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Compass is now available officially on iTunes, ready to purchase and enjoy in pristine iTunes Plus DRM-free quality. Click here to go directly to Compass in the iTunes store!

Cool! We’re now on Amazon.com’s online MP3 store, and I believe eMusic as well. We’re still waiting for the big one, iTunes, but we’ll let you know as soon as that’s available.

BTW, we finally got around to updating our Soundclick page which has some cool interactive and networking features. In addition, Binary Sea will be the featured artist on the Soundclick home page on August 7th, so please head over there and click on the ad to drive us up in the charts!

Until next time, over and out!

A new day has dawned for Binary Sea! We have successfully launched our brand new Web site, and with it comes the official release of our debut studio album, Compass. You can listen to sound clips and purchase Compass from our online music store, and in the near future Compass will be available via iTunes, AmazonMP3, and others.

We are extremely excited about the release of Compass, and we hope to get the word out in as many ways as we can. Don’t forget — we have a MySpace page and Facebook page as well, so head on over there and become a friend if you aren’t already!

There are a few ideas brewing in our tired little brains about what projects to work on next, and with any luck they will be out sooner rather than latter. At the very least, we hope to put up a few extra goodies (music downloads) in the coming months. In the meantime, sign up for our newsletter or subscribe to our blog feed for updates!

We’ve set up our own online music download store at IndieKazoo, and while our new album Compass won’t be available for purchasing until July 11th, you can go there now to hear previews of tracks we haven’t put up for free download. Also, Binary Sea is now on Facebook, so head on over there and please add yourself as a fan!

We’re currently redesigning this Web site so I’m not exactly sure when we’ll have sound clips and info up about the new album…but meanwhile, you can get all of the above (including beta cover artwork) at MySpace! We’ve got four tracks available for free download—sorry the sound quality isn’t the best in the world, but that’s all MySpace gives you. When the new site is ready, we’ll have better quality previews.

The official release date for the album is July 11th. We won’t be actually selling CDs at first (estimated time TBA)—it’ll be available for online purchase at places like iTunes, Audio Lunchbox, etc., and of course on our own site. Unlike the other shops, we’re going to offer multiple formats including AAC and Apple Lossless for full CD quality. We may even do Ogg, FLAC, and old, awful MP3, but that remains to be seen.

So, until then, check out http://www.myspace.com/binarysea and get a taste of things to come!

Right on the heels of Jared’s previous announcement, I’m proud to report that we finished the mastering ahead of schedule, and the production of the album was completed THIS WEEK! Now all that remains is graphic art, new web site, etc., which is Jared’s domain…although I’ll be involved as well. So expect new sound clips, track listing, etc. soon!

Sorry for the the lack of updates. We had a few delays, but we’ve been very busy in the studio this week and I’m incredibly happy to say that by some time next week, we will have a final CD master in our hot little hands. The cover art has seen considerable progress as well, so basically in a very short amount of time we will be officially ready to announce the album (title, cover art, track listing, etc.) and the online download release date. A brand new Web site will be forthcoming as well.

It’s hard to believe that after over a year of hard work, we are nearly at the finish line. Stay tuned!

…nope, not quite ready to reveal the final details, but we are pushing hard to have a semi-final master ready to roll in the next couple of weeks or so. We’ve picked a tentative title and will start working on the artwork very soon, but the idea is to get enough stuff finalized so that we can launch our “countdown to release” phase of the project. And get more sound clips online.

Thanks for bearing with us. The baby is soon to be birthed!

New milestone: three out of twelve tracks have passed the mixing phase, ready for final mastering at the end of post-production. At least three other of the remaining tracks are short and atmospheric, however, which requires less finessing than the upbeat, complex ones, so we’re well beyond a quarter of the way through mixing. To coin a phrase, the horses smell the barn!

Much has happened since our last blog post. We indeed have an entire album of music in the works — in fact, the composition phase is nearly complete and post-production has already begun on a few tracks. We don’t know exactly when we’ll be able to put our official stamp of approval on a finished product, but it’s definitely sooner rather than later.

Just so you know that what we’re doing is more than vaporware, here are a few excerpts from the album. These aren’t final mixes, but they’re pretty darn close. We hope you enjoy them, and come back soon for much, much more news on our upcoming release!

• Foresight is Half the Battle (excerpt) (160Kbps MP3)
• Under the Gazebo (excerpt) (160Kbps MP3)
• Perfect Paternal Guidance (excerpt) (160Kbps MP3)