thought of the day

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

-- Charles Macomb Flandrau

thought of the day

Consciously cultivating thankfulness is a journey of the soul, one that begins when we look around us and see the positive effects that gratitude creates.
-- MJ Ryan

Weeks Thought

With more understanding, we can meet in the middle and walk the rest of the way together.
-- Eric Harvey

Week's thought

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

New Mix up for free streaming/download "the Dub Train" on Playloop.podomatic.com

Hey family, I just posted my most recent mix "Dub Train" up on Playloop.podomatic.com For most of you this will be seem an unusual mix for me. In reality though my foundation in music lays more strongly in Reggae than in house music. I've really only been spinning house since 2000 but I have been listening to reggae since the late seventies and started making reggae mix tapes in 1989. The first track on the mix "king tubby meets the rockers uptown" is not only a tribute to one of the pioneers of Dub style reggae but it was the first true dub track I ever heard.

My father owned two reggae records when i was growing up as a kid. One was the 1972 Jimmy Cliff's "Harder They Come" (which as a kid I appreciated more for the cover art than the music) and the second was an obscure cassette tape called "This is Reggae Music Volume 2" it came out on Island Music in 1976 and was a simply put together, yet quality collection. It gathered together well-known classic material like Augustus Pablo's "King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown," Burning Spear's "Marcus Garvey," and the evocative vocals of The Heptones' "Country Boy" alongside somewhat lesser-known tracks like George Dekker's "Time So Hard" -- with its bouncy digital chorus -- Desi Young's "I Don't Know Why I Love You" -- whose horn line is irresistible -- and Arthur Louis' version of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."

I was lucky to find a version on CD in the mid nineties. If anyone ever finds Volume 1 or 3 let me know. In all my years of music collecting I've never found another part to this collection. I remember staring at the picture of the shanty on the cassette tape with it's little faded "red Stripe" sign. It wasn't until i first went to Jamiaca when I was nineteen that I realized that Jamaica had changed so little in many years as I sat down and talked to the Rastafari and sipped my own Red Stripe as Burning Spear chanted away from a little boombox in the distance. To this day in many ways it remains unchanged.

I called this Dub Train, because on several levels both Rastafari and Reggae music was like the little train that could. It proved that it didn't matter what the rest of the world thought, that as long as one is true in one's beliefs and is dedicated, honest and willing to put in the hard work. No hill is too high to climb.

Also to me, in many ways, true Dub has always sounded like an old steam engine chugging away in the distance, repetitive and consistent, while echoing off the hills and landscape and breathing a sigh of release as it goes downhill. I hope you enjoy this music for there is a message in it. Always, Bless, LuvLee. May Jah guide and protect us all the days of our lives.

my profile is up on the SXSW site

which is kinda nice, 2008.sxsw.com/music/showc...d/70947.html

These Stars Align....on Podcast for Free Download

Greetings Family! If anyone wants to stream or download the Sun or Moon mixes from the "When These Stars Align..." compilations, they are available on Playloop’s podmatic site. Go to www.playloop.podomatic.com/ The "Moon" mix starts out mellow and slow and goes a little deep, soulful and minimal. It is a thoughtful and emotional mix. The "Sun" mix starts out tribal and then takes you on a journey going deep, funky, retro, progressive, electro then breaky. It is an energetic and driving mix. I have gotten some really good feedback on these and it makes it all worthwhile to me to know that everyone is enjoying my work. Big ups to Justin Paul for posting the mixes. If anyone wants a hard copy I will have a few @ the PEX Triple Seven party “777”. Until then, L-O-V-E, Peace, Blessings, Guidance & Protection! Always, The Mayjah?

Who are u?

""Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss""

DJ & Travel Schedule 2007

Upcoming Gigs:
12/1/07 Chemistry @ Grand Space, NYC
12/12/07 W/Playloop & Justin Paul @ Fluid, Philly
12/15/07 Phila Fire Arts @ PEX, Philly
12/31/07 W/ Bassnectar, Disco Buscuits @ Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ.

2008 Schedule so far
1/2-8/08 San Francisco, Ca. TBD
1/8-14/08 Los Angeles, Ca. TBD
1/26/08 Phila Fire Arts @ PEX, Philly
2/9/08 W/Bryon Stout & Inner Party System @ Khyber Pass, Philly
2/14/08 W/ King Britt, Dozia & Marques Wyatt @ Fluid, Philly
2/16/08 Heart Burn @ PEX, Philly
3/12-16/08 SXSW Music Festival, Austin, TX
3/24-31/08 Winter Music Conference, Miami, Fl.
5/29-6/2/08 Flipside, Austin, TX
6/27-28/08 Wu-Li Festival, Bucks County, Pa.

2007 Schedule

1/20/07. Phila Fire Arts @ PEX, Philly
2/10/07 Heart Burn, PEX, Philly
2/17/07 W/Bassnectar, Mendocino, Ca.
3/9-3/11/07 Burning Beach Ball, Montauk, NY.
3/17/07 Phila Fire Arts @ PEX, Philly
3/25/07 Sundae @ Marlin, Miami, Fl.
4/14/07 Aries Rising, PEX, Philly
4/22/07 Earthday W/PEX & Sundae, Bubble House, Philly
4/28/07 Rebirth, Big Island, Hawaii
5/5/07 Family Affair @ Standard, Los Angeles, Ca.
5/12/07 Shakedown w/Rob Paine PEX, Philly
5/25-27/07 Playa Del Fuego, Odessa, De.
7/3/07 Chemistry @ Grand Space, NYC
7/7/7 Triple Seven Compression, PEX, Philly
7/12/07 W/Playloop & Justin Paul @ Fluid, Philly
7/19-22/07 Transformus, Asheville, NC.
8/16/07 W/Playloop & King Britt @ Fluid, Philly
8/24-9/1/07 Burning Man, BRC, NV
9/15/07 Phila Fire Arts @ PEX, Philly
10/5-8/07 Playa Del Fuego, Odessa, De.
10/11/07 W/Playloop & Dave Hughes @ Fluid, Philly
10/13/07 LA Decom, Los Angeles, Ca.
10/20/07 Pato de Fuego, Chestertown, MD.
10/27/07 Uncompression, PEX, Philly
11/3/07 NY Decom @ Queens Museum of Art, NYC
11/24/07 Transit Night Club W Dj Dirty & Spankrock, Philly

History of the mystery

Notes on the Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment, otherwise known as Project Rainbow, has been a subject of long controversy and debate. It was an attempt by the Navy to create a ship that could not be detected by magnetic mines and-or radar.
There was also talk of invisibility projects and mind control experiments. The public will never know the truth behind this project. It is just one those triggers that we encounter that propels into awareness as who we are on a soul level.
However, results of these experiments became far different and much more dangerous than the Navy ever expected. Although the story itself seems too bizarre to be true, far too many coincidences have occurred for it to not be based upon some small iota of truth. The technical data that has also been presented upon the subject hold far too much credence to be ignored. Many of the stories associated with this infamous experiment are wild: whispers of men 'freezing' in time for months, rumors of men traveling through time, and horror stories of men becoming stuck in bulkheads or even the floor of the ship itself. (In the movie of the same name - the visual of the men being part above the deck - and part buried in the deck - is amazing. This sort of things has been done on 'X-Files' as well when they did a storyline about temporal anomalies.
In the 1930's Nicola Tesla got involved with a group with was experimenting with moving through the Time/Space continuum. In the early 1930's, the University of Chicago investigated the possibility of invisibility through the use of electricity.
In 1939 this project was moved to Princeton's Institute of Advanced Studies - this is not far from Philadelphia. There they were able to make small objects invisible. They presented this technology to the government. The military, because we were at war wanted to pursue it in their direction.
Tesla had come to the same conclusion that Einstein did that this technology if developed would not be used for the benefit of mankind
The Philadelphia Experiment has become a saga of strange occurrences and peculiar coincidences. It should be noted that Allende firmly believes the Navy was completely unaware of the side effects the Philadelphia Experiment would produce on the crewmembers. Allende is also quoted as saying: "I believe that further experiments would naturally have produced controlled transport of great tonnages at ultra-fast speeds to a desired point the instant it is desired. "(Allende). A full report of the Experiment was given to Congress and the members were so horrified that they disbanded the project immediately. However, research continued at the Montauk Project, a.k.a. the Phoenix Project, which was headed by Dr. John von Neumann, who also directed the Philadelphia Experiment. The Montauk Project centered mostly on how the mind reacts to interdimensional travel. It took place at the Brookhaven National Laboratories. Von Neumann attempted to link computers with minds and was apparently successful beyond his wildest dreams. Using this computer-human link, Von Neumann could affect others minds and was eventually able to open a time vortex back to 1943 to the Philadelphia Experiment. He even made claims that the mind could create matter at any point in time. He also claimed to have sent a man named Preston B. Nichols through two times lines, a fact which was actually confirmed by Duncan Cameron in 1985 (Montauk). Cameron was trained by the National Security Agency, so his testimony is valid. Many people believe that the Montauk Project is continuing to this day, although much of the information available about it is only rumor.
This entire scenario is filled with questions that will never be answered as the people involved have their own version on the events.