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Creativity and Mentals
To paraphrase the great thinker Marshawn Lynch, take care of your body, take care of your chicken, and take care of your mentals. I may touch on body and chicken in a future post, but as we leave s...

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Patriotic Protest Music
One of the most patriotic things as Americans we can do is to try and improve the experiment by protesting. It's in our DNA, so it's in our music. From abolition to civil rights, from war resistanc...

News
Coachella Valley Festival Season
There's guides for Coachella and Stagecoach, but what about when you're not there? Here's a local guide from a local with some things to do in the Coachella Valley.

Ponderings
Music and Moods - The Science of The Drop
If you wore guyliner (or eyeliner) with shiny boot cut pants and know what the Palace in Hollywood smelled like before it got turned into Avalon, break out your glowsticks and let this lesson in dr...

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Music and Moods - The Scientifically Proven Calming Playlist
In 2011 some scientists played the following playlist to a study group while having their hips replaced while awake (they had spinal anesthesia, so they weren't complete maniacs), and ocean noises ...

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Postmodern Mixing Ethos
There’s no one way to accomplish a task while producing and mixing. Just do it, learn, and mix for the genre you're producing with levels to match even if it's against the 'rules'. If it sounds goo...

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Eyebrow Raising 'Love' Songs
While you’ll encounter many a list of love songs that cause butterflies to flap their wings with intention in your belly, there’s also a lot of weird ones out there, and here's some of our favorites.

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Giving Thanks
It's been a challenging few years being in the world of manufacturing, but we're thankful that we're still here, thankful that our users still care and thankful that we get to create solutions for ...
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The Quincy Jones Mixtape
On Monday we lost Quincy Jones, one of the most talented and prolific musicians/arrangers/producers who has ever walked this planet. There's been no shortage of deserved platitudes coming from many...

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Creativity in the Season of Anxiety
A lot of times a constant low level anxiety can lead to a kind of nefarious paralysis where it’s just difficult to get anything done. Here we find ourselves, with an election already underway, that...