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Friday, May 23, 2008
A Chunk of Memorial Songs
A friend on an email list usually makes a "Friday NutSac of MP3s", containing new releases, things he likes, or just random goodness. Today he was afraid he wouldn't be able to follow through, so he suggested i might contribute something. Since I got a half day off for Bob Moog's Birthday*, I took a few minutes and threw together a "Surrogate NutSac":
* That's not the real reason, but I like it.
A friend on an email list usually makes a "Friday NutSac of MP3s", containing new releases, things he likes, or just random goodness. Today he was afraid he wouldn't be able to follow through, so he suggested i might contribute something. Since I got a half day off for Bob Moog's Birthday*, I took a few minutes and threw together a "Surrogate NutSac":
This is a group of 25 songs with titles relating in some way to memorials, remembering, and the like. The genre spread is particularly good -- there's everything from oldies to hip hop to electronic music to 80s to collage and more. Enjoy, or don't.
Part 1
Part 2
* That's not the real reason, but I like it.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
DJ Empirical's Sandpaper Set
Here it is:
Sandpaper Set, 2007-03-30
You can really hear that the needles, by the end, are completely ravaged -- the sound is so much quieter.
About halfway through, i used sandpaper with masking tape in a large X pattern to make a "beat"-type interruption. You can see it in this pic:
Feel free to comment!
Here it is:
Sandpaper Set, 2007-03-30
You can really hear that the needles, by the end, are completely ravaged -- the sound is so much quieter.
About halfway through, i used sandpaper with masking tape in a large X pattern to make a "beat"-type interruption. You can see it in this pic:
Feel free to comment!
Labels: dj empirical, music, sandpaper
Monday, August 13, 2007
New (short) Mix
i whipped out a mix the other day:
a quickie with dje
tracklist:
download! distribute!
i whipped out a mix the other day:
a quickie with dje
tracklist:
it's only 20 minutes or so. i've been burning it on those cute little 3" cds and handing them out. i figure i'll do a new one every so often.Jamelia "Something About You (Mr Oizo Mix)"
Lil Mama "Lip Gloss (Kid Fresh & Haterboy ReFix)"
Lillica Libertine "Ultra 10"
Cybotron "Clear"
Debbie Gibson "Only in My Dreams"
Federico Franchi "Electron"
Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin'"
Black Ghosts "Let's Get Physical"
Midnight Juggernauts "Road to Recovery (Miami Horror remix)"
Dandi Wind "Stop Die (remix)"
PROFF "You'll See (original)"
download! distribute!
Labels: dj empirical, music
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
face it, most people just steal music
toothpastefordinner.com
toothpastefordinner.com
Labels: drm, music, toothpaste for dinner
Saturday, June 30, 2007
last night at clique
last night was pretty sweet. great sets from Shiva, Love Between Equals, The Librarian, KFrey,... shit i have to check the flyer to remember them all.
i almost got bumped -- things were running late, and those are the hazards of having the last timeslot. i think i started at like 2:05 or something. i only played for like 15 minutes, but it was great. i ended up doing a kind of mega mix, playing a ton of songs for like 30 seconds each.
last night was pretty sweet. great sets from Shiva, Love Between Equals, The Librarian, KFrey,... shit i have to check the flyer to remember them all.
i almost got bumped -- things were running late, and those are the hazards of having the last timeslot. i think i started at like 2:05 or something. i only played for like 15 minutes, but it was great. i ended up doing a kind of mega mix, playing a ton of songs for like 30 seconds each.
Labels: dj empirical, gig, kfrey, love between equals, music, shiva, the librarian
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
celebration
want to know a song i can do with never hearing again? "Celebration", by kool & the gang.
want to know a song i can do with never hearing again? "Celebration", by kool & the gang.
Labels: kool and the gang, music
Thursday, May 31, 2007
NYC day 1, part 1: dj /rupture at Postopolis!
jen was nice enough to take me to the airport in dayton. she's awesome. we stopped at baba budan's on the way out to grab some coffee. poor amanda was stuck with no change or small bills.
i took a pic of the viking with big butter jesus on the way:
i took the viking to nyc with the intent of doing a pictures-of-a-gnome-at-landmarks kind of thing, but i never did, as i got too into my stuff to lug dude around. sorry guy.
the dayton airport had a looped message: "the current threat level, as established by the department of homeland security, is... orange." dumb. i guess it hasn't been below that since 911.
i was listening to chuck palahniuk's rant: an oral history of buster casey, and a great line came up: "after a good-looking boy gives you rabies two or three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life."
i landed, and almost immediately a dude tried to hoodwink me, trying to get me to pay him to take me to manhattan and not take a cab. he wanted way more than the cab ride would have been. douche.
i got a cab to the storefront for art & architecture. i had time, so i grabbed a veggie wrap at *ack* starbucks and chilled out for a moment, peoplewatching. i set off for the storefront, not knowing what to look for, since the spanking new google streetview image wasn't revealing:
i do like the cross shadow on the wall, though. :)
so i got there, and i completely understood, and was amazed. the walls actually swivel out, as seen here in a pic from the storefront's site:
basically, you just walked in through one of the open sections. the room was trapezoidal, with the west end (the left side of the above pic) being the smaller of the parallel sides:
the other end was wider, and was where the table and chairs were set up. this was the beginning of day 3 (i think) of Postopolis!, a "five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design." four bloggers were convening with a host of guest speakers.
the wall opposite the swivel wall, in fact, was covered entirely with printouts of (i'm assuming) those four main blogs. (links to all are in the postopolis! link above). there were also four laptops, most likely with those same blogs. (i didnt quite connect the blogs to the event until after i had time to read about it later.)
while i'm not particularly interested in architecture etc., i'm not uninterested, and i'm certainly a big fan of jace clayton, a.k.a. dj /rupture.
there weren't many people there, as /rupture was the first speaker of the day. i was excited not just because i like his music, but because he's just so well spoken -- turns out he's got a b.a. in english from harvard . no wonder!
the city of sound blog (one of the four) has a great recap of jace's talk. from dan hill's (who i think is the guy in the lower right corner of the above image) entry:
afterward i said hello to /rupture, but while i wasn't exactly bumbling fanboy, i think i was still trying to absorb everything, so i don't think i said anything much more than hello. :)
all in all, i enjoyed the talk quite a bit -- it was almost worth the trip to NYC on its own (a theme that i found was consistent with all of my days on the trip). if each speaker in postopolis! was as engaging in their area of expertise, i'm sure it was vastly entertaining. thanks so much to the postopolis! crew and dj /rupture.
my pics from the talk can be found here.
(this post is backdated and written after the fact.)
jen was nice enough to take me to the airport in dayton. she's awesome. we stopped at baba budan's on the way out to grab some coffee. poor amanda was stuck with no change or small bills.
i took a pic of the viking with big butter jesus on the way:
i took the viking to nyc with the intent of doing a pictures-of-a-gnome-at-landmarks kind of thing, but i never did, as i got too into my stuff to lug dude around. sorry guy.
the dayton airport had a looped message: "the current threat level, as established by the department of homeland security, is... orange." dumb. i guess it hasn't been below that since 911.
i was listening to chuck palahniuk's rant: an oral history of buster casey, and a great line came up: "after a good-looking boy gives you rabies two or three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life."
i landed, and almost immediately a dude tried to hoodwink me, trying to get me to pay him to take me to manhattan and not take a cab. he wanted way more than the cab ride would have been. douche.
i got a cab to the storefront for art & architecture. i had time, so i grabbed a veggie wrap at *ack* starbucks and chilled out for a moment, peoplewatching. i set off for the storefront, not knowing what to look for, since the spanking new google streetview image wasn't revealing:
i do like the cross shadow on the wall, though. :)
so i got there, and i completely understood, and was amazed. the walls actually swivel out, as seen here in a pic from the storefront's site:
basically, you just walked in through one of the open sections. the room was trapezoidal, with the west end (the left side of the above pic) being the smaller of the parallel sides:
the other end was wider, and was where the table and chairs were set up. this was the beginning of day 3 (i think) of Postopolis!, a "five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design." four bloggers were convening with a host of guest speakers.
the wall opposite the swivel wall, in fact, was covered entirely with printouts of (i'm assuming) those four main blogs. (links to all are in the postopolis! link above). there were also four laptops, most likely with those same blogs. (i didnt quite connect the blogs to the event until after i had time to read about it later.)
while i'm not particularly interested in architecture etc., i'm not uninterested, and i'm certainly a big fan of jace clayton, a.k.a. dj /rupture.
there weren't many people there, as /rupture was the first speaker of the day. i was excited not just because i like his music, but because he's just so well spoken -- turns out he's got a b.a. in english from harvard . no wonder!
the city of sound blog (one of the four) has a great recap of jace's talk. from dan hill's (who i think is the guy in the lower right corner of the above image) entry:
This session took the form of a conversation between Geoff Manaugh and Clayton, building on phone conversations they'd had. It was interesting to observe two minds very much in sync, posing questions to each other, which were then neatly side-stepped in favour of building a new level of observation! It wasn't that they dodged each others questions, more that the ideas came thick and fast, almost vaulting over each other. The conversation was more like a construction, each entry offering a new level.indeed -- this was better than i'd hoped. rather than "hi i'm rupture stuff stuff stuff", which would have been cool, i felt like i was coming into a very interesting conversation halfway through. rattling through concepts, some of which were new to me but i instantly understood ("favela chic"), some which i knew but didn't have words for ("artois"), and some i knew but hadn't thought about in a while (hakim bey's "temporary autonomous zone").
afterward i said hello to /rupture, but while i wasn't exactly bumbling fanboy, i think i was still trying to absorb everything, so i don't think i said anything much more than hello. :)
all in all, i enjoyed the talk quite a bit -- it was almost worth the trip to NYC on its own (a theme that i found was consistent with all of my days on the trip). if each speaker in postopolis! was as engaging in their area of expertise, i'm sure it was vastly entertaining. thanks so much to the postopolis! crew and dj /rupture.
my pics from the talk can be found here.
(this post is backdated and written after the fact.)
Labels: dj rupture, music, nyc, postopolis
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Gil Mantera's Party Dream photo diary
so, i went up to columbus on saturday and caught the almighty Gil Mantera's Party Dream.
awesome.
jarod (a.k.a. Lord Grunge of Grand Buffet) was there:
and these two dudes Richie and Glen were there too.
but first up was columbus solo act Bunny Poe. he was like a comedic, sort-of goth guy. pretty nice.
Beast was next -- they were sort of an instrumental queens-of-the-stone-age-meets-deep-purple type thing.
after some setup, gil mantera came out and did a song on his own.
then he was joined by his brother, ultimate donny.
then, they rocked the fuck out.
then things got weird.
and then weirder.
gil had to convince donny to continue.
it didnt work initially.
but soon donny was back.
they ruled.
see more photos here.
so, i went up to columbus on saturday and caught the almighty Gil Mantera's Party Dream.
awesome.
jarod (a.k.a. Lord Grunge of Grand Buffet) was there:
and these two dudes Richie and Glen were there too.
but first up was columbus solo act Bunny Poe. he was like a comedic, sort-of goth guy. pretty nice.
Beast was next -- they were sort of an instrumental queens-of-the-stone-age-meets-deep-purple type thing.
after some setup, gil mantera came out and did a song on his own.
then he was joined by his brother, ultimate donny.
then, they rocked the fuck out.
then things got weird.
and then weirder.
gil had to convince donny to continue.
it didnt work initially.
but soon donny was back.
they ruled.
see more photos here.
Labels: gil mantera's party dream, music, photography
Friday, April 20, 2007
The Earlies present a Friday Random 10
I wasnt listening on shuffle this morning, but i am now.
The Earlies - Bad Is as Bad Does
virt - Choppastyle
Lady Muck - Suddenly I Replay (KT Tunstall vs. Rhianna)
The Minibosses - Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Mr. Velcro Fastener - Aura
Lassigue Bendthaus - Ashes to Ashes (Digital Spacepop Replicant)
Plaid - Snakeing
Smile - Blag
The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine
Disciplinska Komisija & Dopller Efekt - Prva bojna
I wasnt listening on shuffle this morning, but i am now.
The Earlies - Bad Is as Bad Does
virt - Choppastyle
Lady Muck - Suddenly I Replay (KT Tunstall vs. Rhianna)
The Minibosses - Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Mr. Velcro Fastener - Aura
Lassigue Bendthaus - Ashes to Ashes (Digital Spacepop Replicant)
Plaid - Snakeing
Smile - Blag
The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine
Disciplinska Komisija & Dopller Efekt - Prva bojna
