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Saturday, 06:48 pm, 31 January 2004 S.U.P. S.U.X. Rediscovering my Australian heritage, my mother send more of my tapes from Australia. The interesting one featured DPM Slay 1992 on one side and Sound Unlimited Posse Live at the Wireless also 1992. DPM Slay rocked 1992 in 2004 as much as it was in 1992. The tape is probably the best freestyle album of non-Gurap featured DPM Slay. There were four participants from memory; DMT - the front man, Maniak - the video man, General DJ aka Mr Bean - the occasional EQ man, and Mark - the occasional sound effects man. I'm going to have to mp3 some of this Australian music history. In contrast, Sound Unlimited Posse. Anger. Making music in Australia - the contrast was always the rubbish that was called 'Australian music'. I don't feel too connected with 'Australian music'. In fact, working with a group like DPM Slay, I used to get really angry at the rubbish that was passed off as Australian music. I realised just before I left Australia that only the terminally retarded had music deals in Australia. Even independent music didn't exist in a participatory way. I had more success with my music in the UK and the US than Australia. I think the population in Australia was too small to sustain real independent music - music to the capacity where you could produce music of any quality and earn a living. The music industry was flooded with mass produced American and UK acts and very very luke-warm mainstream Australian music. In contrast in some way to SUP was Def Wish Cast which supposedly embodied good underground Australian rap. When I toured with a rap group in Sydney, I realised that Canberra was luxury in terms of a place to produce. But Sydney was the place to perform. We fliered during the day and performed to a packed hall at night. Def Wish Cast, that also came with the tapes, provided something a little better than SUP Live at the Wireless. I think the biggest problems I had was the accents. Sydney accents - the prevailing rap accent - sounded ridiculous, treble heavy and was quite alien. It smacked you in the face. There was a style where they would talk extremely fast and it was totally unintelligible. For international readers, you may have missed that Australia has subtle but quite distinct accents. Rewriting Little Bits There have been some piecemeal bugs actually just incompatibilities between GCC and proprietary compilers. It is interesting that there is a level of interpretation of the C specification between GCC and proprietary compilers. In my terms, GCC is rarely good enough for what I want. You would think with IBM, INTEL and other serious hardware companies working on GCC it would be a better. But IBM and INTEL has their own proprietary compiler technologies. Open Source for the stock market. Good night. Thursday, 11:33 pm, 29 January 2004 Some Good News... I heard from Prof Groove of WeFunk Radio that Butta Beats is listening to and 'feeling' my beats. Vocals or lyrics at least to be sent in the near future. So I listened to the beats again today. Sample clearing/removal is relatively central for a vinyl press. So I suspect I am going to have to do a vinyl remix or two with strictly legit beats and samples. Digging through the ol' Tommy B sample library - for Tommy B instrumentals. I have been listening to a long of Gangstar recently through WeFunk. Guru and Premier feature pretty heavily in the better playlists. Another debate Groove and I are thrashing out currently is the CDROMs for WeFunk's non-broadband listeners. This one is up to Groove. I think it is the only way to go - in terms of expanding the listenership. But that is just my view. Noble Warfare - Slow and Sluggish The IEEE article isn't stopping in the near future. I am writing an additional 800 words for sidebars in the article. This is taking time out of Noble Warfare development. In fact the IEEE article is taking some valuable scoping time as well. The good thing about development is I do spend a good amount of time - whilst walking to work (for example) - thinking about the next set of things to implement. By the time I come to the implementation, it is usually quite clear in my head. One thing I am thinking about seriously is the introduction of Ocelot into the development from the getgo. I think it would add another level to the initial implementation. If the actual battle view was centred around Ocelot. It is quite doable. I would just need to write an expanded version. Quite exciting really. The Ocelot code would need to be optimised quite a bit. But it could add a new angle to the development. Good night. Wednesday, 07:13 pm, 28 January 2004 My Walk Into Work Today...  Good night. Tuesday, 08:36 pm, 27 January 2004 Totally switched around the dot points from my original ordering... Stalking Mr Frosty Mug Having professed a new log allegiance to the man known to us all as Mr Frosty Mug, I decided today, it was probably a good idea to get to the bottom of who this person was. You need to be concerned when the best bio information you can find on someone comes from Modern Bride magazine. So I scoured the web for more information. His company website gives little away. I suspect from the wedding information he could actually be younger than he appears on the website. In fact, I am not clear whether I am following a contemporary or not. The internet is very good for dirt raking. There is a whole website devoted to false muck-raking on me. But I didn't find much about Frosty Mug. This is Australia Calling Pausing in my disinterested search, I got an email from my brother in Australia saying he was going to be appearing on late night student radio in Australia. I missed the first half hour. But then I tuned in just in time for a viewer call in. Name that song was the poison. It consisted of a woman screaming profanities at the top of her lungs. So I called the number... 'The track is called, 'America's foreign policy.'' The presenter tried to put me on the air but cut me off in the process. He announced my response was the correct answer. But as I was about 24 hours flight away, I didn't get the concert tickets. It was quite emotional though. Hearing my brother talking on radio. Hearing his voice - similar accent to my own - next to a broad Australian accent. He did very well. It is good to be close to family in some way. Free-dom-ain You are probably not going to read any press releases about this. But after three years of negotiations, I have sold nervana.com. Having rebranded/named the development about a year ago, pending my emotional removal from the situation. The domain name has gone on to another group. It feels funny to say the least. Mainly because I had such an emotional connection to the name Nervana and I have now consciously removed myself from that - over about a year. Now it seems like nothing. Something in the past. Noble Ape has been around for the length of Nervana. So long, old friend. Good night [ Previous Log ]
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