So the next couple of months I will be heading a cross the country. Just because I can. I can’t promise how much I’ll be updating here on the site because I don’t know how much internet access I will have. All I know is that I’ll be working on the album. And I promise a post about my trip when I get back.
The last year or so I’ve learned about the illuminati and to be honest it’s kinda interesting theories. If you even just go to youtube and type in ‘illuminati’ there are a ton of videos on the subject. I like to keep an open mind about things so I’m not going to say I believe it or not. You never know. Anyways here is my illuminati song and it’s a little different for me. Leave a comment if you like it or not, I like all feedback.
Download here (right click if you have quicktime)
John emailed me asking if I could spare a moment to vote for a contest he is in. I did and the response from him was grateful, appreciative. I respect that. You don’t even have to log in or sign up to vote, just click on the picture and you’ll see a button ‘vote’. So help another independent artist out and go to this link to do it.
I can’t get enough of these songs. Someone on my twitter posted one of the videos and ended up finding all of them. There is tons of remixes and check out what some of the other videos from Carl Sagan. Interesting guy to listen to.
The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.
-Trent Reznor
Trent posted this on his twitter account when he was at the Grammy Awards and I 100% agree with this. I never cared about the Grammys but my interest was sparked a bit when they added the category Best Electronic/Dance Album. I am happy that Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers won in the past but look at the rest of the nominations with live albums and compilations. What the hell is this shit.
To say the Grammys are a reflection of music today is akin to saying what airs on NBC defines America. It doesn’t.
-Bob Lefsetz
Apple announced the iPad today the long awaited tablet device that has been rumored forever. To be honest it’s a large iPod Touch/iPhone. People will complain that the storage isn’t large enough or that there isn’t a camera on there. I personally noticed that this could be used as a musical instrument/controller. For example on the iPod Touch/iPhone there is an App called ‘TouchOSC‘.
I’m hoping that the same guys create a version for the iPad. If you are familiar with Jazzmutant’s Lemur you know that TouchOSC on the iPod Touch/iPhone is basically the same thing on a smaller scale. It was never a problem until today because a bigger screen is what you truly need and wanted for something like this.
I personally think that Jazzmutant as a company is going to be slowly forced into becoming a software only company and should really think about developing an App for the iPad before guys that did TouchOSC or someone else might even jump in. At the price point of 1700 – 1800 usd for the Jazzmutant Lemur vs starting price of 499 usd of the Apple iPad, no one in their right mind would purchase the Lemur today unelse you like wasting money.
iPad is the most exciting potential music device of the year. Suck it NAMM, you fucking joke.
*Update
I do know that the iPad is completely functional with all iPod Touch/iPhone Apps. So therefore TouchOSC would work with the iPad but I think it just enlarges the app to fill the screen. I want new App to utilize the full screen.
Here is a hands on demo of the iPad:
Interesting idea for an album cover. When you open it.. it breaks a seal of an ink pack and therefore every album cover will be different. People are saying that this is an interactive album cover, I don’t think so. If you want a interactive album cover check out Moldover’s album (yeah same dude with the Mojo controller).
Pretty cool I must admit but ugly.
