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The Hercules Dj Console is sold at the local shop here for 250 euro’s. They include some software:
* Virtual DJ (DJ Console Edition) from Atomix Productions
* New DJ SE from GMIXON, the easy-to-use DJ mixing software
* Ots CD Scratch 1200 and OtsDJ demo from Ots Labs
* Storm 2.0 DJ Edition from Storm Music Studio, a powerful audio sequencer

I also found the M-Audio X-Session, which plays nice with Traktor. It generates MIDI signals, so Traktor can use that. You also get:
* Ableton Live XS and
* Arturia Storm XS
with it. Of course Ableton Live is a nice product.

The high-end option is of course Final Scratch, which Ritchie Hawtin and Wink are using.

Anyway - what I wanted to say is that it looks like there are more and more interfaces appearing that might make it feasible to drop the vinyl. Let’s see how long it lasts. Do as Kraftwerk - use a laptop
If you use any of this stuff, let me know how you like it.

At this site you can read something about Azumi - another sword-fighting /samurai movie which is all the craze these days (from 2003).

In August there is the Ishido seminar in Amsterdam for some more swordplay as well as Jodo (fighting with sticks).

Have a nice bloody summer (just kiddin)

DATES THIS WEEKEND IN ATLANTA, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO CANCELLED

I�m again not coming for my gigs in the States this weekend. Really believe me I�ve tried everything, but here is what we have to deal with now with the US embassy in Paris.

After obtaining a new passport 2 weeks ago, it was sent directly to the US Embassy.

Since the Iraq conflict, it is totally forbidden to access the premises. You can only send documents by special courier like �Chronopost� (our equivalent to Fedex or DHL).

There is no way you can speak to anybody on the phone, free of charge, unless a matter of life or death!!!!, otherwise you have to pay via credit card 15 Euros (= 15 dollars) for a �recorded� conversation to be able to ask a question !!!!! (believe me we tried it and we only go one person once on the phone for about 10 trials).

So far it is simple !!! ��. But that is nothing.

It says on the Embassy�s web site that a visa takes 5 days to get done� (this was true in the past as I already applied for about 8 visas for the past 10 years, without any trouble).

After waiting for 8 days with no reply whatsoever�(remember it�s impossible to get in touch with them) we then decided to send a fax to ask about my visa, the following day somebody got back on the phone to my agent literally insulting her, asking her who the hell did she think she was to ask things like that !!!!!�

We finally got back my passport this afternoon �.and guess what !!!! it says that my request was incomplete ????

01) My pictures were not conform to the new demand of the US Embassy �they were of course regular passport pictures (sounds pretty obvious doesn�t it) but these don�t work anymore for a US visa in France. They actually now request a very precise size, back drop colour, and format for the pictures, (they now give you a couple of addresses where to go and get those pictures done)����.I got my little ruler out, checked the size, everything is conform regarding size and colour, but they still refused it �..I don�t know but maybe they don�t accept people wearing tee shirts anymore on the photos !!!!! This had never been specified before to me.

02) They now asked me to fill a new form that is compulsory for people living in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Ireland, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba !!!!!!!

Yes you are not dreaming ���. It looks like France is now either considered as a terrorist ,a communist or a threatening country !!!!!

Here are just a few questions from this form:

-Give all the names of every single country you have visited in the last 10 years, also give the years of each visit (I have roughly thought a minute about this one, each time I�ve been abroad in the past 10 years I would have to put around 900 dates and countries)

-Have you ever been involved in an armed conflict�? (that�s a good one, euhhh not really other than what the television shows me every day�).

-Have you got special experience with explosives, nuclear, chemical, biological weapons? (heuuu sorry I�m French, we make very good Camembert, does that count??).

This form has never EVER been required before�

So here are the facts: I have paid 3400 Dollars !!!(yes you�ve heard right 3400 Dollars) to the US embassy in December 2002 for a visa that they still won�t give me yet.

They did not refuse it, it is more unclear than that, they are just making it impossible for me to receive it�

They were fully aware of my dates of departure ,they only waited until this morning to tell me that they needed new things that they never requested before !!!!!!

Quite frankly I�m getting very sick and pissed off with the situation, and to see that we cannot access the Embassy and have tried to move mountains I�ll never get my visa before next week ��..and even that is not sure.

This is what we have to go through now � is that the price that French artists have to pay because of our government�s position?

Well all I can say is that I hope that one day artists will be free again to travel to the States, but until that date it doesn�t look like
I am going to be able to come over and play records for you.

With regret,

Laurent Garnier

Skynet is coming

Autonomous weapon systems are increasingly being used in modern warfare, notably in the recent Kosovo campaign. The improvement in electronics is resulting in the development of weapon systems with ever greater computing power. Current systems developed for surveillance only are now being replaced with combat capable vehicles where the decision to attack resides in an intelligent computer rather than a human operator. It is envisaged that this will increasingly become the norm in the digitised battlespace of the future because the human operator will simply be too slow to take effective decisions except at the highest levels.
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In 1993, Mike Dearborn visited the Netherlands and played a set on VPRO’s Dancing Zone - our favourite radio show at the time. I got a tape with Mike’s mix and a Mozart concerto on it for my birthday in that year.

The coolest part in the mix is where Mike just throws in the same track of the Acid Junkies twice after each other. This track was and is still legendary and apparently he liked it a lot as well !!!

The tracklist is not complete, if you can add to it, please do so in the comments. I was to lazy to look up some things also, Most tracks are on Djax-Up-Beats. The Djax site has been dead for yeasr, but just got a brand new look this month.

• 1 K-Alexi - Club MCM (Mind Control Music)
• 2 Ron Trent - Altered States (East Side Mixx by Carl Craig)
• 3 Mike Dearborn - Deviant Behavior (thnx Niek)
• 4 Robert Armani - Circus Bells
• 5 Robert Armani - Fire Alarm (thnx nils)
• 6 Edge of Motion - Overvolt (thnx Niek)
• 7 Acid Junkies - Some track from Part 1 or 2 (twice)
• 8 Like A Tim (I think ??)
• 9 Edge of Motion - Set Up 707
• 10 ?
• 11 Jeff Mills - Dark Matter (Reload, thnx nils)
• 12 ?

Download this mix and start headnodding like back in the days.

Aciddome proudly presents a co-production with Beukhoven-Sloopwerken:
beukhoven.aciddome.com

Many thanks to the Bong Bros. for bringing us together!

Watch this video closely and pay special attention to

• the coach shouting ippon ippon
• how the Korean guy starts jumping up and down
• how the Iranian guy doesn’t have a clue

See you next time in the Dojo!

recorded from the 2003 Judo World Championship in Osaka

Straight from the studio at 4711 - The Sound of DJ Unglefever

Mixed and recorded by Beukhoven - Sloopwerken

PLAY THAT DJ UNGLE FEVER SOUND! or Stream

Deep House Pages contains a lot of mixes from people like Larry Heard, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy and spans 2 decades. Great quality music!

A new form of “street-art” seems to be quite succesfull in France. They smeared a lot of paint over a number of adverts in the streets under the name Robert Johnson.

The final result of this was that the city of Marseille decided to cut down the number of billboards from 5.5 thousand to 3.5 thousand. A remarkable fact!

I do not wish to promote these actions as you kow - I am actually quite sceptical about it. But the fact that it made politicians realize that there is too much advertisement in the streets is something renarkable.

That can only happen in France, where there is a huge history of strikes and public anger which resulted in some changes (guillotine anyone?).

View newspaper article in Dutch.
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