This is what the plotting looks like…

This morning.

The Spicy Secrets of Michael Williams

Introducing: The Laksa Ladies

Mike Williams, myself, and some of the Mindvalley guys have followed these women to 3 of their outlets for over 2 years.

This culinary explosion is best enjoyed with 2 glasses of iced Chinese tea. This would allow the spot to be proverbially, hit.

This is where you can find the BEST laksa in Kuala-friggin-Lumpur. You find a map of power.

May Flower Seafood Restaurant and Food Court,
144A, Jalan Vivekananda,
Off Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Brickfields,
50470 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

Send them our love.

Music: Autoparking

How to Solve Parking Congestion

A Scolex project.

Production Notes:

The aural guide to urban origami. The perfect way to have a car and live in a city is to have foldable transportation.

“折り紙は楽しい”

Dual bassline layers. Primary layer celebrates an acid house pattern, while the secondary layer keeps pace with a sub/saw tone with a touch of high-velocity reverb — creating space.

As it breaks, the bassline shifts chords into a syncopated EBM-style but retaining the secondary layer. This creates a sense of tempo while retaining space.

132BPM. Very out of my typical BPM range. But allowed me to fill in the blanks with a series of re-modulated sounds. Fractals.

Casio SK1 sample. Looped with a tape-looper.

Breaks from Keith Hillebrandt‘s Useful Noise Vol. 2. The only sample release I’m proud to own.

Sequenced on Ableton Live 7.0.11 on my MacBook (2.2GHz/4GB).

Vember Audio Surge

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Music: Wet Pavement

KL was raining yesterday.

Production Notes:

For the Scolex project.

I was walking around Pudu. For the most part, it was raining.

Moist Agoraphobes Chanting

Polyrhythm dub delay. And organic acid-style conversation.

Reverberated bassline. Modulated waveform sync / freqs. Denotes slippery pavement with a literal physical movement.

Percussion adds pace. Staggered particle sizes to give illusion of speed.

135BPM.

Sequenced on Ableton Live 7.0.11 on my MacBook (2.2GHz/4GB).

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Music: Seitch

An Arrakean Community Chant.

Production Notes:

A Seitch is community of Fremen, from Frank Herbert’s Dune

“Sand keeps the skin clean, and the mind.”

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Dry sand-type atmospheric patches blended with low fidelity stabs and bulges. Bounced Surge patches controlled via PS2-USB-MIDI controller.

Bass-line depicts the movement of the Fremen people across the deserts of Dune. Rhythmic parts intended to capture an post-civilization ethnicity with organic overtones.

Completed overarching ambient themes first.

Custom bass patch from TalBassline.

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Celebration

Hooray for a New Clarity!

In the past month or so, I’ve had the great fortune of spending some time in Thailand observing some of the parties that they throw there.

It comforts me that they’re not very different from what we do at the Epic Tribe.

Once I got back, I had a sudden opportunity to compare the motivations between us and other tribes across the region.

One of the things that struck me as interesting was the reasonings behind celebration. After all, what we did at the Epic Tribe was effectively get a group of people together, meet up at a particular location, then party down.

In my experience, people throw parties when they’re celebrating something. Mostly birthdays, religious occasions, sometimes even divorces and funerals.

Many people are eagerly waiting for the clock-out on a Friday evening to celebrate the end of a hard working week.

But what of people who don’t work a corporate job and spend almost every waking moment in the most subtle of inner-celebrations (like many monks).

What exactly were we doing that deserved celebrating?

For me, I celebrate the fact that we’re capable of pulling off the stunts that we have since FoundationKL.org right up to the Epic Tribe.

I’m extremely grateful for the fantastic people that I work with and the meandering new friends that I’d meet along the way.

I celebrate the fact that FoundationKL.org has been running for 4 years now, and 2 years for Epic Tribe — and 12 events locally and internationally.

And most of all, I celebrate the people that have come to celebrate with me. The type of effort required to be present contributes to the energy and the successes of everything that I’ve done so far.

What are you celebrating right now?

Who are you celebrating with?

What does it mean to celebrate?

Thai Islands

Defrag NOW!

It’s not so much as a holiday. It’s more of a reformatting, defragmentation, debugging, and software update. This piece of software certainly feels like he deserves it.

In a few hours, Yasser and myself will be boarding the AirAsia flight over to Krabi. After we arrive, we’ll be heading straight over to the local bus station to see if we can rumble over to Surat before 4:30pm (We were told that it would be last chance we would have to get onto the ferry before they closed their services for the day)

Seeing how the trip goes, we’ll be making as many updates as we can through the blog just to let you know how things are going. I’ve been so far booked to play at the Pirate Bar for the Moonset Party, but we’ll see how that goes.

Really looking forward to the movement.

Software out.

Simple Reminders

This photograph was taking almost a year ago when Jody was around.

It was thought provoking enough for me to snap a picture of it. I suppose now it can be as relevant as ever.

Handwritten script on a wooden board as it hangs from a tree in the temple compound. How poignant.

PS: Jody got back to KL again yesterday.

Fashion

Runway Audio Operations

DJ Tatiana covering the BEBE Spring ’07 collection in Los Angeles.

The runway DJ is a respectable discipline. Do you have the mindset of a fashion show DJ?

North

I have to say that I’m doing all of this because I’ve realized what sort of a comfort zone I’m suddenly in.

Not that there’s anything bad with being comfortable, I just have a problem with being satisfied. Looking around me now, there’s really nothing to be satisfied with.

The party at Holy Cow went really well. DJ Samadhi really beat the living daylights out of the rookies. If there’s anything to really root for at a psytrance gig, it’s got to be a good mental rewiring.

Working with the guys to put this thing together, I must say, seemed to have a little bit more resistance than we all had anticipated. But a fantastic turn out with some of the best vibes that we’ve had in a long time was worth every creak in probability.

Since then and it’s subsequent after-party, there’s been somewhat of a pause. As if something needed to catch its breath before it rampages past me at full speed. I’m not terribly sure what it’s all about.

In just under 12 days, I’ll be heading out to Koh Panghan for the first time to meet up with Sanuk. A few months ago the Epic Tribe had invited him to come down to play at our Fierce Green Fire party, and since then Daniel and ourselves have had a mutual fascination with each other.

I’m really looking forward to it. It’ll be a good idea to get out of the city for a while to clear my head before the real work begins.

It’s going to be real tough to keep that low when The Plan finally takes place.