Archive for September, 2006

Unfortunately…

the 3kStatic gigs in Florida aren’t happening, due to circumstances beyond our control.  It’s pretty weird to say that.  As a kid, I always wondered what those circumstances could be.  I’ve got a much better idea of that now.

Oh, well.  What can you do?  You can go play NYC again, that’s what!  More details on that shortly!

Episode 32b - Happy Birthday to Me & Laconical Part 2

Yup - I’m 1/3 away from LP Age. Had a wonderful night out with my most favoritest people (at least those that are over the age of majority). Now rehearsal tonight and a short workweek before the trek to Florida for two 3kStatic gigs, opening up for none other than George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando. Really looking forward to it, for obvious reasons! Also, going to see the new Depeche Mode concert film tomorrow at the local IMAX. Oh, and my remix of Andrew Duke’s Consumer v. User samples has netted me a prize of some kind - I didn’t make the remix release, but was a semi-finallist.  Thanks, Guys!

Busy times, but it’s the good kind of busy!

Oh, and before I forget - here’s the second half of Episode 32 of the podcast! More coming after I get back into town.

Felix Building - Sakura Week
Juno6 - Argonaut
Xyn - Tranquility (Acid Edit)
Felix Building - Headache Song
Cagey House - Like A Reptile
Juno6 - Into the Wind Stranded
Fisk Industries - The Azimuth At Zero Degrees
Drugs Made Me Smarter - Morning Glory Seeds at Sunset
Stefanos Kourtis - Sorry Acid

 
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Episode 32a - Laconickal Part 1

Not much to say tonight - been busy, but finally got this thing mastered and uploaded.  Split into two smaller parts for ease of downloading.  The second part tomorrow?

Tatsu - Rainy Day
Daniel Carew - Fishes Wishes
Juno6 - Infinite Zero
Andrew Duke - Carnival (Dub Technique Mix)/Carnival
Drugs Made Me Smarter - Prelude For A Sudden Honeymoon
Cagey House - ArtBook
Bovaflux - Blind (Grime Mix)
Cagey House - Music For Number Stations
Felix Building - Sakura Week

 
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Slipped the surly bonds…

While watching the today’s (Flight Day 3) highlights from STS-115, I saw astronauts Tanner and Piper closing the hatch to the ISS’s Quest Airlock where they will be “camping out”, purging the nitrogen from their bloodstreams. As Piper pulled the airlock hatch down, the following image struck me as poignant…

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While most would know the STS-107 (Columbia) crew, fewer would know the memorial next to theirs, a photo and a pair of wings beneath - those of Dr. Patricia Hilliard Robertson, who died in a private plane accident in 2001. She was a member of the 1998 astronaut class, and never made it into the black. Don’t know who was responsible, but I personally found it very appropriate to put these memorials on the gateway allowing humans to get closest to the heavens…

Hey, Last.fm users…

Just a quick heads up to anyone who uses (even occasionally) last.fm - I’ve finally uploaded Krushjob to that service, so you can listen to the album via the last.fm player software, and have tracks streamed to you from their tag radios.  Some of the tracks are available for preview, so if you’ve been by here and haven’t checked it out yet, go listen to the little glitch LP that could, and maybe pick up a copy of your own!

Because I have to share…

  1. The latest podcast was finished, but it didn’t work. For the first time, I’m withholding an episode for another take.
  2. I had thought I was going to go in for another take tonight, but instead I followed on with my adoption of Getting Things Done by emptying out my inbox to 0. 300-odd emails categorized, or else deleted. DELETED!!! Take that, disorganization!
  3. I think it’s okay for me to announce that I’ve officially joined 3kStatic as a member of the band. This is really, really cool as it gets me out of the house. Plus, Dean is a good guy to have on your side when you’re stuck on a Greyhound passing through Baltimore. Or when you’re driving through a torrential thunderstorm, moving north though Michigan. Or especially when you’re rocking as an anarchist techno collective. It all works, and I’m honored to be aboard.
  4. Building on the 3kStatic love, we’re going to be opening for no less than George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars in Fort Lauderdale and the House Of Blues Orlando. How crazy is that?
  5. I upgraded to a newer version of K2, and now the css is all messed up.  At least, that’s how it looks to me.  I’ve got that as my next action for the blog, y’all - so the funky formatting shouldn’t last long.

My New Favorite Rock Band…

is OK Go. And this is the best music video ever made. One of them, anyway…