Why are there 14 subsets, then weird alpha notations next to each number? What makes this a revolution? Allow me to explain all this and more. There are multiple revolutions going on here, and the format has grown over time to evolve. I'll take it one revolution at a time.
The Album Is Dead: An 8-tracks could hold 45-minutes of tunes. Artists were quick to fill all eight tracks, and listeners even quicker to listen. This was once the length that defined an "album". Then came along the C60 cassette tape. It held 30-minutes per side. Albums became longer. CDs? 80-minutes. Something happened about then... the full length of time wasn't being filled by the artists. The idea of an "album" became "stuff put together in one place" and was no longer time-defined. DVDs solidified this, as no one ran out to fill them. Then along came data... songs stored on hard drives and transferred across networks. No one will ever fill data. They cannot. The idea even of "stuff put together in one place" has become absurd, as the "one place" at this point is the Internet. Already, labels like The Glitch Mob are simply releasing singles as they come out, making two- or three-song singles and releasing them into the wild. The ADHD Revolution has a defined beginning with no end, and is released here, elsewhere and to subscribers as tracks are mixed. The album is dead. Data has killed it.
The CD Is Dead: I saw someone with a compact disc player while mixing at an NYE party in L.A. at the end of 2008. I actually had to verify with them that it was a CD and not an MP3CD player. Just a CD... amazing. My exact words were, "Well, thats... I mean... how quaint." The modern era is a world of the iPod, which owns the portable media player market and no longer works off of the idea of playing only one artist's music. It is meant to hold thousands of songs. For DJs who mix electronica, the move into this modern world simply hasn't happened. They still mix sets the length of a CD. When a listener puts these on an iPod and hit random, these mixed tracks jump very unsmoothly into the music then come to a screeching halt. It's jarring. The alternative is to put the entire mix together into one track, but most users skip to the next song instead of listen to the full mix... eventually removing it entirely from their iPod. The solution was the idea of the subset, which only a few rare mixers have adopted. The ADHD Revolution is composed entirely of subsets, mixing two or three songs together with quotes that have defined beginnings and ends, and meld beautifully with other songs no matter whether or not played on random... but random's still the best. But, just as Web 2.0 improves yet includes Web 1, The ADHD Revolution, from track01 to track14, can still fit on and be burned to an 80-minute optical disc, ensuring backwards compatibility and allowing listeners to burn a "best of" for their friends.
DRM Is Dead: Music Liberation Day is coming up in April of 2009. The iTunes Store is removing DRM from all the music that they offer. No more needing to authorize a song in order to play it, nor losing the ability to play a song when away from an Internet connection. P2P and open-source music, long before this, already killed "the one hit wonder". Artists could no longer sell an entire album on the basis of a single song. The easy access to music meant artists had to create an entire package--graphics, insert and amazing audio--in order to sell... which raised the quality. What an amazing difference the response has been between major labels and independents. A major label sees a hit they own on P2P and recoil, annoyed and angered. An independent sees their hit show up on P2P and they do a victory dance. Now, the two are merging. Open-source free music from independents has become widely dispersed across music networking sites, and they can move faster than the four hulking major labels. The labels and resellers are starting to adopt new models in order to remain more relevant... and even keep their artists. Still, in order to maintain backwards compatibility, The ADHD Revolution links to where songs and movies that are quoted can be bought from to help support those still living in the older paradigm of proprietary media. How we await the day that there is no longer 5-minutes of warning at the beginning of our favorite movies... punishing those of us who've paid for them.
Humanity Is Outdated: The world of flesh is already losing ground to the world born in silica. Anyone who steps back and looks around must instantly realize the incredible (even legendary) wonders and terrors of the modern world. It is amazing in both aspects, and so large to be completely out of control. The other realization is that applications and tools are already being created that surpass those who create it. In English: The maker does not know the limits of that which has been created. The ADHD Revolution takes the stance that this is the natural course of evolution, and flesh will either evolve with it or be replaced. It is beyond our control.
Where does "The ADHD Revolution" and The ADHF come from? You may want to read the section on The ADHF first. There is some specific info for "The ADHD Revolution" to add to that, however.
"The ADHD Revolution" was started in 2005. The idea began simply as using less than 2.5-minutes from each song in order to keep the mix interesting. The original reason for grouping the subsets together two or three songs at a time was rather simple... the CD contained too much info. In order to list all the tracks and quotes meant listing more than 50 items. No bueno. So the subsets were born. After having only heard the first four tracks, the founders of the AychEff--The Happy Funpack--gave it their stamp of approval. To set it apart from the original gang's handywork, it was produced under the artist name "ADHF".
Almost all tracks are mixed by AychEff Prime. However, many are mixed live, and different people inside and outside of the HF will make suggestions as the tracks progress. Also, different people have been taught to mix and made ADHD selections along the way. This is more of a group project in ways.
There are some specific themes that run thru "The ADHD Revolution". I'll go over each briefly.
Technophobia and Transhumanism: Some technology threatens humanity, some promises utopia. Technology is only a tool. If the weilder is evil, then evil acts are enhanced by technology; if good, then benefits are enhanced. If the maker, however, intends for the technology to serve good or evil, then the technology is more likely to benefit that form of implementation. "The ADHD Revolution" provides memes that are both anti-technology and pro-technology, and works to define what makes each form of tech differ from the next. It is transhumanist in the way that it prefers technology that helps humanity grow beyond itself, and that it leans more towards machines running the planet in place of humanity. It is anti-tech in the way that it works against technologies meant for destruction as well as common failings in technology.
Anti-Communism / Anti-Fascism: Commies can all drown in the ocean, and Fascists will all burn in the hell they created. "The ADHD Revolution" is strongly Libertarian and Capitalistic. Sound funny for a free set? If you think so, then you have let the "image of the dollar" get in the way of your sight and cannot see the economy of ideas because of it. The dollar has a lot of utility, but the greatest power is the memepool and the evolution of ideas. People are leftist commies because they fear fascism, and, vice-versa, they are rightist fascists because they fear communism. Both support and create that which they fear... and both are murderers and thieves. "The ADHD Revolution" aims to politically attack the extremists and leaders from both sides of this perverse spectrum.
Religion and the Tradition of Errors: If a religion believes itself "the one true path", then it is up for attack by "The ADHD Revolution". To steal a quote from a friend, ADHD is all about non-seriousness... seriously. Faithmongers from the various exclusive fanclubs of religion are the most serious, stubborn followers the Tradition of Errors ever did give birth to. The only hallmark of maturity there has ever been is the ability to laugh at one's self. Faithmongers (just as political extremists and philosophical true believers) have the lowest tolerance for humor. Someone else has to be laughing at this... it may as well be us.
Spirituality: The ADHF is not devoid of spirit, but draws from a more animistic spirit found everywhere and in everything. There is beauty in a broken body lying dead aside a road, and beauty in a sky torn open after the rains. Seeing beauty in all things and exploring the depths of both the darkness and the light is the only spirituality purported by "The ADHD Revolution". Its most common expression is in the ADHF09 subsets.
Insanity: Humans are straight nutballs, from here to Valhalla. In-frakking-sane! Often, ADHF tracks will play around with insanity and the state of raw humanity--both the animal that makes it genetic, and the Self in this creature that makes it aware... the memetic. Four out of five tracks from this set have an intended meme to infect the listener with, even using surface (or obvious) messages to create an opposing reaction, which is the actual meme that is meant to be transferred. Having studied memes for nearly ten years, human psychology and the spread of memetic data is a primary focus for "The ADHD Revolution" ...as it has doubled as an experiment with listeners to test memes out with.
Sex, Drugs and Electronica: Electronica is about dancing, and dancing is just as often about sex. Either the music is grindy, or the quotes are... or both... but "The ADHD Revolution" is not a sex-free zone in any way. You've come to the wrong place... especially with how explicit some subsets may be. You throw some drugs in the mix and you have a regular party. If schools actually taught this sheit, then the ADHF wouldn't need to be the ones doing the work... but it's fun work.
The Album Is Dead: An 8-tracks could hold 45-minutes of tunes. Artists were quick to fill all eight tracks, and listeners even quicker to listen. This was once the length that defined an "album". Then came along the C60 cassette tape. It held 30-minutes per side. Albums became longer. CDs? 80-minutes. Something happened about then... the full length of time wasn't being filled by the artists. The idea of an "album" became "stuff put together in one place" and was no longer time-defined. DVDs solidified this, as no one ran out to fill them. Then along came data... songs stored on hard drives and transferred across networks. No one will ever fill data. They cannot. The idea even of "stuff put together in one place" has become absurd, as the "one place" at this point is the Internet. Already, labels like The Glitch Mob are simply releasing singles as they come out, making two- or three-song singles and releasing them into the wild. The ADHD Revolution has a defined beginning with no end, and is released here, elsewhere and to subscribers as tracks are mixed. The album is dead. Data has killed it.
The CD Is Dead: I saw someone with a compact disc player while mixing at an NYE party in L.A. at the end of 2008. I actually had to verify with them that it was a CD and not an MP3CD player. Just a CD... amazing. My exact words were, "Well, thats... I mean... how quaint." The modern era is a world of the iPod, which owns the portable media player market and no longer works off of the idea of playing only one artist's music. It is meant to hold thousands of songs. For DJs who mix electronica, the move into this modern world simply hasn't happened. They still mix sets the length of a CD. When a listener puts these on an iPod and hit random, these mixed tracks jump very unsmoothly into the music then come to a screeching halt. It's jarring. The alternative is to put the entire mix together into one track, but most users skip to the next song instead of listen to the full mix... eventually removing it entirely from their iPod. The solution was the idea of the subset, which only a few rare mixers have adopted. The ADHD Revolution is composed entirely of subsets, mixing two or three songs together with quotes that have defined beginnings and ends, and meld beautifully with other songs no matter whether or not played on random... but random's still the best. But, just as Web 2.0 improves yet includes Web 1, The ADHD Revolution, from track01 to track14, can still fit on and be burned to an 80-minute optical disc, ensuring backwards compatibility and allowing listeners to burn a "best of" for their friends.
DRM Is Dead: Music Liberation Day is coming up in April of 2009. The iTunes Store is removing DRM from all the music that they offer. No more needing to authorize a song in order to play it, nor losing the ability to play a song when away from an Internet connection. P2P and open-source music, long before this, already killed "the one hit wonder". Artists could no longer sell an entire album on the basis of a single song. The easy access to music meant artists had to create an entire package--graphics, insert and amazing audio--in order to sell... which raised the quality. What an amazing difference the response has been between major labels and independents. A major label sees a hit they own on P2P and recoil, annoyed and angered. An independent sees their hit show up on P2P and they do a victory dance. Now, the two are merging. Open-source free music from independents has become widely dispersed across music networking sites, and they can move faster than the four hulking major labels. The labels and resellers are starting to adopt new models in order to remain more relevant... and even keep their artists. Still, in order to maintain backwards compatibility, The ADHD Revolution links to where songs and movies that are quoted can be bought from to help support those still living in the older paradigm of proprietary media. How we await the day that there is no longer 5-minutes of warning at the beginning of our favorite movies... punishing those of us who've paid for them.
Humanity Is Outdated: The world of flesh is already losing ground to the world born in silica. Anyone who steps back and looks around must instantly realize the incredible (even legendary) wonders and terrors of the modern world. It is amazing in both aspects, and so large to be completely out of control. The other realization is that applications and tools are already being created that surpass those who create it. In English: The maker does not know the limits of that which has been created. The ADHD Revolution takes the stance that this is the natural course of evolution, and flesh will either evolve with it or be replaced. It is beyond our control.
Where does "The ADHD Revolution" and The ADHF come from? You may want to read the section on The ADHF first. There is some specific info for "The ADHD Revolution" to add to that, however.
"The ADHD Revolution" was started in 2005. The idea began simply as using less than 2.5-minutes from each song in order to keep the mix interesting. The original reason for grouping the subsets together two or three songs at a time was rather simple... the CD contained too much info. In order to list all the tracks and quotes meant listing more than 50 items. No bueno. So the subsets were born. After having only heard the first four tracks, the founders of the AychEff--The Happy Funpack--gave it their stamp of approval. To set it apart from the original gang's handywork, it was produced under the artist name "ADHF".
Almost all tracks are mixed by AychEff Prime. However, many are mixed live, and different people inside and outside of the HF will make suggestions as the tracks progress. Also, different people have been taught to mix and made ADHD selections along the way. This is more of a group project in ways.
There are some specific themes that run thru "The ADHD Revolution". I'll go over each briefly.
Technophobia and Transhumanism: Some technology threatens humanity, some promises utopia. Technology is only a tool. If the weilder is evil, then evil acts are enhanced by technology; if good, then benefits are enhanced. If the maker, however, intends for the technology to serve good or evil, then the technology is more likely to benefit that form of implementation. "The ADHD Revolution" provides memes that are both anti-technology and pro-technology, and works to define what makes each form of tech differ from the next. It is transhumanist in the way that it prefers technology that helps humanity grow beyond itself, and that it leans more towards machines running the planet in place of humanity. It is anti-tech in the way that it works against technologies meant for destruction as well as common failings in technology.
Anti-Communism / Anti-Fascism: Commies can all drown in the ocean, and Fascists will all burn in the hell they created. "The ADHD Revolution" is strongly Libertarian and Capitalistic. Sound funny for a free set? If you think so, then you have let the "image of the dollar" get in the way of your sight and cannot see the economy of ideas because of it. The dollar has a lot of utility, but the greatest power is the memepool and the evolution of ideas. People are leftist commies because they fear fascism, and, vice-versa, they are rightist fascists because they fear communism. Both support and create that which they fear... and both are murderers and thieves. "The ADHD Revolution" aims to politically attack the extremists and leaders from both sides of this perverse spectrum.
Religion and the Tradition of Errors: If a religion believes itself "the one true path", then it is up for attack by "The ADHD Revolution". To steal a quote from a friend, ADHD is all about non-seriousness... seriously. Faithmongers from the various exclusive fanclubs of religion are the most serious, stubborn followers the Tradition of Errors ever did give birth to. The only hallmark of maturity there has ever been is the ability to laugh at one's self. Faithmongers (just as political extremists and philosophical true believers) have the lowest tolerance for humor. Someone else has to be laughing at this... it may as well be us.
Spirituality: The ADHF is not devoid of spirit, but draws from a more animistic spirit found everywhere and in everything. There is beauty in a broken body lying dead aside a road, and beauty in a sky torn open after the rains. Seeing beauty in all things and exploring the depths of both the darkness and the light is the only spirituality purported by "The ADHD Revolution". Its most common expression is in the ADHF09 subsets.
Insanity: Humans are straight nutballs, from here to Valhalla. In-frakking-sane! Often, ADHF tracks will play around with insanity and the state of raw humanity--both the animal that makes it genetic, and the Self in this creature that makes it aware... the memetic. Four out of five tracks from this set have an intended meme to infect the listener with, even using surface (or obvious) messages to create an opposing reaction, which is the actual meme that is meant to be transferred. Having studied memes for nearly ten years, human psychology and the spread of memetic data is a primary focus for "The ADHD Revolution" ...as it has doubled as an experiment with listeners to test memes out with.
Sex, Drugs and Electronica: Electronica is about dancing, and dancing is just as often about sex. Either the music is grindy, or the quotes are... or both... but "The ADHD Revolution" is not a sex-free zone in any way. You've come to the wrong place... especially with how explicit some subsets may be. You throw some drugs in the mix and you have a regular party. If schools actually taught this sheit, then the ADHF wouldn't need to be the ones doing the work... but it's fun work.