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http://www.collectiveconcerts.com/event/616097-sylvan-esso-toronto/ SYLVAN ESSO Mon, September 8, 2014 Doors: 8:30 pm The Drake Hotel Toronto, ON $15.00

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Ready Player One: the best science fiction novel I've read in a decade
By Mark Frauenfelder at 10:42 am Monday, Aug 15


http://d.pr/WqKO (Read a PDF with the first three chapters of Ready Player One.)

It seems like every decade or so a science fiction novel comes along that sends a lightning bolt through my nervous system: Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984). Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992). Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). And I recently discovered what my mind-blowing novel for the 2010s is: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.

Cline’s first novel starts out in the year 2044. The Great Recession (the same one we are in right now) is in its third decade. Unemployment is higher than ever (there's a two-year wait for a job at fast food chain restaurants), liquid fuel is extremely scarce, the climate is in awful shape, and famine, disease, and poverty are rampant across the planet.

The story is told by Wade Watts, an 18-year-old orphan who lives with 16 other people in trailer near the top of a tall stack of trailers in a crowded, crime-ridden trailer park on the outskirts of Oklahoma City (the suburbs are deserted, because hardly anyone can afford to buy fuel to travel by car). He doesn’t remember his father, who was shot by cops who caught him looting a grocery store for food after a power outage. And his mother overdosed on adulterated drugs when he was a kid. Wade now lives with his hateful young aunt and her creepy, fresh-out-of-prison boyfriend. They allow Wade to live in the trailer only because he's worth a weekly ration of food vouchers.

Wade spends most of his time in an abandoned van in a nearby junkyard, where he uses his school-issued laptop to stay jacked-in to a Snow Crash-like metaverse called the OASIS, which was created in 2012 by a brilliant game programmer named James Halliday ("a nerd uber-deity on the level of Gygax, Garriott, and Gates"). Halliday's OASIS is used all day by everyone with access to a computer, and according to Wade, it changed "the way people around the world lived, worked, and communicated. It [transformed] entertainment, social networking, and even global politics. Even though it was initially marketed as a new kind of massively multiplayer online game, the OASIS quickly evolved into a new way of life."

I'm not spoiling anything by revealing that the reclusive Halliday dies early in the book (We learn that in the first paragraph). But before Halliday dies (of cancer) he announces to the billions of people who use the OASIS that he has created a treasure hunt inside the virtual reality universe. The first person to complete the quest (by finding three keys and retrieving a hidden Easter Egg) will inherit his entire fortune, valued at $240 billion, and will be placed in charge of the OASIS.

The contest is quickly dubbed The Hunt. Millions of egg hunters (“gunters”) devote every waking hour to solving the quest, either solo or in clans. The gunters study everything they can about the 1980s (which were the formative years of Halliday and important to solving the clues). The gunters become experts in the comic books, movies, music, science fiction and fantasy novels, movies, role playing games, and video games of the era.

Because the stakes are so high, people invest all their time and money to solving the riddles left by Halliday. An evil corporation called Innovative Online Industries —- which has long had designs on taking over the OASIS and ruining all that it good about it -— has an entire division (the Department of Oology) with thousands of employees looking for the egg.

But after five years of fruitless searching, interest in the contest fizzles. Only a few thousand diehard gunners, including Wade, continue The Hunt.

Then Wade finds the first key and the entire world goes batshit.

Wade's discovery sets the stage for the rest of the novel, a rollicking, surprise-laden, potboiling, thrilling adventure story that takes place both in the OASIS and the real world. It is loaded with geek-culture references from the 1980s that resonated strongly with me — but they are all integral to the story and never feel gratuitous. You don’t need to know about 1980s pop culture to appreciate the story. I loved every sentence of this book, and was a little sad when I reached the end and re-entered reality. Ernie sent me some advance reader copies of Ready Player One and everyone I gave a copy to told me they loved it. My friend John Park took it on a vacation and read it, and he was about to give it to someone who was interested in it, but decided to keep it so he could reread it again immediately! I'm going to reread it again myself.

Scion Presents Songs IV: A Dance Party - Toronto

http://www.scionnation.ca

Where: Tiger Bar, 414 College St. Toronto
When: May 28, 2011@ 10:00 pm

What: Songs is a new monthly series every third Saturday of the month at Tiger Bar. Each month, a different indie rock band guest DJs bringing their own unique flavour to the dancefloor. Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning soundtracks the May party. Huge score! Past guest DJs include the Wooden Sky, Dinosaur Bones, Meligrove Band, and Teenage Kicks.

Time: 10pm - 2am
Tickets: $5

Artists: Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning

Saturday May 7th - 225 Sterling - Toronto
Promise Dirty Motor Warehouse party

Relaxin' Action Jackson
Teddybear Unicorn
Papa Proper.

+"relaxin' action jackson" ' +unicorn

Cymatic Frequencies by DK from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (royksopp Remix)
http://www.kingsofconvenience.com/
http://www.myspace.com/kingsofconvenience

The Sonics - The Witch

Duck Sauce is a collaboration between DJs Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, signed to Fool's Gold Records.

http://www.hugoofficial.com/

http://www.myspace.com/villagers

Don't click the link.
If you have....run antivirus, anti-malware...on second thought, nuke your system.

Lyric video for Ceelo's big, big single Fuck You.
Expect a full video for the track next week ahead of its Oct 4th UK release.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/08/cee-los_catchy_tune_with_the_u.html

From the mixtape : Shut up, dude.
http://www.myspace.com/dasracist

is being remade by the same team that is working on Tron Legacy.
Awesome.


Also, we moved today.

There's the dancy side of Jtron, and there's the side that still likes a live band.

Two shows coming up you should see.

The Villagers (solo) - September 27th at the Drake Underground
Dr.Dog - Sat October 16th at the Phoenix (tickets on sale at TM/Rotate)

Oh dear, oh dear.
Solid Steel Radio Show 23/7/2010 Part 1 + 2 - Brayaz by Ninja Tune & Big Dada

(23rd July) This week hold on tight as we tear through 100 tracks in the first hour alone. Our guest is Brayaz, DJ and producer from Germany who celebrated his 100th show on Drumkick Radio with a mix covering 100 of his favourite tracks played on his show. Too much to mention, but there's a healthy batch of Ninja Tune cuts, plus Stones Throw and Ed Banger are well represented. Loads of tunes you know and loads that are less familiar make it a hectic hour, but mixed to perfection.

You can find all the track lists and catch up with the latest shows, video mixes, photos and club news at the Solid Steel website.

Part 1 + 2 - Brayaz

Wu-Tang Clan _ Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthing ta fuck wit _ Loud
Cypress Hill _ How i could just kill a man _ Columbia
Amon Tobin _ Verbal _ Ninja Tune
Funkaho _ Booty _ Stones Throw
James Pants _ Cosmic Rapp _ Stones Throw
Cut Chemist _ Storm _ Warner
M. Arfmann _ Hotel PacificUnique _ Unique
Beastie Boys _ Intergalactic _ Capitol
Daedelus _ Bass in it _ Ninja Tune
A Tribe Called Quest _ Scenario _ Jive
Björk _ Human Behaviour _ One little Indian
Quasimoto _ Greenery _ Stones Throw
Jay-Z _ 99 Problems _ Roc-A-Fella
Dizzee Rascal _ Fix up, look sharp _ Matador
Lootpack _ WeedededStones Throw _ Stones Throw
Coldcut _ More Beats + Pieces (Daddy Rips It Up Mix) _ Ninja Tune
Atmosphere _ Panic Attack _ Rhymesayers
DM & Jemini _ Bush Boys _ Lex
Public Enemy _ Public Enemy No. 1 _ Def Jam
Project Polaroid _ Digital Engineering _ Threshold
No Remorze _ Fascists must burn _ MZEE
Koushik _ Barren Zone Drumtrak _ Stones Throw
Brayaz _ Golden Error Anthem _ Drumkick
Stickeltodd _ Don't quit _ Jazgrown
Deltron 3030 _ Memory Loss _ 75 Ark
Amon Tobin _ Four ton Mantis _ Ninja Tune
Kraddy _ Android Porn _ Equinox
Le Peuple De L'herbe _ Gumzilla _ PIAS
KRS One _ Step into a World (Rapture's Delight) _ Jive
La Familia _ Harte Zeiten _ Put da Needle to da Record
The High & the Mighty _ B-Boy Document _ Eastern Conference
Promoe _ Off the Record _ Street Level
DJ Stylewarz _ Heiss wie Feuer _ 360°
Quasimoto _ Hittin Hooks _ Stones Throw
Biz Markie _ Turn tha Party out _ Groove Attack
Uffie _ Ready to Uff TV Track _ Ed Banger
Aphex Twin _ Windowlicker _ Warp
Cut Chemist _ Metrorail Thru Space _ Warner
Two Fingers _ That Girl (Spor Remix) _ Big Dada
DeathSet _ Distressed (Bon De Role Remix) _ Bang Gang
LCD Soundsystem _ Disco Infiltrator _ DFA
Arabian Prince _ Take You Home Girl _ Stones Throw
Wagon Christ _ Shadows _ Ninja Tune
DJ Food _ Sentinel (Shadow Guard) _ Ninja Tune
DJ Format _ English Lesson (Remix) _ Genuine
Proxy _ Dance in the Dark _ Turbo
Zeb Roc Ski & Stieber Twins _ The Revenge (B-Boys Revenge 97) _ MZEE
Prodigy _ Girls _ XL
TTC _ Travailler (Orgasmic Remix) _ Ninja Tune
Pest _ Ogres _ Ninja Tune
Herbert _ Just Once _ K7
Fink _ Blueberry Pancakes _ Ninja Tune
Fog _ Pneumonia _ Ninja Tune
Amon Tobin _ Esthers _ Ninja Tune
Dare Deep _ Wenn ihr mich nicht springen lasst _ Neidmeer
Skalpel _ 1958 _ Ninja Tune
Two Fingers _ That Girl (feat. Sway) _ Big Dada
Ruckus Roboticus _ When i grow up _ Grease
DJ Scientist _ Atarius _ Equinox
Clouddead _ Dead Dogs two _ Big Dada
Homelife _ D.ex.1 _ Ninja Tune
Squarepusher _ Welcome to Europe _ Warp
Mr. Scruff _ Whiplash _ Ninja Tuna
Bonobo _ Nightlife feat. Bajka (Zero dB Remix) _ Ninja Tune
Four Tet _ A Joy (feat. Percee P) _ Domino
Rock Steady Crew _ Hey You _ Virgin
Bonobo _ Pick Up _ Ninja Tune
Sebastian _ Walkman _ Ed Banger
Daedelus/MF Doom _ Impending Doom _ Mush
Break Machine _ Street Dance _ Black Scorpio
DSL _ Space Invaders _ Ed Banger
Justice _ D.A.N.C.E. _ Ed Banger
Breakestra _ Humpty Dump _ Stones Throw
Kurtis Blow _ The Breaks _ Mercury
Fingathing _ Apache _ Ninja Tune
Incredible Bongo Band _ Apache _ Pride
Herbie Hancock _ Rockit _ Columbia
LL Cool J _ You can't dance _ Def Jam
Ultramagnetic MCs _ Give the Drummer some _ Next Plateau
NWA _ Straight Outta Compton _ Ruthless
Afrika Bambaataa _ Planet Rock _ Tommy Boy
Breakout _ Planet Rock pt. 1 _ MPM
Kraftwerk _ Numbers _ Kling Klang
Kraftwerk _ Trans Europa Express _ Kling Klang
James Pants _ BMX Rhythm Track _ Stones Throw
Beastie Boys _ The New Style _ Def Jam
DJ Shadow _ The Number Song _ Mo Wax
Amon Tobin _ Sordid _ Ninja Tune
Run DMC _ Peter Piper _ Profile
The Winstons _ Amen, Brother _ Metromedia
Eric B & Rakim _ Casualties of War _ MCA
DJ Shadow _ What Does Your Soul Look Like (Peshay Remix) _ Island
Foreign Beggars & Noisia _ Contact (Noisia Remix) _ Dented
2econd Class Citizen _ A world without _ Equinox
Kid Koala _ Slew Test _ Ninja Tune
Handsome Boy Modeling School _ Rock'n'Roll (can never be Hip Hop _ Tommy Boy
Gravediggaz _ 1-800 Suicide _ Gee Street
Munk _ Kick out the Chairs _ Gomma
Audio88 & Yassin _ Gott trinkt _ Analog Alp
Blowm is der Rapper _ Jetzt is vorbei (Dare Deeps Remix Surprise) _ Golden Error

http://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-9-7-2010-part-1-2-the-leisure-allstars

&p

http://stonesthrow.com/aloeblacc

Villagers - Becoming A Jackal by A Future Animal

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/villagers/
From the very first seconds of Becoming a Jackal, he’s got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, “Have you got just a minute? / Are you easily led? / Let me show the backroom / Where I saw the dead / Dancing like children on a midsummer morn / And they asked me to join” – and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. ‘I Saw the Dead’ is not just the album intro of 2010 to date but also a magnificent intro to the vivid narratives, gripping poetry and melodic depth of Conor J. O’Brien – or as he likes to call himself and his cohorts, Villagers.

Excellent design & great content.


Not to mention tasteful.

Check out the full promo version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sjMpq_q4NI&feature=fvw

Yo. I'm looking for a piece of software that will auto-mark sections of a track automagically. This is for video segue purposes for you production dinks. Concept is to mark an edit point/time automatically so that you know in premiere already where the cut point is.
Yes I know I can seeeee the jump in audacity. The name of the game is automation and AI.

Lemmie know what you think. Best suggestion gets a personalized HD video of them filmed by my friend that buys expenziv shit, and a kitkat (from the future) from me.

Well now, here's a little something to make your Friday morning a little more bouncy.
The Basement Freaks - promo mix. This Germanic Nu-Funk banger has been releasing under (my loved) Jalapeno, and Bombastic Jam and remixing the likes of All-Good Funk Alliance and ESL's Chriss Joss...along with Berlin's MC Coppa.


Basement Freaks Promo Mix 2010 ft Mc Coppa  by  Basement Freaks

As the beat master for the legendary hip-hop---------------------------------------------------------------------
LIVE MIX 112min: DJ NUMARK @ THE DO-OVER LA (2009)

as originally seen here: http://blog.turntablelab.com/2009/11/numark_at_the_rub.html

And thats how that's done.

So so sad.

11-MAR-10

Canadian Music Week: RJD2

MOD CLUB

19+

$23.50

"Feel It All Around"
Washed Out slows down Gary Low's "I Want You" and keeps the listener asleep aboard a comfortable airliner or adrift in calming ocean waters — depending on your particular interpretation, of course. The song is indicative of both the artist's title and the song's as there is a tingly cleansing feeling experienced as the song progresses, never going anywhere in particular and never needing to.

And the aerator collar on your kichen faucet just spins or turns rather than loosening...

yes, i know this is random but i just spent like 15 minutes googling for a tool or something to remove the thing and finally went at it with a spoon. Respect the rounded warrior.

knowin' what to say when i know you keep tellin' all the lies
don't you know it's no surprise just to find you here ?
what you say and what you do.
how we should call it off like i say we should.
what you say and what you do.
seen your trips, and i've seen you fall.
seen the writings on the walls, and tonight when you're right again.
what you say and what you do.
though moving in reverse, how you always make sure you come first.
what you say and what you do.

MetaFilter by 2or3whiskeysodas on 12/23/09
If you, like so many of us, are a fan of DJ Shadow's legendary 1996 debut album Endtroducing, prepare to get chills watching this nine-piece cover the record from beginning to end. Introducing: Introducing.

Download ‘A Boom Bap Continuum’ in 320kbps .mp3 format (right click and save as)

Prefuse 73 With Guests Gaslamp Killer
@ Mod Club, The | Toronto, Ontario
Friday, January 22, 2010 | 6:40 PM - 10:00 PM EST
presented by Embrace  

The Mod Club: 722 College Street
Toronto, ON 19+ $15 @ Rotate This
or at wantickets.com

The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built
English-band, the Heavy, release their sophomore album, The House That Dirt Built. The band's debut album, Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, delivered gritty funk/soul but the band attempts to expand their sound on the follow up.
The Heavy combine the retro vision of the Coral, the grit of Electric Six, and the thematic elements of the Misfits.
[from http://survivingthegoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/10/heavy-house-that-dirt-built.html]

Date: November 23, 2009

David Ryan Harris (who is currently on tour in John Mayer's band) on November 23rd at the Supermarket in Kensington Market.
This also happens to be the night before John Mayer's CD release here in the Tdot, so he may stop in and make an appearance and perhaps even get up on stage to jam out on 'Sweetest Berry'.
Doors Open at 9:30. And it's $10 at the door.

Smoove & Turrell "Beggarman"
Jalapeno Records (2009)

Saturday, November 14th at Revival Bar in Toronto will be the first show in a series entitled SKRATCH BASTID PRESENTS. This will be a quarterly night based around mixing and matching musical styles and ideas while staying conscious of the party atmosphere. A collaborative DJ experience.

The first line-up features myself, Scratch (beatboxer from The Roots) and DJ Starting From Scratch. The DJs will be going on 4 turntables and Scratch will be live on the mic with his effects unit. Some of it will be mildly rehearsed, but for the most part it will be off-the-top and in response to the vibe of the room. Visuals will be provided by mixMotion, who will add an interactive visual aesthetic to the live performance.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/exclusive-google-has-acquired-gizmo5/

Within Google Voice you have the option to point your calls to either a real cell or wired line. In addition the service allows you to direct calls to a Gizmo5 line. This service is compelling for a few reasons.
1. Delivers calls via SIP to my cordless phone running on a Sipura VoIP ATA
2. Provides a backup line for outbound landline calls (with credit)
3. Allows you (at fee) to modify your outbound Caller ID to match my Google Voice number. This allows me to access callback services like MobiVox, Rebtel
4. It completes toll free numbers at no cost - so I can access my conference bridge and services like Google411 and ReQall.

Very interested to see what additional functionality Google brings to the game.

Will trade one Google Wave invite for a Google Voice invite.

Hit me up via the box on the top right. Or if you know me...email me.

Dubstep4 by soulpolisher

Press Record.: MOVEMBER!

TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

Z-Trip - All About the Music


Abstract Rude - Yep

Butterfingers - I Love Work
Album: Breakfast at Fatboys

Hexstatic presents 'Solid Reel' - Video podcast from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

It's DK in the hot seat this week and straight in with the new Jay Z track with his thoughts on "Autotune", more hip hop from Kice Of Course and into drum and bass territory with Jakes, Spor and Mistabishi. Recent cuts from Zinc, Speech Debelle, L-Vis 1990 and Efdemin with Martyn on remix duties, before going overseas for the second half with latin jazz from Ricardo Marrero and Joe Bataan, as well as unearthed gems from Panama and Benin.

Hour 2 welcomes back Saffrolla with another eclectic mix through the genres and bpms- sprinkling and mixing in tracks from Chromeo, Benga, The Qemists and a general assorted mish-mash of beats, from a record collection comprising of two decades of vinyl collecting

Direct: http://www.totallyradio.com/stream/gateway.php?file=80819&user_id=&hq=Y&broadband=Y