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This Sunday June 15th, Phil Western (Download/Plateu), Bellingham, WA

djkuru — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:06:26 GMT

Private show from Phil Western in Bellingham, WA. Very limited entry. Let me know if you are interested.

Monday, Jan29.

djkuru — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:26:31 GMT

I'll be spinning Psytrance at the Mercury this Monday. I think I go on early.

Goa Gil kicks ass.

djkuru — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:39:44 GMT

This weekend was amazing. It's Tuesday and I'm still dancing. That was one of the best musical performances I have ever witnessed, in any genre. Tchkung's last show at the Rockcandy, the WTO band at the Showbox, Nirvana's surprise apprearance in Bellingham, and Gil are all in the same league. I have so many blisters on my feet from dancing so much that I've been limping for days. I was totally overdue for a maximum enthusiasm darkpsy freakout session. It rawked.

Going to Burning Man.

djkuru — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:08:18 GMT

For real. I bought my ticket.

I got a regular night at Shorties

djkuru — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:45:24 GMT

Wednesday nights at Shorties I will be rockin my punk rawk/whatever else CD collection. It will be cool. I'm pretty excited to have a regular spot. Everybody should go. It will kick ass.

Negativland kicks ass

djkuru — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:57:30 GMT

I got to see Negativland for the first time last Saturday. It kicked ass, there was a 4 room exibit of their artwork and a live performance "radio show" it was crazy seeing the weatherman mix using a tape machine. That dude is a tape machine ninja he puts the best Abelton ninjas to shame. Shuffling tapes and rewinding and pausing and unpausing in a flurry of crazyness like he's had almost 30 years of practice. It was like a comparative religions class for the attention deficit disorderly. Just using samples and effects and CDs and tapes. It was really mellow, assigned seating and such at consolidated works.

Widsum Teef

djkuru — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:41:15 GMT

Having my wisdom teeth out was my least painful experience ever. I go to the dentist's office really early in the morning so I'm already falling asleep as soon as I sit down in the dentist chair. They give me a pretty wussy, but adequate ammount of nitrous and I pass out almost instantly. I vaugely remember leaving the dentists office and the ride home. A couple hours later I wake up next the the fireplace with a pocket full of oxycodone and penecillin. It didn't suck.

Vacation

djkuru — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:53:47 GMT

I've got two weeks off for the first time in a long time. I get my wisdom teeth pulled this Friday so this week is all about taking care of all the crap I've got to take care of like filing taxes, getting my car tuned up, cleaning, etc. so after Friday I can just sit around on pain killers and chill. I've been making good progress in my studio. I need a RAM upgrade for my G5 I think that's my current performance bottleneck. I might be playing a show with the Liquified this Saturday, but I'm not shure.

Had a good Christmas, credits rolling

djkuru — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:11:18 GMT

December has been weird. It feels like the credits should start rolling for this episode of my life. Lots of loose ends all taken care of. Lots of good things about to happen. I'm ready for change. I'm ready to rock. I had a bunch of big distractions recently and they are finally expelled from my existance.

Seacompression was cool

djkuru — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:29:09 GMT

There wasn't any Psytrance, but it was still cool. It was good to see people I haven't seen for a long time. The chill room kicked ass. I got a new Mac Laptop today. I don't know how to use it yet. Logic 7 is way different than Logic 5. It feels like a totally different program.

Liquified Tonight

djkuru — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:47:48 GMT

Tonight at the Beacon Pub I am playing with the Liquified. Every time I've played with them they've sounded different. When the opened for Psychic TV it was a really chill set but I think everyone's talking about more full on experimental noise for tonight. It might/should kick ass.

Does anyone know....

djkuru — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:21:28 GMT

How to get iTunes to write CD Text. My new CDJs read CD Text and my version of iTunes doesn't support that. If I get the upgrade will it support it then? It seems like it should be a really easy thing to do.

Ugly Love Machine

djkuru — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:32:48 GMT

I've been working on a Dark Psy track that uses all NIN samples. It totally doesn't sound like NIN. It sounds like something from The Delta i guess. I should get a Myspace account so I can post it.

What going awn.

djkuru — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:17:11 GMT

I'm writing a psy track out of NIN samples. It's comming along very well. Lots of new studio resouce/processor management tricks are speeding up my production. I got the damage estimated on my car $1200 and I got my teeth cleaned. I have to get my wisdom teeth out soon. It's gonna $uck.

I got in a car accident today

djkuru — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:59:21 GMT

I was rear ended while at a light. I was going zero miles per hour. It's not my fault at all but my insurance will go up. I'm fine, car's drivable but all fucked up looking. What a bunch of bullshit.

I'm Playing out with the Liquified

djkuru — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:55:34 GMT

I'm joining the Liquified at the Beacon Pub on the 27th of November. I've never played with them before. The Liquified are an improv experimental jam band that sounds almost completely different every time they play. Everyone has been talking about going for a really harsh/hard noise style for this show, but I don't know, it is on Sunday at a pub.

Learning ProTools

djkuru — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:37:41 GMT

The coolest thing about making experimental noise is that you have concern yourself at all with making it good. Which makes it the perfect genre for learning new techniques and tools. I've been trying to make Psytrance in protools for a couple months now and it just isn't happening. I like the psy I make in Logic, but that's because I know how to use logic. The two programs seem optimised for different things. I read alot of music magazines and most of the people they interview that like logic are more experimental and electronically based groups, but protools is more of a live band with experimental production kind of thing going on. I just need to spend more time with it.

A productive day.

djkuru — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:15:39 GMT

I made good stuff today. I will have it online soon. It has been a while since I really sat the fuck down and made some stuff. I'm more focused on applying myself than I have been for a long time. I like jogging in the dark, it makes me feel like a criminal.

This is my new journal

djkuru — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:47:48 GMT

I need to do a lot of stuff still. I have much to learn and there is no time. I'm happy with what I make for the first time ever. I enjoy what I do more than ever.