Spring Update

1. Hello you. Here’s what I’ve been up to lately.

2. You may have already noticed that I changed my Twitter name from @modeskeletor to @chezghost. Why? Because @ghostfood was annoyingly taken only recently and isn’t even being used much. Why @ghostfood? Because that’s my name of my new site(s): ghostfood.tv, ghostfoom.com and ghostfood.co.uk -- the first domain names I’ve bought for a few years.

I’ve alway been crap choosing and using names for my works. I dawdled on base58 for ages before conceding that I couldn’t come up with something ‘cooler’ and at least it was short and sweet and cornily reminiscent of Area 51 in a way that might just come off as cute. ‘Ghost Food’ is a name I should’ve been using already as it’s a (fairly obscure) joke from TMWRNJ that’s over ten years old now. The origin isn’t too important tho. What’s important is that I’ll be using it for almost everything I do from now on -- mixes, mash-ups, a/v edits, my own music, design work and so on. Soon ghostfood.tv will become the default URL for this site but I’ll keep base58.com anyway.

I wanted a name that was two syllables, two words that could be put together and for that combination to sound exciting and fun. After all a lot of what I do is knocked out with that principle in mind. For a particularly pretentious analogy that doesn’t quite hang together, I am like a ghost who eats other people’s art kids to make new monsters. Mm.

SO next up is a logo that demonstrates all the malarkey. Any excuse to create a logo. The base58/VCS emblem needs an update too. I need a better eagle with full wings, and it probably needs to be Actually 3D but finding the time to relearn 3D Studio Max or similar will be tough.

2a. I’ve set up a Ghost Food channel on YouTube which currently features the Beyonce/Flying Lotus mash-up and the Royksopp remix (neither had been added to the existing base58com YT channel so here):

And here’s the YT playlist featuring all my stuff currently on there. I will add to this as I go. Need to get the Britney/Falty/HudMo vid (which you can view in the player at the top of this page) on there. It got zapped very quickly because I’m pretty sure YouTube’s Content ID system can recognise most videos bought on iTunes immediately (happened with the Beyonce one too, and now the Black-Eyed Peas/Bag Raiders mash-up). Foiled again.

2b. I changed my Soundcloud name to GhostFood also.

3. The other big deal is that I finally finished the reworking of Ultramix 90 and there’s a new webpage for it here (the other mixes will use that design soon too). The new version of this mix I first did just over five years ago is to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tracks featured. It’s split into five parts all just under an hour long and includes redone bits, a re-arranged order, extra tracks and some lovely new combos and segues. Very pleased with it to the point where I don’t expect to be messing about with it ever again. But I still want to make that 90 minute version somehow (as teased in this clip I put together some time ago)…

More later this week.