Zarif & Danny Byrd - California

Zarif & Danny Byrd - California -or- Zarif - California (Danny Byrd Remix)

- or- Danny Byrd ft. Zarif - Califonia ?

Zarif, from London

Danny Byrd, also from the UK. on Hospital Records.

Zarif & Danny Byrd - California

genre: drum'n'bass — liquid

label: Full English

release date: sept2009

rating: sehr gut

26mb, 320 kbps, original + dub

Muse - Hysteria live @coachella 2010

video by me. you wouldn't be able to stand still either.

muse — nothing short of amazing.

Silent Dance Party!

MIX #1 - JAWSOMO (right-click to save/dl) | mirror link (left-click)

MIX #2 - JameRSun | mirror

MIX #3 - VJ Jay | mirror

download the 3 mixes and sync them to your mp3 player, (you can put them in a new playlist so they'll be easier to find.) but don't listen to the mixes yet!
bring your mp3 player and headphones/earbuds and we'll see you at the OLD STUDENT CENTER at 5pm (arrive a bit early) on Thursday!

more info on event page

yea i made this flyer too! skillz!

Tiësto ft. Jónsi - Kaleidoscope @Coachella 2010

Tiësto opening up his set at Coachella 2010 with his track "Kaleidosope" feat. Jónsi
video recorded by me

Starting Six - Thirsty

So I don't really like hip-hop/rap, save for the Bay Area hyphy shit! yea boiii (lawl totally not me)..
It's good, and it's got humor. Check out the Jackie Chan and Mona Lisa songs as well.
Starting Six is a hip-hop/rap group from El Cerrito/Albany, CA, just north of Berkeley.
I know 4 of the girls near the end of that video from my elementary, middle, and high school. It'd be cool to know some of the guys in the group. haha white guys rapping is such win. not kidding.

Banksy in SF?

spotted in the mission. missionlocal.org

and in chinatown. sfist.com

23.april.2010

Len - Steal My Sunshine

♥ 90s one-hit wonders. lols I was 9 when this song came out. yeah I did listen to pop music in elementary school. who didn't?

The XX - Crystalised live @coachella 2010

sry I started recording it at a part that makes it sound a little weird.

very good show.

Fourward - Red Rain Drops

a side: Fourward - Red Rain Drops

b side: Dose - No Excuse

genre: drum'n'bass — liquid

label: Focuz Recordings

release date: 02.nov.2009

rating: quite good.

28mb, 320 kbps, link from dnbsound.ru

fourward, from austria

Tritonal's Halo 3 Bootleg

Michael Salvatori - Never Forget (Tritonal's Halo 3 Bootleg)

genre: trance – with classical elements! my favourite!

rating: awesome!

You have to login to mugasha (sign up if you're haven't already! It's a great website to stream mixes and follow along on the tracklists) and subscribe to Tritonal's Air Up There radio show and newsletter for the free download.

Le Castle Vania’s Bulletproof Tiger Mixtape

NICKY DIGITAL, ALWAYS NEVER & SO SWEET RECORDS PRESENTS
Le Castle Vania’s Bulletproof Tiger Mixtape Volume 1.

genre: electro

1.5 hrs, 320 kbps

from le castle vania's blog post

Crystal Clear & Netsky - King of the Stars

Crystal Clear & Netsky - King of the Stars

genre: drum & bass – liquid

Crystal Clear, from London, UK

Netsky, from Belgium

coachella 2010 day three!

SPOON! Phoenix! Thom Yorke! Little Boots maybe? Florence and the Machine. Local Natives. Infected Mushroom playing at about the same time as Spoon???! I'll be missing my 5th chance to see them. IM raging fail. The Big Pink maybe.

coachella 2010 day two!

MUSE followed by TIËSTO.

the XX and EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS.

fuck guetta. would see Kaskade again but then need to get to MUSE early. Temper Trap and Hot Chip maybe. Or Band of Skulls. Or Beach House. wtf Sia? Sia - The Girl You Lost to Cocaine some weird house/trance remix that just sounded bad?

coachella 2010 day one!

epic weekend BEGINS.

DMAU5!!! I would see that guy a multiple times! J.Zimmerman is such a cool dude. My friend wants to see Pretty Lights. I caught As Tall As Lions at the Loft Monday night. Good show though I hadn't listened to any of their music until I checked out their myspace 30 mins before heading over to campus. I've listened through Yeasayer's album once, couldn't decide if I like it and so left it in the limbo that is my desktop along with all the other music files I haven't put into proper folders yet due to undefined status. La Roux. Wolfgang Gartner. She & Him I don't care for. Fuck all the bloggers and hype. I just don't like Zooey Deschenel's character in 500 Days of Summer and she seems to keep that sort of air in her music/music videos. Fuck all the hype about Passion Pit too. I listened to one of their albums and was annoyed. Fuck that. I like one remix of that song that's a single, the one with the high-pitched kids. The remix of it. Fuck cutesy high-pitched voices. Aeroplane I would like to check out, solely because of the Aeroplane remix of Au Revoir Simone's "Another Likely Story". Yeah, I don't keep up with the music blog world much – whatever, that's the only Aeroplane song/remix I have. My over 21 friends went to Voyeur in downtown SD Wednesday night to see Proxy. So Proxy must be good. Will go check out. I know I have a couple proxy songs in my electro playlist/remixes somewhere in my now almost full/not-even-enough-room-for-another-320kbps-trance-song iPod. Hockey I heard is good. Heard their song on Live105's soundcheck but don't remember how it goes or if I really liked it. Probably was decent to decently-good. Imogen Heap maybe. Could be a surprise made-my-night kinda show. Don't wanna see Benassi. Erol Alkan another electro DJ I haven't looked into but know that all my electro friends know so I might check him out. Ra Ra Riot I've seen twice. The Cribs maybe. Grizzly Bear wtf. I listened to all their albums but none of it has hooked me, save for Two Weeks, but only because it's a single and I've heard it on the radio before. Echo & the Bunnyman wtf old. h(who)tf is Fever Ray? and the whitest boy alive? Jay-Z I would check out because he's a straight-up g rapper, but the same time as DMAU5? no way. JZ>Jay-Z. in my pov, of course. Yeah, htf are all these other acts? Fuck me for being too indie to the point that I don't keep up with the indie music news I'm not gonna look up these people now. It's 4am Thursday but I'm going to post this for Friday because I like to do the one-post-a-day thing, I still have one more chapter to read for so I can sort of study for SIO1:the Planets midterm on Monday right after Coachella. 20 pages to read about Comets. Should be more interesting than the previous chapter about asteroids wtf rocks. Then I can finally get to the homework that's due on Friday but I'm going to turn in on Thursday since I won't be in class on Fri. Then after that I'll need to look through the old exams, and then look through the General Plan for an Alameda County city so I can start my analysis of it due on Tuesday next week for my USP170:sustainable planning class. Ahhomg. 4am rant/blogposting done.

rushing the bad kind of friction

definitely not the type of clubbing event I will ever attend — not 21+, non-EDM, girls fixing their bras and on their cell phones all the time, frat/sorority related, sexist dress code, and WAY TOO MANY GD ASIANS.

from waste to energy

Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags. NYtimes, 12.april.2010

gd america. I would be so proud to be Scandinavian. Actually, no. I wouldn't even be proud. I would just go on without a thought except "isn't this what everyone's doing?" I mean, where has the world been?? america is way too problematic. gd rednecks and lameduck politicians and nimby-ers and the rest of the nation without an ounce of logical sense.

Read that article, ok? I don't post links to articles without first reading them myself.

caracas street art

Government-financed brigades of graffiti artists and muralists are blanketing the walls of Caracas, Venezuela, with politicized images, ranging from crude, semi-anonymous graffiti tags to bold, colorful works.

Of all the murals that adorn the anarchic city's trash-strewn center, one creation by the street artist Carlos Zerpa fills him with special pride: a stenciled reinterpretation of Caravaggio's "David with the Head of Goliath," in which a warrior grasps the severed head of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

photos: Meridith Kohut

artists embellish walls with political vision. NYtimes, 11.april.2010

the hate man

Q: You require people to say "I hate you" before you begin a conversation. Do you really hate everyone?

A: I do. But it's a new way of hating. It's about being straight with people. The dictionary defines hate as hostility, but that's heavy. My idea is to be straight about negative feelings that we all have, which is what hate is, and then you can have a real conversation. Don't be threatening or angry or snotty — just straight.

Homeless ex-reporter opted for Berkeley streets, sfgate, 11.april.2010

dos niños

by a.valentina

party in the ché café!

hell yea i made this flyer!

event page

sf zipline!

Riders must scale the "101 steps of fun" up a scaffold tower to get to the zip line, which the British Columbia tourism office hopes will lure tourists to the site of the Winter Olympics.

Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle

That is the most amazing shot I've seen in a while involving skyscrapers/high-rises. And the zip-line looks so fun- right in the middle of downtown/Financial District/Justin Herman Plaza (click pic to see more), too!

sf zip line gives free rides, sfgate 09.april.2010

building a green economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html

Amitacek - Underground Trance Connection 016

01. Talla 2xlc Vs Robert Burian - Deja Vu (Para X Remix)
02. Rene Ablaze Vs Cyrex Ft Stine Grove - Continuum (Dima Krasnik Remix)
03. Super8 & Tab feat. Alyna – Delusion (UTC Classic)
04. Akira Kayosa - Boxjammer
05. Matias Faint - Neitherworld (Heatbeat Remix)
06. Arisen Flame - Sincere
07. Hydro Aquatic - Impact
08. Everlight - Imperium (Taylor & Close Full on Remix)
09. Manuel Le Saux & Astuni pres Elexis - Pure Magic (Thomas Coastline Remix)
10. Sky Motion - Autumn Dreams
11. Ben Nicky feat. Rob Leccese - Legacy
12. Michael Lee - Everblue (Adam Foley Remix)
13. Der Mystik - Good Karma (Haris C Remix)
14. Tobias Davy - Uplift
15. Kaeno Pres The Hitchhikers - Galaxy (Indecent Noise Dub Remix)
16. Simon O´shine & Sergey Nevone - Pure Dreams
17. Liam Melly & Bryan Kearney - The Other Half (Thr3shold Remix)
18. Soundlift - Broken Heart (Abstract Vision Vs Elite Electronic Remix)
19. Soundlift - On a Mission
20. Tetrazone - Elegance

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=551210&forumid=6&s=af740a4ec797ac62666ddf11a5bb144b

http://forum.ah.fm/regular-shows-archive/21927-15-01-2010-amitacek-underground-trance-connection-016-a.html

I woke up with a headache and feeling of sickness today. I almost never get headaches (think I've only had 2 in my whole life). Think it might be because I didn't sleep well. But there are plenty of other times when I don't get good sleep, and this has never happened until now. Now I still feel kinda sick, though the headache is kinda gone. My stomach hurts/feels weird. Gonna go to the student health center tomorrow. Will make this post prettier later.

the male and female brains

Louann Brizendine with her new book, "The Male Brain."

author unlocks secrets of male, female brains. sfgate 28.march.2010

The Male Brain. 2010. on my to-read list? i'll at least skim through it at a bookstore.

The Female Brain. 2007. not on my to-read list.. check those top 2 reviews.

bedford ave bike lane

repainting the bike lane on bedford ave, nyc.

wired article, december 2009

cycling poise

by Mikael Colville-Andersen

copenhagen cycle chic — the original cycling fashion blog

FRESH anniversary

trance tonight! finally! :)

I really hope Myon & Shane 54 play the Ian Flux & Thomas Blofeld remix of their new track!

Velvetine - Safe (Wherever You Are)

artist: Velvetine

ep: Safe (Wherever You Are)

Original, Rank 1, and Ian Flux & Thomas Blofeld Mixes

label: anjunabeats

release date: 08.march.2010

genre: trance – vocal

rating: SEHR GUT.

buy on beatport

320kbps, 70mb

VELVETINE is the new name for Myon & Shane 54's project with vocalist Aruna. They've been producing songs together for a while, but only recently did they get the name. It's exactly like how Above & Beyond + Justine Suissa = Oceanlab. Now we just need Tritonal and Cristina Soto to come up with a name.

Myon & Shane 54, from Budapest

Aruna, from Los Angeles

The Future Sound of Cambridge 3

various artists ::: The Future Sound of Cambridge 3
label: Hospital Records
country: UK
release date: 03.nov.2008
genre: drum & bass—liquid and tech/dark? still not sure what this style is called..kinda junglish

rating: quite good

320kbps, 141mb | link1, link2: pt1, pt2

purchase: beatport, juno records

01. Nu:tone - Balaclava 05:32
02. Commix, Nu:tone & Logistics - Coffee 05:39
03. Commix - Rack It 05:46
04. Logistics - Cosmonaut 04:55
05. Commix, Nu:tone & Logistics - Ghost Snare 05:37
06. Commix - Bear Music 06:11
07. Logistics - Intervention 05:21
08. Nu:tone & Logistics - Trademark 05:16
09. Nu:tone - Troopers 05:49
10. Commix, Nu:tone & Logistics - Soundbyte 05:25
11. Nu:tone & Logistics - Hammerhead 05:37