I shouldn't have left you, without some dope beats to get def too. Yeah, yeah, I know it's corny, but hey, isn't life? Anyway, been a way for a while trying to get myself right. For all the MPC users out there, after struggling for a while with getting sounds to the MPC 2000XL from my Mac (actually had a chance to cop an external zip 750MB drive one time, but passed only to check for it later only to find that some scrub had lifted it), I finally utilized the MIDI Sample Dump feature. Basically, what this allows you to do is send data via MIDI to your MPC. It's pretty slow (no where even near USB 1.1 speeds) and it splits stereo channels into two files, which you then have to setup for simultaneous play back (using your pad settings) and pan each file hard to one side. But, this method is much easier than what I did before, which was:1. Edit files on Mac using DSP Quattro, Audacity and Recycle.
2. Place files on flash drive
3. Transport to PC
4. Load on to PC and transfer to zip disk
5. Load zip disk into MPC
6. Pray that everything sounds fine.
7. If not, start the whole process over again
8. Get frustrated
9. Fuck it, I'm going to sleep
10. Start whole process over again tomorrow
Well, for all my OSX users,
DSP Quattro is a mo' fuckin' godsend I tell ya. It's about the only program on OSX that allows MIDI Sample Dump. Also, it's a great audio editor. I've found that it's recording quality smashes that of Bias Peak, which would give me mad distortion whenever I recorded anything from vinyl. Fuck 'em and they expensive piece of basura (thought I was gonna say shit, didn't ya?). Anyway, enough tech talk (don't want to confuse those not into that).So, I went to see Lady In the Water, the new M. Night Shyamalan film. I thought it was pretty decent. The plot was kind of convoluted, but not in a good way. More like, hard to believe, although I have come to kind of expect that from him. I really think he would make a much better author then he would a director/screenwriter. Folks were walking out like crazy at this showing. My thing is, if you know Shyamalan's filmography, you should know what to expect. No shoot 'em up, no thuggery. Just some quasi sci-fi mess that he tries to reign in at the end.
Other than that, your boy skateboard P released a mish mash collection of music this week entitled "In My Mind". Let me put it to you this way: stick to tracks 2-8 and throw in #14 just for good measure every now and again. And, is it just me, but does the version of the track "Number One" (featuring Kanye) on the album sound much different than the video version? Can someone confirm this?
Well, that's a lot of stuff for a new post eh? But, that's not it, I've also got a full album download for ya:
Zero 7's The Garden
Nice litte number from these guys. Much better than their last one, When It Falls, which wasn't to bad either. Both pale in comparison to their first, Simple Things, but who's keeping track?
Anyway,from here on out I will be posting a full album with every post. If not an album, an EP, if not an EP, a podcast, if not a podcast, a recording of one of my favorite online shows (quite possibly Gilles P.). Anyway, here you go. And please, PLEASE POST A MOFUCKIN' COMMENT IF YOU'RE GOING TO LEECH MY JOINT. And all the good shit you see in my LastFm charts? Don't bother asking for none of that, because I don't worked too hard to collect that stuff to just up and give it away. Be happy with what you get. Piece.
Zero 7 - The Garden
P.S. My little radio station will now be running from 11 a.m. to around 8:30 p.m. every day. I might even put it on before I go to sleep (just for the night owls). But, until further notice, that's the schedule.
