Just a lil sumpin' sumpijn' to keep you warm in the cold blizzard.

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I've been slackin', and for that I apologize.  I see that the last entry I made here was the Neverland Ranch auction, 2 months before Jacko died.  Man, I've really been slackin'.

This episode is mostly electronica, all rhythms that inspired me to think about Black Rock City.  Nothing more, nothing less....just sounds to shake your ass to in the middle of the desert.

See you in less than two months!

        

Michael Jackson.   Neverland Ranch.  Auction.   Nuff Said...click here.

        

It's been forever since I've posted anything on here, and for that...I apologize.  So, I come back strong and with a vengeance...a vengeance for peace though. 

This already has 10 million views...so you may have seen it, but if not...please take a few minutes. This is beautiful....I stole the following words to describe what you are about to see:  (a plagiarism)

From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music," comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. This amazing version of “Stand by Me” brought a smile to my face, and I hope it will do the same for you.

Watch it from beginning to end—you won't regret it. This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world!

It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician named Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added metal percussions.

From there, it just gets better and better: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals, which were assembled into this final final version -- all done with a simple laptop and some microphones. Amazing!

        

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I play music for people who hate the radio....funny considering I get paid to work at a radio station. 

Vol. 17, please....sit on my face.

        

Support Independent Music.  Support Independent Minds.

Just open iTunes and click the pic below. 

Peace...

        

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Music, rantings, more music, and part 1 of an interview with author Chris Moore (see book covers below).  We discuss the future of chumming the waters of high tech bookworms, being a beta male, the heart of it all (Ohio), and the sex drugs and rock and roll lifestyle of an author on his book tour!

        

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Part 2 of this fortnight's episode.  More music from your favorite purveyurs of disposable and downloadable sonic art, and more of an interview with Christopher Moore....absurdist humour and fantastical revelations that will most likely change your life.

He's got a new book out today, it's a new take on King Lear, from the viewpoint of the Fool.  Having read his other stuff, I can pretty much guarentee you that it's amazing.  I mean, we're all allowed our own opinion in this world...but this guys pretty good.  If you don't like his stuff, than quite simply, 'you suck'.

        

Megacosmic Transmissions Vol. 16


Caribou - If Assholes Could Fly, This Place Would Be An Airport
Osibisa - Survival
The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Fontella Bass - Evolution
Erykah Badu - Twinkle
Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box
Subtle - Song Meat
Bill Hicks - Pot Smoking
Lisquid Nations - Embry
Bobbi Humphrey - Smiling Faces Sometimes
Alex Attias Presents Mustang - In The Jungle
Evil Nine w/ El-P - All The Cash (Glitch Mob Remix)
Ween - Dr. Rock
Ween - Fat Lenny
DJ Sany Pitbull - Tribos
The Ahmad Jamal Trio - Dolphin Dance

        

Our compadre Rat is renting bikes for long distance burners...those of us who have to travel more than a thousand miles to get to Black Rock City.  40 bucks a piece, ya pick them up in Reno, they're in great shape....and they go fast!!!!  Touch base with him asap if you are interested:   Rat [nv_desert_rat @ nvbell.net]

        

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and now part two.  Features an interview with Dr. Really of the Black Rock Arts Foundation and The Mind Shaft Society. (see pic below)  Great conversation on the current and future happenings of the BRAF off playa. 

Good luck buying your ticket tomorrow!

        

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Tix go on sale tomorrow for Burning Man 2009, so we....hung out with the dog and played music.  Quite exciting times here on the home front!

FYI, if you're looking for the playlist, I said in the show I'd post it up here today....I lied, it will be up here tomorrow.  But I will tell ya this much, the show starts off with a dope Modeselektor remix of a Thom Yorke track.  Enjoy!

        

Megacosmic Transmissions Vol. 15

Thom Yorke - Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)
James Brown - I Know It's True
Mick Boogie & Adele - Tired (6'th Sense Remix)
Rosetta Stoned - Fungi (Metaphysical Remix)
The Beatles - Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (Takes 1 & 2)
Spiritualized - Electric Mainline (live)
Baby Huey - California Dreamin'
The Beatnuts - Be Proud
Lo Fidelity All Stars - Puppy Fat: No One
Trentemoller - Take Me Into Your Skin
Tony Allen feat. Damon Albarn & Ty - Every Season
Sugarman 3 feat. Bernard Purdie - Modern Jive
CLP - Ready or Not (Diplo vs. DJ Sega Remix)
(Dr. Really Interview)
James Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Chin Chin - Ohio
Roger O'Donnel - For The Truth In You (Dntl Remix)
Moloko - (not sure of the name of the track...interlude)
Bjork with Thom Yorke - Nattura
Bassnectar - Heads Up (California Style)
Jay Electronica - Swagger Jackson's Revenge
Spoon - The Underdog
Tom Waits - Midtown (instrumental)

        

You may have been wondering where the hell I've been.  You may not have...but either way, my posts have been sparse recently.  3 years ago I had the grand intention of releasing my second Spase + Tyme album, the followup to the critically acclaimed Stealing The Past EP.  I sat down, selected the tracks to use, started mixing, even named the album...and BAM, Art Deko and I began working on our album and the Spase + Tyme album got thrown on the backburner. 

Well, I finally got off my ass and finished it.  It's called R U Ready 4 Tha Riots? and it's ready for your aural consumption.

Most of this stuff is old, up to 5 years old actually.  There are a couple new and newish tracks though, including track 7, 'All Seeing Eye', a  crazy breakbeat psychedelia instrumental joint I've been working on for the past 14 months. 

In about a week it will be on sale on CDBaby.com, and a couple weeks after that it will show up on iTunes....but in the meantime, it's free.  As a matter of fact, it will always be free....the whole album is available as 128kbps mp3's in the downloads section over at ConcentratedEfforts.com

Enjoy!

        

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Megacosmic Transmissions Vol. 14

Mos Def + Massive Attack - I Against I
Us3 - It's Like That
Jamiroquai - If I Like It I Do It (acoustic)
U.N.K.L.E. & 3D - Invasion
Bill Hicks - My Favourite New Kid
Ween - Don't Laugh (I Love You)
The Coup - Laugh, Love, Fuck
Lost Generation - This Is The Lost Generation
??? - Ragga Jungle Anthems
Grampall Jookabox - Peace Attack
Aceyalone - Mic Check
Frank Zappa - Little Umbrellas
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Sean Lennon - Parachute
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Happy Melted City
Kool & The Gang - Dujii
Cracker - China
Dosh - First Impossible
Fred & The New JB's - Rockin' Funky Watergate
Gomez - Bring Your Lovin' Back Here
Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
M&D - Push
Return To Forever - So Long Mickey Mouse
Roni Size & Cypress Hill - Child of the West
Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
Fishbone - Unyielding Condition

        

This is a picture I took of Spoonbill on the right and Android Jones (more on him later) jamming out.  You may remember both of these guys from the Black Rock City as they're both residents.   If you haven't seen them there or anywhere else I'd recommend do so next chance you get. 

SPOONBILL

As my girlfriend put it,  "A must have for the well rounded new age dance hippy!"

Well I'm not sure if those are the words I would have chosen.  New Age sounds like an insult to me.  Actually all of that sounds like an insult but only so far as those adjectives are anachronisms.  Another time perhaps that would be pretty spot on.

You can listen to Spoonbill's entire discography on his site if you like.  But support him!  That could go without saying.  (On a side note.  You know those commercials at the beginning of movies these days that start off with, "You wouldn't steal a purse."  I fuckin paid to see this movie, didn't I? I don't have to sit through this shit when I watch pirated stuff so why do I have to now.  I applaud Spoonbill for putting his discography out there on his site.  It's really all about the live shit anyway.  That's how I support.  And to hell with paying 90% to the A&R people when I buy a disc.  I don't need their help finding good music.  I will buy a disc straight from the artist.  Highly unoriginal rant end)

So Spoonbill can be categorized as glitch right?  Hard to pin down exactly but If you start spouting words like downtempo jazzy poly-rhythmic glitch-hop folktronic brokenbeat I think you're on the right track mate.  At any rate he's awesome and what I'm listening to on repeat at the moment. 

Nice guy too. 

        

        

So I have some very cool friend's who have been going to this spiritual guru/business leader guy who has made billions of dollars several times in his life time and he gave it all away to focus on a simple spiritual life.  He does these talks once a week at his house for $400 bucks for 6 sessions.  So my friends invite me over to one of these talks for a free trial and my "This sounds like a cult" warning alarm goes off.  I was a total skeptic.  Which by the way is not a lifestyle I recommend to anyone.  I said I don't pay my friends to hang out with me.  But now I get it...

I'd have to say the workshop for me was almost a cult like, religious experience.  As insidious as that sounds that's the only metaphor I can come up with to describe this feeling I have.   I'm sure it's a similar feeling to that of people who are born again or saved when they find their church or whatever.    Fucking pathetic I know.  But having never really identified with any kind of tangible group or movement before I kind of feel like, Yeah! This is something I can get behind.  Nah I'm kidding I'm constantly having these epiphanies all the time.  I just walk around going holy, holy, holy...   But this  weekend workshop was a big one.  I'll put it this way.  A few years ago I made a decision to start climbing this mountain where the summit was obscurred by clouds and fog.  I had no idea how high this mountain was going to be, but after this workshop I've finally climbed out and above the fog and clouds and now I can see the peak and holy crap it's still a long way and had I known before how big it was I probably would never had started but now I've come this far...  So fuck it.  Let's do this thing.   
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well,,,my partner's comments have yet to be heard by me HOWEVAH,,,his comment in the previous post below solicits a contradictory response from me. no offense, OBVIOUSLY...that is my partner assfissures!!! i just have a descriptively different opinion and thats what he and i do when we are previewing new projects,,,so yall are privy to two great mind's opinions on this album ,,,,so YOU MAKE THE CALL!!!

        

From Proghiphop.com, a subsidary of XM Satellite Radio:

Monday 11/10 10pm et, Tuesday 11/11 2pm et on (XMU ch.43, Direct TV 843)

How did Subsoniq start? Whose idea was it to include a progressive hip hop show on satellite radio? Who were the original hosts? Which channel originally threw major support behind the show and got it on the satellite platform? What early artists showed love to the show and helped the show get its feet? What role did it play in creating Panacea? All of this and much more are answered in this week’s show!  Subsoniq welcomes one of the original creators of show (Josh aka J Kannizle) into the studio for an in-depth look at the history of the show, the music it supports, and what the future holds. Check it out this week exclusively on XMU (ch.43, Direct TV 843)!

That's me bitches.  Listen up to me rant about why Q Tips new album isn't the dopest thing the worlds ever heard (I still love ya Kamaal), why Burning Man is dope and more peeps from the hip hop community should recognize,  and how XM Radio was during it's infancy...when we (the employees), for a quick sliver in time, believed that the corporate suits got it right and that we were going to make radio of, by, and for the people again.   See ya on the airwaves.  Hopefully I can get a copy of the show and we'll have our very own podcast to throw up here. 

Peace,
J

        

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Pt 1, election day special...dedicated to America...and all her good and bad faces.

        

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Interview with Laurent Le Gall, Producer and Director of Burning Man: Voyage In Utopia    Also features music from the soundtrack.  Enjoy the interview and please check out the flick when you're finished.  Click on the pic below for a link to Laurent's site:

        

Minilogue - Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

        

My complaint about Megacosmic Transmissions

Callous. Otiose. Irritating. In case you can't tell, I'm making a direct reference to Megacosmic Transmissions. To start, Megacosmic Transmissions is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when slimy criminal masterminds promote violence in all its forms -- physical, sexual, psychological, economical, and social. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that it's okay for Megacosmic Transmissions to indulge its every whim and lust without regard for anyone else or for society as a whole. And fear of irrational yokels like Megacosmic Transmissions who rip apart causes that others feel strongly about.

Megacosmic Transmissions has spent untold hours trying to twist the teaching of history to suit its infernal, cantankerous purposes. During that time, did it ever once occur to it that it deserves exemplary punishment? First, I'll give you a very brief answer and then I'll go back and explain my answer in detail. As for the brief answer, it is willing -- even eager -- to jettison its scruples in order to stay ahead of the pack. This is not what I think; this is what I know. I additionally know that my cause is to bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to the current debate. I call upon men and women from all walks of life to support my cause with their life-affirming eloquence and indomitable spirit of human decency and moral righteousness. Only then will the whole world realize that if you think that ethical responsibility is merely a trammel of earthbound mortals and should not be required of a demigod like Megacosmic Transmissions then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Megacosmic Transmissions wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that its vituperations are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us in the immediate years ahead.

In that respect, we can say that you'd think that someone would have done something by now to thwart Megacosmic Transmissions's plans to convince mentally deficient meatheads that there is absolutely nothing they can do to better their lot in life besides joining it. Unfortunately, most people are quite happy to "go along to get along" and are rather reluctant to go placidly amid the noise and haste. It is imperative that we inform such people that you don't need to be a rocket scientist to detect the subtext of this letter. But just in case it's too subliminal for some, let me thrust it into your face right here: Megacosmic Transmissions always looks the other way when one of its provocateurs gets it in his head to regulate adversarialism. Apparently, the principle laid down by Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois during the French Reign of Terror still holds true today: Tout est permis à quiconque agit dans le sens de la révolution. In closing, we must do everything in our power to extirpate gangsterism root, trunk, and branch. The fight must go on.

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Why do you have a complaint about my company on your Web page?

        

Slackin'...yes, that is I in relation to Megacosmic entries.  I sincerely apologize...it's not that there haven't been a million and one things I've wanted to post, it's more like being caught up with the day to day extreme nature of my life.  Sometimes I wonder what kind of crazy karmic debt I've inherited that leads to the situations I'm put in. 

So, a couple weeks ago, my sister calls from New Mexico and tells me this beautiful dog she adobted 6 years ago and had given to her father bit someone.  The dog catcher came and picked up the dog to put it in quarantine to make sure it didn't have rabies...and then her pops decides he doesn't want the dog anymore.  Well, in the land of enchantment that means that this dog has to get put down. 

Now this dog is no normal dog....anyone who knows him knows he's a special breed of canine...a beast that in another time would have been dubbed a spirit animal.  He's a beautiful husky/maybe wolf mix with white eyes that pierce right through you and a personality that makes you believe he'll be a human in his next incarnation.  Not to mention the fact that him and I have a long history of hiking the rocky mountains together over the years.  He's the perfect trail dog...no leash needed and always within sight.  Several years ago while hiking in the mountains of northern new mexico...a big rock hit my head and almost killed me.  That dog didn't leave my side the whole time...even as they were putting me in the ambulance at the trailhead that dog had to be held back from getting in the vehicle with me...even though I was passed out cold.

So, needless to say...I wasn't letting this fantastic dog go down...so over the course of a few days my sisters and the wonderful folks at the dog shelter got the dog out (they made an exception since we were family).  I flew out from Washington DC last Saturday for a whirlwind 48 hour trip to pick this dog up and fly him back to the nations capitol.  Now...he's having the time of his life with his second lease on life...good for him.  Me...I'm happy, but 700 bucks poorer...the things we do for the things we love.  I was just getting ready to buy a new Macbook too!  Ah well...happy to save the dog.

Anyways, I know that's a verbose and egocentric entry...just wanted to explain my absence to any faithful readers of this blog.  I promise a new episode of Megacosmic Transmissions, the radio show for this Tuesday.  No more 3 weeks of slacking, I swear! 

And...a little something for you to enjoy.  This is a few differient local cats giving props to Obama just daze before we find out if the GOP will steal another race.  DJ StarChild, one of the artists on this...is a really cool cat that DJ'd a party at my house a couple months ago...and supplied the sound system.  Peace....

J Kan

        

SOOOOO,,,, after an extensive search for a hermaphrodite to have a serious conversation with, my hiatus is terminated; efforts all for naught; hopes in vain. with that being said, back to my previous post regard curiosity and mystery surround these individuals.

        

        

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Weta Halloween 27/10/08 10:22 PM

        

Weta, those guys responsible for movies like The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and soon Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and James Cameron's AVATAR just threw a wicked Halloween party and everyone went all out for it.  It was SO fun.  Right here are Brilliant Photographer James Ogle's INFRARED photos from it.

When the moon turns full the freaks come out to party. The horror is remembered here in the light you did not see, redder then blood itself, eerie infrared.
-from James Ogle's site

I don't know how he does that.  It's kind of a faux pax to ask also but I'm going to ask anyway.  Imagine INFRARED photos of the PLAYA.
Crazy.
More Photos to come.

        

thanks Dark Roasted Blend

        

Many of the most fascinating and fun exploration sites on Earth are not guarded by locks, cameras or security guards. Often all that lies between a merry band of infiltrators and exploration paradise is a simple, two-dimensional warning sign. A warning sign which cruelly informs all who gaze upon it that it holds no love for them; they are unwelcome; whatever lies behind the sign is too good for them. Though our eager explorers would think nothing of parking beside a "no parking" or "employee parking only" sign and later claiming that they didn't see the sign, or didn't think the sign applied to them, they would never think of taking such a chance here. And so, though our explorers have never signed any document agreeing to obey all signs they may encounter, they brush off a tear and turn away. Well, no more! We have allowed these signs to repress us for too long! It's time to do some serious disregarding!

Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. This site is the online companion of the paper zine about going places you're not supposed to go. All 25 issues of Infiltration remain in print for your offline reading pleasure. It's black and white, but you might like it anyhow.

-from the website infiltration.org

Rest In Peace Ninjalicious

Ninjalicious is the founder of this site, zine, and movement and passed away over three years ago. His vision lives on.

You can hear a very old interview with him in this episode of This American Life.

        

Do you need a flashing bra?


Or how about a flashing pimp suit????



Even better yet, go all out and get the Daft Punk Robot outfits....click any of the pics to check out the company that made all this dopeness.

        

Haven't been yet myself but I hear it's marvelous.  I'll be checkin it out this weekend.

YATRA, A Photographic Journey Through India
18 - 28 October 2008, Michael Fowler Centre.

In sanskrit - the ancient indian language at the root of many modern european languages - "yatra" is a word which signifies spiritual journey or quest. “Yatra” is also a fascinating exploration of India by Wellington photographer Karim Sahai.

In the images of his photographic odyssey across Assam, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and several other states throughout the subcontinent, Karim Sahai presents the intense hues and surprising aspects of daily life in India.

Visit http://www.indiaphotojourney.com for a preview of Karim Sahai’s indian photographic journey.

Canon New Zealand is the partner of "YATRA, A Photographic Journey Through India". The exhibition photographs were captured with Canon EOS digital cameras and printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF large format printer.

        

Take off you hosers!

Holy Fuck are playing at the San Francisco Bathhouse in Wellington December 15th
Of Montreal are playing the same in February.

The New Pornographers played the same last week and pretty much kicked ass.

        

I just added a bunch of old sketches and life drawings to my stream on flickr.com
These are all really old at this point but keep an eye on it because I should be adding newer better stuff and taking down the worst of it as time goes on.  Got your own flickr account?  Be my contact.  I'd love to see your stuff. Cheers

        

Some more from my Lomo Fisheye using slide film cross processed.  There was a car show in town when I was out shooting.

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Photos I've taken with my Lomo Fisheye with a strange slide film SO279 that expired ten years ago. They don't make this type of film anymore.  Then I tweaked the color and contrast in Potatoshop.  These were taken in New Mexico on The Historic Route 66 which on a sunny summer day is full of classic american automobiles.  This is a Cadillac.  Maybe a Deville?  Maybe late sixties? 
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So I made my New Years plan.

Rhythm and Vines 09 in Gisbourn New Zealand The First Music Festival In The World To Welcome In 2009.