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Hello everyone,
Yeah, I know it’s been awhile since you’ve seen any new material on here. Chilljam.com was on a roll for a little over two years straight with releasing new content every single week without fail. However, suddenly, we’ve disappeared for a month…
What happened?
Well, as with anything in life, we’re going through a bit of a transition period. Recently, Tony Biedenkapp has been playing with us much more regularly and we’re working on transitioning his sounds into the sound in a much more effective way. In addition, we’ve been recording some videos but have been having trouble with our audio recording equipment. Hopefully, we’ll resolve these problems as soon as we can, however, you’ll be able to check out some of the videos starting with tomorrow’s post. We apologize for the interruption in content but it’s been good having a bit of a break to refresh and rethink our approach. You’ll be seeing us get back on track with regular weekly posts again soon enough.
Thanks to everyone who’s been hanging out with us and checking out our material.

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Check out the article about chilljam.com in this month’s Heed Magazine
A huge thanks to Amber Scott for putting the article together and Tracey Osborne for taking the photographs. It’s a great read and really gets into what we’re about here at chilljam.com.

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Check out Tourist Zero’s take on The Lost Cymbal.
Our friends from Tourist Zero layered some great vocals on top of the chilljam.com version of The Lost Cymbal. Check it out here.

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Check out Tourist Zero’s take on Opium Spice.
Our friends from Tourist Zero layered some great vocals on top of the chilljam.com version of Opium Spice. Check it out here.

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One of the reasons I was originally interested in putting together the Chilljam.com site was that I wanted to focus on gathering together all of our material into one place. I thought it would be great to put it all together in a nice presentation so that others can access the work and enjoy it however they want. However, I also wanted to gather together the work that I’ve done with other projects in the past and present them in a way that is both accessible and enjoyable.
So today, we’ve got a new section on the right-hand column called “Links” in which we can link to sites with these works.
The first site we’ve got under this category is the Stars Burn Out Music Archive, which includes all of the recordings I have from one of the projects I previously worked with, Stars Burn Out.

Read more about Stars Burn Out

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Here’s another free album download, Haywire Transmission.
Haywire Transmission is a collection of electronically written pieces that I was working on before I joined the chilljam.com project. After the dissolution of my previous band, Stars Burn Out, I needed to find a new creative outlet. I didn’t really know any other musicians that were available and accessible. So I picked up a copy of FL Studio and started playing around with writing music with my computer for the first time.
When I joined chilljam.com, I found ways of layering these song parts in a manner so that I could trigger them in our improvisational environment. Many of our earliest sessions involved quite a few of these songs, however, we were not regularly recording during that time so many of those original jams are lost to time.

To download the album:
1 Go to the Haywire Transmission Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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Yes, I know the site was an utter disaster last week but it’s all fixed now.

There were things I didn’t like about the original background image for the redesigned site that have been bugging me since launch. On computers with high resolution settings, the original image came nowhere close to filling the entire screen and it just looked terrible when viewed on these machines. So last week, I put together a different background image but it ended up just looking like a mess. The image totally detracted from the main content, which is the whole point of this site so I decided to redo it again this week as well as fix some other issues that have been problematic.

In addition, I found a nice widget for handling Category and Tag surfing so that it’s a bit more fun to play with. You’ll find that in the right sidebar now on every page.

Please feel free to let us know your thoughts.

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In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be setting up links where you can now download our albums for free from the Listen :: Album pages, starting with our earliest material first.
So this week’s Free Album Download is “Emailed Music”.

The beats were first assembled by Warren Carroll out of Richmond, VA, and were then emailed to myself and Matthew Hundley from D.C. who layers the fine guitar work throughout the tracks.  All of the music was emailed  back and forth between the 3 of us over a 7 month time period until each song was full.  This was a lot of fun to do, and we’re currently  in the process of creating more emailed music. 

To download the album:
1 Go to the Emailed Music Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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Listen to the new album, S+G
During the last couple of months, our music has focused in two distinctly different directions.
Some of it has been very positive with bright tones and content focused on joy and contentment.
However, other aspects were focusing on very dark subjects, some of which I’d consider to be the darkest works we’ve done to date. These songs have been focused towards specific concepts which we’re hoping to release additional material for in the future but we wanted to go ahead and compile the material together into an album for you to listen to now.

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Happy Birthday to chilljam.com!

Over the course of this year, all of us have undergone huge life changes, from watching our militaries go to war overseas, to helping our children figure out the first months of life, to new jobs and changing industries as the economy collasped beneath our feet, to finding our way in a restructuring world. It’s amazing what happens in a year’s time in the life of just a couple of people.
This website documents our experiences over this time.

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