like the moon
A tale of several videos :: again about the wonderful work that music does, the vitality of digital (youth) culture, the persistence of realtime, peer2peer creativity and sociability, & the obvious shortcomings of corporate hackery u kno the first, no doubt — The maker of many a best of 2007 list, Dude Nem’s “Watch My […]
Read More →in the xmas diggin spirit, /jace offers up some fine aguinaldos y villancicos // including a couple MIDI files ! // & so i couldn’t resist spending part of my xmas tuesday morning doing this — w&w, “refried pasteles” [audio:http://wayneandwax.com/music/refried-pasteles.mp3] i can imagine a number of other ways to make mashed pasteles, and it’s begging […]
Read More →“Drink a Rum” = a Trini Xmas favorite. Composed by his highness Lord Kitchener, but also given various chutney soca parang upgrades, among other countless variations and personalizations. Another Trini Xmas fave, with even more personal/family/local versions — plus more broadly diffused throughout the (Anglo-)Caribbean — is the rum/fruit cake often referred to as black […]
Read More →Happy solstice, happy shoveling ! It’s hard to believe that winter’s only now finally here — in the technical sense — considering that we’ve already gotten more snow dumped on us here in Boston in the last week or so than we had during the entire season last year. I mean, fa Chrissakes, I can’t […]
Read More →In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was […]
Read More →the things you learn (or imagine) from search terms — now how’s that fit into this year’s google zeitgeist?
Read More →This Friday — here in Cambridge, Mass — the Thunderdudes are bringing none other than Detroit ghettotech luminary DJ Assault to move the (m)asses @ the Greek American Political Club — I have to admit that I’m pretty excited ’bout that, since I find ghettotech, ghetto house, juke, etc. — various hardcore post-house/techno booty beats […]
Read More →definitely feeling DJ Nate‘s waltzy juke ballad, “May Be Sum Day” — dude nem’s music industry continues unabated
Read More →found the following in my sitemeter this morning — can anyone explain this line of research?
Read More →Tonight at the E Room :: Brandeis Beats ! As my blogger-DJ-applied side attests, I like to combine the hands-on production of music with an approach that grounds any such creative engagement in historical study and an appreciation for music’s social and cultural contexts. This semester, my first term at Brandeis University, has been no […]
Read More →seen & heard from the rafters — mostly rave anthems, crunk hits, & arena rock staples & during “the celtics dancers” big routine, something like (if) a girltalk tittybar mixtape && the celts were introduced, BIG as could be to the over-the-top epic strains of “lux aeterna” (e.g.) !! (which always reminds me of this, […]
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