Re: (313) Best festival Hot Ghetto Mess so far

2008-05-28 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I respect all of your entries so far, but nothing beats this from 2006: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmgm/398584866/in/set-72157594549855787/ warning: this will hurt. possibly NSFW, definitely NSFKittens. LMGM

Re: (313) Stewart Walker US Tour... (p.s. dan bell / Akufen)

2008-04-17 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Speaking of which, Dan Bell will be at SmartBar (Chicago) Friday, and Akufen will be at the SPRUNG party on Saturday. cheers, LMGM On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Arturo Lopez wrote: Damnit! Going to be out of town this weekend, but that sounds like a hell of a good time for us in Chicago.

Re: (313) contemporary academic music literature?

2008-04-07 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Mark Butler's book. He's a good friend, so my recommendation isn't unbiased, but his work is really important for high-level academic work that takes the actual sound of techno seriously. Some basic knowledge of music theory will help you get through

Re: (313) things to do in detroit during the festival (except the festival)

2008-03-19 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Go for a salad and bowling at Magic Stick (is it still there?) on Woodward N. of downtown. LMGM On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Dan Bean wrote: Motown Museum is always worth going to. -Original Message- From: Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 March 2008 11:01 To: 313

Re: (313) mutek vs Movement

2008-03-19 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
For all the years that I lived in Toronto, I never got off my ass and made it to Montreal for mutek. This year, I'm missing DEMF for my bro's wedding, so I'm re-arranging my teaching schedule just to make it to Montreal. I *will* party this year, dammit. LMGM On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:15

Re: (313) The Kooky Scientist - O.L.D. vs. N.E.A.U. (video)

2008-03-10 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Holy shiznit, I am immersed in nostalgia. I still have the vinyl EP in my collection, bought at Dr. Wax in London, Ontario, wy way back. Like, *way* back. Thanks for posting this! LMGM On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Wang Xu Lee wrote: cleaning out the legacy media archive (aka

Re: (313) Re: Shelf system/record storage

2008-01-08 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Actually, speaking of decks, I have mine on an IKEA kitchen island. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00049049 I used to use it as a kitchen work surface in my old apartment (unfinished wood, cured with mineral oil by me), but in the new place I couldn't fit it in the kitchen, so I

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Speaking of definitional debates, MEK, did you know that you appear in an academic journal article on Final Scratch? Tosh appears there too, believe it or not... lemme know if you want a .pdf of it. LMGM On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shxt - Snoop is so much

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Electro has different meanings from place to place, as well. When I was living in Paris, electro was used as a rather broad genre label that usually contrasted with minimal(e). Electro included tracks that filled the mid-frequency range with distortion and/or synths, vocals, and a thick

Re: (313) DJs in restaurants

2007-04-13 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I may be misremembering this, but didn't Monsieur Richie De La Hawtin provide music for Susur Lee's super-fancy, minimal-fusiony, eponymous restaurant in Toronto? I'm sure you can dump a whole bucket of snark on that particular situation, but I remember the music working really well with

Re: (313) mo DEMF lineup

2007-03-11 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Allow me to say that I am TOTALLY kicking myself for choosing this year to be living in Paris. Love the city, but this line-up is totally spooge-worthy and I would've been in Chicago...a mere 4-5 hours away. Therefore, the rest of you are obliged to attend this thing in my name. This

Re: (313) CHICAGO 18.JAN (Smart Bar) + 19.JAN (Sonotheque) Afrika Bambaataa, Steinski, Daedelus, Derek Plaslaiko, etc

2007-01-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
So, I'm only catching up on my listservs now (I had a 3-night run of clubbing here in Paris. Gui Boratto @ Pulp, Exercise One Anja Schneider @ Nouveau Casino, and MyMy Jesse Rose @ Rex...so not much email-checking). Anyway, I just wanted to add that I've been loving Miskate's releases

Re: (313) Shari Vari - The Scene

2007-01-06 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Wow. I've suddenly discovered where my dance moves came from. I always stuck out when I lived in Toronto, and just as much when I was in Chicago... thanks for this clip! this is totally bookmark-worthy. LMGM On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:37 PM, Martin Dust wrote: Is that guitar even plugged

Re: (313) Gear shopping in Paris?

2006-10-06 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
- Original Message - From: Luis-Manuel Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: list 313 313@hyperreal.org; IDM list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:31 PM Subject: (313) Gear shopping in Paris? Hi everyone, (apologies for cross-posts) So I'm in Paris for 10 months (9 left

(313) Gear shopping in Paris?

2006-10-05 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Hi everyone, (apologies for cross-posts) So I'm in Paris for 10 months (9 left!) and I realize I need to buy a couple of things ASAP: [Gear Setup: PowerBook G4, 1.5Ghz, OSX 10.4.8, dust] 1. a reasonably cheap USB or Firewire Audio interface (e.g., iMic or something like that) to provide

Re: (313) din daa da doo doo

2006-09-25 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I'm also pretty sure it appears on the IntelliNet mixCD, The Story So Far during the second large segment For The Feet. It's all part of track 2 on the CD, but marked tracks 22-39 on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/361630 Of course, I can't for the life of me remember which track

Re: (313) techno mentalism

2006-09-24 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Sep 24, 2006, at 7:33 AM, kent williams wrote: This has eff all to do with techno though. Someone talk about records ;-) In a sense, though, this does have a fair bit to do with techno. A part of the story of techno (and IDM, for that matter) has been the effort to get respect for

Re: (313) Paris (was kings of techno)

2006-09-07 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
There was, in fact, a minimal techno night at Glaz'Art last saturday, featuring Cabane and a few other Katapult artists, but I didn't make it to the party, so I can't say how it went. Strangely enough, I found the listing in Figaroscope (from Le Figaro) while I was searching for a

Re: (313) CD/Music Library Databases?

2006-07-28 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Hey MEK et al., One possible solution is OpenDB, which works with PHP + MySQL. You can either run it locally on your machine by turning on your web server and php support. OR you can put it up on your web space and access it from anywhere. OpenDB is a generalized lending materials

Re: (313) So Bad But So Funny

2006-07-25 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Haha. *thank you* for pointing this out. I'm going to get my ass kicked in Chicago next time I see colors. =] Speaking of which, Peaches was in town (Chicago) last week and her encore was an amusing b-side from her Downtown EP called Hanky Code. A very cute

(313) one more 313-myspace question

2006-07-18 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
OK, so how many of us techno-ed up our profiles before posting them to the list? Did anyone frantically delete Madonna from their fav. music section, or erase the desperate-for-romance text in their bio? C'mon, fess up. =] On a related note, what would a techno-ed up myspace profile look

Re: (313) Re: Detroit... how did it go?

2006-06-02 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shake and whoever played before hawtin was really good then Richie was good for an hour then he just got too If I can recall well (and I'll admit that I was not 100% at the time), it was Magda, then Heartthrob, then Richie in the main

Re: (313) mp3 recorder

2006-05-10 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
If you want a balanced input via XLR, you can look at products from Mrantz and M-Audio. Both of them have really nice, solid-state flash- memory recorders. However, you're looking at $500+ for that badness. LMGM On May 10, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Nik Stoltzman wrote: Ditto: iRiver. Perfect for

Re: (313) DJ BONE - ATTACK - WEEK 3

2005-08-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Don't go dragging gay sex into this. I still respect c*cksucking. LMG On Aug 21, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Garrett McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] but despite my imminent crack withdrawl, maybe i'll go ask

Re: (313) Hans Zimmer

2005-08-10 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Perhaps she is trying to dissuade you because she already has a kickass synth collection. Girls own gear, too. =] LMG On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:37 AM, FFWD wrote: Get one with a built in vocoder then, it'll tell her for you! [EMAIL PROTECTED] yeah? tell that to the missus ;) MEK Never

(313) Hallo, mein Name ist

2005-06-19 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Name: Luis-Manuel Garcia Place: Mostly Toronto, Canada, but recently moved to Chicago, USA First into techno: Hmmm...95 officially, but I was into Techno (more broadly speaking) well before that. Cherry-Popping First Event: Plastikman B-day party, Transcendance, Toronto, '95 (the party

Re: (313) friday rant

2005-05-27 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I agree with the complaint but not the argumentation. The if its good its good argument sounds a lot like the arguments so often used against popular music, ethnic music, race music (before it was named jazz), etc... But I agree that the epidemic of sub-genres story has become a rather

Re: (313) 313 meetup @ Forans?

2005-05-20 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Well, I found my most unflattering pic and offer it to y'all as a handy tool for spotting me. I'm the one in the Bubblegum-pink tie and the bright violet hair. You can spot it from 100 feet in broad daylight... LMG LeMuG LeMonGrass LaMpGrease LuMpenGnostic ... On May 19, 2005, at 1:26

Re: (313) Out-of-towner festival attendee roll call!

2005-05-18 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Simko 8. DelCimmuto 9.Luis-Manuel Garcia 10. ... . . . ` ``` kate simko site* http://www.katesimko.com downloads/ links* http://homepage.mac.com/ksimko/File_Sharing out soon: Remix

Re: (313) Quest for da Booty

2005-04-28 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Also: Cajmere, Percolator Old, old Chicago jack track, but it gets re-used a lot on booty mixes. Pretty sweet stuff. Also, anything by DJ Assault is probably a good bet. (but honorable mention to DJ Deeon) LMG On Apr 27, 2005, at 5:27 PM, vmax wrote: it might have been more like 93

Re: (313) Quest for da Booty

2005-04-28 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Werd. I grew up the rather anglophile S-W Ontario, and I *never* got over the whole smoke a fag thing. Of course, I don't think of the violent smoking, but the that'll-cost-you-$20 kind of smoking =] Anyway, this topic has been discussed to death, so I'll keep it short(-ish). When I used

Re: (313) has anyone seen this?

2005-04-14 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Wow. Just to add to the irony, somebody should write a scholarly article in Popular Culture or Popular Music about this. love it, Luis On Apr 14, 2005, at 4:18 AM, Aidan O'Doherty wrote: http://www.ubercoolische.com/ow.asp?FrontPage too funny

Re: (313) iPod DJ

2005-04-14 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Careful now! We don't want to be responsible for wearing out such an important word... =] On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:51 PM, lisa wrote: Those are cool, so cool they might even be ubercoolische! :P Martin Dust wrote: http://webbeatz.de/newz/images/musikmessewow8.jpg

(313) Dearest 313 List,

2005-03-30 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Cari Lekebusch and Adam Beyer are playing on the same night in the same town, but at different events. What should I do? Confused in Chicago. p.s. does anybody know if the T1000 playing with Beyer is Alan Oldham?

Re: (313) Re: Europe (was RE: (313) Radio Fries...)

2005-02-10 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I agree that these topics are being treated in an unnecessarily divisive and polemical way, but I'd hesitate to expel politics from this list. While this probably isn't the place to discuss Social Security policy, the politics of culture and economic power are very relevant to any

Re: (313) NY show info - A Guy Called Gerald

2005-02-03 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Well, [EMAIL PROTECTED] me sideways with a chainsaw (gently). When you list all the events like that, the pattern emerges. What *is* up with that? I'm not complaining at ALL, but this is a lot of action for Chicago. It makes me feel like I'm back in T.O. (although that scene was beginning

Re: (313) A Taste of Chicago

2005-02-01 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Interesting! There's that collection/CD compilation, Taste of Chicago, that includes a bunch of 80's Chicago Jack Trax. I wonder if the creators of this ep had that other compilation in mind when they made this one... Luis On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:43 PM, fab. wrote: Hi list, i recently

Re: (313) US Customs (Was No Movement 2005?)

2005-01-29 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: why should i give a f*ck about someone who doesnt give a f*ck about me? the answer is i shouldnt. so i dont. tom Wow. Although this thread has already turned into a flame war, I just wanted to say a quick (haha) thing about the

Re: (313) US Customs (Was No Movement 2005?)

2005-01-28 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Dude(s), it's not just for people from other continents, it's for [EMAIL PROTECTED] canadians as well. I was a student for a couple of years at Indiana U back in 97-99 and thought I had it rough as an alien student. I took comfort in the knowledge that my Canadian status afforded me some

Re: (313) tonight in chicago: Francois K - DEEP SPACE VOL. 1 RELEASE PARTY

2005-01-21 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
I'm gonna be there with bells on. It may impede dancing, but I'm committed to my metaphors. cheers! Luis On Jan 21, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Matt MacQueen wrote: tonight in chicago, if anyone is up for it-- AFRICA HI-FI is proud to present ... DEEP SPACE VOL. 1 RECORD RELEASE PARTY featuring

Re: (313) Ok, time for a can of worms...

2004-12-05 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Dec 4, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: isnt that what the CD industry was saying about vinyl in the 80s? somehow i doubt people with vinyl are worried about keeping up with the times. again, you have to look at who is saying these things. obviously software people have a vested

(313) Yet more Chicago USA Spam

2004-10-23 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Remember this email about a weekly on tuesdays with DJ T-1000? Has anybody checked this out yet? I'd love to go myself, but since I live in Hyde Park and have no wheels, this is quite an arduous trek for an event that might no longer be going on/suck... anyway, any opinions? Luis On

Re: (313) The Trax 20 Year Anniversary

2004-10-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why tonight of all nights?! *sigh* Somebody tell me how it goes...I'll be up all night preparing a conference paper... Luis On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 06:42 PM, Matt MacQueen wrote: Thursday, October 21, 2004 The Trax 20 Year Anniversary feat. Marshall

Re: (313) Electronic music culture in America

2004-10-07 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Damn you kids with 116+ posts in a day. Anyway, in answer to Toshie's questions: I think that part of it has to do with the way in which the discotheque tradition never completely died in Europe and continues today. When I was living in Toronto, the phrase let's do something tonight more

Re: (313) If

2004-09-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 10:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er, what about Chicago? they're all gay and like disco. ask Macqueen. (well, thats what I read in a book) p.s. I'm joking again fact fans Imagine my disappointment, then, when I moved to Chicago and discovered

Re: (313) Chicago USA Spam

2004-09-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
No kidding. Maybe I'll bring my seminar readings to the club with a little flashlight. I've studied in worse. =] Luis np. liquid metal meltdown (DJ T-100) On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, at 05:25 PM, /0 wrote: tuesday nights? WEAK :( - Original Message - From: atomly [EMAIL

Re: (313) shrinking cities music

2004-09-14 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
OMG this is the cheapest conference ever. Fer real. I just shelled out wy more to go to two other conferences. If anybody is in Berlin, go and tell me how it was. *sigh* Luis On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 08:29 PM, Dan Sicko wrote: My schedule wouldn't allow me to participate in

Re: (313) Techno.ca gone?

2004-09-08 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
The service was spotty over the past few weeks. My posts wouldn't go through, or I wouldn't see my own post but everybody else would get it. Then I tried to unsub my utoronto address and sub my uchicago address, and absolutely no luck. I didn't even get an error message. Since then, I

(313) Re: [idm] All Uncleared Sampling Ruled Illegal

2004-09-08 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 02:30 PM, Jeff/Ninja Tune wrote: What they fail to always recognize is that it's all well and good you should pay for all the samples, but that the degree of paperwork, research, combined with the high chance that you'll get turned down anyway make it an

Re: (313) Detroit Techno

2004-09-07 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 12:11 PM, marc christensen wrote: Which is why Detroit Techno as a term, like the 313 list itself, hasn't shrivelled into a too-narrow, too-precise, and too-uptight-to-have-fun genre. (This is, BTW, exactly what Simon Reynolds continually argues about

(313) Looking for a track on vinyl

2004-08-20 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Ok, can anybody help me find this track on vinyl? After 8, Golden Boy feat. Miss Kitten, from the EP 'Or'. This popped up on my iPod shuffle list and I was struck with an overwhelming desire to grind on a nearby lamppost or mailbox. Unfortunately, the recording is pretty old by now, so I

Re: (313) Kraftwerk in Miami

2004-07-29 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
A buddy of mine caught it in Toronto a few months back and said that it was a nearly religious experience. Luis On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 06:34 AM, Toby Frith wrote: http://www.pollstar.com/tour/ searchall.pl?AN=YBy=ArtistContent=KRAFTWPSKey=Y Seems like they'll be touring the US in

Re: (313) HipHouseElectroClashNewBeatGowan

2004-07-23 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Actually, there was a hip-house party about a month ago here in Toronto (I'm still in T.O...), and it was AWSOME. Admittedly, a lot of it is 'camp' value and a bit of nostalgia, but a well-mixed set of hip-house can still work me good. Luis On Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 01:44 PM, [EMAIL

Re: (313) miss kitten ?

2004-07-22 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Yeah, that's pretty much by feeling about it. I just can't make myself like her newer production stuff (although her Hacker and Golden Boy collaborations will always be memorable). What ever happened to the cute tongue-in-cheekness of After 8? Luis On Thursday, July 22, 2004, at 07:55 AM,

Re: (313) interesting pretentious music article

2004-07-20 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Oh gawd. Adorno: call your office. There are a lot of problems with this guy's argument, the first of which is that he's pretty much re-hashed the elitist cultural critique of a writer (Adorno) who has been shown to be very intolerant towards any form of popular music--and particularly