at one time I may have had a few stars in my eyes.
there was definitely glitter in my hair and on the sheets.
I put the stars back in the sky.  
I studied druidry.
I stopped compromising.
I buried bitpakkit along with all the other junk on the internet...pretty much the internet.
Unplug.  Go outside.  Fuck this shit.
(and good old bitpakkit....he gone...some of the better bits are shared here still until I run out of space)
Current to-do list:
Love.
Dance.
Poetry.  
Dance.  
Family.  
Dance.
Magic.
Sing.
Art.
Connect.
For realz.
Dance.  Again. Just for a bit.
Music.
and cords...like a lot of cords. 
Like.  Seriously.  A lot.
Merry meet and blessed be.  May there be peace on the earth.

Community.
Tribe.

The music layers entertaining spoken word and global vocal talents over a connected backdrop of sonic landscapes, live acoustic, analogue, AI, and electronic music performance and recording techniques.  

Familiar voices and sounds dot the sweeping breaks that let us catch our breath before we are swept away again following the beautifully melodic and driving rhythmic map of our world made better.   This is presented in a series of thematic movements designed to inform and inspire deeper and more memorable personal and shared experiences.  You’ll laugh.  You’ll dance.  And you’ll remember why you need to do both of those more.(and it will include a DJ’d set of the songs performed differently and without breaks)

Full remix stems, Logic and Ableton projects and soundpacks for Novation CIrcuit are available.  Yes, also retiring the gamertag @bitpakkit alias after 15 years of confused stares and spelling issues.  Well...there was this one time...and that other time...but...NSFW...and this is work now.

Jennifer Fugo is the founder of Gluten Free School. It's her mission to inform, empower and inspire gluten-sensitive women to take simple, savvy steps to get healthy and become their own best advocates.

She’s a certified Health Coach named a “Gluten Free Guru” by Philadelphia Magazine who co-hosts the popular“Gluten-Free Sugar Cleanse” to empowers gluten-free folks to take control of their diet, feel great and kick their sugar habit.

Jennifer is a sought-after expert about healthy, gluten-free living as well as a speaker who has been featured onDoctor Oz, Yahoo! News, eHow, CNN, Huffington Post andPhiladelphia Magazine. (Click HERE to see where she pops up in the press!)

She hosts the popular “Gluten Free School Podcast” to share eye-opening health information vital to living a gluten-free life. Her first book, “The Savvy Gluten-Free Shopper: How to Eat Healthy without Breaking the Bank” is now available.

About me: I do NOT like to sample, although I may try it sometimes to experiment. In my own opinion (yes, I am indeed entitled to have my own), I personally find that sampling is cheating and that I can do better. I have no problem with others sampling, but I myself think of my own work as cheap or cheated if I myself sample. 

I am an 18 year old boy from South East London and I am currently in education at Access To Music London. I find myself to be inspired by artists and groups such as Daft Punk, Oliver, and Galantis. 

I write music in many different genres and can listen to anything besides Rap music and Screamo, although I do appreciate that it does take skill to do what they do and may experiment with these genres from time to time to test my ability. However, most of the music I write will most likely be in the form of Dubstep, House, or Trap music as I find these the most enjoyable at this time in life. 

I am NOT interested in any "Like for Like" or "Follow for Follow" nonsense. I also do not post my content on here to try to gain popularity, the main reason I have a soundcloud account is so that after I have made something I have somewhere to upload my music to in order to show close friends/family. If at any time in my future I do become somewhat successful and do wish to present my music to people in order to gain a living, it would not be on Soundcloud as doing such would just resort in me giving away my music for free. But again, right now I am not interested in making money from what I create, everything I post is royalty free as long as credit is given where needed. If anyone does decide to use something I have created, please inform me as I am always open to listening and watching what people can do with my content. Thank you :)

Interwoven is a podcast from Plimoth Patuxet Museums, the Nation’s premier living history museum. In each episode, we explore the ways stories weave through generations, communities and cultures to inform our contemporary lives. Rooted deep in the 17th century, Interwoven expands beyond the relationships between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims to discuss larger cross-cultural interactions of the varied people who lived along these shores of change. 

To learn more about Plimoth Patuxet Museums visit www.plimoth.org.

Authentic" is the word most often used to describe Gypsy Soul. The duo's multicultural heritage helps inform both their message and sound, attracting audiences with their soulful blend of Roots, Pop, Blues and Jazz. For their 15th CD, Cover Story, they pay homage to some of the artists that have inspired them. As you may have guessed, it's a cover album where the duo adds their unique style to songs by The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Tears For Fears, Buffalo Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Duran Duran and Louis Armstrong.

"I really enjoyed Gypsy Soul's True! They are a truly unique sound." - AARON NEVILLE

"Cilette Swann's voice is haunting and Roman Morykit's musicianship is superb. Their music stirs the soul and moves the spirit.” - Monica Rizzo, PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Over the past two decades, the pair have had a Top 40 hit with “Silent Tears” and have won numerous songwriting and performance awards. They've earned over 1.6 million downloads and have garnered Critic’s Choice in over 70 magazines and newspapers. They've had their music placed in numerous hit TV shows and motion picture films such as Providence, Felicity, 90210, Roswell, After Sex and Quick Sand that have aired globally. Gypsy Soul is “music to set your heart free.”

”Four stars.” - ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Zolani Lucas Ponco, a.k.a ‘Pzho’was born and raised in Umtata, Eastern Cape. In 1999, he moved with his mother to the Western Cape, living in Wallacedine, then Kraaifontein and finally Khayelithsa. He soon found a home among the early hip-hop movement in the area, coming across underground ‘spaza’ artists mixing isiXhosa with township slang. Later, Pzho drew inspiration from vernacular rappers Cassper Nyovest and Kuli Chana. His first local hit ‘Where’s the Law?’ was recorded with Lungile ‘Broken Xhosa’ Ludidi in 2004.
 
Pzho is one of a growing community of conscious rappers hailing from South Africa’s main urban settlements. They inform their audiences about social issues neglected by the mass media, without imposing opinions or forcing action.
 
Pzho says: “Conscious rap speaks directly to the problems facing many South Africans. I’m conscious of what’s happening around me. There are so many social ills - alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, HIV. There’s a lot of musical talent in Khayelitsha, but we don’t get a lot of airplay because radio stations have a problem with this type of genre. The swearing and loose language associated with hip hop means they don’t get so much airplay. My track goes against these negative stereotypes with positive lyrics about being strong.”
 
“Music is one of the few things that keep young people inspired. Hip hop in South Africa has taken a different turn in that more artists are making music that resonates locally and creates awareness of issues.”

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#I_HAVE_MIXED_MUSIC (sounds) for...

TO and MASEVEN (theatre)
UNBORN (theatre)
SGOLOZA (theatre)
CHAMPION (theatre)
BASH or BE BASHED (theatre)
PLAY ROOM (theatre)
PAUL (gospel album from Zimbabwe)
REEBONGZ (single)

#I_DID_MUSIC_WORKSHOPS_for...

OUDTSHOORN
ASHTON
MHLANGA 
DORDRECHT


And in producing Career I have produced albums like...

HYPER (nakedmynd)
EDUTAINMENT (iimveku)
NUNSTOP PHAM (nunstop pham)
ISHUBILE (nakedmynd)
ODN (various artits)
REALITY (langeberg municipality)

#I_HAVE_PERFORMED_in...

JOZI
MHLANGA
CERES
KING WILLIAM's TOWN
QUEEN's TOWN
ASHTON
ROBERTSON

#I_PLAYED_A_ROLE (acting)

ON BASH OR BE BASHED as (DJ MONGZ)

*i am member or SAMRO
*i have a registered compony NSR
*i am a RISA member

I'm an aspiring model, actress, and photographer. Needless to say, I keep busy. I just recently got into voice acting and I enjoy it to death. If could do this for a living, I would.

The following you will see and listen to are my auditions. Many of them will have links providing casting info. If such info is not listed, please inform me and I shall hunt for them..

Discovered deep within the Duran Duran vaults, TV Mania’s Bored With Prozac and The Internet? blends television samples and looping rhythm tracks to create a sonically sophisticated collection of songs that serve as the perfect soundtrack to the Facebook age.

Conceived in the mid-‘90s by Duran Duran’s keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, Bored with Prozac was culled from a collection of tunes recorded when the band were on hiatus from their day jobs. Using samples from such disparate sources as The Outer Limits and the British TV show Planet Fashion, TV Mania’s pastiche of cool beats and melodic hooks proved more prescient than its creators could anticipate at the time.

“It was innocently masquerading as an art rock project, but there was a deep concept behind it all,” explains Cuccurullo. “We were envisioning a world where a family would give up their day-to-day privacy and allow their existence to be televised to the masses, and this was two years before Truman showed and four years before Survivor. Now everyone is giving away their most intimate details online and on reality TV.”

Originally created for the Broadway stage as the music to a “bizarre TV soap opera,” the tracks tell the tale of Cathy and Ray (named from the cathode ray tube) and their two children Sassy and Snoop, a fame-hungry family who gives away their freedom to scientists in exchange for reality show fame. Depressed and obsessed, Cathy indulges in a diet of pharmaceutical pills, while her religious husband is plagued with nightmares and visions manifested in a game show hosted by the devil. Their video game-addicted hacker son and fame-hungry daughter are along for the ride, inspiring songs such as “Beautiful Clothes,” “I Wanna Make Films” and “People Know Your Name” in the process.  The songs aligned fortuitously with the family’s story to become pivotal plot points to the family’s lives.

At the time, the Internet was in its infancy, as was the concept of pharmaceuticals as a solution to everyday problems.  Reality TV existed in the form of MTV’s hit The Real World, but the concept of bored housewives, teenage moms or overly tanned denizens of the Jersey shore starring in their own series seemed the stuff of science fiction, as did ordinary citizens sharing their daily thoughts and passions via Twitter, Blogspot or Flickr.

“In 1996 the Internet was still in its infancy but I anticipated it was the start of a rather big phenomenon,” Rhodes explains. “I was fascinated by communication and how things were becoming more instant and this was decades before all the sites we have now to communicate in different ways. “

A few months after Rhodes and Cuccurullo were done recording Bored with Prozac, a little show called Big Brother hit the airwaves, and nothing was ever quite the same. “We looked at each other in absolute disbelief,” says Rhodes, “It was an idea that was in the ether at the time. We decided to lock it in the bottom drawer whilst we changed the story.”

As time went on, a fortuitous discovery of the original tapes proved songs such as the dreamy trip hop-tinged “Euphoria,” the guitar-grooved “Beautiful Clothes” and the exotically soundscaped “Grab the Sun” sounded as modern today as the time they were recorded.

Says Rhodes, “When I found my DAT tape of masters I thought ‘Wow, this sounds unbelievably contemporary.’ It’s literally like finding a painting and blowing the dust off of it. Times have certainly changed since we made the record, but the subject matter that inspired this album happens to be at the forefront of today’s world, so the songs have weathered the test of time in a strangely beautiful way.”

Bored With Prozac and The Internet?, with creative direction by Andrew Day and front cover illustration by Vania Zouravliov,is being released in a vinyl boxed and gatefold edition through The Vinyl Factory and digitally via The Orchard/Beatport on March 11, 2013. The boxed limited edition will include exclusive Polaroid photographs shot and signed by Nick Rhodes, screen-printed artwork, a personally authored note by Warren Cuccurullo, and an oversized glossy booklet featuring exclusive imagery. The Vinyl Factory collaborates with musicians and artists to create premium vinyl editions. In 2012 the label released records by artists including Florence + the Machine, Roxy Music, Massive Attack, David Byrne and Martin Creed.

SYNOPSIS
In America, social scientists and anthropologists are searching for answers to why family life has degenerated so badly in recent times. After studying online national census forms, they randomly choose one family, from over a million volunteers, to be Test Group101.

The family are secretly transported and installed in an isolated, futuristic, intelligent designer home, where they have every modern convenience at their fingertips. There is no need to ever leave, according to all previously gathered data, as life inside the house is ideal. The family are monitored 24 hours a day, Big Brother style. They are allowed virtual friends, under controlled conditions, but must remain within the house, continuing to live their lives as if nothing has changed (in reality not much has). All food and supplies are ordered online; deliveries arrive hermetically sealed, and the family have absolutely no physical contact with the outside world, which is now considered the ultimate contemporary luxury. They also benefit from having a full virtual staff, who are generally extremely efficient, and cater to the family’s increasingly eccentric requests.

Most things in the house are operated by voice command, or can be activated via the internet. This usually runs smoothly, but if the system goes down chaos prevails in the house, as no one knows how to perform any of the simple tasks anymore. They do have computer access to the outside world, although news coverage and social networking are prohibited.

The dysfunctional family pretend to live out the dream life in front of the scientists, but the flaws are astounding and make compelling viewing. Although the GMRA (Genetic Modelling Research Association) had promised to keep all information entirely confidential, due to a phenomenal financial offer from a network, after seeing the results of the fi rst couple of days, they relinquish their former agreement and license the daily footage for TV and internet rights, completely unbeknownst to the family. The show attracts more viewers than any other in history; it is translated into 30 different languages and causes intense international debate.

Much of the discussion is about why the family would have allowed their lives to be put under the microscope (the producers decided not to inform the public that they did not have an agreement with the family or the rights to use the footage for anything other than research purposes). Others marvel at whether it may be possible to rehabilitate the family and return them to normal life after the ordeal is over.

The world watches as the situation in the house becomes increasingly unmanageable, but at a crucial point when things are reaching meltdown, the entire broadcast system crashes and all screens go blank. At this time, the mother is suffering an overdose incident, and the father is having an hallucinogenic episode, where he believes the family have all turned on him and he has no option but to submit to the Devil, who is the only one powerful enough to overcome their problems.

The daughter is dressed as a super sexy starlet; obliviously living out a melodramatic scene from a Hollywood movie; and the son is hacking into the scientist’s system to find out the truth about the results so far, in a desperate attempt to understand his family and himself…In an operatic crescendo the scientists enter the house in panic, fearing public outcry if anything bad happens to any of the family, and a massive lawsuit from the family themselves once they find out the truth about the broadcast.

The TV lawyers are first to arrive and approach each member of the family to tell them what a huge success they have become, brushing over all money and broadcast issues, asking them to sign waivers to fi nalize all paperwork and conclude their time in the house. The father suddenly realizes that people know who he is and in his deluded state, wanders out of the house to greet the adoring public…It is cold, flat and empty, but not in his imagination. The mother is thrilled that people have seen her suffering and rushes outside to beg for help and forgiveness. The daughter is elated that she may already be famous and prepares herself for her grand exit from the house and entry to the world of red carpets where she hopes to receive instant movie offers. The son is still in front of his computer, barricaded into his room and is watching the whole thing unfold live as the feed has been restored. He puts on his gaming gear and slowly walks outside, where he realizes that he is in the centre of a giant video game, he fi nds himself absolved from his isolated world and able to relate to people outside his room for the first time. The family all bond over their desire to be famous for being what they are.

A world designed with you in mind.

Bookings: santiandtugce@gmail.com

Santi (from Asunción, Paraguay) and Tuğçe (from Istanbul, Turkey) left their homes to follow their dreams of music and have been road companions and musical partners for more than a decade. Currently based in Berlin after many years of living in the US where they first met, they each bring a vibrant mosaic of influences and ideas from all over the world: soulful melodies, colorful instrumentation, dreamy harmonies, and surgically engineered dance-floor beats, informed by years of Santi’s training in music composition and computer science along with Tuğçe’s studies in jazz vocals and creative writing. To this date, they have performed in many major electronic and world music festivals, clubs, theaters, and concert halls throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and received critical acclaim worldwide (e.g. Oye! on NPR’s “Latin Roots: Best Alternative Songs of 2019”, Songs for my Grandmother among Beehype’s “Best Albums from Turkey” in 2017). 

Dates 2021:
21.06 Fete de La Musique, Berlin
20.07 Hilton Dalaman Sarıgerme, Muğla 
22.07 Roots Kayakoy, Fethiye
24.07 Ojo Alaçatı, Çeşme
25.07 Sandal Beach, Kuşadası 
30.07 Kalamış Yaz Festivali, Istanbul
18.08 Hilton Dalaman Sarıgerme, Muğla
29.08 Lusatia Festival, Drebkau
04.09 Bollwerk 107, Moers
25.09 Tribe Restaurant, Tirana 
03.10 Picnic & Gathering, Hilton Bosphorus, Istanbul
19.11 Badehaus, Berlin

Dates 2020:
01.02 Jai Thep Festival (TH)
02.02 Jai Thep Festival (TH)
15.02 Slow Club, Freiburg (DE)
22.02 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
21.03 Partymag Live Stream, Istanbul (TR)
08.04 Let's Support Artists, Bonjuk Bay (TR) 
27.04 United We Stream, Bulbul Berlin (DE)
25.07 Katzensprung Open Air, Cologne (DE)
01.08 Knust Geburstag, Hamburg (DE)
08.09 Resonanz Traum, Berlin (DE)
12.09 Casa Lavanda, Istanbul (TR)

Dates 2019:
03.02 Lucid Dawning Theater im Delphi, Berlin (DE)
22.02 Centro Cultural Juan Salazar, Asuncion (PY)
28.02 Santuario Showcase, Santiago (CL)
01.03 Kompaz Party, Valparaiso (CL)
02.03 Peña Nomade, Santiago (CL)
03.03 Temple Bar, Buenos Aires (AR)
04.03 Selina Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires (AR)
07.03 Avant Garden, Buenos Aires (AR)
16.03 Eats & Beats Izmir Arena, Izmir (TR)
28.03 Zorlu PSM, Istanbul (TR)
12.04 Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)
10.05 Schlachthof, Kassel (DE)
16.05 Bonjuk Burn, Marmaris (TR)
23.05 Feriye Palace, Istanbul (TR)
06.06 Astir Beach, Athens (GR)
08.06 Astir Beach, Athens (GR)
22.06 Cosmo Radio Interview + Live Set, Berlin (DE)
22.06 Kaosberlin, Berlin (DE)
06.07 Club Marvy, Izmir (TR)
07.07 The Beach of Momo, Cesme (TR)
14.07 The Beach of Momo, Cesme (TR)
20.07 Kultursommer, Hannover (DE)
26.07 Kometa Festival, Riga (LV)
02.08 Kempinski Barbaros Bay, Bodrum (TR)
04.08 The Bodrum Edition, Bodrum (TR)
08.08 Parla Parla Bodrum (TR)
10.08 Barbelo, Bodrum (TR)
11.08 The Bodrum Edition, Bodrum (TR)
24.08 Elio Sedef, Istanbul (TR)
31.08 Iris Beirut, Beirut (LB)
08.09 Mentha Nova, Istanbul (TR)
05.10 Bulbul Berlin (DE)
10.10 Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul (TR)
11.10 Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum (TR)
18.10 House of Fuzuli, Istanbul (TR)
29.11 Mensch Meier, Berlin (DE)
07.12 Loco de Pera, Istanbul (TR)
14.12 Loco de Pera, Istanbul (TR)

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