Hi!!!!!

My name is Jshua
Some of you may not know me but then again some of you may.....

*please don't click off*

As I see it, there's an old school VS. new school thang going on and everyone should simply group up and see where its going and this is why I started this post...

Simply put, I havent produced anything relavant in about 3 years....

(but, I'm about too)

However,

We've....

Yamomma
Vinablue
Marcdeon
Dreamfirstborn
Psykosoul
Tal
Bumper
PP4



been about the idea of family business the entire time.....

So,

Make yourself known and get down with this, if not only because its a mighty mighty force that the "powers that be" can't shake anymore but more importantly, this is an open discussion of who we are, what we are and where we're going and its incredibly important that we come clean above and beyond the surface...

If you miss out then you missed out...

so, ROLL CALL!!!!!

check in and announce yourself-->let us see where you are and more importantly, where you're going...

J-

p.s. You wanna hit me?

Give me and inbox and I'll give you my # and you can find us...


Its time y'all and the time is now.....
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I was here then and yeah, while you've "gone underground", I've been here. Still making music for the last 3 years, still giving some of the new peeps around here feedback. Update your list because I will not be ignored around these parts.

Beau Hall, Dreamfirst...

Slave2daGroove said:

Slave!!!!

My bad!!!!

Thank you and we need to connect!

J-

Max Roach R.I P.

http://video.google.com/v...&plindex=2

check it out....

J-

Zeitgeist

http://video.google.com/v...2995115331

After you watch this, ask youself one important ?uestion: How does this affect you as an artist and more importantly, your loved ones and your community?

J-

The CD turns 25 (swipe)

http://www.forbes.com/fee...27680.html

Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary
By TOBY STERLING 08.16.07, 3:47 PM ET

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany.

An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.

Those first CDs contained Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony and would sound equally sharp if played today, says Holland's Royal Philips Electronics NV, which jointly developed the CD with Sony Corp. (nyse: SNE - news - people ) of Japan.

The recording industry thrived in the 1990s as music fans replaced their aging cassettes and vinyl LPs with compact discs, eventually making CDs the most popular album format.

The CD still accounts for the majority of the music industry's recording revenues, but its sales have been in a freefall since peaking early this decade, in part due to the rise of online file-sharing, but also as consumers spend more of their leisure dollars on other entertainment purchases, such as DVDs and video games.

As the music labels slash wholesale prices and experiment with extras to revive the now-aging format, it's hard to imagine there was ever a day without CDs.

Yet it had been a risky technical endeavor to attempt to bring digital audio to the masses, said Pieter Kramer, the head of the optical research group at Philips' labs in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

"When we started there was nothing in place," he told The Associated Press at Philips' corporate museum in Eindhoven.

The proposed semiconductor chips needed for CD players were to be the most advanced ever used in a consumer product. And the lasers were still on the drawing board when the companies teamed up in 1979.

In 1980, researchers published what became known as the "Red Book" containing the original CD standards, as well as specifying which patents were held by Philips and which by Sony.

Philips had developed the bulk of the disc and laser technology, while Sony contributed the digital encoding that allowed for smooth, error-free playback. Philips still licenses out the Red Book and its later incarnations, notably for the CD-ROM for storing computer software and other data.

The CD's design drew inspiration from vinyl records: Like the grooves on a record, CDs are engraved with a spiral of tiny pits that are scanned by a laser - the equivalent of a record player's needle. The reflected light is encoded into millions of 0s and 1s: a digital file.

Because the pits are covered with plastic and the laser's light doesn't wear them down, the CD never loses sound quality.

Legends abound about how the size of the CD was chosen: Some said it matched a Dutch beer coaster; others believe a famous conductor or Sony executive wanted it just long enough for Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

Kramer said the decision evolved from "long conversations around the table" about which play length made the most sense.

The jump into mass production in Germany was a milestone for the CD, and by 1982 the companies announced their product was ready for market. Both began selling players that fall, though the machines only hit U.S. markets the following spring.

Sony sold the first player in Japan on Oct. 1, with the CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ) label supplying Billy Joel's "52nd Street" as its first album.

The CD was a massive hit. Sony sold more players, especially once its "Discman" series was introduced in 1984. But Philips benefited from CD sales, too, thanks to its ownership of Polygram, now part of Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group.

The CD player helped Philips maintain its position as Europe's largest maker of consumer electronics until it was eclipsed by Nokia Corp. (nyse: NOK - news - people ) in the late 1990s. Licensing royalties sustained the company through bad times.

"The CD was in itself an easy product to market," said Philips' current marketing chief for consumer electronics, Lucas Covers. It wasn't just the sound quality - discs looked like jewelry in comparison to LPs.

By 1986, CD players were outselling record players, and by 1988 CDs outsold records.

"It was a massive turnaround for the whole market," Covers said.

Now, the CD may be seeing the end of its days.

CD sales have fallen sharply to 553 million sold in the United States last year, a 22 percent drop from its 2001 peak of 712 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Napster (nasdaq: NAPS - news - people ) and later Kazaa and BitTorrent allowed music fans to easily share songs over the Internet, often illegally. More recently, Apple Inc. (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and other companies began selling legal music downloads, turning the MP3 and other digital audio formats into the medium of choice for many owners of Apple's iPods and other digital players.

"The MP3 and all the little things that the boys and girls have in their pockets ... can replace it, absolutely," said Kramer, the retired engineer.

CDs won't disappear overnight, but its years may be numbered.

Record labels seeking to revive the format have experimented with hybrid CD-DVD combos and packages of traditional CDs with separate DVDs that carry video and multimedia offerings playable on computers.

The efforts have been mixed at best, with some attempts, such as the DualDisc that debuted in 2004, not finding lasting success in the marketplace.

Kramer said it has been satisfying to witness the CD's long run at the top and know he had a small hand in its creation.

"You never know how long a standard will last," he said. "But it was a solid, good standard and still is."


Associated Press Business Writer Alex Veiga contributed to this report from Los Angeles.


How will you get your music across?

J-

family....

If you would please stand up and testify....





J-

Styles said:

Just because most people haven't heard from you, doesn't mean you haven't produced anything relevant... The journey is the true goal. The process is the relevance. When you put it out... The acceptance is an affirmation. But make no mistake... Every step, every victory and every setback has had meaning. I speak from experience, and you know this.



And I thought it was too early to get philosophical and shit...
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VinaBlue said:

Thank you sister Gaia For checking in...





J-
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BSK3601 - formerly Psykosoul
This is where I am: http://www.icompositions..../Psykosoul
This is where I'm going: no where fast

bsk3601 said:

Thank you Brotha!!!!





J-

My name is Cary Aria

Pop come popcorn, pull up a chair and turn up the speakers...


...as you explore this: http://caryaria.com

theSpark said:

Amen!!!!!



We need to talk.....



Shall anyone else step forward?

Jason?
Dreamfirstborn?
Kelly?

Where y'all at?

Let's build!

J-

What's in a word?!?!

Simply put (for example)

Hello

We walk around and acknowledge (trip on that word for a second) each other with a simple phrase: Hello

But then again, are we really serious (Sirius)?????

Hello? or better yet--->Hell Low?

Isn't it better to simply emote: Hi?

as in High?!?!?!

I don't know about you but if and when I see anyone of you in the streets, I'll attempt to do my part within suggesting "High" to you, instead of acknowledging the fact that hell is low

This is a Heaven of a hell in which we live in within paradise!!!!

where are you? And more importanly, what are you about the business of being!?!?!

Make yourself known (if you dare)...
Change the world (if you care)

For me?

I wuz on the street watching _ _ _ _ _ _ get HIGH!!!!!

J-

p.s.

A wise man spoke to me once and explained this....

There are 3 kinds of artists...

1. Those who rape art for their own (trip on that word too) sake....
2. Those who utilize it as recreation (meaning re-creation)

and more importantly,

3. Those who make Art for Art's sake.....

Where do you fit in?

HELLO!

I've been sitting on some ideas and letting them bake. Ideas like ... What do people like me miss most about vinyl records? The ART and liner notes man! These things crossed over into CD manufacturing, just smaller.

Now that everything is going digital, I'd like to see a return of the "album" format. A digital album that has it's cover art, it's lyrics and liner notes. It exists now but just a fraction of what it could be.

What if you had an album cover that moved? What if the lyrics bounced across the screen (as an option) when you played a song? What if the digital album also came with an artist commentary and a photo/bio of themselves? What if videos that may have been created for a song was also included with the album. This new album format could actually be "BETTER" than it ever was and I think music lovers would embrace it.

Think of a DVD with their "special features" sections except this is entirely digital and optimized for digital music players because I see DVD's going this direction as well.

Now ... what is the file format and how do you raise the standard of digital music distribution and more importantly how do we bring back the ALBUM format?

I'd love to work with an artist that has a classic "album format" collection of songs that compliment each other and forms a cohesive theme/message of expression. I think it would be a waste of time and a headache to patten a computer file format, but if you could create quite an expressive body of work combining an audible and visual experience, you could make a heck-a-living off of being a producer of these bodies of work.

hello jshua, you know me, just trying trying to step out of the box a different way than the last yet the same as always. I also have a few new songs VERY different than I've ever done or ever took a liking to.

Styles said:

I never went anywhere, but it's like a ghost town here sometimes. I hardly get any responses to any posts anymore.

yamomma said:

What's up my brotha!!!

Now that's what I'm talking about!
This is now a time to think differently as the existing model within the industry continues to crumble around our feet...



J-

artist08 said:

Man, I missed you...

are you still doing the band thing?
What's going on in your world?



You've got a phone call coming your way...

J-

Oh my god YES..all the old school people are in here.

My name is Izaya...paisleypark4

I been on the org for 5 1/2 years.

Thanks to everyone here on the org I have belief and faith that making music is worthwhile.

I do mostly drum programming. SO if ya need a hot as beat, hit me..new skoo old funk, experimental...im there.

Im waiting for Jason and Beau to pop in.

Artist08 im sorry dude. Im still waiting 4 broadband..dial up is a hot mess. U know I was always on your posts commenting

Amen! or should I simply say OM?

either way its all good....

To everyone:

Love what you percieve as your ugliness!!!!
I mean it
Love your ugliness and after you get over that--please recognize two things...

1. Notice that (in reality) You have two families
One that is given to you in blood and (more importantly)
your very own spiritual family because you're not
alone..... There are so many of you that have a story
to tell--->so, tell it!

This is the prime objective:

If you can reach one spirit in which you can relate, then
your job (notice that Job? as in the Bible) is well done....

2. Be fearless
Yep Fearless
Virginie74 pointed out to me today that we create ART for
for the sake of art, and more importantly, for the sake of being!
So BE!!!!!
What do you have to fear?
Death?!?!?! Truth is the truth and it will always come to the surface.....


We are of a higher spiritual family....and now its time to heal

Not only yourselves, but everyone around you....

JEW is right and he is my twin!

are you ready to rule and more importantly reclaim your throne?

Ask yourself, why are you here? and what do you want to do?



J-

BTW, only your body dies
*hint* *hint*

But not you or your spirit....

So, where is your connection?

Who's next?

Jew, are you ready?




J-

To all artists,

How are you getting your product out to the masses?

and

Are you able to do it while going around the industry?





J-

This one's a little too rich in church, for my blood.
I'm surprised I even got in.

Not really church so much as spirituality....




J

Styles said:

Like this?

Girdle said:

That's great and no I don't take things that seriously
but I do believe that we are all inter-connected....

How's that?



J-

Girdle said:

Like this?[/quote]


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Actually, I really dig the art that you're creating...



J-