I have been using Ableton Live since I got version 4 about six years ago on a little shopping spree at Toronto’s Long and McQuade. It’s fantastic software. It allows for incredible flexibility, whether in recording or playing midi, or in live performance. I just got an email promoting a unique contest, targeted toward youthful [...]

Oi! Tudo bem? It’s been a long time since I said/wrote that, but I think it’s time for me to publish/release “Mikooshka’s Best of Brazilian Music” collection via a podcast. It could be more a of a “mixtape” flavor as I intend to include all kinds of classics, and make it a selector or collectors [...]

RiP: Remix Manifesto is a really cool project by a filmmaker named Brett Gaylor.  It looks at issues of intellectual property in the age of rampant piracy and a digital culture obsessed with notions like remixing and mashups. Brett talks with musical icons from the present/past (Girl Talk and Gilberto Gil). Watch a 6 minute [...]

Radio Coco–Featuring Ulysses Castellanos by mikooshka It would seem I can’t resist trying out some new kind of collaborative / social networking music sites and one that I joined a year ago but haven’t used much is Sound Cloud.  SC has a very simple tagline: “We Move Music”. Some of the cool features they have [...]