Monthly Archive for March, 2009

New hard drive

Published on March 19, 2009 in PC and randomness. 1 Comment

Newegg had a killer deal on hard drives for St. Patrick’s day (10% off!) and I figured it was about time I upgraded this computer with some more hard drive space. I got a sweet Samsung 640GB HD for about $64ish -shipped. This one.

The manual has these cute little drawings on it telling what not to do, I love these kind of things.

The face on the sun: ^_^;

And while scanning that I managed to blue screen my printer/scanner.

I now officially have 5 Hard drives and one CD/DVD drive. Inside the case it’s a MESS of wires and cables. I don’t even want to open it for a picture, it’s just a mess. It’s not like I don’t try and organize it either, there’s just that much crap in my case. Ever socket, slot, and plug is taken up in my computer. It’s madness! Insane! I need some sleep!

Good night.

Daybreak Reprise

Published on March 11, 2009 in Uncategorized. 3 Comments

daybreakblogver(you can tell I used a different camera for this)

Woohoo my new Ken Ishii CD came! Already… hm… I still have two vinyl records somewhere floating around in the mail system that I honestly thought would arrive way before this thing. King Street Records better not be pulling my leg… or else. I’m giving them a month to get it to my door from wherever they are on the east coast. I think that should be plenty of time. Yea I don’t trust record labels…

Anyway here’s a copy-pasta from what I wrote on another website:

This is probably only the second CD I’ve ever imported from Japan, the other being the Radio Allergy soundtrack of all things. (Radilgy)

I’m a huuuge Ken Ishii fan so it’s about time I imported this release. I think I posted about this here when it first released…

And indeed I also posted about it here on the blog as well
More….

Oddly enough I had to sign for this when it arrived and because I was sleeping in I missed the mail man when he came to my door! Quickly realizing what I just potentially missed I leaped out of bed and ran down the street after him until the next mailbox (not too far away really). Everything was kinda blurry… and I signed my name kinda wonky (I gave it an extra “i”), but it was so worth it.

Picture was taken on my Technics for lack of a better background, as you can see I started unwrapping the plastic before I decided “-wait! I should take a picture.” ^_^;

Great album BTW, ate breakfast and listened to the mix CD. The unmixed CD will come in handy for DJ mixes.

All the tracks are gold. Great remixes from 7th Gate, Fabrice lig, Los hermanos (a UR offshoot), and others. Highly recommend this to any Techno lover though the price may be a bit steep for some – depending where you get it.

You can bet I’ll be taking this baby to my next session in Guitar center.

Edit: I’ve added a new category of links to my page: “Profiles” Which has links to me on DJforums, SoundCould, MusicV2, and Youtube. Potentially Myspace again in the future, but don’t count on it. Especially since I can now annoy contact my favorite artists on places like youtube and SoundCloud.

Another vinyl haul

Published on March 6, 2009 in Blog, Music, Vinyl and Web. 1 Comment

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Woot!
More Vinyl is here! (well I put away the vinyl in this picture… but I left out the boxes… you get the idea)

I got two of them on the same day, and another one today. I’ve still got one in transit from the UK, and a lot of 5 coming from the bay this weekend. The Ken Ishii CD “Daybreak Reprise -Sunriser Remixed” has started shipping from Japan… I don’t expect that any time soon.

Among these recently purchased records I’ve acquired two from Ibadan records – both of which I consider absolute gems. Deep house can be hard to “Get” for some people though, so I can’t really explain why I like them so much other than the fact I think they’re rich in musical complexity and awesomeness. You will definitely be able to hear me playing these two babies on Faderwave. What can I say, I like my house deep, chilled, and shaken – not stirred.

To my blog roll I’ve added Ben Turner (AKA: NTO) who’s a fellow “guerrilla faderwave DJ” as I like to put it. He mainly mixes drum and bass for all you DNB heads out there – so check out his mixes, bookmark his site, ect.

Now on the subject matter of my demo CD, it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to (bleh). I’ve been slacking on coloring in my logo as well. I’ll probably just post up one of the mixes here in a few days and save the artwork for another occasion.

I’ll probably post it to SoundCloud which is pretty neat BTW.
Check out the demo video at:
http://soundcloud.com/
And my weak little tracks made with the DS-10:
http://soundcloud.com/npc

I’m working on learning reaper… sorta… I’ll get around to it.

Vinyl insanity

Published on March 4, 2009 in Vinyl and randomness. 0 Comments

The time is 5:08Am and I’ve just ordered five more records on top of the twelve en route already. Plus one CD. I think I just sort of wanted to get these out of the way. I found some gems – for cheap – and I couldn’t resist.

Also, these additional five are shipping from dancerecords.com, an online vinyl shop that’s based no more than 108miles from my house (according to google)! They should arrive in a matter of days… and not weeks. Apparently Saturday if DR estimates correctly.

They would be insane if all my records I ordered from last week arrived on the same day.
O_O

I need to sleep now, I have some extra credit class I want to attend in the afternoon.

New blog!

Published on March 2, 2009 in Blog. 0 Comments

Yay! This baby is up and running!

Currently running wordpress and the K2 theme with some minor modifications thanks to mike. The coolest part is in the Java script tricks employed in the search field and “older” button. It essentially allows you to search my entire blog in real time. And yes, it’s all here, nothing from my past has been spared. That’s how I roll.

Stay tuned for more updates coming down the road. Including a two part demo mix, and ramblings of my latest events in life. I really want this newer blog to be more open-ended and general.

Who knows what I’ll post! woo!

Better late than never

Published on March 1, 2009 in Music, My future and randomness. 0 Comments

Better late than never, right?

Here’s a quick update:

…I slacked off last semester and failed half my classes, got some (a lot) more records, I’ve been spinning weekly (at least) on faderwave.net, had a great Halloween/thanksgiving/Xmass/new-year/birthday, and *breath* I’ve been oh-so-happy with my newly elected president.

So what do I do now? Why did I postpone so many updates? Well, for one, every blogger has a realization that they don’t live enough to blog enough – and second of all, I’ve been meaning to move this blog over on mike’s server where I could use word press. Really! I have! I’m going to get on it!… Right after I finish my demo tape. It’s going to be two parts (two mixes) and I’ll release it online with CD cover art and everything. Though the version I plan to have out in… oh… 8 hours, won’t have any cover art. But then again it’s only going to one dude so far.

The next time I update I plan to have this all in wordpress! Hopefully!