Starting Monday morning off with a mix from the mix master from Jurassic 5 himself: Cut Chemist. Very dynamic hip-hop mix using classic old-school jams, drum samples, and raps for your pleasure. Enjoy!
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This kid Madeon is going to be the next super-DJ/Producer. He’s already played Coachella music festival and he’s only 17! Here he is mashing-up 39 tracks into 1 song, and you get to watch how he did it. Keep an eye on the fingers. Simply amazing… How do I know it’s working?I wonder what the underlying message of this video is. To me the beginning = a kit to build this giant thing = someone has done it before; been there, done that, here’s how. And this big, giant thing is a testament to your work or how you occupy your time. But eventually work (and time) ultimately consumes you as you consumed it in the past. And when things aren’t working out, destruction is your only option; yet you still are consumed. Eaten by culture, nature, the city, and most of all: other people; cannibalistic. What do you guys think it all means? How did you perceive this music video? Let me know what you think in the comments section. I wonder if they ever completed the whole song…
The Original Scott Joplin – The Entertainer (Ragtime)
Some Reading MaterialScott Joplin (ca. 1867-1868? – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtimecompositions, and was later dubbed “The King of Ragtime”. During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the Maple Leaf Rag, became ragtime’s first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. Joplin was born into a musical African American family of laborers in Northeast Texas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. During the late 1880s he travelled around the American South as an itinerant musician, and went to Chicago for the World’s Fair of 1893 which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897. Publication of his Maple Leaf Rag in 1899 brought him fame and had a profound influence on subsequent writers of ragtime. It also brought the composer a steady income for life. During his lifetime, Joplin did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems, which contributed to the loss of his first opera, A Guest of Honor. He continued to write ragtime compositions, and moved to New York in 1907. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form which made him famous, without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was not received well at its partially staged performance in 1915. He died from complications of tertiary syphilis in 1917. Joplin’s music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album of Joplin’s rags recorded by Joshua Rifkin, followed by the Academy Award–winning movie The Sting which featured several of his compositions, such as “The Entertainer“. The opera Treemonisha was finally produced in full to wide acclaim in 1972. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Kinne – “Minimix” Tracklist: Supermen Lovers – Starlight Price: Free – $3 In my search for accuracy and speed, Swiftkey X for Android is a standout in the keyboard apps category. As many Android power-users and intermediate users well know, the default keyboard is substantial for everyday and light use, but really is clunky, slow, and inaccurate. Swiftkey X for Android offers users predictive text, gestures, and customization of look and feel. There are some other nifty tools included in Swiftkey’s app package, my favorite being their statistics engine. If you haven’t checked out their free trial version, and are looking for a great application for zipping off texts and updates, then what are you waiting for?!  Swiftkey X Interface I recently transitioned from a phone with a physical keyboard, to, what I call, my “Big Boy” smart phone (namely, the HTC Droid Incredible 2 on the Verizon network). When I initially made the switch, I was so inaccurate on the strictly touch-only layout; there had to be another way. I first tried the Swype keyboard for a few months and liked it at first; the concept was something so innovative and intuitive out of the gate, but lacked the accuracy and speed I so desired. Bottom line: I was sending messages at full throttle, but I was still getting a lot of typos when zipping off texts or updating my Facebook status. Enter the Swiftkey X Keyboard for Android. I picked it up from their promo sale for $0.99, but since then the price has increased to just under $3; Still a tiny cost for something you will eventually end up using multiple times per day. In my opinion, the Swiftkey X keyboard boasts one of the best “learning” keyboards in the Android Market. I find myself saving more and more keystrokes the more I use it. If you elect to do so, you can point the application to learn from existing posts on your Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as your GMail and SMS messages. The most impressive (and scary) thing about Swiftkey X is that I have been able to write entire sentences without typing a single letter or digit. The fact that the keyboard application has access to my Twitter and Facebook can scare some, but isn’t your Facebook and Twitter public domain anyways? I am fine with this, but some might be weary; just don’t enable the feature that accesses your accounts, it’s as simple as that. All records will be contained locally on your phone. I highly recommend Swiftkey X for Android as your default keyboard app!
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