The next generation social network by us, for us.

I've put a lot of thought into this idea, and i really feel i might be onto something. Many of you may know about MP3.com. For those that don't, MP3.com is a website dedicated to promoting music, much like MySpace Music. Independant and signed artists are given profiles and are assigned a certain capacity of space on the server where they can upload their music and share it. There are also forums and other means of promoting music on the site, and while i agree with the whole concept, i feel it might be too mainstream for the "little guy". Not only are these communities very large, but independant artists are competing with big names in the industry for page views, listens and downloads.

My proposal to you, the independant artists, whether you only make the music as a hobby, or whether you are really trying to break into the market, is that we can come together and form a smaller, more focussed community, designed by us, for us. The significance of this would be that we won't have to contend with the big names. Rather, we would create a social network allowing us to help build each other. Artists can upload their music to a server for others to hear, and maybe even collaborate on a global scale. John Doe somewhere in the USA can upload a basic song or the samples of one, and someone else in europe can then download those files and mix them. The final product will be a collaboration between two people on two different continents.

For the DJ's, another idea i had was to sort of set up a system almost like the big names in the Trance industry. DJ Tiesto and the boys from Above and Beyond have their own record labels, and when they do their mixes, they use tracks from their own labels. Not only is this convenient, but they avoid any problems regarding copyrights or acquiring the rights to mix the music, as well as boosting the popularity of their smaller, lesser known artists.

I'm more than ready to start this off as a small project. My first step would be to find a domain where i can set up a free social network. Anyone that feels this is a good idea and feels they can contribute can become a member. From then on i will try to find the best places to host files and share them. The idea is to try and keep everything free. If the network does eventually grow to the point where i cannot manage the administrative tasks alone, i will let the community know and trusted, capable users will be granted administrative privelages to help me keep everything running.

I'm open to ideas and comments. I believe there could be a future in this. Anyone who is willing to help or contribute in the form of ideas or information, or even talent, please email me on my gmail address or send me a message on facebook.

I'm going to make sure this network only includes independant artists. If we gain enough popularity, maybe we could even start producing compilations and selling them. The beauty in this is that every penny will go into our pockets. No agents, no network execs taking a certain percentage of our sales.

Who's with me?

The Windows 7 Experience...thus far

This might be the OS that brings alot of pissed off Vista users back to M$. And why not? Its a lot more compatible and a lot more stable than Vista. I know this because i managed to get it booting on an almost 4 year old laptop. Yes, i eventually found a guide to install 7 over a network, and suprisingly, given the amount of things i had to do, i had it all set up from nothing within an hour.

So far i can say that even in the Beta stage, this is truly a great OS. On barely 512MB RAM i'm managing to boot up, load a couple apps like msn and firefox and the like, and multitask pretty well. My only gripe? Device drivers. With my laptop being so old, most of the drivers for my Graphics card and Sound card were designed for XP. Although there is a posibility of Vista drivers for the sound card, which might end up working. But i really doubt it.

The graphics card is an Intel 910/915GL or something, which as far as i know has ZERO! Vista support. Nada, nix, nuh uh. I managed to get the latest XP drivers which installed ok.....i lie. After a couple of tries they installed but when i applied my new display settings, the graphics all went garbled and i ended up rebooting to previous config and uninstalling the device. PAIN IN THE ASS! So i tried the older drivers for XP. Installed beautifully, applied my new settings successfully, and rebooted. Everything seemed to be going well. My desktop appeared in full resolution, full colour, all my icons perfectly shaped again. I cannot describe the excitement contained within me at that moment....although it only lasted briefly.

OH YEAH.....i bricked Windows 7....briefly. For some reason, after booting up, the OS decided it didnt agree with my drivers and decided to freeze. Rebooted again, got excited when things started loading, clicked the start menu to open an app.......FROZEN! I lathered, rinsed and repeated a number of times......in vain. Safe Mode FTW.

So now im stuck with a second laptop that has no sound, everything on my screen looks like its been squashed by an anvil, but my MSN and Firefox still work good :)

Of course, i could always just boot into linux when i need to use it for something, but theres just something about booting into 7 and using it that captures me.....is this love?

Tribute to Why-Not

Early this morning, up before the sun, headed straight for my laptop and headphones. Yes, you can breathe now. The mix should be up by the end of this post and i got one thing to say......The Gigitsu has arrived. Probably not my best mix ever, one or two hiccups in there and i WILL get around to redoing it at some point, but given the fact i havent done this in what, 9 months?

I took mostly new tracks, mostly stuff u wanna go crazy and dance too or just scream your fucking head off. If you want track names or the list, u can email me or leave a comment and i will be more than happy to oblige. If the link is down, do the same thing so i can fix it. But really, i'm happy with what i have accomplished today....to the point i refuse to take of my headphones. I'm making breakfast with them on looking like a neckbrace around my neck. I even got so caught up during the mix i might have shed a few tears cos the tunes were just......aaagh ma gaaad.





It's time people.....is this the year of Gigitsu?

I should fucking hope so. (BTW Why-Not is a club in Vienna that i used to go to alot. Still one of my favourites :)


Gigitsu - Why-Not 2009.mp3

Faquing sheet mayne!

Apologies comrades. I know i promised a new fresh mix on saturday last week and a few more blogs on Windows 7, but i have a very valid excuse. Let me start off by saying alcohol is the devil!

Friday night last week, i decided to go out and have a good time after a long stressful week....however what started off as a night of heavy drinking quickly turned into probably the worst experience of my life. No bullshitting. After hitting our favourite bar, already drunk after a few bacardi red bull's, i proceeded to intoxicate myself heavily. I'll say this.....Bacardi, Vodka and Tequila, taken one after the other for a good couple of hours is the worst thing a person could do.

I don't know what happened, i don't remember anything, all i know is that the police woke me up on the side of the road miles away from the bar after i had disappeared for a good 5 or so hours. Nobody knows what happened to me. What i do know is i had managed to injure myself to the point my mouth was bleeding and i was suffering from (what i would say) a minor concussion. Not only that, but i didnt know where the heck i was and how i got there.

But i'm fully recovered now, ready to hit the bars and clubs again. AND AND AND! I will work on my mix! So hold on to your socks cos this weekend the Gigitsu will return.

More to come later....

Windows 7, network install.

On another note, i mentioned i was trying to get my lab rat to boot windows 7 but i didnt have a working dvd drive in it. Well thanks to the boys at the ubuntu forums, i managed to get a guide on doing this. The irony of this? Ubuntu is supposed to be competing with windows.....and i turned to their forum for help....and got it...swiftly. Nah but really, they have sections dedicated to other OS's. I mean Mark Shuttleworth (the Ubuntu Founder) even complimented M$ on Win7.

Right now i only had time to test if i can get into the setup from my network, and i did. Tomorrow....or saturday (sometime before the mix....maybe even during?) i will run the whole thing through and see if it "takes" on my old piece of shit :)

I'm dying to use the OS but seeing as its a Beta, and given the problems Vista had....its not touching my lappy top unless its contained in a virtual machine. I'll write back with results.

P.S. If anyone else wants the guide i'll put the link in when i WIN!

The Modern Art of Gigitsu.

Its almost the weekend again and i've spent countless hours listening to all the house i have. Good news people. Saturday night should hopefully be the night the next mix hits the interweb. Provided i don't end up devestated after FAILING another mix. I mean come on, what happened to my skill? Has anyone even heard my shit?

Off topic, sorry. So Saturday 24th January 2009, a fresh house mix. I don't walk around with my headphones blaring to damage my ears y'know. Im studying. Every bassline, every hook, every intro and outro. Some careful planning has gone into throwing this set together and by Jeebus i think we got a winner here. As for a killer name.....we'll see.

For now, get your asses through my posts to find my old mixes and have a taste.....then come back on saturday....or sunday......hopefully. Mmmkay?

I sarque at mixing :(

I'm sitting here devestated after trying to mix up at one fresh DJ set. As it stands now, i sarque cos i been out of the game for a while. Tried mixing both sets and i realised i've lost my touch :(

I was really hoping this would be the weekend i drop a trance mix and a house mix, but i guess not.

However....i refuse to give up on my first love. I shall be back! And when i return, two new mixes from Gigitsu (formerly D-Livid). Its by time i resurrected the aSyLuM!. Still, my old mixes are good. Just a little stale.

One last thing. Is there NOBODY out there who wants to go collab on a couple trance and house traxx? I'm overworked and underpaid (as one is) and i really want to work on something in my free time i do have. Ideas are sorta there but like i said, im totally out of it at the moment. Help?!