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Subversiv Rec, a German hip-hop label has released volume 2 of their compilation LP series, OFFBEATS the last track on the album is my track "Shit Mazes"; While I don't see any revenue from this, it's cool to be pressed to vinyl and to know that some DJs in Europe are rocking my beats and poetry.

mudapple.com (my full album
subversiv_rec comp page
The Shit Mazes Music Video

I had the honor yesterday of walking into Amoeba Music on Sunset in Hollywood, crate digging, and purchasing my first pressed vinyl right out the Hip-Hop section. Sure I’ve made plenty of Cd’s, sold them at stores and on the streets, but there is something about feeling like I now contribute to the great lexicon of artists that have pressed their waveforms to wax. Just gets me excited, makes me feel satisfied. I was so geeked I asked some of the people at the store to click this pic of me.

This makes me feel like it wasn’t all for nothing; I make shi-at all the time; but then it just sits; I try to distribute it to no avail; having a small record label take interest and press me on wax feels like my first musical success. I feel as if I need more now to create to distribute, I suppose one might call it addiction, I just need to one up myself now; press my own and make something of it…

This is the game of games; I still love playing it via Emulator; it is the basis of my mobile killer thesis app.
http://www.dqshrine.com/dw/

Robert Moog has left this planet, no doubt to meet the mother ship somewhere on cloud 9. What would the world be without Mr. Moog? Electronic music would certainly be very different. I first encountered one of his modular Moog’s @ the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Rob Drinkwater would challenge everyone of his students to try and get the Moog to say it's own name. What a fantastic device, and a sure reminder that analog is king, compared side to side, digital synthesis has nothing on these beautiful machines. Thanks to Mr. Moog, for brightening this earth w/ his marriage of audio arts and technology.

www.moogmusic.com
The BBC Article
More on Moog from the Synth Museum

Wendy Carlos' 1968 Grammy-winning album, Switched-On Bach, which brought the Moog synthesiser to the lime light. Before long many musicians and groups, including the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, were using Moog synthesisers.

I began my adventure today as a Private Contractor, Machinima Movie Maker, for Activision. Thanks to Jen for passing on this connection!