I’ve been reviewing O’Reilly publications all week. I got ahold of Make Magazine: DIY Music (Technology on Your Time Volume #15) this time. It was fun reading about the various music hacks, brought me back to my hardware hacking days of undergrad and more recently Dartmouth Digital Musics.

The deadline to enter the Johnny Fiasco Remix Contest was extended last week.  There are two more weeks left for you to upload your remix of the track and get a chance to win expensive prizes and get your remix released on Fiasco’s upcoming single!

Remixin has just launched the Johnny Fiasco remix contest for the song “The Reflex.”  If you are a music producer, musician or DJ with some remix skills take a crack at the remix contest and win some dope prizes!

The Nine Inch Nails / Janes Addiction tour has put some free mp3s and even wav files up for DRM free download. There are a couple of tracks by the Street Sweepers as well. I don’t know there music, but their tracks on the site are pretty cool.

Remixin.com has launched a new music website. It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it. Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed. Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

If you are using a mac or PC and want to add Vorbis (*.ogg) and FLAC (*.flac) playback to iTunes and Quicktime then these two apps are very handy. I just recently installed them and they work great. Fluke is used to add FLAC playback and XiphQT is used to add Vorbis playback. Instructions to install and use these apps are included on the Fluke and XiphQT websites.

This is another version of the #4, 7 min version previously posted. It’s recorded at monkeytown in brooklyn.

Brian Shelton (RSSO NYC) has mixed up a classic acid & chicago house mix for you. Two hours of music to take you back! I’m grooving to it right now.

A new kind of remix is emerging where the songs are iteratively remixed (forever in some cases)

They are currently looking for a few more remixers, check out the site and sign up! www.remixin.org

If you haven’t heard the remix of Paper Planes by Adrock, you should check it out now.

Paper Planes Remix

This Saturday we’re premiering our latest work called Air Attack. It’s a collaboration between Stephanie Sleeper (Choreography) and John Arroyo (Composition).

It’s a show of Modern Dance and Electro-Acoustic Music. It’s also the first time the full program is of works that we’ve collaborated on. We even have a special improv in the works, it’s going to be a cool show!

This is a minimalist tuntablism performance I did back in November, it’s all about the noise baby!

Come out to Laila Lounge this Friday Night for live music and djs. We have Electrocab and Molly Thompson playing live sets and Beverly Chills, KMF, and Brian Shelton spinning some tight beats afterwards.

Electrocab will be playing another fine gig at the India Queen in Hanover, this Friday February 15th at 8PM. Come out to hear some new tunes as well as percussionist Beau Sievers. A double shot of goodness!

This is a new video from snoop dogg, “Sexual Seduction”. The term sexual seduction is pretty retarded if you think about it, but the video is brilliant! It’s worth checking out. Watch the video here (embeding is disabled). The video below is Zapp & Roger Troutman, the talkbox inspiration for snoop’s new track. Thanks Coffelt for the links.

This is Yune Lee and myself doing some improv at the India Queen in Hanover, NH. We didn’t practice much together so it’s very rough, but I think it’s a kind of fun set. Earlier Lee was shredding with a solo set and afterwards I joined Electrocab for a set.

Welcome to 2008, here’s a little video to celebrate. Some lo-fi latin flavored stuff

Allthough the use and popularity of vinyl is holding, the underlying infrastructure for pressing and distributing it is dying. Vinyl pressing quality varies greatly these days and the know how of running vinyl production machines is diminishing, not to mention good mastering services for vinyl aren’t always easy to find. Bottom line, more vinyl distributors are filing for bankruptcy. This is a deadly blow to vinyl, especially dance music vinyl.

Electrocab added a new video. It’s from a live performance at the Spheris Gallery. I wrote the song, it’s me in the back on the decks. The lyrics are from a poem, I draw a line by my friend Seldon Yuan