AKA. Kenneth James G. / [a]pendics.shuffle / Eight Frozen Modules / K.J. Gi… Read Full Bio ↴AKA. Kenneth James G. / [a]pendics.shuffle / Eight Frozen Modules / K.J. Gibbs / The Premature Wig / dubLoner / Bal Cath / Electronic Music Composer / Reverse Commuter / Hiss and Buzz.
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp whats going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but dont expect. A rare stone in todays musical climate, Ken is rolling and collects no moss. Kens first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the 90s indi rock band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a band and started producing a slew of electronic mish mash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno. In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers.
After 3 years of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD Random Activities and Broken Sunsets, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo.
Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers), and most recently as Kenneth James G., and KJ Gibbs for labels such as Mo's Ferry Productions, Adjunct, Resopal, Budenzauber, Orac, Mineral, Tigerbeat 6, Skor, Planet-Mu, g25/ Very Friendly, Proptronix, Headinghome, Shockout, Narita, Disco Inc., Mille Plateaux,Orthlorng Musork, and Plateaux Resistance...just to name a few.
Currently Ken is living in Echo Park California and producing a ton of music. He has new releases about to drop on Friends Of Tommorow, Floppy Funk, Sunset Diskos/ Mitek, Mo's Ferry Productions, Hallucination Limited, Adjunct , Persistancebit, Orac and more. He has also just started his own label with Orac co-founder Konstantin Gabbro, called Adjunct. With Adjunct they are releasing what they call computer funk, their own special brand of funky, minimal, avant-garde techno. Does all this you just read make sense? Maybe not in your world, but in Kens world its just another day. (from current bio)
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp whats going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but dont expect. A rare stone in todays musical climate, Ken is rolling and collects no moss. Kens first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the 90s indi rock band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a band and started producing a slew of electronic mish mash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno. In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers.
After 3 years of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD Random Activities and Broken Sunsets, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo.
Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers), and most recently as Kenneth James G., and KJ Gibbs for labels such as Mo's Ferry Productions, Adjunct, Resopal, Budenzauber, Orac, Mineral, Tigerbeat 6, Skor, Planet-Mu, g25/ Very Friendly, Proptronix, Headinghome, Shockout, Narita, Disco Inc., Mille Plateaux,Orthlorng Musork, and Plateaux Resistance...just to name a few.
Currently Ken is living in Echo Park California and producing a ton of music. He has new releases about to drop on Friends Of Tommorow, Floppy Funk, Sunset Diskos/ Mitek, Mo's Ferry Productions, Hallucination Limited, Adjunct , Persistancebit, Orac and more. He has also just started his own label with Orac co-founder Konstantin Gabbro, called Adjunct. With Adjunct they are releasing what they call computer funk, their own special brand of funky, minimal, avant-garde techno. Does all this you just read make sense? Maybe not in your world, but in Kens world its just another day. (from current bio)
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David Hansen
RAID0 always gets a bad rap, but in my experience, it's just as reliable as any single-drive solution.
I've been using RAID0 since the original Western Digital Raptors came out 15 or so years ago. I had two 74 GB drives striped for my high-speed game install storage. If you wanted high-speed storage, at least until SSDs became mainstream, it was pretty much your only solution back in that era.
Even today, if you have the need for high-capacity high-speed storage, a pair of multi-TB HDDs in RAID0 is still a more cost-effective solution than high-capacity SSD storage, and still has better throughput than a single large HDD. In fact, most current 1+ TB drives I've encountered in clients' budget Dell/Lenovo/HP/Whathaveyou systems are so slow, I'd rather have teeth extracted with no Novocain than perform routine Windows updates. It's a shame these big players still sell modern machines with such slow primary system drives; it really ends up making the product look really bad as the average consumer has 0 understanding of what they are getting with a gigantic HDD versus the more expensive yet "tiny" SSD option when they spec their systems. I work with people often that have a computer only a few years old, and they are already talking about buying a new machine because it's so painfully slow to do anything. Then I check the machine for them, and find the 1 TB+ 5.4k RPM archival-grade HDD pegged at 100% active time, yet only moving kilobytes, sometimes megabytes, of data and the CPU sitting idle and the RAM empty. Then I blow their mind by swapping them to a 500 GB Samsung SATA3 SSD instead of replacing their computer outright and it performs so much better... But that's going off on a new tangent, so perhaps a story for another day.
My main game rig/workstation has a 500 GB NVMe for system drive and programs, a 2 TB NVMe for game installs, and an 8 TB RAID0 for my media collections using two 4 TB WD Greens. It formats out to about 7.5 TB, and averages around ~350-400 MB/sec performing large sustained data transfers.
I don't just throw caution to the wind, however. As ANY MECHANICAL DRIVE STORAGE is prone to failure with age, not just RAID0, I perform full media backups to a NAS with WD Red NAS drives in RAID5 for redundancy. And I don't even "trust" that. I make regular copies of my archives to an additional Dell PowerEdge using a PERC raid controller and four 3 TB WD Blacks in RAID5 with a dedicated hotspare.
Ironically, with all that redundancy, my final archive goes to LTO4 tapes for extra safe keeping...
But, now I'm going off on a tangent again... ☺
Zorktx Andnand
Nice to see this vid. on a format I only heard about.
As I worked in TV at the time, some things I can add.
- A digibeta tape holds about 60 min, and was ~30 Euro's. SP tape was about the same, but holds only 30 min. but you can record SX on SP tape!
- There was a 8 second prerecord option for digital betacam camera's, so you can record from before hitting record.
- Betacam SX was meant as a news format, and was used some by some in the industry, but Digi beta and Beta SP was by far the most until ~2005 for news, al least here in the Netherlands.
DV cam was mostly used for lowbudget TV programs. DVC pro was also not very common. Sony also introduced Beta IMX, but it was no sucses, and I only ever saw a few recorders, and spotting machines. no camera's.
- I have never seen a P2 camera, and only heard about one Belgian broadcaster using them. I do not think they were very successfull around here.
-The Batacam tape transport mechanisms (SP, SX and Digibeta) are actualy very stable, and very reliable. Camera's get a lot of abuse. However, they do require regular cleaning and maintenance.
All mechanisms were made by Sony (also for other brands like Ikegami, BTS/ thompson ect. ) In broadcasting they know you can't do a lot of takes twice. News events do not repeat them selfs cause you screwed up your recording.
Technology Connections
When you first opened that up my jaw dropped briefly before I then grinned with delight. A bonkers, but clearly effective, workaround!
Cathode Ray Dude [CRD]
it's so smart! but so silly!
Kaplunk
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Hi you should do a collab
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kelownatechkid
It's one of those things that is still happening today!! I highly recommend everyone look up how Red cameras' "mags" are actually super cheap crappy flash media.
soupisgdfood
If you guys do a collab, I swear to god I’ll up my patreon donations to the both of you. Don’t test me, I’ll do it!
Might just do it anyway but that’s beside the point.
DimIsHigh
Yes please! The times aren't exactly optimal for collaborations, but would love to see you two do something together about some vintage A/V equipment - or literally anything else! Also happy holidays folks, stay safe and thanks for all the amazing videos!
Steve Jobs
The next logical step is to open up a modern p2 card and find four micro SD cards in four SD card adapters.
magfal
How about 16 microsds in one of those quad adapters?
Roy Wiggins
four SD cards with four adapters, and if you open those up, four microSD cards in each
RigaRiggleMan XTV
@Roy Wiggins if only nanosd existed, you would have more adapters..