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The new SittingOvation design

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Now in to our third design I’ve decided that the previous design of the site was restricting in a sense, and so with an update, I’ve got for a look and feel change too.

Some things to note:

  • Comments won’t work on older posts now, I’ve upgraded to the latest Wordpress and this has done all sorts of funny things to old post comments – so you can only comment on posts from this one onwards. Sadly, this is a bit out of my control.
  • There are likely going to be little bugs here and there. If you spot one, let me know.
  • I’ll probably try adding a few little things here and there as time progresses, so don’t be alarmed if new eatures start to pop up.
  • If you have any comments or suggestions, just say so – alex[at]alex-c.com

And here’s to the new design!

Advertise on SittingOvation

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

It’s nothing major, but I’ve implemented a small sponsor/advert space in to the footer of every page.

If you’d like to advertise on the site, I’m open to offers and discussions. I can provide information on hits and suchlike, and am happy to discuss a reasonable fee.

Let me know by getting in touch – alex[at]alex-c.com

WIN Yourself a new outfit! with SittingOvation and Sturban Clothing

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

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SittingOvation are proud to present our first competition in association with Sturban Clothing.

If you win, you will recieve all 3 of these prizes:

1. Your choice of jeans, cords or pants from “Headstrong”.
2. A t-shirt from either “Headstrong” or “Class of 76″
3. A jacket from either “Planet Earth” or “Know1edge”

Just answer the simple question and enter here.

Sturban Clothing Affiliation

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

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I’m proud to announce a new affiliation between SittingOvation.com and SturbanClothing.com

Sturban Clothing is a pretty well hooked-up clothing store based in the UK. Focusing on Streetwear, Hip Hop, Skatewear, Graffiti, Camo and Organic Clothing – I’d say they’re on the money when it comes to threads. With brands like King, Fly53, WESC, Addict, Element, Obey and ZooYork you can’t really argue that they clearly know their stuff.

Going forward this means that SittingOvation will be hosting periodic competitions, promotions and features in association with Sturban, as well as being able to provide discount options for subscribers.

More details on these to follow.

In the meantime, I suggest you fire over there and check the merchandise!

http://www.sturbanclothing.com/

New look, feel and direction for the blog

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

I’ve decided to give Sitting Ovation a little bit of a makeover. I’m still ironing out bits here and there, but I’m more or less up and running with the new design.

My reason for the re-vamp was that I’ve decided to slightly change the direction of the blog. Not only will I be reviewing things when I get the chance, but I’ll hopefully be making more smaller posts about tracks I want to highlight without writing a review, and posts that don’t always contain a review in them.

I’m eager to branch the posts out in to more dicsussion, and opinion as opposed to strictly reviews and exposure, so this now includes night info, releases, opinions, top tens, new mixes, albums downloads and just about anything that fits.

I’ll be keeping the posts and text on the smoother, deeper end of the dubstep and dub-techno spectrum, but don’t expect a limited view. I just like to specialise a little.

A call to action for all dubstep producers!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

OK, here’s the deal…

You send me your spiffy release. I’ll review it and post it up here.

I’m not promising gleaming reviews every time, but It’s unlikely I’ll be making a habit of posting rubbish. The main aim will be to boost some producer’s work and just generally give credit where I think it’s due.

So as a producer I’d like you to send me your release. It can be a link to mp3s, a spangly copy of your CD, or any format you like. Hell if I still had a tape deck, I’d take cassette.

As a reviewer, I’ll post it on the blog with a review, and the relevant information, provided it’s decent enough. If it’s not – I’ll write back and explain why. Maybe offer some tips on how you may be able to improve it.

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An introduction to Sitting Ovation

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

I registered sittingovation with the intention of writing a blog. I felt the need to join the already over-saturated blogging community and force my ill-informed, sarcastic and often particularly hate-fuelled opinions on to those one or two visitors (sorry… page-impressions) a decade who might stumble upon the site looking for something they’re unlikely to find.

It’s still a blog. Yes well done, you’ve deduced that much Sherlock. Good work. But instead of being a badly informed pessemistic complainey-voiced boring view on things like the weather being crap in th UK, the latest bell-end-techniques for recycling, crappy world-views, snore-worthy politics or what my cat is doing every 3 seconds, I decided that I might be better-placed to provide a semi-positive outlook on emerging  music producers.

I’m in to music (who isn’t these days eh. Music… what’s that all about!) and as well as helping me increase my street-cred, allowing me to get “down with the kids” (yeah, you heard me. That’s what they say these days grandpa!) it should also serve as (here comes the clincher…) “a fantastic platform for emerging talent on the internet, bringing music to new audiences and allowing…” actually – you can pretty much make the rest up it’s all bollocks really.

So here I am, pondering the infinite possibilities for pushing this whole thing forward. To begin with I expect I’ll just surf around MySpace, music forums and amateur websites looking for producers who are ‘good’, but don’t seem to see much hype or success as of yet. In the long-run this could turn in to a nice resource for those wishing to find some new dubstep, nicely categorised in to spiffy genres, tagged with similar tracks, and more or less just awesome for the most part.

Right now it could go either way, but I suppose it’s really down to me to source the good stuff. Once I’ve done the hard work, all you lot can come and post wanky comments on the posts about how you don’t agree with my tenuous references and mis-information. In fact, I’m quite looking forward to the whole thing. If it helps some producers get noticed, then so be it!

So I best push on with this, and see if we can’t make a go of the whole thing.