The NEW Hands Up Blog

For those of you who read this blog and live in Orlando:

If you haven't heard by now, we're moving to Hands Up! @ Back Booth to Thursday Nights. Right now K2W is on a temporary hiatus, giving us time to revamp everything that is "Hands Up." One of our biggest changes is that our blog has moved to WordPress! From now on, http://www.handsuporlando.com links to the WordPress version of our blog, so if you have the blogspot version linked into a blog reader or RSS feed, now is the time to change over.

Check out the New Hands Up Blog.

Cool Shit: FL-909

So if you're bored on the internet and you want to try your hand at making beats, you might want to bookmark this website. A German(?) company named aM Laboratory created a Flash-based drum machine called the FL-909. It's a near exact virtual recreation of the Roland TR-909. If you don't know much about electronic instruments, the TR-909 is the quintessential drum machine of house music. This is the machine that started it all, way back in the early 80s. This song by from Daft Punk's Homework is a good example of what a 909 sounds like:

Daft Punk - Revolution 909

Don't get it confused with the TR-808, the most popular sequencer in the Hip-Hop industry. Remember this line from "The Way You Move?"

I know y'all runnin' that 808, can you feel that B-A-S-S. bass.

Anyway, if you want to know more about this kind of shit, feel free to click the links and read the wiki pages. When you're finished with your history lesson you can us the FL-909 and make some stoopit beats in your bedroom. Enjoy!

People READ this blog??

Yesterday I was told my friend Brita that she reads this blog. I've only known her for a week. This is great news to me. PEOPLE READ THIS SHIT! I'm inspired to say some silly shit and post a few tracks that I stole from various other blogs. Here goes!

First look at this video. This song is going to be HUGE in 2007:





Next, lets talk music. I'm a DJ and a blogger, so believe me when I say this: There are no new blogworthy tracks. Music's on the indie/electro front is pretty uninteresting right now. If you don't believe me, listen to this track from Bloc Party's newest album, Intimacy. Yes! New Bloc Party! Shittier than the last Bloc Party!

Bloc Party - Zepherus

Bloc Party has disappointed me too many times now, so I've moved on to other British bands with a black guy in them (i.e: Does It Offend You, Yeah?). Maybe I'd like B. Party more if they made music that sounds more like this:

ABC - How to Be a Millionaire

Tell me, Tell me!