How come my tracks don’t sound like a commercial release?
Introducing a short series of tutorials
Next day, after listening to some of your favourite commercial tracks on the ride home from work you’re thinking, “Hell yea, I totally nailed that beat last night, it sounds just like whats on my iPod!” But all is not the case is it! You come home, all fired up ready to push play and bask in the glory that should rightly be the next big hit, only to find that in comparison to everything you’ve been listening to on the ride home, you’re new baby seems (prepare for some buzz words), lack-luster, plain, lumpy, lifeless, busy, cluttered, muddy or just plain Whack!
Well…?? What the hell happened?
There’s about 10 topics I will cover which could have occured to rob you of your glory. Be certain that this is by no means an exhaustive list, but these are some of the more common areas I find affecting people on the road to their own musical nirvana.
You could have been suffering from ‘ear fatigue’ last night, a bad listening environment or even mixing the track at a level that’s too high (or too low).
You listened to your own project for too long and didn’t reference other material or you didn’t program your sounds appropriately (with regard to each and every other sound in the mix). The sounds that you programmed so delicately weren’t placed in the mix properly or your little pet that’s always jumping up at you with beaming eyes wanting to be played with (your effects!) got the better of you!
You had a little too much alcohol or drugs (contrary to how you feel at the time, you don’t do things better when drunk or high), or maybe you were acting like a kid in a candy store, adding sound after sound, trying to ever evolve that otherwise rockin’ beat.
Feature Artist 001:. Richard Belsom (Confused/Phobic Records)
With his own productions featuring in the Kana Show on several occasions, it is no suprise that Richard Belsom, head of London-based Phobic Records, would be our first Feature Artist. A great producer, energetic DJ and all round top bloke, Richard has been working tirelessly for over 13 years to develop his craft. His new label, in partnership with Claire Ripley, kicked off to a great start at the end of 2008 with great releases from Harnessnoise, Sona Sound and more recently with Border Communiy’s Avus. If you like laid back grooves or enjoy the deep hypnotic rhythms of minimal through to chugging tech house, breaks and techn, then Richard is definitely someone to look out for.
As promised, Richard has prepared an exclusive mix for your listening pleasure.
Tracklisting:
01. Skat – Firefly’s
02. Peace Division – Revival
03. Ekkohaus – Soulshine
04. Claire Ripley – Utopia
05. Justin Margovan – From The Beginning [Phobic Records]
06. Matthias Meyer & Patlac – Salt City
07. Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier – 13 Cookies
08. M.N.L. & Jhon Doe – Blueberry (Alex Young Tutti Frutti Mix)
09. Peace Division – Freak It
10. Josh Wink – Counter Clock 319
11. Sona Sound – Nervous Breakdown (Inxec Remix) [Phobic Records]
12. Dave Aju – Crazy Place
BIO:
Originating from Maidstone in Kent, a town famed for generating an influx of talent currently flooding todays dance scene, Richard Belsom has established himself as one of the UK’s finest up and coming DJ’s/producers.
No stranger to the scene, his unquenchable passion for dance music stems from over a decade of treading the boards of various clubs and events across the globe. It was this passion that inspired Richard to combine his several years of classical music training with his love of dance music to fulfil a role that would place him on the other side of the turntables by becoming a DJ, producer, label partner in Cubism with Tony Thomas, and most recently starting his own Phobic Records label.
Richard’s love for mixing started back in ’95 at the tender age of just 16, spending every space penny on vinyl. After a few months practice Richard decided to apply his skills to a live audience and got a residency at a local U18’s party, this was to earn him alot of experience and learning opportunity over the 3 years he held the residency. Eventually deciding that weekends were far too cherished for the likes of u18’s parties Richard left to pursue his other main passion Рclubbing. This is where he discovered his love for house music, totally inspired by dj’s like Sasha, Digweed, Danny Howells.
Since finishing in the semi finals of the Rhythm Clash DJ competition a few years back (held in association with Pioneer and Club Class), Richard’s portfolio has seen him go onto play some of the biggest clubs and festivals in the UK and Ibiza including Ministry of Sound in London, Stealth in Nottingham, The Gallery at Turnmills, the Electric Gardens Festival (to a 3000 strong crowd), Es Paradis and Bar M to name but a few, as well as securing residencies with no less than four club nights across the South East, as well as promoting his own Cubism events.
This portfolio doesnt just end there, seeing Richards success story go on to include warming up for or playing alongside some of the worlds finest artists including Peace Division, Layo & Bushwacka, Tom Middleton, Paolo Mojo, Ashley Caselle, King Roc, Nic Fanciulli, Klaus “Heavyweigt” Hill, Tony Thomas, The Electric Press, James Mowbray, Deepgroove, Simon Baker, Simon Morell, Luke Dzierzek, The Rogue Element, Elite Force, Precision Cuts and many more.
Richard describes his sound as ranging from laid back grooves, deep hypnotic minimal through to chugging tech house, breaks and techno. He also incorporates 3 cdj’s, keyboard, and Pioneer FX unit to push the boundaries of his sets to a new level.
Main influences include artists like Sasha, Danny Howells, James Zabiela, Justin Robertson, Peace Division, Nic Fanciulli, Paul Woolford, James Laville, Dave Clarke, Magda, Josh Wink, and Lee Burridge to name but a few.
On the production front Richard is constantly in the studio experimenting with sound and creating tracks around the genres he loves. His work has been signed to many labels including Jack Digitals, Bass For Breakfast, Ambiosphere, Cubic Records, New Era, Click Recordings, Send Records, Cubism, Evasive, Fragile Recordings, S.P. Recordings and most recently Oliver Huntemann‚Äôs Confused imprint with a huge remix from minimal giants Piemont. Richard‚Äôs production work has recieved support from various topjocks across the globe including Nic Fanciulli, Hernan Cattaneo, Paul Woolford, Yousef, King Unique, Goldfish & Der Dulz, Nicolas Masseyeff, Oxia, Spektre, Larsson, Jamie Mchugh, Tom Stephan, Deepgroove (Who reviewed Rhythm in M8 magazine), Oliver Huntemann, Bedrock legend Pole Folder who recently featured “Surrender” on his radio mix (80hz Sessions), and Tony Thomas who has just featured Drums Go on his forthcoming Cubism mix album. Recently Richard also won a remix competition judged by Global Underground star Anil Chawla and Paul Lancaster, for his remix of Anil‚Äôs track Fever (available now on Fragile Recordings).
In May 2007 Richard went into partnership with Tony Thomas in the Cubism record label. After a year working on Cubism, and 10 very succesful releases, Richard decided the time was right to set off on his own path and Phobic Records was born. Phobic will be concentrating more on pure underground music from deep house, minimal and techno with the label philosophy aimed at bringing the freshest sounds from the worlds greatest undiscovered talent alongside some of the finest established names in the scene. Already gaining support from some of the biggest DJ’s in the world including Steve Lawler, Nic Fanciulli, Audiojack, Tom Pooks, Smokin Jo, Toni Rios, Anil Chawla, Simon Baker, Harvey Mckay etc etc the label is set for huge success in 2008 and beyond.
For info, demo’s, remix enquieries or bookings e-mail belsom2@yahoo.com
Discography
I Play Music (Jack Digital)
Rhythm (Jack Digital)
Soundscape (Ambiosphere)
Surrender (Ambiosphere)
Enlightenment (Ambiosphere)
Turbulence (Cubic)
Devastator (Cubic)
Drums Go (Cubic)
Lethargy (Cubic)
Banshee (Confused Recordings)
Stomp (Erase Records)
Eye Of The Storm (Jack Digitals)
Shredder (Evasive Records)
First Light (Kitsam)
Black Sheep (Evasive Records)
Bad Acid (Unsigned)
Dad’s Home (Unsigned)
Escapism (Bass For Breakfast)
Demons (Evasive Records)
The Rage (Bass For Breakfast)
Caress Moi (Unsigned)
Remix’s
James Zabiela – Weird Science (Richard Belsom mix)
Claude Von Stroke – Deep Throat (Richard Belsom mix)
Anil Chawla – Fever (Richard Belsom Mix) (Fragile Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division – Househeads Untied (Richard Belsom Mix) (New Era Records)
Lunacy Sound Division – House Muzica (Richard Belsom Mix) (New Era)
Tony Thomas – Double T (Richard Belsom Remix)(Cubism)
Sam Ball & Mark Gwinnett – Loca (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubism)
Darien J – Vortex (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubism)
Rhythm Code – Dont Stop (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubism)
John Varney – Elektric Frequency (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubism)
Carlos Fransisco – Raindancer (Richard Belsom’s Riders On The Storm Remix) (S.P. Recordings)
Lunacy Sound Division – Get With You (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubism)
Dan Van Damn – Incarnate (Richard Belsom’s Hypnosis Remix) (Jack Digitals)
Access Denied – Massive (Richard Belsom’s LARGE remix) (Click Records)
Access Denied – Coconut Milk (Richard Belsom’s Milked Remix) (Send Records)
Tony Thomas – Cosmosis (Richard Belsom Remix) (Cubic Records)
Lunacy Sound Division – Suburban Zombie (Richard Belsom’s Walking Dead Remix) (Cubic Records)
Steve Linney – Straighten Out (Richard Belsom’s Bad Trip Remix) (Evasive Records)
Mike Healey – Oh Monkey You’re Mine (Richard Belsom’s Bad Monkey Remix) (Cubism)
Sam Ball & Anil Chawla – Daily Intake (Richard BelsomRemix) (Cubism)
Rob Mooney – Beehive (Richard Belsom Remix) (Bass For Breakfast)
New “Feature Artist” posts coming to Kana
In today’s evloving music scene there is so much music, so many labels, and even more dj’s & producers than ever before that it is quite challenging to stay on top of the ‘who’s who’ of house & techno. The simple task of laying down two tracks (which some people call DJ’ing) is becoming easier and easier, so much so that a 10 year old with A.D.D. could pull off an hour’s set without much trouble. Are these troublesome times? I think not. For the faster our music scene grows, inevitably the more truly talented artists we are all exposed to. As more and more people take to digital methods of performance, the more great new concepts and controllers are developed to meet these growing demands.
So in this vein, Kana have decided to take some of the ‘guess work’ out of the equation and share with our readers a few artists whom we feel demonstrate this tenacity to rise above the crowd, push the envelope and ultimately push our music scene into the future.
Keep an eye out for our “Feature Artist” posts in which you might find artists you know, and some perhaps you don’t. Every post will have an exclusive mix prepared for our Kana audience by the featured artist and an in depth bio to demonstrate why they might have pricked out attention.
From all of us here at Kana, we hope you enjoy the articles and definitely rock out to these special mixes.
Yours in music & good vibes,
Kana
Boost your screen space with a USB powered 7″ Touch Screen
The time is fast approaching when open-source programmers and affordable hardware combine to make the ultimate customizable dj setup at a very affordable price. Until that day inevitably arrives (when we all have exactly what we want right at our finger tips for every performance) you can start yourself towards that dream with one (or many) of these babies.
Mimo have just released their very affordable 7″ Touch Screen for a meagre $199US. Hosting a resolution of 840×400 and powered by USB, not only is it super light at 600 grams but it has a rotatable screen so you could use it equally well for sequencing as for menu browsing!
I can think of several great uses for a light weight screen like this:
- Keep plugin windows open & out of the way for quick adjustment to non-assigned parameters & preset navigation
- Emulate a Kaoss pad type system for fancy effects
- Have a dedicated browser screen to free up your main screen for more important items
- Can’t afford a Lemur and think an iPod is tacky? Setup your own touch-screen midi controller with the MonoTouch software in style!! It’s only $29US, so thats under $230US for your own Lemur… Nice!
Of course, you can use this for many mroe purposes like triggering visual clips and multi-tasking at your day-job, but thats upto you to decide.
Think you’ve got some great alternative uses for a 7″ touch screen in a performance related environment, let us know by commenting at the bottom!
Kana Show #014 recorded 16th Feb 2009
Introducing a new flavour to the Kana Show, we’ve been working on a few intro’s & outro’s to give the show a more cohesive feel.¬† We’ll be changing them around over the coming weeks so if you like any in particular or really don’t like any 
send us an email with your thoughts: info@okkana.com.
In other news, for this weeks show we were lucky enough to score a preview of two hot new unreleased tunes by Richard Belsom and Justin Margovan. Check the tracklisting and download the show here to hear what the buzz is about!
01. Kana Show Intro
02. Peace Division – Revival (Original mix)
03. Richard Belsom – In My Mind (Original mix)
04. Joachim Spieth – Novembertraum (Sebrok remix)
05. Mike Mondy & Will Saul – Zippo (Dub mix)
06. Rhythm Code – Shade (Original mix)
07. Kaiser Souzai – Cirrus (Jeff Bennett remix)
08. D Ramirez – Reminder of Jasper (Angel Anx remix)
09. Justin Margovan – The Cult (Original mix)
10. Soundexile – Out of Eden (Original mix)
11. Martin Eyerer – Cave Canem (Daniele Papini remix)
12. KOS – Tycoon (Original mix)
13. Pascal Dolle and Mandes – Ein Tag Im Gruenen (Kaiser Souzai and Nudisco remix)
14. Kana Show Outro
Interview with Elliot Clarke on inthemix.com.au
As promised, here is the interview featured on inthemix¬†the other week. ¬†For those who don’t already know Elliot, this will be a nice introduction to one half of the Kana mindfield.¬†
Adam
 
Elliot Clarke might be best known to the club fraternity of Brisbane as the fresh-faced young gun who’s found regularly gracing the decks in some of the Valley’s best venues. Is there more to him than meets the eye, you ask? Absolutely! With many high-profile gigs over the past two years, Elliot has been making a name for himself in the underground dance music community, and all before the age of 23! There’s no doubt that talent, hard work and determination have been contributing factors, but others may simply attribute his success to plain and simple good luck. However, I was a little curious as to how he managed to hold down his residencies, as well as donning the hat as promoter for both Colours and Kana, alongside the additional pressure of a demanding day job.
Anyone who has experienced one of Elliot’s sets will agree with me when I say they’re always impressive. Expect them to be full of energy, featuring the freshest and funkiest tracks around (that mere laymen simply cannot find) and Elliot will keep you guessing throughout, as his style is very left of centre and far from predictable. “I guess I looked up to those older guys like Aphex, Mills and Claude Young for inspiration. They played a big part when I initially kicked off. I never compromise on the quality of the music. I’ve definitely been getting in to some of the more left field deep house sounds getting around which venues seem more than happy with,” says Elliot. Bypassing vinyl and going straight to CD, Elliot’s experience behind the CDJs and subsequently Ableton has allowed him to play the music he loves exactly as he wants it to be heard. Unable to make up his mind about whether his greater love is techno, minimal or left-field house, you’re likely to hear tunes from all schools of thoughts.
As Elliot grew in confidence and skill early In his career, so did his ability to read a crowd and know what was expected. What better way to give the punters what they want than to bringing in sought-after Internationals? Not to mention bringing In a little bit of creativity to the dance scene by promoting the sort of unique gigs that hadn’t otherwise been seen In Brisbane. Elliott knows he’s onto a good thing! “Promoting has always been another dimension, creating a fresh outlook on what’s happening around us. I can definitely speak on behalf of anyone who’s promoting quality house and techno in Brisbane that we definitely get a rush off looking around seeing people having a great time. That definitely makes the effort of promoting worth it”.
In the two years Elliot has been in the driver seat as a promoter, big things have happened in Brisbane. Colours parties kicked off at Empire early In 2008, featuring some of the best music on Brisbane’s techno and progressive scene. Under the Colours blanket, Elliot claims that pulling off a gig with the likes of Dave Pham and Mike Callander was one of the best nights of the eyar for him. Colours also co/hosted Alex Smoke, Pig & Dan and Supermayer earlier on in the year which proved to be so popular that the Empire reached capacity very early on in the day.
More recently Elliot co-founded The Kana Corporation. The name Kana doesn’t have any underlying meaning, Instead It’s a blanket term for different types of Japanese script. Elliot launched the ‘OK Kana’ parties In September last year alongside Adam Gillett who is now based in London and pushing the brand over there. The underground parties are at secretively chosen locations, disclosed to the attendants via SMS only a couple of hours before they take place. The parties themselves give people a chance to sit back and smile about something unique every now and then, as opposed to being stuck in a club so often. The details of the party are kept pretty tight to prevent over saturation. As romantic as it might sound, for a short few hours you feel like you’re part of something that no one else has experienced. Lugging so much through the inner city of Brisbane has its disadvantsges though. “I’m never pushing a bass bin with a broken wheel on to the Riverside walkway again though”, he says with a laugh.
As for what lies in store for the future, Elliot has already been a very busy beaver working alongside good friend Mike Redfern for Logic Events to plan an event – not only with a renowned artist but also creating a venue with a delightful twist. “First and foremost for Kana is Joris Voorn’s Balance 014 Launch from midday on Sunday 4th February. Bar Soma will play the host, however we’ll be creating something very different to a close crowd of no more than 200-250 people in the venue’s courtyard which will be completely transformed to accommodate this special event”. The prodigous Dutch guest Is the object of much affection on the ITM forums, especially after his last Brisbane gig. “Voorn’s energy behind the decks is brilliant,” Elliott asserts.”Having someone who can capture that rhythm without faulting is one in a million, Joris Voorn is one of those people. Having him tour on the back of aBalance release makes the event more intimate and special than what it might otherwise have been, which even then would be ridiculously hard to compete against.” As for Colours, the wait is only a week later on Friday February 13 for Colours’ first birthday! To indulge their loyal fans, Elliot and Fusion will present the musical treat of John Selway from the USA. On top of that, Elliot promises SCSI-9 on March 13 as another big party to not miss out on.
Elliot displays the passion of someone who wants to go places within the music industry. He loves his music and delivering a set to invoke similar feelings in his audience is paramount. But he acknowledges that he has reached this point with plenty of support. “Whether it’s Colours, Kana, Drop, Logic, Subtrakt or even Birdees on a Saturday afternoon, we’re being spoiled at the moment – make the most of it people!”
Interview conducted by Katie Dawson on behalf of InTheMix
 
Kana Show #013 recorded 9th Feb 2009
Hi all,
Probably one of my better, more consistent shows, still working out mic troubles (oops haha) but the tunes are worth a listen! 
Track listing:
01. Artificial Latvamaki – Ratts Leaving the Sinking Ship in Nortt (Original mix)
02. Cyro – Afrodisiac (Instrumental mix)
03. Dominik Eulberg & Gabriel Ananda – Eucalypse Now (Eulbergs Dubcafe mix)
04. Stephen Lopkin – Ailsa Craig (Original mix)
05. Mr. G – Makes No Sense (Radio Slave Shaking the Tree remix)
06. Rhythm Code – Rationed (Original mix)
07. Worthy – Ah Chord (Bombillas Brainstorm remix)
08. Shlomi Aber – Namgo (Original mix)
09. The Minimum – Alinoman (Alex Young’s Keep It Simple mix)
10. David West – The Hideout (Ramon Tapia remix)
11. Worthy – Ah Chord (Original mix)
12. Speedy J – EDLX Toy [played in reverse]
13. Speedy J – EDLX Tool (Chris Liebing edit)
14. Manuel De Lorenzi & Massi Gee – Key North (Original mix)
15. Josh Wink – Hypnoslave (Original mix)
16. Martinez – Le Cirkus (Original mix)
17. Marc Depulse – PS. You Rock (Spektre remix)
Make wall size posters quickly, for FREE
Promoting a budget party? Looking for some retro wallpaper? Then look no further than this quick, free image rasterizer.
Basically, it allows you to upload an image of your choice and expand it into a printable multi-page PDF which you can then print at home to create a massive wall poster 3+ metres wide!
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Get free exposure by sending us your music through SoundCloud!
In this day & age digitial distribution, online collaboration and music tailored networking have come a long way.  So it should come as no suprise that a service like SoundCloud has popped up and proven to be extremely popular among successful and emerging artists alike.  Kana have taken the initiative to signup and provide our dropbox to readers for several reasons.  If you are a producer looking to gain more exposure then send us your tracks and if we like them this is what we can do for you:
1) Promote your music and yourself as an artist on the Kana website.
2) Review your music amongst the Kana collective and give constructive feedback to you the artist
3) Promote your tracks by airing them on the Kana Show, broadcasting all over the world every Monday night (2100 GMT) on www.kick106.co.uk
4) If its unsigned and we really like you track it we may just pass it onto colleagues that can contact you about signing your music.
5) If the track is ‘that good’, it might just get chosen as “tune of the month” and featured on the Kana page and in the Kana Show for every week in that month. ¬†Plus, with your consent of course, we will pass it to all our network of respected dj’s and promoters who will give the track a good spin and give you ¬†valuable ‘dancefloor’ feedback!
So what are you waiting for? Get onboard and send in your music!
Kana
Kana Show #012 recorded 2nd Feb 2009
Hi all,
I hope your weeks been pleasant so far, only 2 more sleeps till the weekend..wooo!!
As promised, every week we will be posting the Kana Show recorded live from Monday nights on www.kick106.co.uk.
Here’s the link to this week’s show
Tracklisting:
1. Justin Margovan – From the Beginning (Original mix)
2. Matt Fine – Resident (Original mix)
3. Shlomi Aber – Black Title (Original mix)
4. Kazu Kimura – Addicted to FX Neo
5. Polder – Ginger (District One remix)
6. KOS – One trick pony (Original mix)
7. Nicone – Everything so clear (Original mix)
8. X-Press 2 – London Express (Caged Baby Chateau mix)
9. X-Press 2 – London Express (Steve Lawler remix)
10. Shlomi Aber – State of No-one (Original mix)
11. Dan Curtain – Beat Fiend (Original mix)
12. Butch – Dark Fader (Original mix)
13. Oliver Dahl – Rien (Original mix)
14. Brian Sanhaji – Deus Ex Machina (Original mix)
15. Beroshima – Horizon (Pig & Dan remix)
16. Dyno – 8 out 8 (Original mix)
17. Twinbeat – Twinbeat (Original mix)
18. DJ Wild – Sol (Original mix)
19. Kolombo – I’m on your side (Original mix)
20. Paolo Mojo & Jim Rivers – Ron Hardy Said (Original mix)
How to get your sounds as wide as possible in the mix
Somewhere along the way when you are composing your latest track you will start thinking about where the sounds appear on the sound stage.  A key principle to achieving a really nice mix is not just having the right balance of mono and stereo sounds but having those stereo sounds just where you want them.  
You may notice that on some tracks by the upper echelon of music producers, sounds can be placed so wide in the mix that you simply cannot get there by using any conventional stereo widerers like Cryosonics Sindo V2. ¬†While these tools are great for the usual task of ’sweetening up’ a sample with a boring stereo image, they won’t give you that extra ‘magic’ that you are looking for.
The key here is to employ a Double Tracking technique with the use of a basic delay like Ableton’s Simple Delay. ¬†You can easily replace the delay with any other effect in your arsenal, however delays usually get the best, most controllable results.¬†
I am going to explain the rest with focus on Ableton’s Live production software as this is my weapon of choice. ¬†The principles you will find translate to any DAW you choose as well as any hardware mixing solutions. ¬†
How to get that wide sound:
- - Choose an audio source to double track (a synth line or vocal/percussion track/ or anything you want) and turn it¬†down at least 3db…it will get louder shortly.
- -  Duplicate the audio track
- - Double tracking essentially means duplicating the audio source so you have two copies playing at exactly the same time. This technique is used to apply different processing to separate parts of the audio spectrum in a single audio source.
- - Pan one channel Full-Left the other Full-Right
- - Add a Simple Delay (or your delay/effect of choice) to one of the two channels.
- - Feedback at 0%, Dry/Wet at 100% Wet
- - Adjust a desired amount of short delay (2ms-20ms) or a very subtle amount of chorus or reverb.
- To do this, click the SYNC buttons on the delay plugin which will take off the Quantization and allow you to apply small time-based settings.
You will immediately hear the sound become spread into that ’super’ wide zone you previously thought unreachable. ¬†Now we need to gain collective control over the sound again…
- - Send both channels to a stereo Bus or Group channel
- - To do this in Abelton Live create a new audio track
- - Set the tracks Monitoring to IN (on the routing section’s I/O)
- - Now you can control the two tracks as if they were one super wide source from that single Bus channel.
Good luck with your exploration,
Adam
What to expect from Kana’s music theory articles
To those that are interested in music production or even those who have been developing their skills over the years, Kana will be presenting a series of articles on music production theory.  Some articles will be aimed at the advanced producer and others at the beginner.  
Overall, some knowledge about computers and music software will be required to comprehend these topics.  Since it would take a very long time to go through all of the basics, these topics are best left to other resources where the time has already been invested.  
You will most likely find information here that you can find elsewhere.  These articles are being shared with the sole purpose of giving value back to our readers and possibly shedding new light on a concept you perhaps are already very familiar with.  You will be able to bring up the articles any time by using the Tag Cloud to the right of this page or by using the Categories beneath it.
To quote¬†Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, a Zen priest who has been noted as one of the principle founder’s of Buddihsim in America. ¬†More information can be found on Suzuki here¬†http://sfzc.org/
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
Share your best mixes with the world on Kana
Think you got what it takes?
If you got a tight mix that you think is worthy of sharing to the world and you’ve already uploaded it somewhere (like SendSpace or Megaupload) please send us an email and we’ll have a listen. If we like it you’ll see it posted up here for all to enjoy.
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All serious contenders please note at Kana we are all about sharing and caring, so don’t send us a mix if you aren’t willing to also share the tracklisting with your audience as well. After all, life is about learning and the best way to learn is to ask questions and try yourself!
Respect & good vibes,
Kana
All Kana Shows to be uploaded for your enjoyment for FREE
If you’ve been enjoying the last couple of Kana Show’s we’ve posted up here or even managed to tune in to the live show on Monday nights, well you’ll be pleased to hear that we will be recording every Kana Show in the future and posting them all right here for your listening pleasure, absolutely FREE!¬†
Having trouble finding them? Just subscribe to the page for updates when we post new articles & mixes or clic kon the Radio/Podcast category on the right hand side of this page!
Kana
The End closing party was fun for some!
This popped up on The End’s official gallery after their holy-of-mollies closing party that went for a stagering 24hours!! There were serious reports of people cueing up for more that 8 hours so I know a few happy campers that managed to skip through the guest entry in like.. 10mins! Nice!
From all accounts, despite the expected Massive turnout, this was a party like non-other and the goodvibes were shared by all. With any luck we’ll get a personal account from Simon or Jim but I’ll leave you with this picture to work out what they might say!
Respect to the End, you’ll be missed.
Adam
