Music

Music came back

like nothing had happened

like he never left.

Sauntered in with a

whaddup look on his face

went strait to the pantry for

some chips and cookies

and shit

I asked him where he went

and he didn't want to talk about it

let's just get to business

he says

jerk

I just had the single most over-productive weekend of my entire life.  Built a sandbox, put together a patio set, got new tires on the car, went to the fair and saw the enduro race (demolition derby in lap form), cooked lots of meals, went on a huge grocery shopping trip, had a wine date with Anna on the new patio furniture, Anna had some family stop by yesterday, got too much sun...

I'm in a season of physicality.  Not eating meat.  Dropping flabby unproductive flesh.  Push-ups and dum-bells and sit-ups and bike rides with 2 kids towed on my bike. 

I'm in a fighting mood, really missing martial arts.  Really missing kneeling down in seiza position meditating on anchoring myself to the center of the earth before standing to invite the enemy into my sphere. 

Just posted a new track on my blog site for your listening pleasure or hatred.  Your critical ears are appreciated.  Thanks for caring.

http://www.basicelectronicmusic.com/blog.html

I see signs of Commonpath.org around town again.  I begin to wear my commonpath t-shirt with a sense of hope, not as a relic of neglected potential. 

BASIC website is going well, with large spikes of traffic when KZFR has dropped a BASIC track, or when I cynically write a blog post titled, "Swine Flu Blues" to get accidental traffic. 

And yet, I long for the commonpath blogging days.  The days when I would carelessly upload a track of new music so somebody...ANYBODY would hear the piece that took me 25 hours to make. 

My new EP is now available to buy and download online!

Just go to www.blastmymusic.com/ilovekylewilliams.

It's cheap, easy and secure!!!

spurred on by the hope that electronic artists/djs/producers in our area can contribute to a communal knowledge share, the 530techno blog is born. anyone else who creates electronic music, please contact me to become an contributing author. its pretty free format, share thoughts, local events, music you love or hate, production tips, shit you are working on.

 http://530techno.blogspot.com

New Double CD: (The) Radical Love Frequency mp3's up on my common path page under audio. More at http://www.johnstaedler.com

There are some crazy open source apps I've stumbled accross lately.  After some minor probing, one could pick up the recording art obsession with out spending a dollar or cracking software.  I found a sweet sound design app called

Gleetchlab 2.3.  Must have a pretty fast mac, and must love sound design.  If you have those two things you will fall in love with this simple yet very powerful cpu draining tool.  Don't melt your computer!

Anna is about to pop!  Any day now I will be a Father to 2 sons.  Anna had a natural child birth the first time around, and she's doing it again because she doesn't really remember the first time. 

The first time, we learned that she had a real need for music to get lost in during the harder parts of labor.  We had this amazing midwife that talked her back down when the labor was getting to be too much to handle.  If it wasn't for her, I think she may have gone for the pain killers, not that that's bad, but it just wouldn't have been what she wanted.