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This was a track I remixed off of my good friend Louis’s Dubulator project. This particular brand of Louis’ music is harder - and of course dubbier - than his more pastoral pieces under fwdthought. You can listen to my remix in this post, or download the original track, ‘All Good’ here.  You’ll also [...]

Minilogue - Animals
Just found this. Fun video by Minilogue. They’ve made some really great tracks that I like playing with when I DJ. You can read more about them at their website or on their myspace page.

Some great highlights for me in the past few weeks having to do with community technology.
1) The CTCNet Conference
This was great, if a bit small.  It gave me and fellow VISTAs from the CTC VISTA Project to get together and hang out.  For a few of them, it was their first conference.  The conference was [...]

This was a track I made after seeing Plaid play in San Francisco a few years ago.  It’s an oldie, but I was inspired by Plaid’s technique of having really fast, rhythmic percussion in the cymbal/hi-hat frequency range with other rhythms in the lower percussive ranges (like kicks and even snares) slowly merging in to [...]

I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system.  If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts - your very [...]

I’ve taken up a bit of a personal research project and am asking the question of this post on various networks.  What are the roles of community technology centers in building a national community service infrastructure? I hope to be able to compile and synthesize a brief report on themes that emerge.
Given the current socioeconomic [...]

The great thing about the internet is that it allows those with access* connection to people and ideas in a lot of easy, organic ways.  However, while the tools to do this are always changing and evolving I’d argue that the techniques are timeless and work online as well as offline.  Regardless of technology, you [...]