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Wow, am I ever a slacker! Time flies when you're busy, I guess.
Updates since last posting: the rackmount machine is up and running and being used for shows now. I had to abandon the idea of solid-state drives for the time being, as no matter what I tried, I simply could not get the CF cards to boot. I used Linux tools to copy the partitions over block-for-block, including the boot sectors, I tried using both Grub and LILO to bootstrap... nothing. I suspect it's the card itself; the machine counts its RAM, then goes to a black screen with a flashing cursor, waiting for a bootstrap, and just never goes any further. Oh well, a space 17G hard drive fits in the case nicely - longer term I'm thinking of replacing it with a pair of SATA laptop hard drives in a RAID1.
I've played a few shows since the last posting - the most notable of which were probably the Robot Invasion Skytrain party, the Victoria 'Jungle Room' show, and the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival... here's some details.
The Skytrain party was insane, the idea was basically that since the Skytrain doesn't have a driver, perhaps it'd be nice to throw a party and invite a bunch of robots - there's a review and some great photos here: http://www.goldengod.net/gallery/robots/
The Pickled Beats crew in Victoria invited me over to play a show in the Jungle Room, which was a lot of fun - thanks to Jamie and Lehna for the booking, Walter for the beers and hospitality, and especially thanks again to Lehna, Cim and Sarah for the wicked crepe breakfast in the killer snowstorm! Erin's pics are here:
The BEAF Boogie, thrown by Boogie Universal as a part of the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, was super-cool as well - I played a set of techno just before KJ Sawka got up and blew me away with his wicked live-drumming drum&bass. The show was held in a radio and electricity museum, tonnes of hands-on stuff, and the space was amazing - not to mention the wicked three screens of visuals from VJ Culture, with full Edirol sponsorship... man, what a rig that guy has! Erin's pics are here: http://www.reelgeek.com/images/photos/2006_12_02_mux_beaf/
Anyway - another big show coming up this weekend, this time in Seattle. Should be a blast, I'm headlining a classic rave for the Inertia Labs crew, who've been throwing wicked events for eight years running. I'll post a review when I'm back. :)
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