Music
Music Pick of the Day – Sacred Spirit
Apr 26th
Sacred Spirit – Vol. 8: Jazzy Chill Out
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EPIC ALERT!! The album title isn’t too creative, but I will go on record and say this is one of the most creative constructions of music ever forged by man. I am floored by this album, and I can’t stop listening to it. Gorgeous, just fucking gorgeous. As the album title suggests, yes it is jazzy chillout music, but that’s an understatement. You can pursue your passion and learn music as well, more on it here on this site. This is jazz in an electronica framework, with some elements of classical music. There is so much detail, complexity, emotion, all with a simple easy attitude, making the album feel beautiful, deep, serious, and a lot of fun at the same time. Pay attention to the details; the piano is like it’s own emotional character running throughout the album; the soundscapes are atmospheric; the sampled singers are dripping with soul and attitude; the violin brings dramatic flair; the beats are alive with groove and energy. I had a hard time picking which songs to share, because they are all outstanding. My favorites are the opening “You’re Gonna Love” and “New Dawn” which features Nina Simone in a whole new light.
I don’t know how he blended this all together and left it sounding so tasteful and classy, but my hat comes off for Claus Zundel who has not only created some phenomenal music as B-Tribe (reviews to come later), but most amazingly, he has never put out a jazz release before this. I know, what the fuck, how the hell…? But maybe that’s why this turned out so well, because he approached jazz from a different angle, and so he brought a new fresh spin on it. Besides, the guy is a proven musical genius in many different genres, constantly challenging himself to absorb some new style and master it.
Music Pick of the Day – Josh Rouse
Apr 21st
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Josh Rouse used to make indie alt-country rock. Now he’s on a spanish music kick. Everything he does is quite good. But his album “1972” is a unique gem. That’s the year he was born and he made an album that sounds like it actually came from 1972. He nailed the sound and spirit of the era, while bringing a modern element to it. The album is just so clever. Intelligent and fun and epic.
Music Pick of the Day – Catherine Wheel
Apr 12th
Catherine Wheel – Adam and Eve
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This album changed me. It changed my taste in music.
I loved loved Catherine Wheel’s 1995 grunge heavy metal album “Happy Days” when I was 15. I listened to it all the time, turned it up loud, and fed off its pounding energy. I was so excited when I heard in early 1997 that Catherine Wheel has a new album coming. I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t wait. Then “Adam and Eve” came out and… I was disappointed. So disappointed. Just so surprised to hear them so stripped down and bare. What is this sissy shit? You know, I thought I was about to bite into a sloppy chili cheeseburger with bacon and onion rings only to discover that I just bit into a warm goat cheese sandwich on wheat toast with beansprouts and eggplant. WTF?? Very startling and upsetting for an aggressive 16 year old. I listened to it just once, put it on my shelf and didn’t touch the cd for 3 years. I wasn’t alone with that opinion, many of the newer fans weren’t into it, and the label was upset, ultimately dropping the band and letting the album go out of print quickly.
3 years later, I picked it up again for some reason at the much more mature age of 19 and discovered maybe the most beautiful thing I ever heard. My god. This album is stripped away and about pulling back the layers and getting somewhere authentic. I can now tell that Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and Talk Talk’s “Spirit of Eden” were big inspirations. I heard the song “Future Boy” and I was stopped cold. You understand the meaning of the song just from the production mixing, when the rising swirl of insanity and noise disappears into a singer alone with his acoustic guitar. I wanted to learn how to play this song on guitar. I’d been playing guitar for 3 years at this point, but it was this song that got me to turn off the distortion and learn chords beyond metal power chords. This started my journey through acoustic rock. And I was suddenly sad to realize that creating one of the most beautiful works of all time earned this band the reward of being dropped from their label and having their album go out of print to fade into obscurity.
Although they did add one radio friendly song at the last minute; “Delicious” is a cool song, just out of place here.
If this album didn’t exist there never would have been any Coldplay. Listen to Coldplay’s first record “Parachutes”. It’s a watered down attempt at “Adam and Eve”. But props to Coldplay, they were so much better when they tried to pull off Catherine Wheel than when they tried to pull off U2.
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Music Pick of the Day – Pole Folder
Apr 9th
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Waterfalls of Love |
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Ooh, I’m in love with this album. An instant classic. Elegant, sophisticated, dark, sultry, atmospheric, progressive house. The whole album blends together to take you on a journey and is consistently high quality. One of the most creative works to come out of this genre.
Music Pick of the Day – Marconi Union
Apr 7th
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Amazing. This is my favorite ambient album. Gorgeous detailed electronic soundscapes with subtle pulsing energy and a post rock flare. Even has elements of deep bass dub. Great to fall asleep to, read to, relax to. I could listen to this album on constant repeat in headphones everyday as I go about life.
IT Infrastructure Solutions
Apr 6th

Data Centers are necessary for business to fulfill IT requirements. This has caused a rise in companies adopting IoT to supply any sort of communication, communication control and transport.
Infrastructure Solutions
In addition to providing business solutions, the financial sector is becoming increasingly sophisticated in providing infrastructure as well. The Central Business Unit of banks are utilizing infrastructure and application services across various industries. They are using this technology to improve profitability and business prospects of their customers by controlling the number of connected users, tracking their transactions, analyzing the social and security implications of their customers, sending alerts to their IT departments and partners to help avoid disaster and help mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to customer data and assets.
Both private and public sector entities, especially SMEs are increasingly employing AI, machine learning and Data Science to handle complex problems. What is more, SMEs’ requirements for enterprise IoT applications often start from local to national as it tends to be a business requirement with connectivity and reliability of the same or more than 4G or Wi-Fi. Companies in Indian SMEs’ mind are always asking for not only data analytics and business intelligence but also training on what data their operations needs and how to achieve it and that’s why Data Centers resources from sites as Fortinet are essential to make everything run smoothly.
The Future of IoT in India
The rise of the IoT in India is indeed astounding. It is indeed due to a number of reasons. The country is undergoing economic transformation, high rate of urbanization, consumer expectations of products of highest quality and rapid urbanization. What the government and government officials especially understands and address is the huge potential of technology for economic growth. They have established the National IoT Initiative.
There are some businesses that are finding the big opportunity of the IoT with its ability to save and maximize business data. The area of the government sector where big industries have seen opportunity is public transport. There is a clear need for a lot of connectivity and security in the system. For public transport, the latest public transport announcements by different administrations and agencies are encouraging the usage of AI as a way of assessing congestion, traffic flow and moving within the system. These announcements have made a lot of positive impacts on the safety and comfort of public transportation. Public transportation in India is expected to see growth in the current fiscal year in line with its growth in previous years. By 2018, the UTA (Union Transport Authority) plans to install 18.2 million smart contracts on its buses and plying vehicles. This would involve more than $2 billion worth of funding. The Indian government has started work in this direction to minimize the negative environmental impacts of bus operation.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just an IT application, but is a functional IT application as well. Data is not only being collected, it is being used for business analysis. It is also being used to build the infrastructure, better performance and robustness of the systems being used. The Internet of Things in India is transforming the way we do business.
Music Pick of the Day – Erykah Badu
Apr 4th
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I think Erykah Badu has gone batshit crazy and I don’t get what she’s going for lately. But Mama’s Gun is a Masterpiece. Not her most commercially successful album, but clearly her best work. This album is diverse, explores many paths soul music can go, expressing each different genre with more creativity and expertise than most musicians focused only on each genre. The journey starts off with dirty funk rock soul, moves into mellow funky tribal R&B soul, get’s progressively more hip hop with a 70s edge, before abandoning that sound and getting stripped down to finish the second half on a gorgeous acoustic jazz soul sound. I like the 2nd half better. Notice the intro to the 10 minute final song “Green Eyes” and how it transitions into a different song. This album is genius, unfortunately geniuses tend to go crazy sooner or later.
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Music Pick of the Day – Govinda
Apr 4th
Govinda – Erotic Rhythms from Earth
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And we start off the music pick of the day with a classic. As the album title suggests, this album screams sex. The 2001 album “Erotic Rhythms from Earth” by Govinda is some sort of cyber ethnic worldbeat album. Infusing electronica with elements of India, the Middle East and subtle bits of Jazz. This is sophisticated and elegant. Very chill but with just a little too much energy to be professional massage music. It’s hard to believe all these gorgeous soundscapes were created by a guy from Texas, Shane O’Madden. There is singing on every track, but not really any lyrics, the singing is ethereal and more of an instrument with the music. Even in the songs with lyrics, the singing blends subtly in with the music and doesn’t stand out. That’s the problem I have with his recent stuff like “Sound Sutras“. The music is still quite good there, but he’s using vocalists singing pop songs (or even worse, he’s singing himself) and while theoretically this could work, it doesn’t. “Erotic Rhythms from Earth” is clearly his best in my book, and one of the best chillout cds I ever heard.








