my name is kaneel and I'm a bedroom electronic musician

As I finally decided to launch a facebook musician page.
I was a tad bored to feel like I was posting things on my blog or twitter and nobody really see them at the right moment. You can't fight against it, "it" being the future or not.
Most people dropped the RSS format and spend most of their time on social networks and it's obvious not being there is pretty much the same as the poor tree falling in the forest... that was a good tree, it just wasn't its war.
So here it is, a very nice facebook page for you people to follow everything coming from "le neel" at full effect.
And don't forget to click on...

Oh and by the way, noticed I had a blog too? Don't hesitate to pay a visit to this marvellous vault of amazing stories.

Varia featured "Bondé bondage" in their latest "best of bandcamp" episode.
Be sure you check the whole mix as it contains songs from friends like makunouchi bento and ikae as well as great musicians like iqtu

ps: yes, I know, this is a real link mayhem I just unleashed right into YO FACE.

So what's up?
Right. One month after my album has been released, what's up? (except the sky)

It's been a long month to be honest. I've been very busy doing many stuff, caring about the little family and such.
I've also have been able to waste a bit of my spare time contacting from approximatly 15 to 20 blogs to let them know about my new album.
Obviously, I love to feel the fail in shape of wind of silence. yo.

Hopefully, many people shared a bit of their time by tweeting and resharing their average best friend's new album and I thank them deeply.
Without you guys, I'm clearly nothing. Insert a sadface.

Also, I'd like to thank Benoit Richard, Filipe Cruz for their two reviews and 4mat for talking about my music to an italian dude who ended writing a review of my new album.
I got to love it when people love it back. Much hugs.
Following links are the nice reviews. In hope someday to read more nice words about this work.

People who didn't review it. I know who you are. I'm coming to your homes, ready to steal your c64s.

Are you sure you listened to my new album?

...for your average best friend.
When you think about it, I've been taking good care of your ears for years. Some people listen to my music since the very beginning, I think I'm one of their best friends ever. This kind of depressive friend who send you snippets of his work all the time and then complain about nobody care. But some people care right?

A lot of hugs for felix, aka waka_x of makunouchi bento, who came up with this mix of my upcoming album.

ps: you will have something good to listen during this amazing day, celebrating boring popular music.

And yes.
The title says it all.

So, tell the world, your friends, neighbors, pets, giraffes and everybody else. There are only 300 copies available.
It ~~will be soon on bandcamp~~ is on bandcamp as well but I suppose many of you would prefer to have a CD as a souvenir right?

Head now to the awk33 page.

This piece of news felt from the sky during the last friday!
The kaneel vs lackluster split is finally planned for the 23th of March. It will feature two tracks that will give you a glimpse of what to expect in my upcoming album. And yes, this is quite a cool piece of news for kaneelovers as they may want to preorder the physical version of it.
Yes, you heard me well. Physical versions.

Right now, I don't know when preorders will be opened. Still waiting news from John@Awkward Silence Recording but don't worry, he's working on it and I can already tease you with the split cover!

This is really nice to be featuring on this split 3" CDR with Lackluster, a fellow TPOLM member and, let's admit it, one influencer in the scene.
Plus, it has been mastered by Ilkae. Let's say it's written TPOLM everywhere.

And finally, more kaneel on tokafi. If you feel like you want to read more stuff about kaneel and in english PLEASE (:D).

Massive bunch of hearts for people still following.

Yeah, guilty of not updating enough my website?
Damn right guys.

2 weeks ago, I attended the revision2011 demoparty, the german easter party meant to replace the breakpoint that has been going on since 2003 (and I was at the first BP, yes). I had some very nice moments discussing with good old friends, having some beers with Xerxes, laughting, when Le Frank Du Netpoet was mirroring my accent, or discussing the good old scene of years ago and the _usual_ "it was so much better before" nostalgia as well as a glimpse of "we're getting older".
Also, I went to the revision2011 with Aech_Rom, celebrating his first demoparty ever.

Massive props for the french guys there (also you, CPC people!), to the Köln-ers, to supah of bypass (!!!), orgas (except the streaming compo preselection team, much hating for you) and everybody else I met and chatted with.

That being said, you imagine I couldn't really go there without releasing some stuff right?
Here is the module I released for the Tracked music compo nicely hosted by Saga musix.

And here you can watch the cocoon vs TPOLM 4kb intro coded by nystep and using a tune I've made with the 4klang VSTi, a VSTi designed for making 4kb intro tunes.

Of course, if you like its soundtrack, you can grab it on my soundcloud!

And be patient. Some releases are coming.
Expect some more kaneel in few weeks and some more again in few months.
Teasing.
With style.

I recently remembered about Shiftless asking me for "Cosy toboggan" stems some years ago (we talk about 2004 here) and I actually forgot for some times that he succeeded in remixing this quite clownesque and badly produced song.
It kind of made me wonder about how was the original file, I never looked back in the past because I remembered it was not so pleasant times and also because these old tracks were poorly produced... well, more than my actual tracks (cuddle needed.)

So, to make good justice to this remix, Shiftless put it online on his website and to make great fun of the past, I decided I would also share the original with you, just so you laught about it... pay attention, I was going EVERYWHERE back in the good old days.
And if you're scrobbling the remix, please rename to kaneel, there are no capital K in my handle :)

I think it's also a nice moment for remembering the good old times, where we were on irc (#camomille - espernet), sharing WIPs, stupid links and other _cool_ stuff as well as trolling around. Props to the guys from the channel, coming now:
vincent / troupe / carl / fah / nil / melwelch / klaus / mikael / ossi / waka_x / julez / mv and a bunch of people passing by...

(ps: yeah, some people reading that would find it pretty lame but you know, you may have just missed something too :)

A late happy new year, I just forgot to wish it to many people because it's more than redundant right?
So well, if I only were late on this, it would be quite easy to apologize but indeed, I'm pretty late on many projects as I finally ran into new things, especially the renoise LUA API and Python coding... blame me, I can't stand quiet for more than a week and I always feel the need to rush on new toys, in hope it will pay someday. By the way, I'm looking for a generous elektron machinedrum donator, anybody interested? Sure bet!

On the bright side, german people can now go outside and grab the February first issue of Beat magazine, a magazine about techie stuff and music making.
I've been interviewed and discussed about many things... obviously, I'm very fluent (ahem) in german but don't worry, if you're not, I also have an english version of it.

Grab the interview:

German .PDF
English .DOC
Need an other format? Well, don't hesitate to get in touch!

Also, some of you following my twitter may be aware of a javascript videogame using some of my tracks as background materials.
For those who didn't know, you should definitly discover craJSh, a remake of an old videogame named crash, fully enjoyable into your browser (unless you like internet explorer, then I can't do anything for you I'm afraid)

And don't forget to head to the brand new TPOLM headquarter, lots of things will be posted there, you don't want to feel like you're the only human not checking it constantly right?