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Off the Road: Reflections of a Tech-Nomad After 7 years living totally mobile, off the grid and addicted to adventure; I started to wonder if my ideal Eklektro Karavan-tech visions would ever be fully realized.  And just how long could i remain dedicated to the incredible task, without the contributions of at least one other full-time kick-ass accomplice?  Finding other tech-nomads quickly became the focus; and so i'd orbit the metropolis, video-blogging the bliss i'd encounter with each exodus.  I was seeking to inspire, to start a band; and with each technological update that made life more magic.... solar, wireless, and electronic music... we'd be ready to broadcast!  Mechanical breakdowns were to be expected, and i'd always find ways to circumvent them.  But when i rushed back from Central America in sudden need of a hospital, summer '08 found me unpredictably Off The Road, and reflecting...

intensive rave research, from 3 years ago higher quality available at http://eklektro.net/ek_breakbeatweek.html

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!

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!

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. at very least the forecast seemed like an impending dose of indian summer, and at worse, apocalypse. we fled the city and stuck to the beach

Found this of course on YouTube. Here somebody takes it to the limit. I gotta find out how they did this one (which software?)!

(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 by solar power, shot on DV) into some semblance of meaning for the outside viewer (maybe?). "Playing" video without a safety net, its like trying to master a whole new form of multi-dimensional instrument... laptop "data" now mapped in little chunks (of semi-relevance) to drum-pads (the palette... one's experience)... fluctuating fully mastered grooves to all-out trainwreck and back... its lo-fidelity, yes. but life is lo-fi and maybe only hollywood (and after death) hi-def. And so no better way to declare the Eklektro manifesto (over and over again): Mobile Video Breakbeat: video samples with underlying beats get recombined in sometimes strangely rhythmic ways. Word phrases get re-constructed, semi-accidently at times (and i'm kinda likin that, semi-roulette... forecasting the direction of the karavan... musically... and as a game of chance?); and so over the coming weeks... of uploaded "episodes"... of trials and errors: discoveries, declarations and dares will come to be unveiled; theme by theme, concept by concept (solar-sonic cyber-delic?), starting with the core belief, of which i've been convinced repeatedly is the key... and grown a chip on my shoulder to this effect: CHANGE the world, through (mass-)media, through flash-mob, through the world's best kept secret (audio-visual) (and in-person), soon surfacing: Cyber EZ Ryder

This is the "Director's Final Cut" authorized version of Aaron Russo's documentary, America: Freedom To Fascism (AFTF). Aaron put this documentary up "for free" on Google Video knowing that the hour has come for Americans to either be awakened to restore the Republic or be swept aside by the dark global forces of fascism that seeks to enslave mankind. Please be sure to visit http://www.freedomtofascism.com where you will soon be able to view a much higher quality "pay per view" Internet version of AFTF, buy the DVD and sign up as an affiliate to sell/distribute DVDs to others. Additionally, if you find yourself agreeing with most of the documentary's findings, please consider researching the principles of the Libertarian Party, at http://lp.org. The tax and spend stranglehold of the US two party system must be put to a stop once and for all. Vote these criminals out of office! Protect the Constitution... Protect your Freedom... Vote Libertarian! (Thanks for reading.... -EKG

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 car battery powered!) street jams that followed that next spring. There was never any set "band", rather just a fluctuating half dozen of us room mates and friends with synths and drums, all experimenting and seeing what we could cook up. Definitely a time of transition, as within the next year the whole crew would scatter in several directions when the warehouse was suddenly sold out from under us. That's when i weighed my options, bought the RV, minimized (and solarized) my studio... and hit the road to the west coast!This particular jam was a one-on-one real-time recording with my friend Ryan on synths and loops, and me on live drums. I picked this rather simple and unfinished track not so much for its musical content as much as HOW it was collaboratively jammed, "written" in real-time... following in the footsteps of jazz. Yes, the next 10 years would bring incredible leaps in computer music technology... and unprecedented techno-travelin' adventures for the RV and me. So as one of the last recordings i ever made in a non-mobile studio, well the rest is Eklektro history. Stay tuned for more retro releases over the coming weeks... and a return to the VIDEO side of this blog!

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)...nElectric Angel Fixion, 1995yes, in my pre-techno days, we were Nine Inch Nails wanna-be's...and that's EKG (me) on drums and lead screams!

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..." ha ha!! (and it kinda goes downhill from there)! something uplifting for you and yours on this hallowed eve... So to put this all in context of pre-Eklektro history: Fixion kicked hard for about a year... until Eric went to NYC to try his hand at producing, and i went to Europe and discovered raving! (more pre-millenium pre-Eklektro archive bits coming soon...)nFixion was:Vocals, drums and production: G. Weber (me)Programming, synths and production: E. Lee (where are you Eric?)Guitars and attitude: J. Carnabuci (where are you Joe?)nAnd so on the eve of a new Breakbeat of the Week, wishing you a Happy Halloween!nek G

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' episode rambles... brainstorming out-load as befitting of real-time, may sound like a sermon at times, but its only some utopian words off the top of one's head, musings which could only roll off the tongue of a tech-nomad of some 7 years, (if i do say so myself...), Siddhartha-style, solar-sonique... a Midsummer Night's ethereal scream-play... and so conspirators wanted for Cyber EZ Ryder... Ek-lek-tro in theory. Time to shoot the movie- E K G

For those who appreciate their freedom... Happy Independence Day!

Here's something summer-flavored and semi-cyber from 4 years ago. Camera by Matt Bass, editing by EKG using Vidvox Prophet software

Live electronic drums by EKG and a (funny) Jim Morrison quote halfway through... Here's what you can do off RV solar power on an early June afternoon... in Malibu. Special thanks to impromptu camera work by Brian "Negative 2".Running (2) Kyocera 120-watt solar panels, a Trace 12 volt inverter, dual Roland Handsonic HPD-15 drumpads, Apple laptop, Ableton LIVE 5 software = solar-sonic free-form grooves... starts off serious and disintegrates by the minute! More like this coming soon... stay tuned...

Breaking the 2 week silence with an audio blog entry, celebrating the 7 year nomadic anniversary of my unexpected orbit 'round the metropolis of Los Angeles... yes, exactly 7 years ago, this week! So with respect to experiences and observations as a Tech-Nomad, living and learning... experimenting, and writing new code... NOW i'm gonna fire-up the blog called "Daily Manifesto"... and this is the first episode's intro... (see part 2 later today)... (and coming soon, the new sub-blog)... enjoy-EKG

Insights via nomadic perspective, 16 minutes on the topics of philosophy and politics (continued from intro); perhaps best sync'd to your iPod and listened to while sitting in traffic. Subject: Freedom, America and the underground: How we almost had a Utopian path, Where we went astray, and what we can do to get back on track; exploring historical patterns and transgressions, objective analysis and proposed solutions... in tandem with the liberating powers of technology, the merging of eastern and western philosophies, and the re-recognition of perhaps man's greatest gift... volition!

click here to view Wow, from May Day to Memorial Day, time has surely flown since being back here in the states! But finally here's an episode to put Eklektro back in rotation, and with lots more on the way... this summer.... introducing: Cyber EZ Ryder... from Rio de Janeiro... and back to orbiting LA... semi-nomadic status, a new MacBook Pro in the studio and a backlog of beats about to break... (and seeking a local web designer willing to work for barter-pay)...Over and out for now, and thanks for watching...EKG

click here to view Back by popular demand, this week we bring you 7 (more) minutes of Eklektro, talking-dread / talking head style, with lots of colorful flavors mixed on top... including some some straight talk about psytrance music... after this past saturday night's outdoor party. many thanks to my Brazilian Portuguese translator friend Tiago, who finally learned how to pronounce Eklektro!