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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!

OK, it’s been a while (i.e., several months) since we’ve posted anything…but we haven’t dried up! We’re still busy working on new music. We thought we were going to do an EP, but we’ve started to have enough material for a real album—who knows! Anyway, it’s a bit different from what we’ve done before, but I love it, and Jared loves it, and I’m sure you’ll love it all as well. I wish I could post some clips of what we’ve been working, but we’re keeping it under lock and key at the moment. At some point, probably next year, we might have something to show. We’re going to put together a demo CD to send to labels as well, and I hope we can get on a good one (probably not a big, mainstream label though — blech!).

Anyway, in the meantime please enjoy the same old pieces we’ve had on this site for a year…it’s still good music!

We’ve been spending some time thinking about our upcoming plans, and we’ve decided on a couple of things:

(a) I (Jared) am going to do some final tweaks on my solo album tracks that are almost ready, and then I’m going to release all the tracks as free MP3 downloads. Why? Do I not think they’re good enough quality for a major CD release? No, it’s not that, but I started work on the album in 2004, well before Shayne and I had decided to form Binary Sea, and I feel that I want to put my focus on the future of the band and start working together on a joint project.

(b) To that end, we are not releasing a compilation CD-R of tracks. As mentioned above, we plan on putting up a lot of new stuff as free downloads and then launching into a proper Binary Sea album project.

Thanks for your patience folks as we get our bearings with where the band is going. Many exciting things are ahead!