Daevl In The Pale Moonlight, March: effect69
Chris Martinez of effect69 fielded a selection of the required way-far-out-there questions and gave a great interview covering everything from keeping the analog sound alive to zombies playing KISS covers. Plus: three tracks of bass, beat and synthesizer boo-yah.

1dot9: Stycky
I've put up the second 1dot9 soundset - nine audio loops created by processing one original source file. Where the first set used only a single effect on each processed loop, this set was created by using multiple, stacked Daevl.Plugs. I'll be placing a 1dot9 group page on Daevlmakr later this week, but for now these sounds can be downloaded from the Daevlmakr main page.

Marting Spernau took the Stycky set and went crazy! Check out his 1dot9 Stycky Remix: a track made using only the Stycky sounds. I love the melody he brought out... I had no idea that was even in there!

Chaos: Daevl.Plugs KVR Audio database entry
Around mid-February KVR Audio placed a listing for the Daevl.Plugs on their main page and all hell broke loose. February was a very successful (and very busy) month. March is shaping up to be just as good.

The 5 Ways: creative challenge
Martin Spernau was also the original impetus for the 5 Ways creative challenge. He created the original 5 Ways track as part of his Daevl In The Pale Moonlight interview. The rules are simple: create a song using only a limited palette of five source samples. The upshot: you can process, fry, freak, tweak and rotate the audio any way you like, using any tools you like, then play them in any way using anything. Polyphonic samplers, wind controllers, Monome 40hs, direct digital placement... the sky is the limit, everything is fair game, just no outside audio sources. This has seen much Daevl.Plug action, but they weren't a requirement.

The final tracks have started rolling in and will probably go up on Daevlmakr at the beginning of April, including two from me: one as Blue Deceiver and a second under the moniker of my free-flowing ambient side-project, SkyBreakBlue.

I'll also be putting up the original source samples and opening the challenge to anyone interested in creating a track for inclusion.

The Immediate Future: Audere est facere!
Secret projects galore... onwards in the best of all possible worlds.