Archive for 2006

Raise 2 Fundraiser for Carolyn Pioro

by mentalfloss on Dec.15, 2006, under - Main Page -, Upcoming Gigs

Just posting about a fundraiser I was fortunate to be a part of. More details can be found on the site for Raise. There's also a video below to give you an idea.

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Harvest Festival

by mentalfloss on Sep.15, 2006, under - Main Page -

Hey it's that time again, and Harvest Festival is upon us, and I'm glad
to be back playing! This year should be a bit different style for me,
though likely won't be playing any of the techno/ house / breaks I've been
doing lately. Here's the official info:

SEPTEMBER 16th & 17th 2006

ITB : techno

NOAH PRED (metapath / fukhouse)
MIKE GIBBS (alienInFlux)
ERIC DOWNER (sensor / fukhouse)
HALI (netmusique.com)
TIM PATRICK (5th sun, catalyst recordings)
ADAM MARSHAL (minimal)
JAMIE KIDD (stratagem-musik, xanuradio)
IAN GUTHRIE (fukhouse)
TOM KUO (foundation music)
ALI BLACK (heebar, livin' large)
BRENDAN LAWLESS (independent lawless ent.)

ITP : downtempo & broken beats

SHEN – LIVE (native state, GSC)
PRIMAL – LIVE (drum collective)
YOSHI & CHIE – LIVE (kaminari)
KINDER ATOM – LIVE (nice & smooth)
MARZ (BLA)
ANDREW McCALLUM (mentalfloss)
CHOCOLATE & PATRICK ROOTS (scratchfree)
LEX & REW (legion of green men)
GABOR (IBS productions)
DMS (baselinestudios.com) :: guelph
AIA (listenableMusic.com)
OWEN (psyence project)
ROLLIN CASH (sumkidz / hotpierecords.com)
NATE WIZE (dubmatix.com)

ITT : trance

BASILISK (ektoplazm / metamystiks)
LEXICON (metamystiks)
YEB (coldgroove.ca, bla)
QUIVERING VIRIGN (coldgroove.ca, bla)
TENZIN (techsafari) :: montreal
REPTILIAN (geomagnetics records) :: ottawa
PLAN B (shakti collective)
SEB (mandala sound) :: montreal
decorations by JULIEN (coldgroove.ca)

ZERO GRAVITY CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

We have a stunning new addition to this year's Harvest Festival – an
aerial circus show! This Toronto-based performance group creates shows
for events all across North America and around the world. They have
built themselves into an important hub of activity in that realm and
any incredible new performer that comes to Toronto ends up at Zero
Gravity with their talent. Zero Gravity will be holding a special
Harvest version of their regular Lunacy Cabaret. They will be erecting
their steel acrobat rigging near the pyramid and you can expect
sweeping aerial dancers, breakdancers, jugglers and acrobatics. Their
show will lead up to the lighting of the bonfire. We are so lucky and
looking forward to this part of the festival.

ADVANCE MEMBERSHIP

$46 + canned food donation at the gate

Toronto

Shanti Baba (546 Queen St. W)
Odyssey (557 Queen St. W)
Moog Audio (442 Queen St. W)
2thebeat (S/E corner Queen & Spadina)
SpyLab (247 Queen St. W)
White Lodge (4 St. Patrick)
Style Bomb (676 Yonge St.)
Play De Record (357A Yonge St.)

Kitchener

Shakedown Street (276 King St. W)

Guelph

Baseline Records (31 Wyndham St.)

Hamilton

Cottage 13 (224 King St. W)

Oshawa

Velvet Elvis (221 King St. E)

Peterborough

The Spill Coffee Bar (414 George St. N)

WEB

http://harvestfestival.org

CONTACT

INFO info@harvestfestival.org

* * ABSOLUTELY NO GLASS, PETS OR FIREWORKS (it’s a working farm)
** NO ARRIVALS BEFORE 2PM SATURDAY **

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Burning Man 2006 video

by mentalfloss on Sep.08, 2006, under - Main Page -

Just arrived back from my 3rd burn, and decided to try and shoot video this time around rather than stills. Okay, it's the backup plan after my Nikon broke.. argh..

At any rate, enjoy the 5 minutes of fun and music. The subtitles get hard at some points but you can usually find a frame where it's clear enough for each word.

update: This seems to be doing pretty well on YouTube — already got in the top 20 Travel Videos for the week I posted, and top 100 for the month. Not bad for 7 hours of work and little bits of footage.

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Writely – Better than Rich Text Editing

by mentalfloss on Aug.05, 2006, under - Main Page -

If you can see this article, then Writely rocks! Writely is an online text editor (almost a replacement for Word), recently acquired by Google, and it comes with built in hooks to publish to blogs like Blogware or Blogharbor.

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Transmit Rooftop Thursdays

by mentalfloss on Aug.02, 2006, under - Main Page -

Hey folks,

Have a small cozy gig that people might be interested in coming out to
on a nice patio tomorrow (or today, depending on when you're reading it)

I've heard a set from Target before and he rides a pretty good line
between techno/house and progressive trance (without getting cheezy).
Adam Winick has been around _forever_ in the techno scene and I'm not
familiar with his current techno but he tends to like the hawd beatz, so
if you're into thumpier techno definitely check him out.

I'm playing first at 10:30pm (though I'll likely bug them to start early
if I show up so it'll likely be warmup music in the tek-house vein.

Here's info from the flyer:

Hello Friends. We welcome you back to the sweetest rooftop patio in the
city. Come and Support the Toronto Electronic Music Community

After 4 weeks of thursdays we are back for the 5th week. Join us on
Thursday August 3rd as we celebrate Transmits 5th week live to air on
xanuradio and the extremely tasty $3 SPECIALS… Each week we select new
artists to rock the patio for your outdoor enjoyment.

This Weeks Lineup: Thursday August 3rd

ADAM WINICK (Live Pa)
Format,Kickmagazine,Tools

TARGET (Dj Set)
xanuradio.com http://xanuradio.com

ROOZBEH (Dj Set)
partialsound.com http://partialsound.com

MENTALFLOSS (Laptop Performance)
omfestival,xanuradio.com http://xanuradio.com

LOCATION: 222 Richmond St.W Rooftop Patio 2nd Floor Upstairs
$5 before 12:00am
$3 SPECIALS ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smoking is permited on the Patio..
http://www.xanuradio.com/transmit for free
guestlist before 11:30am