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it burns so good: enter the ghost pepper/bhut jolokia

really, it seems like a “guy thing” but deliciousness iz universal, yo. step up and feel the heat. aaaaaahahhhhhhahahahahh!!!!!!!

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cool summer reads: jack chambers’ milestones-the music and times of miles davis

  considering the many related posts, you may have figured out by now, that i love me some miles.  maybe love is too weak a word? ahem. anyhoo, this epic read leaves no milestone(sorry) unturned, no matter how much funk might be growing underneath. so authoritatively researched in fact, that miles himself apparently burgled it [...]

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he be bangin’: new diego stocco

Diego Stocco – Dustland from Diego Stocco on Vimeo. freaking TIGHT!!!!! the always amazing diego does it again!!!

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otherwise they wouldn’t need the lights: advice from thelonious monk

word.

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skinner’s black laboratories, subsonic 3: sweet fucking yes: recommended

whoo yeah! this iz THE shit!!! almost out of circulation due to…i can only assume stupidity…this is a MUST buy for your shizzled nizzle. MUST!!!! ……………………………. make no fucking excuses.

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kassel jaeger’s aerae: why yes, it is so fucking recommended

thick, majestic, shimmering (ie. fucking fantastic) drone from kassel jaeger. a card carrying member at the base camp of experimental electronic music, the institution groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) in france. dig thusly. it may be a little difficult to dance to but nonetheless a must have. this gorgeous letterpressed package is limited to 180 [...]

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touch me in the morning: jazzmutant lemur

ok, seriously, fuck the iPad (smackdown coming soon). alright, they are kinda cool for an iTouche-maxi and, yes, i’d probably keep it if bill gates re-gifted one to me. but sweet jeebus, if i see just one more post about it “revolutionizing” computing i will puke out of my eyes. please, let us give some [...]

bomb the bass: diego stocco and his bassoforte

goddamn. at risk of turning this into a diego stocco homage site… oh, fuck it, i just can’t help myself. check this frankensteen-ian wonderbeast, aka the bassoforte. birthed from the fertile imagination of dr. stocco. and jeebus, this guy can pretty much repurpose anything into a musical instrument. in the way that a man can [...]

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lil’ monstaz: checkin’ de mix with tascam vl-m3′s

really, i have found that everything translates to mastering nicely with a combination of genelec/focal/car speaks but i have been missing the days of referencing via boomboxes. i.e. 3″ speaks can solve as many mix-related mishaps as checking them in mono. i just stumbled on these little tascam vl-m3 babies and was surprised, wait, blown [...]

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fuck the record labels: rise of the talented

i’m gettin’ pretty tired of certain folks lamenting the “fall of the music industry.” you won’t hear this garbage from any real artist that’s not some fucking manufactured boy-band, britney “psycho” spears or the soon-to-be robbing liquor stores, justin bieber. slavery has been outlawed eveywhere except the “business” of art. fuck the “music” industry. fuck [...]

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