[2012-03-20] Run, Desire, Run

Dear all,

It's been a number of years since I first spoke with Geordy and others about creating an APC Drive in an attempt to archive all available recordings for MJK's sideproject. The Project started around 2008 as a yet far-fetched impulse to create a live database of all available APC recordings in a manner similar to the Tool Drive Project. A number of people have been a huge help in putting together a solid base of live recordings, a base which has grown to nearly 300 gigabytes of audio and video material. Without their help, this Project would never have gotten started.

As real life and graduate school intervened, I lost my flexible schedule which had allowed long hours for reviewing info files, tracking down sources, re-encoding files and renaming them to a standardized system. Thankfully, it was around this time that DonSalvatore first contacted me, with enviable energy and enthusiasm. He has largely taken the reins on this Project and, with technical savvy I certainly cannot match, he has created our new home: www.apcdriveproject.com . Four years and an intervening project later (the NIN Drive), the APC Drive Project is ready to go. We will need some time to put everything together properly, but expect that the Project will launch soon and will be open for others to join by having drives copied.

Thank you for being part of our community and we look forward to a successful launch.

All the best,
Chris (Dassarri) and Marco (DonSalvatore)