February 7, 2009
9 PM - Close

The Daily Dose
1622 Highland Ave, Charleston, SC‎
James Island, SC 29412

$5 Door Charge goes to the Boys & Girls Club of the Trident Area – Shaw Unit.

On the first Saturday of every month for the last year, Charleston’s only video turntablist crew “The Spaced Invaders” has broken out some big toys to draw crowds to their monthly party, “The Stone Groove.”  Setting up 15 foot projection screens and massive sound systems powered by turntable controlled laptops has drawn both good and bad attention to the party, easily visible (and audible) from Folly Road.

With the new positive energy flowing through the country, they’ve decided for 2009 its time to use their fan base and unique geek-chic style to benefit a different charity every month – beginning this month with The Trident Area Shaw Unit Boys & Girls Club of America, who has been receiving a lack of funds do to the current financial state of the economy.

Attendees are treated to something very special, a wild visual display of classic music videos, remixed and scratched movies with just plain silly antics combined with the 60’s and 70’s soul songs that were used to create the 90’s hip hop sound that is so rarely heard today.  “I looked up to see 50 people staring at the huge screen, nodding their heads with the music” states VJ Scrunchyface Flatbroke, one of the Spaced Invaders.  “It was the same mesmerizing look you see when you put a toddler in front of a TV!”

“The Stone Groove party at the Daily Dose is like partying with your closest friends in another friends’ back yard…Just with giant video screens and some good mood food,” says, VJ Sonar, another member of the Spaced Invaders. “Now teaming up with local charities, we have something people can look forward to going to, have a good time, and feel good about giving back to the community. It’s really a party with a purpose.”

For more information please contact:
The Spaced Invaders
843-263-3714
get@spacedinvaders.net

Daily Dose
843-225-3367

To donate to the Shaw Unit Boys & Girls Club: 843-577-5545 www.bgclubta.org

Click the link and watch the epic battle unfold as you move down the street!

I heard about this while listening to the Schnitt Show yesterday. I actually couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Ted Kefalinos, the proprietor of the Lafayette French Pastry actually created the “Drunken Negro Face” cookie in “honor” of President Obama, and then tried to sell it to people thinking that no one would get upset. Now, I’m not an Obama fan myself, but calling it “Drunken Negro Face” doesn’t really rhyme with “President Obama.”

Oh and it gets better. Fox News reporter Arnold Diaz went to the store with a camera and microphone and asked Kefalinos about the cookie and Kefalinos’s response was, “I called them Drunken Negro Heads. What’s the problem with that?” Kefalinos goes on to say that, the cookie is “not unflattering. I think it’s a fun face…” He also states that he is not racist because his “brother-in-law is Cuban.” Behold the racial ignorance in the video below.

However, by the time I was finished listening to this moron speak on the Schnitt Show he did apologize and say it was a big misunderstanding. I personally believe he knew what he was doing, but hey I can’t tell you what to think.

Suite Sole is having one of their patented good time sneaker release ho-downs on Saturday the 31st. There new website is pretty dope as well.

The Digitel is throwing a little get together at Global Awakening this Thursday. The Spaced Invaders will be on hand doing projections and video for the event. FREE doughnuts and FREE brew. Don’t get much better than that.

The upcoming Stone Groove event will donate all the door proceeds to the local Boys and Girls Club on 22 Mary Street. It was announced that the chapter was having some very rough times financing the operation and asked the community to help. Well, the Spaced Invaders heard this and decided to turn the Stone Groove into a charity “Funkraiser” for the Boys and Girls Club. It’s just $5 at the door and you can shake your butt to some good tunes, enjoy some good mood food, and go home feeling good about yourself because you helped keep kids in a good after school program instead of out in the streets.

Party is going on at the Daily Dose off of Folly Road. Just look for the giant video screens from the road and you’ll be in the right place. The flyer says from 9pm-12am but the party usually goes on for longer than that.

All the things I never thought possible with MIDI or digital production are coming together with the new release of Live 8 from Ableton. It’s going to flip the music world on it’s head once again. They are dropping so many great features, improvements and new instruments that you need to take some time out of your day to watch the videos. And the APC40 is dropping also. Anyway, I copied this from their site just in case you stumbled to this page before actually seeing it on Ableton’s site.

New in Ableton Live 8

Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.

New groove engine
Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight sequences. Live 8’s new groove engine lets you apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, quantize audio and MIDI in real time. It also comes with a new groove library.

New warping engine
Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. You can now warp audio events by adjusting the events themselves on the timeline. Beats Mode has been updated, and there’s a completely new Complex Warp Mode. Plus you can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.

Looper
A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.

New effects
Live 8 includes five powerful new effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter. These effects cover all the well-known aspects of these devices, but really shine due to some innovative features and enhancements from the Ableton labs.

Workflow enhancements
Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, a screen magnifier and more.

New in Ableton Suite 8

Ableton Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Suite 8 provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a powerful sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments: 10 instruments in all. Here’s what’s new in Suite 8.

World-class library
Ableton Suite 8’s library completely surpasses everything that Ableton has ever offered before. With the creative professional in mind, Ableton has put together a well-balanced and comprehensive tool set and, above all, a wide-ranging set of beautiful sounds.

Collision
Collision is a unique instrument for authentic mallet sounds and creative percussion. Co-developed with AAS, it uses physical modeling technology to reproduce real-world instruments such as xylophones, marimbas and glockenspiels, but also provides enough depth to create truly dramatic new instruments and sounds.

Latin Percussion
Latin Percussion is a collection of acoustic percussion instruments such as congas, bongos, timbales, claves, shakers, tambourines and bells from the worlds of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African music. It also comes with clips and grooves, so you don’t only get the drums, you also get the drummer.

More Operator, more power
Operator, Ableton’s renowned do-it-all synthesizer, has been given a major overhaul. We opened up the hood, took a long hard look inside and did some serious hot-rod stuff. New filter types, more modulation routing options and additive wavetable synthesis with drawable partials make Operator more powerful and flexible than ever.

Availability

Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2009.
Collision and Latin Percussion will be available with the Live 8 release.

To find out about beta testing for Ableton Live 8, click here.

Pricing

New to Ableton Live?
Ableton Suite 8 will be available for EUR 549/USD 699 (download). The boxed version will be priced at EUR 699/USD 849.
Ableton Live 8 will be EUR 349/USD 449 (download). The boxed version, including the Essential Instrument Collection 2, will sell at EUR 449/USD 549.

Already own a version of Ableton Live?
Upgrades to Live 8/Suite 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton products you already own. To find out your prices, click here.

Collision and Latin Percussion
Collision will cost EUR 129/USD 159 and Latin Percussion will be EUR 79/USD 99.