No children. Not even a dog. This immaculate, mint condition 25 year old baby arrived direct from Japan this morning.
Off to Sham Shui Po buy a 240-100v power transformer. Got to love Ebay with a strong dollar. Financial catastrophe ... bring it on.
One for the geeks.
It's hard enough getting a bandful of damn people playing in time let alone four laptops. Stopping and starting multiple bits of gear on stage while keeping a back-beat / drum machine / clock source running in the gaps (while you load the next song) then restarting everything in synch has always been a complete pain in the arse.
What happens if you connected your face muscles up to electrodes and trigger electric pulses from your music software? Watch the video below to find out. Jump to Daito Manabe's YouTube page for more.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdlYFCp5Ic&fmt=18
Disclaimer: Not sure if this is real or not, but what the hell. The dude's credentials show an active mind, so...Read more
Swing by if you're in the mood for the best tech-house & techno HK has to offer, tonight at least. That, plus a new sound system and lots of booze ... starts at 9PM and we roll until past 4AM. And if you're not in Hong Kong or just not going out tonight (each to their own?!) then you can hear us live on http://www.awdio.com ... all ... night ... long.See ya. Oh! and before I forget, Yumla is proud to be hosting some guy called Jeff Samuel next weekend. Amazing ho...Read more
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRDDOpKaLM
And on that note... I'll be DJing this Friday with Wendy Wenn at Yumla for some little All Hallow's Eve festive party... DJ Fuckhead has left the building :)
Sick of paying 50% to Beatport? Do it yourself with Bandcamp. Perhaps. Videos at the link below. Wire To The Ear - video infoI hope to hell Soundcloud have an answer for this as I find the domain name Band Camp just a bit ... camp and the SC guys seems very good at pushing forward.
Time to expand the collection. I'm having a really hard time finding old / vintage studio equipment in Hong Kong and China ... where the hell did it all go?! Yes – you can buy a lot of vintage stuff from Japan or Ebay ... but there must be local history floating around somewhere.
Am on the look out for pure analogue gear (specifically mono / poly synths and drum machines but also interested in guitar pedals, tape delays and even EQs and compressors) from around the late 70's to early 80's ... pre-1990 at le...Read more
Just stumbled across this, the forward of "Amusing Ourselves To Death" by Neil Postman (1985):
"Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied..."
Mass media, kids. It's more evil than you think.