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daknow

my integrity is a systemic malfunction.

About Me

PLEASE NOTE: you are NOT being tracked by a surveillance program (aside from the one operated by your government)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/22/2004
Band Website: daknow.com (offline) [AIM: daknow diadem]
Band Members: I'm daknow (pronounced "danno") production and cuts by Lectron 80 on the currently featured tracks. Ray Contour, Daniel Stark, and I are slaving over hot herbs in the lab; bastard hybrid incoming.
Influences: (in no particular order): Bird, Rakim, Ice T, Saul Williams, Johnny Cash, Monk, Herbie Hancock, Robert Nesta Marley, Sonic and Silver, Stakka and Skynet, Def Jux (label), Renegade Hardware (label), DSCi4 (label), Universal Project, Raiden, Concord Dawn, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, Barry White, Bob Dylan, Fela Kuti, Bebel Gilberto, Tito Puente, Nas, D. Kay, Slayer, DK, Judas Priest, Sade, MC GQ, Enduser, Edgar Allan Poe, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Derrida, Vincent Price, Big L, Remarc, Iron Maiden, Black Star, Black Flag, Alfred Hitchcock, Tom Waits, The Misfits, Big Pun, Norah Jones, asstd. Nintendo game designers, The Clash, Nine Inch Nails, DJ Spooky, DJ Wally/Pish Posh/Burner Bruvas (+CT+Seen), TCQ, De La, YBT, PE, EPMD, Nietzche, [endless crates of music from the sixties (jazz mostly), seventies (soul, funk, jazz, etc.), and eighties (electro mostly, but pop and hip hop too)], Amon Tobin, Soundmurderer, Sister Nancy, Remarc, General Malice, 238, Ninja Tune (label), Sizzla, King Tubby, Black Flag, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Michael Prophet, Wu Tang (all but U-G*d), Def Squad (Redman in particular), Thievery Corporation, MF Doom, True Playaz (label), Metalheadz (label), Afrika Bambaata, Loefah, The Beatles, The Faint, Influx Datum, DJ Bailey, Evol Intent (label), Klute, Olivia Newton-John, Kool Keith, John Lydon, Ella Fitzgerald, Calibre, them brothers Elvis ripped off (fuck him and John Wayne), Jimmy Cliff, Breakage, Barrington Levy, Amit, Blondie, TBC.....................
Sounds Like: my favorite MC.
Record Label: unlabeled.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

köln again.

Leo dipped off without me. I waited for him, assuming the scarf he left hanging on the wall meant he was coming back. Missed my flight because I couldn't do what he did, leave without my friend.SHITTY...
Posted by daknow on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:02:00 PST

milan.

fucking filthy. I feel as though there is no middle ground with italians... either they are harmonious, beautiful, intelligent people or complete fucking apes. I saw far more of the latter in milan, b...
Posted by daknow on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:15:00 PST

wien.

aka Vienna is as beautiful as everyone said it would be. Ryan Air sold us tickets from Frankfurt to Bratislava to Milan for like 18¬ total, hahaha. cheaper than dinner. I have lots of great pics of th...
Posted by daknow on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:51:00 PST

niederland.

we rented a car in Köln for real cheap online and we watch a guy come in while we're waiting for our ford focus, he takes it... we get upgraded: 2007 BMW 3 Series sedan (black, 6spd manual, navigation...
Posted by daknow on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:42:00 PST

deutschland.

Köln!nice city, Leo and I are beat. no sleep. had some indian food. the hostel has free internet and cheap coffee, also, nice. we may go to amsterdam tomorrow, no plans have formed yet. I got a bottle...
Posted by daknow on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:20:00 PST

Israel

so I'm in the holy land and it's great. I miss home more than I thought I would and this blog is to let anyone who cares to read know that I probably miss them. I ain't namin names, shuddup. the ...
Posted by daknow on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:17:00 PST

safe.

back in jersey, ready to work. I have no other concerns now.   I'm going to work through everything.   this page is going to be a storefront of sorts, for better or worse.   I'm moving ...
Posted by daknow on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:04:00 PST

euroblog six: paris

I'm writing this in londres (london), as I have already left paris via bus plus ferry.I met a fascinating creature in paris that I don't understand. she is from michigan. she is striking. she is arrog...
Posted by daknow on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:39:00 PST

euroblog five and a half: figueres

figueres is famous only for the dali museum, and that's pretty much all there is here. nice town though. dali is a tool. he has some brilliant work, but a lot of the shit on display at his museum is s...
Posted by daknow on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:26:00 PST

euroblog five: barcelona

yes. this is it. I like this one. I may very well stay here.   I'm looking for work, the people are great, the architecture is bonkers, the culture in general - dope. I don't even know what to sa...
Posted by daknow on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:54:00 PST