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27Jun/100

Ezzy mobiles and bits

I think we are nearing the completely mobile times. Portability and availability combine with convenience and give us me in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon still managing to hit the net with some postpost.

I don't get paid for postpost so I'm not in those times just yet. But my screenshare is strong and about to get stronger, my apps get upgraded,
my G increments higher and my cloud grows larger. If I could afford an ipad right now my interface would grow and then yes, I'm working from anywhere in the world (that I can G on).

That is a mobile future, that is the office-less life we could lead, supporting local businesses and the community while maintaining our required productivity. Work from the park an it's not UCB.

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14Jun/100

Live 2MERICA Remix Project

Hey internuts:
Another week means another remix. Tonight I'm doing a live 2MERICA remix project along with some excellent additions from more robots than people on my table tonight. To combat these gadget ghouls I have armed myself with some fresh audio live from TV and some fresh tricks from my digits.
If you have any idea what any of this means, I'll see you at the Duck Island Club tonight. For those of you not enjoying life in Cleveland someday soon I'll be recording my set and perhaps sharing online somehow.
Ezraz

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9Jun/100

Welcome to the afterfuture

Now that I'm out in the mix DJ'ing again, I've been peeping some of the technology used to spin music in 2010. I started out as a vinyl DJ in the 90's, then got my laptop-based Traktor setup going around 2002. I remember being one of the few laptop DJ's around back then, and used to catch crap and generally cause controversy amongst that crowd. 

I even showed up to spin a slot for a breakdance event once and they didn't want me to setup the laptop where the dancefloor could see it, because these people were not down with dancing to a laptop back then. I can handle a heckler (I was used to it, I had no 1200 in my vinyl rig!) and usually a few 1/4 beat stutter-loops during a flanger sweep and toggling EQ cutoffs with finger-rolls got them to humph and back off. You just gotta let the other DJ wannabees know that they can't do what you just did and things work out.

Time has marched on and these days even the hippest bands have macbooks sitting on stage, and yes, the iPhone and the iPad can do all sorts of sick audio trickery. Check it:

That's some serious audio software, capable of crazy noise in both a live and studio setting. Given the average D-A converters in Apple's consumer stuff it's not high-end, but it will work on a gig fer sure.

So if you are cool enough to see me perform in the next few months you might see me give some of these 21st century toys a workout. I know my Kaos pad and my old trusty Electribe already get a nice beat down.

-raz

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5May/100

Hurry Up With This

There's this, which I've been waiting for since I was a young dirt diggin' chore hatin' fool:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20004050-52.html?tag=mncol

Maybe they'll get these things to market by the time I retire. Then my old robot lady can keep the house clean while I am out doing my old guy stuff.

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3Apr/100

Touching on the Pad

The ipad is gonna be everywhere in 1-2 years. All those people saying "how could I replace my laptop with that" are lying about how much work they do. Most people I know spend at least 75% of their time in front of a computer doing exactly what the ipad is made for - consuming/sorting their media, browsing the web, and reading or composing short text blurbs like IM, email, and internet postings. I personally produce music and develop software - 2 things iPad v1 can't do. But that doesn't mean everything else I do with my mac can't be more conveniently done wherever I want with the pad. And look at iPod/iPhone as a model -- you know iPad v3 will add the missing features of earlier models (like a camera, the phone app, hulu, an outlook client, and theater sound to list a few).

Think work. Think any job that doesn't keep you in a cubicle all day. Think about a private app store for an enterprise, stocking only their approved apps. Think about your work database, your POS system, your customer list, etc. being on a pad being carried around the office or around the neighborhood/route. Ever walk with a laptop or a netbook? It's the UPS brown-tablet for the rest of us, doing things way more exciting than collecting our signature.

Think about presentations without a $1k projector. Ever pass a laptop around a large room or conference table so everyone can see up close? Yeah right. The pad will be there making laptops look like corded phones. Oh it's so sensitive looking with that thin screen, better not get too close or lean near it! I love my macbook pro, but clamshells have never been cool unless you are baking them.

Oh yeah phones... yeah, think of all those people grabbing their iphone to do everything. Can't get that damn thing out of their hands! Yes the pad is like a larger iPhone. Think about that, it's not an insult. The only real thing hindering the iphone now is screen space. So the iPhone goes back to pocket-mobile only, and the iPad becomes local-mobile. You are not gonna write or browse on an iPhone if an iPad is nearby, but to me crouching in front of a laptop on a table is starting to remind me of getting up to change the channels.

I think security and deployment software will be needed on the iPad, and I'd consider investing in carrying cases, handles, sterile stylus' and cleaning products. There's a ways to go, but just like the iPhone, entrepreneurs should lead the way with software and hardware to bring the 21st century to us (finally).

But it will be everywhere, and like the iPhone it will take other companies 2 years to even come close to it. I predict it being a complete lifestyle changer, like the web itself. Remember when people would try to live using the internet only? Same thing for the iPad -- it will do so much so easily we won't ever go back to before it.

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14Mar/100

technology lets me…

..post while tracking. Nice, very nice. Finally got the wifi working down at The Flux-adel Recording Division! Hopefully this doesn't cut into our productivity (cough cough cough what productivity). But anyway right now as I type this we are tracking and I am posting. Multi-tasking for sure.

raz

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25Feb/100

Print that plastic!

So I broke down and had to do a promo version of the new 2merica single on CD. I was trying to stay digital only on the single, and then put the whole LP out with 5 tracks and full packaging goodness on all relevant formats, but the best laid plans of mice and men....

Seriously I just go with the flow on this stuff. And since "Never Met Tomorrow" is the hottest track I've ever produced (that's been released yet, hasa!) I am down with printing a few hard copies for eternity's landfill. The CD is still barely holding on as the standard format so I'll play along. Plus DiscMakers is finally doing short-run for a reasonable price!

The point here is if you are looking for a hard copy for radio or other promotions, and you are too cheap to buy one from cdbaby, I can ship you one of these extra special rare promo only releases in about 2 weeks. Gonna put this track "Never Met Tomorrow" out there a bit, see if anyone bites. Have you heard it yet?

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27Jan/100

stardate 1272010

better start saving, you know you are gonna get pad envy...

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23Mar/070

Cure for Insomnia

Combine a French movie trilogy by a Polish director clocking in at over 8 hours,

mix with cell phone soduko,

and administer in a seriously darkened room with big soft pillows and high thread count.

Note: this recipe can induce a weeks worth of sleep at minimum.

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With this renewed rest comes progress, no?
as jesus says while shoving crackheads out the side door:
"progress process progress process"
[with credits due to the big redhead]

Actually, [with credits due to the teenagers]
we've been doing the clean-up release stuff on SSB,
looking to get visual soon,
double-dipping into the tracks about to become elpeethree,
bitching as is our right and wont,
ACTUALLY writing new chit
DON'T KNOW where it will end up

Starting from scratch
and that's always scary.

Every scam record label in russia loves 2merica
I guess that's something.

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5Feb/070

Your Daily Forecast

Sometimes it's hard to believe how stupid some people are. I try to stay humble and self-deprecating. I know i'm flawed.

This internet, these blogs, this youtube, these bookmarks are supposed to make us more informed.

More educational materials are available for free now than ever before. But regardless - myths, hype, spin, and falsehoods abound. Ignorance is bliss in this nation of self-servitude and convenience.

Today's item:
Global warming is not affiliated with your daily weather forecast. That is to say, if it's hot out that's not proof that we are all going to burn up. If it's cold out that does not mean that all scientists are morons.

If you study the science, research the evidence, and deduce some reasoned facts you would probably agree with most of the scientists who say man-made global warming is a real and serious problem, if not one that is on a much larger scale than the daily temperature in your neck of the woods.

Scientists and climatologists admit the weather is a amazingly complex issue,
affected locally by all sorts of independent variables. But when crunching the numbers on a macro scale, such localizations disappear and patterns emerge. There is quite the difference between your local forecast and global weather statistical analysis.

If you come with only a political viewpoint, or generally find science and facts to be opposite of your preferred points of reference, then yeah, cold days prove scientists are wrong and global warming doesn't exist. All all the storms and warm days just prove that the end days are near, because we only are getting warmer as a planet overall because god must want it that way.

So, to review:

--airplanes can't fly because metal is heavier than air.
--boats are also much heavier than water so they sink.
--global warming is a crock because it's 5 degrees outside today.

Any other questions? I love America.

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