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The tech-nomadic video blog from Eklektro / SolarSonic, since 2002. Whether breaking beats via electrified RV, streaming solar-sonic jams orbiting LA with a webcam, or space-walking the world with a loaded Mac in the backpack; Eklektro and friends deliver cyber-rhythmic spontaneity from the streets, wilderness and cultural coordinates of cyberspace! From the urban jungle to the Amazon; Eklektro is eclectic electronics... everywhere!
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TechNomads is focused on fostering camaraderie through music. Dance music transcends all geographic, socio-economic, religious, political, and cultural barriers. By building a globally connected international community, we are able to connect like-minded music enthusiasts that are in the scene purely for the music.
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Road to Detroit: The Fourth Journey with Haz Mat [Live PA]
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In his first ever recorded mix, Haz Mat (@haz-mat-6) has shown us the power of Detroit soul mechanized into pure kinetic energy through live instrumentation. Deeper shades of house and techno are ever present in this decadent hour-long mix, showing everyone that electronic music can still be creative and inventive in a world that has become much to…
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Road to Detroit: The Third Journey with Punisher
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Make It New's Punisher is a breath of fresh air in our Road to Detroit Mix series, providing an intense and emotional deep house + downtempo mix ahead of her several Detroit appearances this weekend.Punisher will be performing at the 2018 edition of Sampled Detroit on Sunday, May 27, 2018 at Marble Bar in Detroit.@punisherFacebook: https://www.face…
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"Yahh-hoooo!" screams the ecstatic Thai guy as the beat kicks back in. Its 9am on the island of Koh Pha Ngan, and the temperature on the dancefloor is 85 degrees and climbing. The party's been going over 10 hours non-stop, with the crowd turning over in shifts... running back to their bungalows to take a break, or to wake up friends and drag them b…
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"And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile".... The Talking Heads prophesized, and i complied, with a giant leap into tech-nomadic living: breaking up the band, getting a warehouse, cramming on computer music, then stuffing the studio in the back of a motorhome and finally hitting the road! 10 Years of Eklektro is the slidesh…
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Off the Road: Reflections of a Tech-Nomad (and $4/gasoline) It was love at first flight. After packing all my belongings and moving my music studio into a re-designed retro RV, it only took the first hundred miles of highway to have me hooked. As I crossed the Massachusetts state line in the snow, leaving behind all semblance of "home", all i could…
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Eklektro Retro: Footage from 1999 and misc pre-millenium festivities, set to the Eklektro track entitled "Time Machine" and mashed up with musings by the character Miller from the 1983 film, Repo Man (also set in LA). And the moral of this story: RVs = flying saucers = Time Machines. Time flies... when you live in a time machine!…
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astrologers have many things to say about the phase called "mercury in retrograde", during which they claim communications scramble and technologies falter. add to the mix the meteorological phenomena of hot dry santa ana winds in southern california and you've got a rare recipe for disaster; wildfires and fall-out from malibu to the mexican border…
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(click on this pic for sample of video breakbeat) What is mobile video breakbeat? Using music software in unconventional ways, triggering VIDEO clips from a Korg PadKontrol MIDI drum-pad (demo forthcoming); i now PLAY visuals rather than pain-stakingly "edit" them; and so i've started to rhythmically re-assemble 7 years of nomadic RV dreams (fueled…
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This is the part II clip from back in '05, the trip where my camera died. Finally edited and uploaded... For part one, scroll down to Feb 2006 and watch the Thai intro bit first... the train to the bus to the boat to the bus to the pick-up truck! All this with gigantic back-packs full of studio gear... techno-travel!…
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a sunny simple start to a New Year, shot with my cellphone! here's my friend Angelo hooping to some techno-trance at the Green Sector party, in the mountains 25 miles north of LA Happy '007!By EKG
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Something to groove to over your Monday morning coffee... While setting up the Silver Lake Studio, I uncovered some DAT tapes dating back about 10 years to the infancy of Eklektro: born of one particular warehouse party we threw in the frosty boston winter of '97, with the "eclectic-electronic" concept further developed via our renegade (and often …
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Continuing upon this pre-Eklektro AV archive trip-through-history, for Nov 1st... "All Saints Day" here's a heavy-duty death-defying track... befitting for the day after Halloween, when all spirits are redeemed... ahh ha ha!! (OK, maybe that's a stretch)... Electric Angel Fixion, 1995 yes, in my pre-techno days, we were Nine Inch Nails wanna-be's..…
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OK, searching my AV archives for something scary, I had to dig deep for this one... going back 11 years to my pre-nomadic life in the Boston warehouse studio, and the techno-industrial band I was fronting, called Fixion. Here's the B-side of our demo, and the track called Empty, and yes, you heard it right, the first lyrics are "When I am dead..." …
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blog post #50 is an audio podcast, off-the-cuff and absolutely unedited, intended for playback at your leisure, on your ipod and/or while sitting in traffic... This 'Breakbeat of the Week' audio episode rambles... brainstorming out-loud as befitting of real-time, may sound like a sermon at times, but its only some utopian words off the top of one's…
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For those who appreciate their freedom... Happy Independence Day!By EKG
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