Happy holidays to my 5 readers!
Bringing it in
I’m quite comfortable making mixes myself, choosing all the songs, collecting it all, arranging and ordering, building and bridging, painting on silence, and stringing together ideas made of music.
Now I want to try something a bit different for me. I want to include you in the process of my next mix. So, tell me what your favorite electronica track is, and why, and I’ll put it in my next mix. To be fair, I will need to limit it to one track per commenter.. but that’s the only rule at this point. Please go ahead and share in this format: Artist – Track Name.
Looking forward to hearing what your favs are!
“garbage” is just a nice way of saying…
“Garbage” is just a nice way of saying “material in transit to the landfill.” I like this subtle re-labelling – makes someone pause just a little more before deciding which bin their material belongs in. I found this sign at Habit (Atrium) beside 3 others: clean paper, plastic glass or lids, & food waste or soiled paper.
Wood for fires
Galiano firewood at the cabin.
Early bird gets the worm at Shine Cafe
My walk to work looks like this
Breakfast sandwiches
From Discovery Coffee in James Bay
Moved from MovableType to WordPress
Tonight, I moved this site from MovableType to WordPress.
The transition is a bit ridiculous and easy. WordPress has made a mockery of the MovableType installation process – there is pretty much no comparison.
The first time I considered moving away from MovableType was when the owners of the company (6apart) started charging for personal blogging licenses. That was obviously a mistake – and it was around that time that WordPress was taking off. All WordPress needed at the time was users and 6apart provided the perfect impetus for MovableType users to make a mass exodus to WordPress by charging the very users who helped build MovableType itself.
I was an exception because I had other things to do at the time besides install a new blogging system. The repeated trauma of installing MovableType made the idea of installing and moving fairly unappealing. I was happy to skip that idea.
Over the years, MovableType has been adequate in many regards, inadequate in many others. One of the most glaring examples lately has been the lack of an app for the blogging system itself, and the lack of commitment by the company that owns the platform to develop for it. It had a good run. It’s over.
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Update: Some trickery was required to swap from the subdomain for installation – 1-click installation has to occur on a domain which has no files existing within it (for whatever reason.) Had to reinstall and reconnect the DB this morning – even though it was working last night.
AFK – Nothing But You And The Beat
This is a mix that gets away from the popular dance floors and ventures far into the underground. Something you might listen to on a walk near the ocean, or a drive on a long windy road, or who knows. This mix is a soundtrack for a place far away from the maddening crowds. This is a mix that started in April, and finished in the beginning November – this would be the result of my latest efforts.
The samples in this mix – the vocal samples – are from Mad Men and The Walking Dead. Points to whomever can pinpoint individual episodes which each are from.
That is all.
Tracklisting:
- Stiven Rivic, Michael & Levan – Leap Of Faith [Mistiquemusic]
- Stefan Anion – Strangers [Silk Digital Records]
- Christian Smith – Milky Way [Tronic]
- Sasha – Mongoose (Guy J remix) [emFire]
- GMJ – New Dawn (Kasey Taylor’s Rainbow Serpent remix) [Vapour]
- Cid Inc. – Magnify (Quivver remix)[AfterImage Recordings]
- Pako and Frederik – Western Approaches (Evolution remix) [Coded]
- Hybrid – Blind Side (Hybrid Soundsystem remix) [Kill City Records]
- Micah – Begin Again (Faskil remix) [Polytechnic Recordings]
- Dibby Dougherty and David Young – Hydra Island (Cid Inc. remix) [Mirabilis Records]
- Pryda – Human Behavior [Pryda Recordings]
- Solarity – Tape Pack [Anjunadeep]
- Abstract Vision and Elite Electronic – Echoes (Protoculture remix) [Enhanced Digital]
- Andrew Bayer – From The Earth [Anjunabeats]
Download:
AFK – Nothing But You And The Beat (mp3)
Right click and Save As, or option-click the link on a Mac to automatically download
10+ years of quicksilver
My Mac Quicksilver G4 tower (I can hear people already going “WTF is that, it’s an apple product that doesn’t start with an “i”?!) turned 10 quietly this summer, running non-stop on original parts. And I mean, really non-stop. The computer has been off only for moves, which all together span maybe 30 hours over that time. Otherwise, it’s been up, running as a server. Additionally, on this computer I ran several websites, composed a lot of music, recorded mixes, radio shows, designed and made well over a hundred websites, did a lot of photo management with 70,000+ photos, did many many hours of homework, blogged most of what’s on davingreenwell.com, and so much more. When this computer was first launched, it – like much of what has come from Apple – was referred to as “Insanely great.” Without a doubt, it has been just that.
Last night I moved it away from the desk it had been for a lot of that time, and sold the desk to my friend Matty, who will be putting it to good use. Now the Quicksilver tower is hooked up to my 40″ screen in the living room, playing a vast library of music and doing the occasional slideshow. I’ve set it up to do screen sharing, and have also divorced it from its keyboard, mouse, and screen. Now I control it remotely from my MacBook and it shares that 40″ screen with a tiny little AppleTV (2nd generation.)