What's up all. I know its been a while, but thanks for staying true... For some reason I still get decent blog hits even though I haven't posted shit in a while.. Does that mean that people just like reading blogs or are there Russian spyware bots that crawl through the blogs and take guesses at your password all day? In any case, you'll never find it you Commie Spybots cuz I've never said it here!

Anyway, lets get back to the issue at hand. Fellow SIQ crew member DJ Packo is a recent dubstep convert, lending his mad scratchcrobatics to the dubstep wobble sound. "Aquadust" is definitely on a harder and darker tip, and will appeal to hip hop fans and anyone who loves a dope groove. Check it out on DarkAudio.uk:

Aquadust on DarkAudio with tracklist

Direct Link to the mp3 file:

DJ Packo - Aquadust

Hey there everybody, just wanted to let you know that yours truly will be throwing down a special dubstep set for the kind folks over at Broken Liquid next Saturday, October 17th. I'll be doing my thing in the front room, maybe playing some exclusive Cyrusfx tracks or remixes, while Riseup MCs over another set in the back...

Come check it out! No cover, cheap drink specials, 10 pm - 2 am @ Bar 35 in Chinatown. See y'all there!!

Results of personal research, 2003-2009

Listen up kiddies,

There's a war going on. And no, I don't mean Iraq, because that's not really a war. And no, I don't mean the war on drugs, because that's.. well.. retarded. There's a war going on for control of your mind, and believe it or not, not everyone is looking out for your best interests.

We live in a golden era of extreme affluence and lifestyles of ease when compared to our forefathers, and while the battle for survival might be over, the battle for control of our brains has just begun.

Instead of being bombarded with bombs and flamethrowers, we are continually bombarded with media. Continually -- that's a major difference. Whether you're watching TV or a movie, listening to your iPod or the radio, reading a magazine or even just walking down the street, you're being bombarded by advertising. It might sound crazy, but your brain has never been as valuable as it is now (well, provided you are a consumer of any sort, that's a key ingredient for the statement to be true).

Advertising comes in many shapes and forms, and before you think I'm gonna start getting all preachy and shit I gotta say, not all of it is bad. Some shows are well worth putting up with a couple of commercials for, but friend, understand that when I talk about advertising, I am referencing any sort of activity whose desired outcome is the transformation of your subconscious psychology for their capital gain. The question is, how low are you willing to let your guard down?

Talk about TV commercials and other blatant media advertising can be dull, but what people forget is that sometimes its not so obvious to detect when they are being manipulated for somebody else's gain, and not because of desires to spread truth and understanding. Far from it.

Today's day and age requires more vigilance in the respect of maintaining one's intellectual sovereignty. Bascially, if you don't tune up your bullshit detector you will find yourself not only with a bunch of shit you don't need but with a bunch of ideas that you don't really believe as well.

Now, why should I care? Because I respect reality son, and shit even if I don't know exactly what that is all the time, I can still respect its concept, right? Now here's the problem: advertising clouds reality with bullshit. Not just commercial advertising mind you, but political advertising, lifestyle advertising, religious advertising, and any time somebody is trying to get you to believe some shit that just doesn't quite make sense. And its all around us, all the time.

Without trying to sound like too much of a conspiracy theorist or leading socialist, you really do have have to ask yourself, who benefits from having a say in your decisionmaking? The list is long. Even if you have a job at a cubicle factory, if its steady, you are not worthless, my friend. Just take that sentiment from the whole thing. It's a more positive note to go out on than the whole "fight the bullshit!" thing...

(ps: and yes, and I'm aware of the fact that Myspace is now part of a multinational conglomerate)

Aloha from the 808 state faithfuls & curious passerbys, this time I bring you a long long blog I wrote, just over 2 years ago. So while it doesn't contain anything by artists I've added in the past few years, I assure you its a full read, and quite frankly I'll be impressed if you make it through it... In any case, hope all's been well, peace out for now

your psychonautical navigator through space & time,

Fx

All of the bands in my "Influences" section have one thing in common: when I was discovering them across the years, at some point or another I thought, "Damn, I want to make music like _that_".

Music that moves you, affects you, inspires you is frankly the most valuable because it is that music which goes on to inspire the creation of new music, so the cycle can begin anew. 

Here is a song or album (or multiple) representative of that sentiment from each artist.

2mex - "Bboys in Occupied Mexico"

4hero - "Creating Patterns"

A Guy Called Gerald - "Essence", "To All Things What They Need"

Aphex Twin - "Drukqs"

Awol One - "Four Eyed Mortalz"

Banco de Gaia - "Live at Glastonbury", "Big Men Cry"

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Brian Eno - "Another Green World", "Music for Airports"

Can - "Yoo Doo Right", "Live"

Coldcut - "Cold Krush Cuts"

Darren Emerson - see Underworld

David Bowie - "Low", "Heroes", "Lodger"

Dead Can Dance - "Live"

Derrick May - "Strings of Life (Strings of the Strings of Life mix)"

Donald Byrd - "Onward 'Til Morning", "Lanasana's Priestess"

DJ Abstract - "Keep on Tryin'"

DJ Colette - "Our Day"

DJ Food - "Jazz Brakes vol. V"

DJ Krush - "Zen"

DJ Krust - "Coded Language"

DJ Shadow - "Endtroducing"

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "From the Beginning", "Works vol. II"

Esquivel - "Night and Day", "Time On My Hands"

Everything But the Girl - "Walking Wounded", "Temperamental"

Faust - "You Know Faust"

Frankie Knuckles - "Your Love"

Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea", "Lifeforms"

Global Communication - "76:14"

Goldie - "Timeless"

Grateful Dead - "Dark Star", "Europe '72"

Harold Budd - "The Pearl"

Herbie Hancock - "Funky Watermelon"

John Cage - "4:22"

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things", "A Love Supreme"

Joy Division - all of it!!

Kirk Degiorgio - "21st Century Soul" and "Out of the Darkness"

Kraftwerk - "Autobahn", "Trans-Europe Express", "Computer World"

Laurie Anderson -"O Superman"

Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Machine Being", "Space Pilgrim"

Leftfield - "Leftism", "Dusted"

Lou Reed - "Transformer", "Berlin", "Street Hassle"

Madlib - "Madvillainy"

Mahavishnu Orchestra - "The Inner Mounting Flame" and "Birds of Fire"

Martin Medeski & Wood - "Combustication"

Marvin Gaye - "What's Goin' On"

Massive Attack - "Blue Lines", "Protection", "Mezzanine"

Merzbow - "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery"

Miles Davis - "In a Silent Way", "Bitches Brew", "Panthalassa”, “Agharta"

Mouse on Mars - "Niun Niggung"

Mujaji - "Free the Rich"

My Bloody Valentine - "You Made Me Realise", "Loveless"

Neu! - "Neu!"

New Order - "Movement", "Power, Corruption & Lies", "Low Life"

Nicolette - "Now Is Early", "Sunshine"

Nu Yorican Soul - "I am the Black Gold of the Sun"

Orbital - "Chime", "Halcyon + On + On", "Snivilisation", "Girl With the Sun in Her

Head", "Way Out"

Parliament/Funkadelic - "You Hit the Nail on the Head", "(Not Just) Knee Deep", "One

Nation Under a Groove"

Paul Van Dyk - "Play with the Voice"

Pete Namlook - "Jet Chamber I-IV", "Dark Side of the Moog I-III"

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Air a Danser", "Music for a Found Harmonium"

Philip Glass - "Koyaanisquatsi", "Low Symphony"

Phish - "A Live One"

Pink Floyd - "Ummagumma", "Meddle", "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were

Here", "Animals", "The Division Bell"

Portishead - all of it!!

Radiohead - "Permenant Daylight", "Paranoid Android", "Everything in its Right Place",

"Like Spinning Plates"

Robert Fripp - "No Pussyfooting", lots of stuff with King Crimson

Roni Size - "New Forms", "Return to V"

Roots Manuva - "Clockwork", "Witness", "Big Tings a Gwaan"

Smith & Mighty - "Bass is Maternal", "DJ Kicks", "Big World, Small World",

Squarepusher - "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Iambic 9 Poetry"

Stereolab - "First of the Microbe Hunters", "Margerine Eclipse"

Steve Reich - "Come Out", "Six Pianos"

Terry Riley - "A Rainbow in Curved Air"

The Cure - "Seventeen Seconds", "Faith", "The Top", "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me",

"Disintegration", "Wish"

The Orb - "Aventures Beyond the Ultraworld", "U.F.Orb", "Orbvs Terrarvm", "Pomme

Fritz"

The Shapeshifters - "Adopted by Aliens", "Was Here"

The Smiths - "Meat is Murder", "Louder Than Bombs", "The Queen is Dead",

"Strangeways Here We Come"

Thelonius Monk - "Well You Needn't", "Bemsha Swing", "Epistrophy"

Underworld - "Born Slippy", "Dubnobasswithmyheadman", "Second Toughest of the

Infants", "Beaucoup Fish", "A Hundred Days Off"

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