps us out.
Anyway, enough with the schtick… Here’s the new podcast.
SinchCast #15 - Stained
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Another Monday, another late podcast. It’s Tuesday here now, but it’s still Monday *somewhere* so we still made it on time! This week’s track is an acoustic demo version of The Arctic Ocean that we recorded during pre-production for the self-titled record. We also feature some of your phone calls and the winners of the “contest” from last week.
SinchCast #14 - The Arctic Ocean (Demo)
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First of all, I ripped this idea from kottke.org. Not that anyone reads this thing anyway. But if you do and you’re about to cry “ripoff”, the line to collect your $0.00 refund forms to the left.
Anyway…
Some film critic I’ve never heard of published his list of “201 Movies You Need To See Before You Die”
I’m not sure that I’ll care that I haven’t seen The Maltese Falcon when I’m dead and buried. According to this guy though, it’s pretty important. Either way it looks like I have a lot of movies to watch if I want to keep up.
Here’s his list, with the ones I’ve actually seen in bold.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 1/2
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Bambi
The Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Red One
The Bicycle Thief
The Big Sleep
Blade Runner
Blowup
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Bringing Up Baby
Carrie
Casablanca
Un Chien Andalou
Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
The Crying Game
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Days of Heaven
Dirty Harry
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Do the Right Thing
La Dolce Vita
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial
Easy Rider
The Empire Strikes Back
The Exorcist
Fargo
Fight Club
Frankenstein
The General
The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II
Gone With the Wind
GoodFellas
The Graduate
Halloween
A Hard Day’s Night
Intolerance
It’s a Gift
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
M
Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
Metropolis
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
North by Northwest
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
Out of the Past
Persona
Pink Flamingos
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Repulsion
The Rules of the Game
Scarface
The Scarlet Empress
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
Singin’ in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
A Star Is Born
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Third Man
Tokyo Story
Touch of Evil
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Trouble in Paradise
Vertigo
West Side Story
The Wild Bunch
The Wizard of Oz
Only 28 out of 102. I left out ones that I’ve only seen parts of or that I somehow watched but have no memory of. But even if I cheated and included all of those, it’d still be less than half.
I’m not sure if I really care, but it’s kind of interesting for some reason. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of movies (I’ve never really kept track as I would guess most people haven’t). And I’ve certainly seen quite a few that I’d consider really good or even great. I could probably make my own list of 102 (or even more) essential movies. But according to this guy I haven’t seen shit. But I have a feeling that I’d probably sleep through a bunch on this list. Generational difference maybe? Or am I just unable to appreciate good movies? I hope not.
Besides, any essential movie list that doesn’t include Big Trouble in Little China is obviously flawed.
- Dan
To the people who have called in response to the question on the latest podcast, please email us so we know who you are. I guess we should have said to also leave an email address or something so we can contact you. Otherwise it’s gonna be a pretty lame contest.
So far everyone has been correct… it’s just a matter of who called first I guess. But depending on how many people call in we may decide to choose more than one winner, possibly based on which phone call we like more, so it’s not over yet…
This is a track that was originally supposed to be on the Project:Bluebird EP, but was never finished, for various reasons. One of the reasons is that we lost some of the vocal tracks before we did a final mix and never had time to redo them. So, unfortunely all we have now is an instrumental mix. At the time we were all really excited about this song, but somehow it just slipped through the cracks. Hopefully we’ll revist it someday…
SinchCast #13 - An Author for an Authority
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