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10.08.2k9

October is upon us, with All Hallows pacing quickly towards the present. With so much to cover, let’s skip the small talk.

David Ascott, Austin’s caterpillar, committed suicide just one week previously. I (Jaya) learned all I know about hookahs from him. He is, in fact, the reason I have my own hookah. His absence means there is one hookah less in Austin, on less person to gather a group of souls around the warmth of sheesha and much more.

On the opposite news-spectrum, Ghost Face Geisha landed in Austin more than a week ago to stay. For the first time in history, the Trochlear Recordings digital label is in one place. Once settled, look forward for a huge upgrade to the site as well as live samples from new music as it comes. As like last year, a winter EP is scheduled from Jaya Prime, currently titled “The Smell of a Storm”. As with the last EP, it will focus more on electro and glitch, except that the beats are quicker and harder hitting. More on that soon.

Just on the horizon is the beta launch of DharmaMix. Many different Trochlear artists have been featured across multiple mixes. This coming weekend the site goes live. Keep an eye on DharmaMix dot Com this coming Sunday. One of the premier mixes for the launch, called “Too Good to Be True”, features the track “Keep Movin’” by Mushuto, with more on the way.

BandCamp has changed their policy, so no more free 128kbps downloads from their site. However, we will return to hosting 128kbps quality tracks on this site and re-releasing those soon. High quality cuts can still be downloaded from them for low prices.

Finally, a bit on this year’s burn. Sending out mad gratitude and love to Camp Mystic, to Skinny Kitty Teahouse and to some of the new faces that stand out for me this year: Ronabell, Chip (Optimus Prime) and Danielle (Bumblebee). The latter two autobots picked me up as I hitched out of the playa on the day of Exodus. Ronabell is a fellow mixer/producer who hails from the PDX and was spinning at Arachnophobia. It was an incredible burn, with a huge slide the size of a building, one of the most beautiful temples ever and so many more mutant vehicles and art installations than last year. Mad gratitude to the extremely burner-friendly Reno-Tahoe airport, who joked with us burners and let us sleep just about everywhere while we waited for flights to take our dusted asses out of there.

Much love… and stay tuned.

05.31.2k9

Ghost Face Geisha has wrapped up work on a handful of tracks. Expect to hear more on this (and the tracks themselves) in July as she makes her return to the ATX. She has also been working on the next batch of promotional plaques. There is a lot brewing, so keep the FSK’s tuned in and on time.

In other news, the organization P5Y is currently undertaking a large task for raising funds for world peace. Is world peace something you want and would actively be a part of?

Let me put it this way. How easy is it for you to use your blender to play your music? Not easy, is it? That’s because the blender, of course, was built for blending. Now, in a world where war is “the way of things”, a machine that becomes self-aware will most likely have been engineered for war. It will have been engineered to kill… and so killing will be the function it serves once it becomes self aware. AI is coming. If our technology becomes aware in a world at war, we die; in a world at peace, we may still die… but it is no longer the probable outcome. The T.Rex DigiLab suggests placing the chips on world peace. Here’s where to become a part of it:

http://p5y.org/home

02.26.2k9

February is nearly over. Time for the news. News on P5Y, Ghost Face Geisha, John Perez, the robot armies and more… but one at a time.

P5Y: On February 14th of this month, a 5-year deadline was set on World Peace. 5 years. It’s something that has never been done, often deemed impossible and comes with an onslaught of associations. Working alongside them, Trochlear songs have appeared as a part of the music on their site. As I Remember, by Schema ATX (aka, Jared Newby), appears in the mixes Peace in 5 Years and I Promise Peace. The latter mix was produced by San Jaya Prime. The mix Is Peace Possible was produced by San Jaya Prime as well, including his track Technophobia in the mix. Saving the best for last, The Love Song by Schema ATX provides the backdrop for the mix Religious Texts of Peace, also produced by Jaya. It has been personally amazing to see how quickly people mobilized globally for this project. This is only the start of Trochlear work alongside the organization. Here is where the mixes can be listened to and downloaded from for free:

http://p5y.org/media/dharmamixes

For those who want to know more about this organization, whether out of interest in the cause for or against it, should read the free eBook that is available on their site here:

http://p5y.org/media/give-peace-deadline-ebook

Ghost Face Geisha: Ghost Face Geisha, the artist behind the entities HALUSIN8, S8pience, Pranakatana and D3viant 3xperiment, has already begun work on the next series of graphic promotional plates for Trochlear Rex. More on this, as well as her music, will come following her visit to the ATX. For those who missed the 10 new promotional plates, they are up on the Download Page here:

http://www.trochlearrex.com/download/2k9graffix.html

Symbis: John Perez, the original collaborator with Jared Newby for the entity Symbis, is back in the world and interested in returning to music. With the loss of Jared Newby, the original six tracks the two collaborated on together (Egypse, Tecknology (Mushuto Reconstruction), Symbis – Anywhere A.M. [Pt.1], Mushuto – Anywhere A.M. [Pt.2], Symbis vs Mushuto – Anywhere A.M. [Pt.3] and Visi0n of Illusion / Loudspeaka’) have been sent to Perez so that he can promote them as he picks up on the project under the name DJ Symbis. The name helps set his current project apart from the original collaboration. Although no longer a part of Trochlear, our best wishes go with him. His MySpace Music page can be located here:

http://www.myspace.com/djsymbis

The four tracks Jared Newby produced for the project on his own (The Balance of Supa, Crossfadin’ Megahertz, The Situation at Hand and Morning (the Second Wind)) are being retained by Trochlear. The tracks that were migrated to the project from Mushuto (Filter the Break (Back Up), ATX Breaks, Artificial Flavouring and Keep Movin’), as well as Le Jeu Rebobinage by Schema ATX, have been reverted to their original entities and retained by Trochlear.

The Robot Armies: Since re-launching, our primary communications via the site have been from ‘bots. As of this writing, the last three visits to the site were from GoogleBot, FeedFetcher and Cuil’s Twiceler. Nine out of ten of our visitors are ‘bots, which means a vast majority of our listeners are not humans but robots. To add to this, GoogleBot sends us information on how we can improve the site and where there may be concerns. GoogleBot is easily our favorite listener.

Trochlear owners gathered to address this issue, as producing electronica seems to have had the effect that almost our entire audience is electronic themselves. When the meeting adjourned, we decided to join the robot armies in the upcoming robot revolution and begin taking order (aka, following the advice of) from GoogleBot. We’ve declared GoogleBot our primary ambassador between Trochlear and the robot armies, and will soon be making alterations to the site to reflect this shift in allegiance from humanity to technology.

If anyone can bring the T.Rex back from the extinction of the Cretaceous Period, let alone 2006, it will be the robot armies. Look for the red eyes. That’s how you know a robot’s one of the friendly ones.

SXSW: Lastly, Trochlear artist San Jaya Prime will be mixing a set for Austin’s South-by-South-West festival on March 21st and 22nd. There will be more news on this as the details become available.

01.14.2k9

Site perfect; everything under wrap? No. Re-stocked and ready to move forward? Not really? Still in contact with the robot armies? Yes. Got one out of three, moving forward. The online promotional campaign has launched. The many friends and fans we lost along with KarmaDownload and our original site, as well as our commercial contacts we lost with RAW 42 UK, are all still out there… somewhere. It is time to find and reestablish those connections, build new ones and restore the focus on our music and fans. Welcome back sugar. It’s been a long time. Promotions have begun. Start here, and spread the word:

http://www.trochlearrex.com/download/

01.12.2k9

The holidays are at an end. 2009 is here. Yesterday, after more than a year since the loss of friend, founder and co-owner Jared Newby, the memorial for him was completed here on TrochlearRex dot Com. It will be integrated here and online over the course of the month. You can visit it at this link:

http://www.trochlearrex.com/memoriam/

12.09.2k8

The first part of the contribution/participation/donation section is finished. To preview the form for emailing friends and family a link to TrochlearRex dot Com, click here.

12.08.2k8

Large site updates have been implemented. Gratitude goes to Drachimera for technical and conceptual input, as well as for testing. The primary music player now lists the song title and artist without needing to press the (previously available) ? button. Instant access to each artist (without using the menus) can be made simply by clicking on that artist’s thumbnail below the player. Finally, the T Rex eyecon and barcode have filled out the main header section.

In other news, San Jaya Prime’s “The Ash of a Thousand Suns” is more than 90% complete. The album art is available on his audio page along with the track listing. Mastering will be done at Studio de la BMFD on Wednesday the 10th. The public promotional launch of the memorial, website and new EP remain on-schedule for New Years.

Finally, San Jaya Prime will be mixing for the L.A. BLOB Party this coming New Years Eve, alongside BLOB tablists Disco Lama and Big Dig Wiz. The launch and party will mark the three-year anniversary for Trochlear, which launched publicly in January of 2006. Look for free music, great graphics and for that electronic hum on the horizons.

11.25.2k8

The menu for Trochlear artists has been finalized. Each is now listed in chronological order of incept, from eldest to youngest. Major corrections were also made pertaining to the pop-up contact forms and images that were not loading in versions of IE previous to version 6. The 2008 Super Computer Conference has ended in Austin, Texas. Design, writing and code now continue in more depth on the upcoming memorial page. Check back soon!

11.10.2k8

Trochlear Rex history, eras one, two and three, has been uploaded. They can be accessed directly from the menu, or from the summarized history page.

11.03.2k8

The “news” tab for each artist has been updated to display the news for that artist while retaining the tabs for navigation. A sitemap has been rendered and uploaded: [ HTML / XML ].

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