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The future of DJ technology?

Gyorak — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:42:04 +0000

If it isn’t its still cool as hell. Either that or its the physical manifestation of the Alien Entertainment station in X-com. Its called a Reactable and I want one badly. At a cool 9,700 Euro, its out of the reach of most aspiring future DJs of the world. Here is a BADASS live trance demo on Oslo.

The worst MC battle I’ve seen this year

Gyorak — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:23:03 +0000

Courtesy of Youtube, this has got to be one of the most odd and inane MC battles I’ve seen in a while. Looks like this is from some vague cable access/college station. Watch and learn from the Mastas…

FUCK YOU I won’t do what you tell me!

Gyorak — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:50:56 +0000

It seems as if there is some anti mass media initiatives succeeding in Britain. This could be a backlash to the endemic surveillance and the “big Brother” type atmosphere in the UK. The Facebook campaign started a backlash against the mass media driven choices for entertainment.

From the article:

Rage Against The Machine have sensationally outsold X Factor winner Joe McElderry to take the Christmas number one!

Thanks to a Facebook led campaign, the Los Angeles band’s 1992 anthem ‘Killing In The Name’ has secured the Yuletide top spot after shifting 502,000 downloads, according to the Official Charts Company.

McElderry has had to settle for second place with ‘The Climb’ selling 450,000 copies. This marks the first time in five years an X Factor winner hasn’t claimed the Christmas number one.

Better still, not only is Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ number one, it has also achieved two new chart records.

Firstly it has notched up the biggest one-week download sales total in British chart history and it has also become the first ever download only Christmas number one in the UK.

Merry Christmas Rage!

Amazing beatbox and rythym flute

Gyorak — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:25:25 +0000

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Some bored musicians in a hotel record a flute beat box song. Why isn’t this guy famous?

Holy Ska!

Gyorak — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:07:48 +0000

For those of us who love both Jeeesus and Ska, heres a treat for you. I really like the outfits and the parted down the middle 1970′s dews. The Lord certainly does work in Mysterious ways…

Idiocracy is alive and well!

Gyorak — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:12:26 +0000

I never thought that it would happen. Mike judge is the Nostradumas of our time! There’s a festival next weekend in aptly named Cave in rock, Illinois and its called the 10th Annual Gathering Of The Juggalos (they made it to 10?). Watch and enjoy! I’m willing to bet that the first casting call for “Ow my Balls!” will be held there next year at the 11th annual gathering of the juggalos…

Korean drummer steals the show

Gyorak — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:20:55 +0000

Looks like a variety show from a Korean network. This jackie chan lookalike gets a little too “into” the music hes playing and ends up getting all of the attention from the camerman. At about the 3 minute mark hes starts doing some old school headbanging (to a slow song). A must see!

Apple to close i-tunes store?

Gyorak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:40:24 +0000

Money.co.uk is reporting that America’s Copyright Royalty Board will meet to discuss the raising of royalties for digital music purchases from 9 cents to 15 cents per song. THis leaves the “middlemen” of the digital music peddling business stuck with the bill. Eddy Cue, the VP of the itunes store said,

“If (the iTunes store) were forced simply to absorb any increase in its mechanical royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss. Apple has repeatedly made clear that it is in this business to make money and most likely would not continue to operate (the iTunes store) if it were no longer possible to do so profitably”

With other apple products like the iphone depending on itunes activation and syncing, I wonder how this will affect the procedures if the store shuts down?

Read the full article here.

UPDATE: Looks like the appeal failed. Marketwatch is reporting that the rates will remain the same. The itunes store is safe.

Ghetto blaster hall of fame

Gyorak — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:40:35 +0000

Oh yeah! Check out this list of the grestest ghetto blaster stereo systems ever created! Including such classics as the JVC (VICTOR) RC-M90 all the way to the over the top models like the SHARP VZ-2500 (VZ-V20) which included a built in turntable and the BREAKDANCER BD-8000 featuring a “Personal Disco Component” built into the stereo itself!

Check it out here at pocketcalculatorshow.

‘Real’ coverage of the RNC

Gyorak — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:02:31 +0000

Tired of the same old wearisome unimportant “news”? Wondering about the peculiar lack of coverage of the Republican National Convention? Well fear no more. Get “real news” from the Coldsnap twitter feed. Its real time commentary of the Coldsnap legal team on the ground in St. Paul. There are some interesting tidbits being posted on the twitter feed such as:

Person tackled by 5 SPPD in riot gear for refusing a search. Media was present for this. 02:08 PM September 01, 2008 from web

Female individual snatched off street by unmarked car on 6th & Wacouta 02:12 PM September 01, 2008 from web

Rage Against the Machine just took 200 people on unpermitted march toward river. They are chanting, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.” about 6 hours ago from web

Report from prisoner: had been pepper sprayed all over her body, was not allowed to wash it off, now has first degree burns. about 5 hours ago from web

If the Twitter feeds are indeed accurate, theres some nazi germany tactics going on in St. Paul. This is MOST certainly stuff you won’t hear coming from the spoon fed corporate media outlets.