Office by Alex Penny
Millwaukee's official source for quality recording and/or mixing. Specializing in Urban music, Hip-Hop and RnB.
I’m entering a beat battle to tonight in Madison so if you’re in town come by Poolies and watch ya boy win another battle haha
So I found this cool app for the iPhone named “NanoStudio” if your like me you love new gadgets, programs and apps, so I was pretty excited when I found an app that I can use as a full production studio.
Nano studio provides you with an mpc style drum interface and a sample based synth that competes with current vsti’s. The sound quality is amazing fir an iPhone app and the interface is smooth and easy to use. It is fairly limited. Only 4 tracks for “keyboards” and 2 tracks for drums, BUT. The sequencer is so advance that it makes up for you. You can also load up your own sounds threw Wi Fi. The best part is that the app is only 15$ and the next update will have midi Export and audio recording. I’ve made some really tight music with this app. It’s great to lay down a few tracks, bounce, take to the studio and complete. If you have an iPhone or iPad I recommend this app!!
Behind the photograph: the human face of Pakistan’s deadly flood
It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistani floods – and the failure to deliver aid to those affected – more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, all of them covered by flies.
The photograph by Associated Press’s Mohammad Sajjad went around the world and featured in the Guardian’s Eyewitness slot last week. The Guardian identified the child with the bottle as two-year-old Reza Khan and tracked him down to a makeshift camp at a roadside in Azakhel, some 19 miles from Peshawar, the capital of the insurgency-plagued province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bordering Afghanistan.
The camp is a hotchpotch of about two dozen tents donated by various aid organisations, but it is run by none. Its residents must fend for themselves, and rely on the charity of passersby. There are 19 families here, all of them Afghan refugees: people who were displaced once by conflict in their homeland have now been displaced again by the month-long deluge.
Reza’s family is from Butkhak, near the Afghan capital, Kabul. His father fled the area as a young boy, some 30 years ago, to escape the cycle of foreign occupation and internecine battles plaguing his homeland.
When we found him, Reza was in a tent with his mother, Fatima, who, like most Afghans, has only one name, and six of his seven siblings, all huddled on a blue blanket extended over the muddy floor. He was still clutching the same bottle. It was still empty.
Fatima tried to calm the boy, who cries in a constant, low whimper, as well as his twin brother, Mahmoud. She covered three of her other children – she has eight, all under the age of nine – with a dirty mosquito net somebody in a passing car gave her, but it has several gaping holes. Her eldest child, a nine-year-old girl called Sayma, is mute and seems dissociated from her surroundings. Her green eyes stare blankly ahead, seemingly oblivious to her brothers’ wails. Flies carpet the few blankets arranged on the floor, and swarm all over the children. There is precious little in the tent – one cooking pot, a few cushions and two or three items of children’s clothing. The stench of human and animal waste is overwhelming in the hot, humid air. There is no sanitation, just shallow, open ditches of raw sewage that attract flies and mosquitoes.
“They have had nothing to eat today. I have no food,” Fatima says as she tries to swat the flies away from her children with a bamboo fan. “He’s crying with hunger,” she says, pointing to Reza. “It’s been a month since he had any milk.”
Not to diminish the pain of Katrina, but you barely hear an ounce of the story of what is happening right now in Pakistan compared to the outrage of the response to a disaster that hit closer to home.
One disaster is not more worthy of our attention than another, but the silence when it comes to the one half a world away is deafening. You can do something.
It also seems as if my iPhone rewrites certain words lol hahahaha
Finally. I got a Tumblr app Goethe iPhone! This is great. I’ve been waiting for this for a while now!
I have decided to make a few pages dedicated to selling beats that i have had lying around for the past few months. Each beat will only be sold ONCE and each beat is at 25$ Check it out. Buy some quality music at a very affordable rates
If you want, Download “The Wade Wilson Project” for FREE right here on my Bandcamp page
im back, i was gone for a while, i was posting a lot from my blackberry, Blackberry died, now i have the iphone but i cant find a good app for Tumblr. oh well. whats new yall!
I received the following email from Thomas this morning and thought that I’d post my response publicly since I understand that some controversy has been swirling around the free concert we’re doing today. As I say in my reply, I think that living in a community requires putting differences aside to come together around common goals. I understand that certain radio stations and other community institutions have pulled-out of supporting this show out of fear that they would face public backlash. I understand the occasional necessity of saving one’s own ass, but Milwaukee suffers right now from an exceptional lack of leadership when it comes to tackling some very challenging problems. Teen pregnancy and STD’s are among the most serious of them. -D.A.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Thomas wrote:
While you guys are partying like a “Ciroc” star at today’s event, I thought it might be sweet if you do a shout-out to the half of all black Americans who’ve been murdered as a result of the abortion agenda you are promoting. Fame is pretty sweet so long as you can continue to whistle past these ever-expanding graveyards, huh?My Response:
Hi Thomas,
The event we’re performing at today is specifically aimed at promoting Planned Parenthood’s new preventive health programs. The most notable of these, in my mind, is their condom and birth-control pill delivery program, which will allow girls in Milwaukee to subscribe to the delivery of these important prophylactics. Since our city faces among the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the country, I think it is imperative that awareness be raised around the ways that girls and guys in the city can easily access preventive measures. Though a small minority of Planned Parenthood’s services are related to abortions, we are not, as a band, taking a stand on that age-old debate one way or the other.
I hope that those who oppose abortion can look at today’s event as one promoting abortion’s alternatives. This is not a pro-choice rally, but a party for the community that aims to raise awareness of the ways by which young people can live more safely. I can only speak for our portion of the event, but I would like folks of all ideological stripes to feel welcome and included at this event since I believe that whatever one’s ideological commitments, there is lots of common-ground to be shared when it comes to issues like condom distribution and birth control pills. In other words, I think we can happily agree to disagree about abortion while still working together to remedy the twin crises of disease and teen pregnancy in our city.
D.A.Matt & I are def attending.
I’ll be shocked if I don’t see some faces I recognize from my teenage years spent protesting such events.
I will be standing proudly with you guys today, D.A., and am looking forward to your CF set, Proph, and a show of support alongside good people.
I was expecting to attend but i have studio “duties” i need to carry out. what sucks is that its right in the neighborhood i grew up in and still frequent. i think its great for planned parenthood to be doing this, knowing that it def helpped me out when i was younger lol. Good luck DA and make Dave take that wooden jesus piece off before show time LOL. Maybe we can meet some other time Matt and Dan. Im DEF dissapointed i cant go.
