I'm posting this to share a track that I just shared publicly, called "Hacks" (techno):
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a DJ code-named Bolivia who decided to mix up some beats for his coder friends to listen to. A whole series of "Music To Code By" DJ mixes resulted. One day, a fine gentleman by the name of Dan Fernandez (at MicroSoft) shared a link to the mixes to his significant following of fellow coders, and the rest is history.
What is a hack? A hack, by itself, is neither good nor bad. It just is. But when it is freed by its creator to run in the wild, it may in fact cause problems. Hacks in general have a bad reputation due to this niche.
But there are a lot of hacks that are used for good. A hack can be a creative way of accomplishing something. It can be a physical manifestation. Sure, something can be "crudely hacked together," perhaps with baling wire and duct tape (or Perl). But a hack can also be a neat trick, a creative way of accomplishing something more efficiently.
I'll leave it to the listener to form their own opinion on what type of hacks I was thinking about when this song was being created. But in the meantime, hopefully my rambling here triggers the search engines to bring a few more hits to this post.
And if not, I'll try to hack something up later.
You can listen to this on Soundcloud:
Or watch it on YouTube:
Note that while the music is mine, I used an AI generator to come up with the graphics for the YouTube video.
If you'd like to download a copy, visit my Dropbox folder at:
www.djbolivia.ca/tracks
Feel free to share it or remix it.
- Jonathan Clark (DJ Bolivia)
www.djbolivia.ca
www.djbolivia.ca
