Original link at Intelligent Machinery here.

Intelligent Machinery (John Ingram) and Lithium Industries (John Lithium) are now accepting submissions for the ‘Worst-Case Scenarios’ compilation, featuring the Lithium Toolbox. The Lithium Toolbox is a series of soundscape tools – sound concepts – that have been offered up for free to the world at large, for subversion and subduction. A collection of “nightmares, dreams, hallucinations and worst-case scenarios” to use in your own sonic adventures. Tracks submitted for this compilation must include at least one sound file from the Lithium Toolbox: twisted, mangled, abused and/or misused in any way you see fit.

Go here for more information about the Lithium Toolbox, here to preview and download tracks from the Lithium Toolbox, and here for any questions regarding submissions etc.

Download it here. Featuring tracks by December Nightskies, John Lithium, skin contact, The Silence Bureau, silent frill, COMPACTOR, Jonny Ether, Controlled Dissonance, Raven, Mystified, somnaphon, Necron, Deccan Traps, Plastic Love Tool, Third I, ‘O Tempora, O Musicae vs SDS’, Death Mother, Bob Tavis, and Axelrod Nemoy (any musician links to the projects listed above would be greatly appreciated).

“Doomsday. The apocalypse. End times. Judgment Day.

Every culture has its own eschatology; its own vision of the end of the world. Doomsday is a compilation project to assemble tracks themed around this cataclysmic concept – noise, dark ambient, abstract sounds that reflect upon, relish in, admonish against or in some way celebrate your vision of eschatology.

When the day of reckoning is upon us, let it not be said that we were ill-prepared to provide its soundtrack.”

INFO PAGE & DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.archive.org/details/ARGREC14

“Lithium Toolbox is a soundscape collection, featuring twenty-five different synth compositions from John Lithium. This collection is mostly sci-fi/cyberpunk/noir influenced and/or inspired. The first twenty-two tracks are brand-new songs composed in June, while the final three were recorded in May. The total collection is roughly 625 MB, with an average ‘song’ time of about two minutes. These are mainly drone-oriented tracks, although there are several notable exceptions.

While many of these ‘songs’ are able to stand under their own merits, they eagerly await for assimilation into your own designs, either in a remix and/or enhancement capacity.

This collection is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). While the preceding website covers most of the basics regarding this license, there are a few additional points to make. To begin, if you utilize this material (regardless of if it is for commercial or non-commercial use), please send me a note or email at (c h a n d l e r n [a t] g m a i l [d o t] c o m) describing your work and some links to the finished product. Also, while I by default usually include the share-alike aspect of the license, if you still wish to use the material but want to use a different license, send me a message and we can discuss it. If you have any questions/concerns/thoughts about this material (and/or other topics), again feel free to contact me at the email listed above.”

This post is a placeholder until I have at least one of the planned projects completed. Smaller samples and/or WIP may (or may not) be uploaded to the Soundcloud page.

At present, the only immediate goal is to organize, revisit, and restructure my computer/software/studio. Besides the small amount of programs I currently use to create music, I have 2 gigs worth of samples, loops, freeware, donationware, shareware, and paid programs that need to be sorted through, organized, and assessed for usability/uniqueness (in other words, getting rid of all the garbage).

Also, this site will also (hopefully soon) receive a long overdue update of the links section, along with small updates to the discography section (maybe) and possibly minor visual updates as well.

Next on the list are tentative music projects. One is the return of Nihil Obstat, and another is an as-yet untitled John Lithium project. I have been developing possible visual/auditory elements for these projects, but have not committed on anything specific yet.

Even further plans in the future include re-activating semi-regular activity at Argali Records Netlabel, vaguely regular updates on the Music For The Rest Of Us blog (special thanks to the bands/labels who have linked to reviews there at present and/or in the past)…

And remember:

“There are no happy endings, because nothing ends”

-jl IV.XXVII.MMXI

Two hours of new, unreleased, rare, and previously released material from sessions between 2008-2011. Features dark ambient, industrial, and experimental. As usual, the emphasis is on DARK. This compilation is being released through my net-label Argali Records as a free download (licensed through Creative Commons).

Grab it here: http://www.archive.org/details/ARGREC13