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Maybe his son was armed too - it is Maricopa after-all.

Jazz with too many "z"s.

I think I need to hear your definition of "tribe" 'cause tribes are all I see.

Sounds goin' on all over this place... ...and when it hits the right spot - meaning: it's caught my attention from something else I'm involved in - then I have to choose the most important of the two activities. That's where the power of sound comes in... ...and it's always that special combination of mindset and sound that might just exist at that very moment and past or future be damned - it may never fuse that way again for a long time - or at all. It doesn't have to be something profound either. The other day in the car, I kept on repeat a ska version of the Theme From Exodus that just wouldn't let go. It happens.

Actually, I like listening to short bursts.

Free-falling from the edge of space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oq2Xl7oiws

Oh, OK! I was more referring to what I said earlier about stuff being easy to organize, access, and store. mjzee is right in his post. Here's an example of liner note storage for a couple of different Mosaic sets. ...and when I want to access them, I just drag the notes to my desktop and they open up large (ca. 3000-4000 pixels) for easy reading (I've reduced the picture of Roy Eldridge for this post):

There's a difference between talking over music and chanting over "riddims" in Jamaican music. Back in the early 80's, when I mentioned to a club owner that I was a "DJ", he hired me to spin at his Chicago reggae club. I found out when I arrived that I was expected to toast over the riddims - not just spin rare tracks. Chanting over music has been popular in Jamaica with sound systems going back to the 60's and has been part of African music tradition too (tho it wasn't, of course, called "toasting" back then).

Jimmy Savile has been in the news lately - and not for good reasons. Ask our British friends. (BTW: he died last year about this time).

You must have me on "ignore."

Agree! Performers are in the place where I think the composer's name should be instead of the "album artist" area. Amazon does this too.

How do I know when my router is just an illusion?

But it IS possible to have smoke and mirrors?

What? No smoke?

Challenge Records

OK, look...this is like wondering why you can't find anything like the Hope Diamond at your local jewelry store - even if it is Graff Diamonds. You have some rare or limited things that aren't going to show up, so, apparently, you're gonna have to fill in the info. When you take the title Takussaanou Ndakarou and it doesn't even show up in Google(!) - except for 4 cases of a variation on that, then you know that you've got something rather limited and off-the-radar. Rare kalindula or exotic radif and tasnifs? - some of these will be hard to find (but not all because I usually have good luck with them). Zani Diabate's Tientalaw, on the other hand? - no prob. Here's the website for Song Sergeant which is the main one that I use for big jobs. Yes, it checks for artist variations - giving you what it thinks should be correct, but you can change this if you don't agree (Imagine the different ways that, for instance, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, might be shown in your library). "latin" and "Latin" are different if you're an exacting piece of software which is very helpful in most instances. I have another, even more detailed piece of software for things like "genre" and "BPM" a.o., but I can't remember its name at the moment and I need to check with this soon anyway. When I come across it during a spot of time, I'll let you know. Also, I wanted to mention that sometimes I pick up Ethiopian and Eritrean discs in small shops during my travels and about 40% of them don't show up in the database either, so...

Yes! Got my notice from them last week.

I agree. I have about 200GB on HD. Managing and finding stuff requires incredible discipline. Look at Rod's statistics: 1,743 genres! OK, we know he has loads of strange music, but 1,743 must be the result of spelling mistakes - not necessarily his, but whoever puts these tags onto tracks. And there are loads of other errors; sometimes on the original CD; one of the CDs I got in August had all the track titles offset by one; I had to listen most carefully to the words of each to divine what the titles really were - in fucking Mandinke! Whenever I rip a CD to my HD, it takes ages to get all the information spelt correctly and consistently on the tags - and get the right artwork etc; much longer than doing the rip itself. Organization, for me, is all in iTunes. It's what makes it great (but it seriously needs an upgrade). I store liner notes and disc pictures in with the cover art in many cases...and there's plenty of info online. The genres are a bit overstated - I'm guessing closer to 1400 - but it's the only info area that I haven't diligently kept up with. I use software to check for duplicates, title inconsistencies, orphaned and missing tracks, but sifting thru genres takes another bit of software that I haven't used much lately, so I guess this can be a reminder. These titles/CDs in Mandinke make me want to search CDDB to see if they're there to be had. If so, iTunes might solve that problem too. It's the rare title that doesn't show up there - even the most obscure thing. The only time a problem comes up is when the title is both obscure and/or experimental and very new - like only a few days old - and it doesn't come up in the database.

Whenever I get to 250,000 tunes, I start switching to a new 4TB drive. As of this morning:

sorry, what were you saying?

It's kind of like engineering a better broccoli...for those of us who like broccoli. I still have minidiscs (and players - portable and stand-alone units) literally all around me at the moment, but they're being used for transferring away from them to the new tech that's available. The minidisc player was the best portable way for me to use binaural mics for recording. A problem: you needed to keep the player as steady as possible, so that there wouldn't be that annoying whirring sound that happened when it became unbalanced - pretty much ruining your recording. You do the best that you can with what you can afford at the time, I suppose. The next jump was to the iAudio...and then to the Edirol for capturing.

Wow! They need to get out more.

Haven't seen it yet...mostly due to being busy and not in tune with local movie schedules. It's an accomplishment to get me inside a movie theater. I think I missed the Ai Weiwei film that I wanted to see too, but I'll probably pick them up when they hit DVD. --- Now playing: Ida May Mack - Good-Bye Rider

Left us with some great music. Early intros for me were New York Eye and Ear Control, Ascension, and this gem: