Eklektro - Eclectic Electronics Everywhere!

Off the Grid with a new RV Inverter Hybrid

Short story: THIS is out on the market now, and it looks pretty cool: http://www.emarineinc.com/products/Magnum-MSH3012M-3000W-12V-Pure-Sine-Wave-Inverter.html allowing your generator power to combine with your inverter power, to power bigger loads,  suddenly making those smaller 2.8k RV generators feasible options for our space-challenged motorhomes (and i got a much better price quote at RVSolarElectric.com) Long story: We invested in a big solar array (1,000 watts) on top of the Eleganza ...

Solar Sonic - Jungle Video Blog episode 2

Solar Sonic Jungle Video Blog episode 1

EklektroShock mix by Solar Sonic

Solar Sonic Studios is happy to present "EklektroShock", our debut DJ mix for download on SoundCloud. Suggested dosage: Plug in to some big-ass speakers, kick back and enjoy!

Yahooooo!

"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 back out. This is NOT the Full Moon Party, rather, an undisclosed cove where i've been coming for years now... and a Friday night ritual that u...

Point B (a short story)

I might just have to spend the next week homeless in a hammock.. I'm about to document one of the worst-delayed and lemons-to-lemonade kinda travel experiences i've ever dealt with in my 20 years of budget traveling. Yeah, we've all been there, snowed in at Orlando 'cause of weather in Chicago, missing the boat at Puerto Escondido... Its a chaotic world, and timetables are meant to be broken. But if you'd indulge me by reading this little therapeutic outburst of text, i'll try my best...

Solar-Sonic Beach, beta-Broadcast, best-of

From a live-streamed test broadcast on an unseasonably warm day this past January...  DJing from the Solar-Sonic RV parked on the beach in Malibu, my friend Cor on camera, with bikini-clad Amanda and friends dancing... a taste of things to come, this summer.  Stay tuned for http://solar-sonic.com

Sunday MLK-day Obama Eve, flash-gathering

Hey, if you got the text message, then check it out: Here's the link that will list the physical location (40 miles from downtown LA)... http://eklektro.net/streaming.html Yes, to mark this memorable day (last day of Bush in office): its a malibu-beach semi-mobile video stream / flash-mob w/special guests... and we look forward to seeing you! starting at noon PST  (we'll be on and off from noon to sunset)...

new mainpage for EKLEKTRO.NET

well its about time.... we've finally got a new look happening on Eklektro.net, with better links to the road-videos, and some announcements on the way... soon... so in the meantime... http://eklektro.net

Eklektro on Revver video

Hey, i'll be putting up new video posts on Revver.com (search for Eklektro)... or look in my Blogger side-bar for the Revver widget. We like Revver 'cause it allows our quick-cut video style to look its best, in Quicktime, rather than YouTube flash (trash). AND, best of all, the word Revver has "RV" in it... twice!

10 Years of Eklektro

"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 slideshow that says it all, set to the original Eklektro track Time Release (circa 1999). Follow the bumpy path of one modern day nomad, and trace the ...

Electronically Induced Ideas

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 do was laugh to myself about what i had just done, having taken the plunge; i was welcoming an unknown number of months of mysteries that sur...

Thailand Rave Island - Eklektro Retro

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

Time Machine - Eklektro / Repo Man Mash-Up

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!

santa ana syndrome

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

Video Breakbeat, extreme!

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

Mobile Video Breakbeat

(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 tr...

Retro Eklektro - Thailand part II

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!

NewYearsDay

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!

America Freedom to Fascism - Authorized version

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 YouTube 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 ...

CityJazz: pre-Eklektro archive audio

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 m...

All Saint's Day: more electrifying archive audio

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... and that's EKG (me) on drums and lead screams!

Halloween: bring out your dead!

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 o...

Absolutely Unedited: Eklektro in theory

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 head, musings rolling off the tongue of a tech-nomad, Siddhartha-style, solar-sonique... a Midsummer Night's ethereal dream... going for screen-pl...

Star Spangled Blogger

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