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That was dumb

Kevin — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:14:43 +0000

So the site disappeared for a while due to me forgetting to pay for the hosting. And uhm, I hadn’t backed it up since January, so all posts from this year are gone. But hey, it’s back!

Changes brewing

Kevin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:33:38 +0000

Perhaps you have noticed that half the music on the site disappeared overnight. Aaron is no longer part of Of. He did not elaborate on the reasons, but as far as I know the departure is not acrimonious. So, um, there’s that.

我不会说普通话; or, the strange case of Aaron vs Deserts.

Kevin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:20:57 +0000

While looking through our site stats, I found that a ton of people were downloading Sounds I Made, and most of them were coming from this mysterious Chinese page with no apparent connection to Aaron or whatever sounds he might make. (Scroll down to the bottom to see the link.) After spending a lot of time with Google translate and google.cn, our best guess at what’s going on is this:

1. A Chinese music search engine spiders ofrecordings.com and indexes our music.

2. Somehow, “Sounds I Made” gets tagged incorrectly. It’s marked as a song called “So” by a pop-rock singer named 张悬 (Zhang Xuan, or “Deserts Chang”).

3. Some guy writes a review of the album and puts up links to all the songs.

4. He finds Aaron’s song on the search engine and doesn’t check the links. Or, more likely, he listens to the first few seconds, hears some smooth guitar riffs, and thinks it’s the right song.

So, 你好 to anyone who came here looking for music by Deserts; hope you like what you find. After all, Deserts and Aaron are really not so different:

The new Of

Of — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:00:55 +0000

We are reworking the format of ofrecordings.com. The new site will be updated much more often, so please keep coming back. Or better yet, add ofrecordings.com to your favorite news aggregator.