11 Nov
2008
11 Nov
'08
2:55 a.m.
Hi,
In the course of going through the tracks for my mix of the best of 2008
I have seperated out several types/genres of music.
The one that is almost completely missing is real Hiphop. I'm definitely
including the Audiobraille session with RadioActive but there are no
productions that I can find.
Is there no one who has released a Hiphop track this year?
Btw, it appears that Ken Restivo has released 42 tracks this past year.
Well done!!!! That's more than enough for an album. It's been hard to
choose which one/s to include in the mix and I might be unable to listen
to syncopated beats again for the next 6 months after yesterdays
listening marathon :-)
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
13 Nov
13 Nov
3:51 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:54:52PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Hi,
In the course of going through the tracks for my mix of the best of 2008
I have seperated out several types/genres of music.
The one that is almost completely missing is real Hiphop. I'm definitely
including the Audiobraille session with RadioActive but there are no
productions that I can find.
Is there no one who has released a Hiphop track this year?
The user "CharlieHipHop" (is he on this list?) has many releases on the
http://lam.fugal.net site, which were apparently all made with Linux. I recall hearing
some other hiphop-styled tracks on lam.fugal.net too.
Btw, it appears that Ken Restivo has released 42 tracks this past year.
Well done!!!! That's more than enough for an album. It's been hard to
choose which one/s to include in the mix and I might be unable to listen
to syncopated beats again for the next 6 months after yesterdays
listening marathon :-)
Thanks! Over the past 2 years, I've somehow managed to release 138 tracks which were
recorded completely on my own with Linux (i.e. never leaving JACK apps and softsynths), as
well as an additional couple-dozen with AudioBraille and a couple from Me and My Cronies
for which I used Linux softsynths and used JAMIN/Ardour for mastering.
Speaking of which (and not related to hip-hop at all): Me and My Cronies spent several
months paring down only *one* three-hour studio session to 30 minutes that everyone in the
band is happy releasing, and it is here:
http://www.archive.org/details/MeandMyCroniesCD
That CD was, alas, recorded and produced with ProTools, but the keyboard sounds are all
Linux. However, I showed the producer JAMIN and JACK and Ardour, and he got very excited,
and is eager to have me set up his MacBook Pro to dual-boot 64Studio for him. So the next
Cronies CD, and possibly other projects as well, may be completely Made with Linux too (I
hope).
Back to hip-hop again: Radioactive is the only MC I've been lucky enough to work with
so far, but there are a couple made-exclusively-with-Linux grooves buried in my catalog
that might be suitable for rhyming over, i.e.
http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/135/0/on-strike-0.1.1.ogg
http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/136/0/dennys-menu-0.1.ogg
http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/91/0/bowl-curler-0.3.ogg
It's all CC-BY-SA, of course.
Many many thanks to everyone on this list who assisted me in getting my system set up in
late 2006 and early 2007, and to all the developers who wrote and maintained all this
great Linuxd audio software!
-ken
4:13 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:54:52PM +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
I did download his tracks from this year but the only one that stuck was
"money".
If there are more that I don't know about then please let me know.
Also I'm surprised Ringhiems Auto hasn't given me a buzz. I did look on
the site but everything seemed to be a couple of years old.
This mix is only tracks that have been released or worked on this year
so I can't include the older stuff even if it is good enough.
- It's kind of funny that you are featured in a lot of the tracks that
made the cut. I don't have a problem with that because there are many
different flavas represented. I think you definitely get the award for
most active producer...
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
Hi,
In the course of going through the tracks for my mix of the best of 2008
I have seperated out several types/genres of music.
The one that is almost completely missing is real Hiphop. I'm definitely
including the Audiobraille session with RadioActive but there are no
productions that I can find.
Is there no one who has released a Hiphop track this year?
The user "CharlieHipHop" (is he on this list?) has many releases on the
http://lam.fugal.net site, which were apparently all made with Linux. I recall hearing
some other hiphop-styled tracks on lam.fugal.net too.
5:21 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:13:09PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Ken Restivo wrote:
Sorry about that. I'd be glad to pass the mic, to anyone, anytime.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:54:52PM +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
I did download his tracks from this year but the only one that stuck was
"money".
If there are more that I don't know about then please let me know.
Also I'm surprised Ringhiems Auto hasn't given me a buzz. I did look on the
site but everything seemed to be a couple of years old.
This mix is only tracks that have been released or worked on this year so I
can't include the older stuff even if it is good enough.
- It's kind of funny that you are featured in a lot of the tracks that made Hi,
In the course of going through the tracks for my mix of the best of 2008
I have seperated out several types/genres of music.
The one that is almost completely missing is real Hiphop. I'm definitely
including the Audiobraille session with RadioActive but there are no
productions that I can find.
Is there no one who has released a Hiphop track this year?
The user "CharlieHipHop" (is he on this list?) has many releases on the
http://lam.fugal.net site, which were apparently all made with Linux. I recall hearing
some other hiphop-styled tracks on lam.fugal.net too.
the cut. I don't have a problem with that because
there are many different
flavas represented. I think you definitely get the award for most active
producer...
Thanks. I'm a workaholic, I have lax quality control, and I have deeply embraced the
Free Software maxim: "Release early, release often". Also, I've learned that
relentless self-promotion is the key to success.
Big ups to you for actually listening to all that stuff! I'm amazed and honored.
If you find yourself tapping your foot in 10/4 or 15/8, now you'll know why. Please
accept my apologies.
-ken
5:28 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
Thanks. I'm a workaholic, I have lax quality
control, and I have deeply embraced the Free Software maxim: "Release early, release
often". Also, I've learned that relentless self-promotion is the key to success.
Keep it up too. There are some real gems in your set.
Big ups to you for actually listening to all that
stuff! I'm amazed and honored.
Bah. I can do 140 tracks for breakfast on a bad day. If this idea keeps
up for a few more years then I expect to have my work cut out for me.
Damn by 2020 I'll need to hire assistants to select tracks from each
genre and the mix will probably be two days long...
If you find yourself tapping your foot in 10/4 or
15/8, now you'll know why. Please accept my apologies.
I'm actually seriously considering doing a mix just of the syncopated
stuff you've done. There's probably 10 of them in the past year. Some
of them were really challenging to keep up with.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
5:15 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:54:52PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Hi,
In the course of going through the tracks for my mix of the best of 2008
I have seperated out several types/genres of music.
The one that is almost completely missing is real Hiphop. I'm definitely
including the Audiobraille session with RadioActive but there are no
productions that I can find.
Is there no one who has released a Hiphop track this year?
Btw, it appears that Ken Restivo has released 42 tracks this past year.
Well done!!!! That's more than enough for an album. It's been hard to
choose which one/s to include in the mix and I might be unable to listen
to syncopated beats again for the next 6 months after yesterdays
listening marathon :-)
Oops, I'd forgotten about all the hip-hop stuff that AudioBraille had done with MC
Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper:
http://www.audiobraillemusic.com/music/afterparty.mp3
http://www.audiobraillemusic.com/music/missthang.mp3
Lots here too:
http://www.archive.org/download/AudioBrailleLive-2008-05-12/ivywithpaul.ogg
Linux being used to back up the Fossil Fool at the Maker Faire (last section of the video,
you can catch a glimpse of the penguin laptop):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWMKCONyKnU
So there were two rappers we worked with this year, Radioactive and Fossil Fool.
-ken
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