Dylan Marks - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I host a music show called The System Is Down on Edmonton's college station, CJSR 88.5. If there's good canadian music that you think I should play, please don't hesitate to contact me! Listen to some of my archived shows below:

I'm a cellist, bassist and percussionist into jazz improvisation, folk, funk, reggae, world. Music is my bliss. My band:
Field Experience

I spend my day pixel pushing, and this is my real world, bill-paying bliss. Here's my terribly out of date web consultant site:
Diorama Design

Interests:
unobtrusive kindness as much as unobtrusive javascript. music music music music music music music music. cellos in funk. meditation. dancing. vegetarian cooking. vegging. running. bad space opera sci-fi. tonglen. curry, dark chocolate. yoga, test driven development, project management, life hacking, both psychic and code refactoring. writing, performance, improvisation. becoming a bodhisattvic millionaire.

Books:
William Gibson, Chogyam Trungpa, Nalo Hopkinson, James Joyce (and no, I have yet to finish Ulysses, but one day, man, one day), Sheri S. Tepper, Agatha Christie, Crowley, Sivananda Radha, J.K. Rowling, Douglas Hofstadter, Pema Chodron, Elizabeth Moon, Patrick O'Brian, Aritha Van Herk, Joseph Campbell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, plus a very long list of tech blogs and books, including Martin Fowler, Joel Spolsky, Gang of Four (both the writers on software design patterns and the punk band).

Heroes: buddha, my uncle brian, my boss, my wife, my cats, Samy.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/18/2005
Band Website: fieldexperienceband.com
Influences: Music This is in no particular order because I jump every which way. It's way too easy to forget the important ones, but starting with some record labels that are pretty much 100% good: Tru Thoughts, Do Right, Soul Jazz, Ubiquity, Arts&Crafts, Quannum, Putumayo, Truth & Soul, Daptone, Big Dada, Stones Throw, Ninja Tune, Fabric, Soundslike/Accidental, Mad Decent, Folkways.

Fela Kuti, JS Bach, Talking Heads, Blackalicious, Miles Davis, Peaches, GYBE!, Duran Duran, The Gossip, Ghislain, Gotan Project, Matthew Herbert, Roisin Murphy, Alice Russell, Police, Stylex, The Knife, M.I.A, Hollertronix/Diplo, Manu Chao, Madlib, Antibalas, JDilla, Funkadelic, Sly & Family Stone, Le Tigre, LCD Soundsystem, Spank Rock, Buena Vista Social Club, M. Wainwright, Four Tet, Jorane, The Faint, Masia One, Jamie Lidell, Radio Vacana, Souljah Fyah, Edmonton & Calgary music scenes.
I have a high tolerance for annoying music, so my tastes are pretty random. You can see what I'm listening to right now on Last.FM, which is hooked up directly to my winamp:

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My Blog

Mix - Move It Or Lose It

I made up this mix for getting dancing going at house parties. So far I've only tested out the middle section of it, but it worked smashingly (had everyone up and bouncing around from about 2 - ...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:52:00 PST

Mix - Ritmo Sapo

Last month I took two trips. First, I visited the farm where I grew up in the Peace Country (far northern alberta). First thing I notice after years in the city is the void where the traffic hum usual...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:49:00 PST

Mix - Music For Mind-Addled Hippy Children

The title of this mix isn't meant derogatively - in fact I fall under that classification myself. Themes of my mixes tend to be only vaguely cohesive, but this is mostly freak folk stuff that would be...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:50:00 PST

Bric-a-Brac Mix

For a while now I've been thinking of making a mix cd of english speaking singers butchering french songs, but decided that was a bit contrived. Instead, this mix is inspired by a combination of the n...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:14:00 PST

valentine funk fest

Just in time for Valentine, I'm going to lay down some funk for you. This is fully boom-shukka lovage. All it's missing is Isaac Hayes, which would have been too obvious. I actually ...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:27:00 PST

mix cd: disco beat clash

This mix is in the electro-clash broken beat rap disco hop genre that is so very 2006. My favourite stuff is the Modeselektor, and the Stylex of course, since that's my cousin Brian's band. Not ...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:49:00 PST

mix cd for you to download

**EDIT Feb 13, '06 - I've re-uploaded the mix with cd quality.I'm a complete junky when it comes to making mixcds. I have this software for mixing songs together (Mixmeister) that does beat matc...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:03:00 PST

fumbling towards rhyme

I think I'll put up a second mix cd right away. This one is pretty much all hip hop, from the banal (Lil' Kim) to the sublime (Saul Williams). There's lots of stuff from the Quannum label on the...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:40:00 PST

inocculation

I've been spending more time than I ever thought I would on myspace lately (which isn't really that much time at all). Memetic inoculation is needed.If you have some time on your hands, here's an appr...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:41:00 PST

ninjas

My god. This breakdancing is super human. Check out his floating pushups at the end. On that topic, this guy needs nunchaku and shuriken. I have got to get to the gym. Cara and I ...
Posted by Dylan Marks on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:37:00 PST