September 27, 2011 @ 1:54pm •
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Is Techno about the music or the mindset?
Long and the short of it, I’ve been on and off with the music. Still doing at it making the occasional song/track when the inspiration hits, but the music (for me) has become less the art than the mindset.
When I started in this game, it was this mindset, this re-appropriation that inspired me. It has always been part of my ‘Need to create’ mindset. A mindset which fits well with techno music.
Techno music has always been about the re-appropriation of technology in novel and unique ways. For a great example watch the TB303 documentary.
If you haven’t watched the TB-303 documentary I highly suggest it: Roland TB303 Documentary BASSLINE BASELINE by Nate Harrison
Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological mediation within product innovation and creative expression. The dead-panned ‘documentary’ video attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a tool’s research and development phase don’t necessarily lead to increased expressivity or virtuosity during the tool’s lifetime of actual use, unless the super-structure of its cultural context is dramtically reconsidered.
(Source: Archive.org)
Now here I am approaching 40 years old thinking less about dj’ing and producing, and more about embracing that mindset into other aspects of my life. While the ‘Hacker mindset’ speaks to *how* to move forward, I’ve always had a problem with the why… the spark that creates the action.
The mindset of Lx7 has always been ‘the something in that square‘… This has always been my translation of the techno mindset. That mindset has driven more successes within my own life than I ever could imagine… and it continues to drive me forward.
Which makes it more relevant today than ever before. It’s that mindset which can’t easily be commoditized. Techno music may one day become a commodity (that’s a whole other post), but the techno mindset is something that will always be unique.
August 28, 2011 @ 9:41am •
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Vergel Evans - Svvett (dj mix) (60min)
Website: http://vergelevans.com
##. Title - Artist
01. Adam Beyer - Weqst
02. Shamus Coghlan - -40 In Yorkville
03. James Ruskin - Take Control (Surgeon Remix)
04. P.Laoss - Back Diffusion (Dubatech No Space Remix)
05. The Bug - Live and Learn
06. Huntemann - Sweet Sensation
07. Vergel Evans - Spyders
08. Rhythm & Sound - Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) w/ Bobbo Shanti
09. Jerome Sydenham - Rump (Original Mix)
10. Superpitcher - Even Angels
11. Takashi Watanabe - Sweet Pie
12. Loisan - Liberated Souls (Dakpa Remix)
13. Tiefschwarz - No More Trouble (Turntablerocker remix)
14. A.Paul - Scams (Max M Remix)
15. Tomy DeClerque - Planned History (Original Mix)
16. Youandme - Close to Me (Robert Hood Remix)
17. Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben (Max Cooper “Tensor” mix)
18. Max CL - Hituschi (Side B)
19. Oliver Huntemann - Bloody Mary
20. G-Man - Avanti
21. Dimitri Pike - Asteroid
22. Jeff Mills - Gamma Player
23. Detroit People Mover - Les Duit
24. Vergel Evans - One By Morning
25. Blake Baxter - When A Thought Becomes U
26. Sans Soleil - Air-sol
27. Laurent Garnier - Desirless
28. Cristian Vogel - Mulch Love (Vocal Mix)
29. Mark Broom - People
30. Edit Select - Aurian
August 27, 2011 @ 4:15pm •
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damn those URL hijackers!
Finally took control of Lx7 this morning… for those who have been wondering where I went. I went to work… paid bills, hid away in the world of regular life. On Twitter (http://twitter.com/vveerrgg) I moved away from music and all things techno and focused on the things I do day to day. Talked about user experience and what it means to make the web a better place.
But as always… the call of the machines can’t be silenced. This techno music that is me will always be what drives me. So I had to wrangle the servers back from the ppl who hacked my Wordpress account and moved it here to Tumblr… the past is the past. it’s not worth trying to recover, instead lets move forward and talk about the plan from here to the future.
Lx7 is and will always be the something in that square. that square being me, that something being this. where it goes… who knows. where’ its from… that can be found in the echos of the infinite internet and whatever the cache still can show… but even those echos disappear. it’s time for a reboot and time to move on.
August 27, 2011 @ 4:09pm •
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
earliest human memory? hmm.. thats a good one. I can remember being a kid going to the toronto islands and thinking how crazy it was to be on a boat….
but to think human memory as when i first was turned on to what it means to be human. it would be when my father brought home his first cellphone. it was the size of a briefcase. he went on about how he remembered when his town first got electricity and how now he has a phone without wires….
it was at that moment when i thought. what it means to be human and how much technology will pass / happen in my lifetime. that would be my first humanjava memory. when i started thinking of life not in lifetimes, but more in lifecycles of innovation.
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