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I’ve recently polished off a remix of Ed Chamberlain’s track ‘Styge’, available at some point in the hopefully not-too-distant future on Baselogic Records. You can hear the remix in its entirety in exquisite 22kHz 96kbps nigh-fidelity on MySpace. I’m fairly certain when it drops it’ll be 12″ only.

Also, I’ve finished uploading decent streaming mp3s of A Midsummer Nice Dream to Virb, so you can preview the album there before buying it, should you feel so inclined, from Toytronic (because as far as I can tell, it’s one of the few places left where you can still find it on CD and 12″). After all, you can’t buy what you haven’t heard, can you?

Although I’d joined quite a while back, I’ve only now just gotten round to actually putting some content up there. For those who have no idea what I’m writing about, Virb is basically almost everything MySpace should be yet isn’t. The music you upload isn’t badly butchered down to a poor quality pale imitation of what you uploaded; nor are the images you upload suddenly peppered with unsightly jpeg compression artefacts. The interface is clean and user-friendly, featuring nice modern shiny web design touches such as AJAX elements, and has a decent straightforward flash music player too (and doesn’t appear to limit the amount of music you can upload, either). It also appears to be highly customisable, though I’ve yet to really test that side of things.

All it’s missing is the user base! Time will tell whether Virb can attract anything like the amount of users its rivals can, and whether this will impact its generous hosting terms. But if you’re on there, feel free to drop me a comment… and add me! virb.com/ochre