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WordPress is why I love the internet

Monday, May 10, 2010

If anyone comes to me wanting a web site, I try to convince them they should have a blog, specifically, a WordPress blog. I’m doing several web sites for clients that use WordPress. The more I work with this platform, the more I come to love it. WordPress is free, hacker-friendly and supported by an [...]

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Open-source music

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Sample-based music isn’t stealing. It’s valuable and important. It shows the way toward a future for recorded music that’s more in continuity with music’s past. Recordings are cool and everything, but they encourage passivity. If I buy a recording, I can listen to it or dance to it, both fine activities, but what if I [...]

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The sampling chain

Saturday, November 8, 2008

I produce electronic music, on my own and with my bands like Revival Revival. We use a lot, and I mean a lot, of samples of copyrighted material. If you’re worried about our legal well-being, be at ease. We have yet to make a nickel from any of it, and if we ever eventually do, [...]

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