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Deadly Buda Pre-HE Interview

It’s kind of weird to interview yourself. But, since my job was to interview as many Hard Electronic artists as possible, and a day went by without one, I figured I should fill the gap, as I’m playing the L.A. show. We basically made a list of stock questions for the artist to answer how they wanted. So, I figured this would be easy. Lo and behold, the strangest thing was that I surprised myself with answers to the questions I wrote! So, if you’ve got a few minutes, let’s hang out…

Where are you from? How does your geographic location influence your music?

A Deadly Buda graphic from 1994
A Deadly Buda graphic from 1994, Pittsburgh PA.

I was born in Pittsburgh, PA. There, like most places in the civilized world, the population is force-fed garbage music repeatedly, brainwashing them and compromising their lives. It was there that I decided to fight against the insipid audio enslavers, be they man or otherwise. Eventually forced out of the city, I slowly made my way across the USA and have lived in Los Angeles County for the last 17 years, where I continue to wage my guerrilla campaigns to varying degrees of success.

What’s the story behind your DJ Name?

The original story is that “Buda” was my graffiti tag name, taken from a high school social studies report. I added “Deadly” with my first rave DJ gig in 1991. I wanted my DJ name to sound like a kung-fu movie name, like my DJ heroes growing up, Grandfaster Flash, mainly. But as time went on the meaning changed various times. I read years ago about certain Buddha’s whose job it was too destroy egos in order to set people free from the identity others have forced upon them. I like that idea, so that’s what my name means, now.

Who or what events in your life are responsible for you being the artist you are today?

My neighbor, Phil Schoemer, who first taught me how to DJ, was the biggest influence. I still remember things he taught me today, and still struggle to do them. DJ Controlled Weirdness, who introduced me to so much music in the early 90s and we threw raves together as Hear 2 Go, Christoph Fringeli from Praxis Records after that. I’ve always listened to everything Lenny Dee has to say, because he is more experienced and forward thinking than anyone in the dance music industry, period, and today when I get to work with Rob Gee on videos and stuff, helps me keep my sanity in a world gone mad.

Deadly Buda will be appearing at Hard Electronic September 9, 2017
Deadly Buda will be appearing at Hard Electronic September 9, 2017

What are you trying to convey with your music? What are you trying to communicate? What are you giving to the crowd that listens to you?

Though I try to make my sound dimension-bending and otherworldly, at the core I guess I am just trying to communicate that they aren’t alone… that we see really see these things and enjoy things together. I feel what they feel, too. Ultimately, life is more psychedelic than any drug you will ever take. So, I think when I play “crazy” hardcore I am just really describing life as it is, without a filter, and I want to just geek out with my friends about it and what we’re doing.

What moment do you cherish the most so far in your career as a DJ?

Lenny Dee's Trax from the Darkside album art by Deadly Buda
Lenny Dee’s Trax from the Darkside album art by Deadly Buda

There are some big ones for sure, Even Further ’95, and of course Even Further ’96. Both were some of my greatest sets for big crowds, and of course legendary parties. But the first one that always comes to my mind when asked is Catastrophic New Years in 92-93, in Washington DC. It was my first ever out-of-town gig, and Catastrophic was one of the biggest, if not the biggest rave crew on the East Coast at the time. My friend Dario Kenning gave them a tape and the next thing you know I’m playing ‘til midnight for the biggest, most illegal party I’d ever seen or maybe will ever see in the USA. They were diplomat’s kids, the Baez brothers, and they literally were pulling electricity right off the telephone poles into the warehouse and all the cops were obviously paid off. Ravers surrounded by Secret Service, it was unreal. I was already playing hard at the time, and I’ll never forget when I asked Mike Battaglia (now known as Mike Bee) what I should play, because I thought I might be too hard for them. He laughed and said, “just play hardcore!” and raised his fist and laughed. So I did and it went through the roof!

But for cherishing, I’ll always cherish the first raves I did in Pittsburgh with Controlled Weirdness: Psychotronic Slackrave, the Beehive parties, and after he moved, the Turbo-Zen and Millennium parties, which are stories for another day.

What specifically are you planning to give to the audience at Hard Electronic?

Original Deadly Buda style with new and improved ingredients. Since it’s Hard Electronic, I am going out-of-my-way to break the mainstream rules, really my old style. So, starting at 133 BPM and in a half hour, crank it up to 200+ BPM. I’m going to start banging some new Dave Delta tracks, and end up with some Mr. Madness at the end. Make sure to get there by 10:00 PM though, because that’s when I start. There are so many great DJs playing that if you blink you’ll miss one of us!

What is something you really want to tell the public that we might not have asked about?

The world today is dangerous, and meant to be confusing and overwhelming. It’s easy to get upset and impatient with everything going on. Just when you think you know the answers, another contradictory layer to the madness is revealed and frustrates. In today’s world we cannot rely only on logic or emotion, but must hone our intuition to navigate through the madness. Mistakes will be made by us and others, but if you proceed knowing you are good, and look for and amplify the good in others, be they friend or foe, we can navigate around the dangers and feel immediate satisfaction in our actions. I have to remind myself of this, so maybe others need to hear it too.

Links

Deadly Buda’s Musicoin Profile

DeadlyBuda.com

Deadly Buda Wikipedia

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La Primera mezcla que pagara a cada artista, fue lanzada a travez de Musicoin gracias a Deadly Buda

Cada vez que alguien escucha la mezcla de DJ Deadly Buda “Rock the Blockchain” en Musicoin.org, quince pistas de música electrónica y sus artistas se pagan automáticamente, en cuestión de segundos.

Esta hazaña se realizó alrededor de las 2:00 de la mañana del 13 de agosto de 2017, después de que Deadly Buda finalizó la integración de 19 “contratos inteligentes” en Musicoin y los conectó a su mezcla. “Básicamente, es un cambio de juego para cualquier tipo de música como EDM, Disco, House o Hip-Hop y más”, dijo DJ Deadly Buda.

DJ Deadly Buda
DJ Deadly Buda

Puedes escuchar la mezcla “Rock the Blockchain” AQUI

 La mezcla contiene 15 pistas EDM de varios géneros, Hard Electronic, Dubstep, Hardstyle, Hard Bass, Selva, Tambor y Bajo, Hardcore Techno, Shamancore, Tekno y Ambient, de los artistas Counterstrike, Satroniq y DJ Delirium, Teknoaidi, Subterranean, Cap , M27, Harhor y Deadly Buda.

Desde que las mezclas, se hicieron populares en los años 70, ha estado sobre todo en un estado cuasi-legal. Ya que la mezcla son varias canciones o “pistas” separadas, requiere numerosos permisos, papeleo y licencias para ser legalmente compatible. En el momento en que el papeleo se hace, el público en general, considera la música fuera de moda, y otros temas se han hecho populares. En consecuencia, la mayoría de los DJs no se han molestado en obtener los permisos, y han lanzado las mezclas “ilegalmente” en cassettes, CDs y ahora, Soundcloud y Youtube. Por lo general, los artistas de estas mezclas no están recibiendo ningún dinero por su música y muchas veces no se acreditan como parte de la mezcla. Los DJs a menudo no proporcionan listas de reproducción, ya sea para evitar el escrutinio, las limitaciones de tiempo, o en el peor de los casos, sólo quieren toda la atención para sí mismos.

High Voltage, Pittsburgh PA, 1993
High Voltage, Pittsburgh PA, 1993

Irónicamente, los productores de música electrónica hacen su música específicamente para que pueda ser mezclada por Djs y desean que Djs populares usen sus canciones. Las mezclas de DJ, aunque a menudo técnicamente ilegales, son el canal principal de publicidad para el nuevo talento, o los nombres no tan reconocidos. Por lo tanto, durante las últimas décadas, la industria de la música por lo general no ha forzado los derechos de autor contra mezclas de DJ, pero han conservando su derecho a hacerlo. En consecuencia, los DJs, que aún temen una potencial incriminación, rara vez pueden publicitar sus mezclas a gran escala o obtener mucho más ingresos que el costo de los discos o Mp3 que usan en la mezcla. El efecto acumulativo de esta cuasi-legalidad ha sido que las mezclas de Dj todavía se consideran “underground ” a pesar de que es la manera preferida del público que escucha música electrónica.

“Cuanto más entendía acerca de la tecnología blockchain, más me di cuenta de que los problemas legales con la mezclas, estaban a punto de ser una cosa del pasado”, dijo DJ Deadly Buda, “todos los permisos, papeleo y pagos se podría hacer en un instante.”

* Musicoin es una criptografía centrada en la música con capacidad de contrato inteligente. *

La tecnología Blockchain es básicamente un sistema de libro mayor descentralizado mantenido por múltiples computadoras. La cadena más popular en el mundo es Bitcoin, y ha inspirado otros blockchains para dirigirse a áreas específicas de la economía mundial. Musicoin, como su nombre indica, está orientado hacia la música, los músicos y los aficionados. Cuando un usuario escucha una canción en musicoin.org el artista de la canción recibe un Musicoin (vale alrededor de $ 0.01-0.02 USD), generalmente en cuestión de segundos.

El sistema de Musicoin permite a un artista subir una canción y adjuntar lo que se denomina un “contrato inteligente” que puede distribuir pagos a múltiples partes si es necesario. Por ejemplo, el contrato inteligente podría ser programado para que cada vez que se reproduce la canción, el baterista, cantante, guitarrista y bajista de una banda reciben y dividan el pago.

“Cuando me di cuenta de que cada canción en el sistema Musicoin tenía su propia dirección de pago, hablé con todos mis conocidos que producen música, y los invité a subirla a la plataforma, y les pedí permiso de usar sus temas en mi mezcla”, reveló Deadly Buda. Después de charlar con algunos de los artistas, decidió la siguiente fórmula: el 40% de los ingresos de la mezcla va para el DJ, y el 60% se divide uniformemente entre las canciones de la mezcla. “Un Dj pasa mucho tiempo explorando una gran cantidad de mala música para encontrar las joyas que él o ella tocará para el público, así que quería honrar ese gasto de tiempo y dinero, mientras que al mismo tiempo dejar una buena cantidad de espacio para Cada canción para ganar dinero también. ”

DJ Deadly Buda lanzó la primera mezcla de DJs “legal” del mundo. En la que todos los artistas recibirán crédito, y paga por su música.

Un nuevo paradigma de cómo se pueden hacer y pagar las mezclas, oficialmente funcionando gracias a DJ Deadly Buda y Musicoin, pero todavía hay trabajo por hacer dice Deadly Buda, “En un futuro muy cercano, probablemente habrá sólo una casilla de verificación que le dará el derecho de mezclar su música siempre y cuando se les paga a través de un contrato inteligente. Tan pronto como eso suceda, el sistema será imparable y beneficiará a la industria de la música establecida y a los nuevos artistas por igual “.

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World’s First Blockchained DJ Mix Released by Deadly Buda on Musicoin

When DJ Deadly Buda’s “Rock the Blockchain” DJ mix is played on Musicoin.org, fifteen separate electronic dance music tracks and their artists get paid automatically, within seconds.

The system that makes this possible was made public at about 2:00 AM, on August 13, 2017, when Deadly Buda finalized the integration of 19 “smart contracts” on the Musicoin blockchain and attached them to his DJ mix on Musicoin.org. “This will completely change the dance music landscape,” said DJ Deadly Buda, “it’s a

Click here to visit Deadly Buda's Musicoin profile.
Click here to visit Deadly Buda’s Musicoin profile.

development on par with the introduction of the 12” single or the crossfader. It will change the way we do things creatively and the listener will be the winner.”

The DJ mix contains 15 EDM tracks of various genres, hard electronic, dubstep, hardstyle, hard bass, jungle, drum and bass, hardcore techno, shamancore,  tekno, and ambient, by artists Counterstrike, Satroniq & DJ Delirium, Teknoaidi, Subterranean, Cap, M27, Harhor, and Deadly Buda.

The DJ mix format was popularized in the 1970’s and since then has existed in a quasi-legal state. A recorded DJ mix is a continuous blend of several separate songs or “tracks”. To be traditionally legally compliant, this requires numerous permissions, paperwork, and licenses. By the time the paperwork is done, the audience generally considers the music in the mix old, and has moved on to the latest sound in fashion. Consequently, most DJs over the decades haven’t bothered to get the permissions, and have released the mixes “illegally” on cassettes, CDs, and now, SoundCloud and YouTube. Generally, the artists in these mixes aren’t receiving any compensation for their music and oftentimes aren’t even credited as part of the mix.  Many DJs don’t supply playlists due to avoiding scrutiny, time constraints, lack of proper labeling on dance records, or at worst, just wanting all the attention for themselves.

Rock the Blockchain's flyer graphic is from the 1993 Turbo-Zen party in Pittsburgh, PA, High Voltage! The graphics would later be mentioned by Dan Mross in the movie "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin" for its slogan, Technology Must Be Used to Liberate the Indvidual."
Rock the Blockchain’s flyer graphic is from the 1993 Turbo-Zen party in Pittsburgh, PA, High Voltage! The graphics would later be mentioned by Daniel Mross in the movie “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” for its slogan, “Technology Must Be Used to Liberate the Indvidual.”

Ironically, dance music producers make their music specifically so that it can be mixed by DJs, and clamor for popular DJs to use their songs. DJ mixes, though often technically illegal, are the main channel of publicity for smaller dance music scenes or up-and-coming talent. So for the last few decades, the music industry has generally not enforced their copyrights against DJ mixes while retaining their right to do so. Consequently, the DJs, still fearing potential incrimination, can rarely publicize their mixes on a grand scale or derive much more income than money they spent purchasing the records or Mp3s used in the mix. The cumulative effect of this quasi-legality has been that DJ mixes are still considered “underground” even though it is the audience’s preferred manner of listening to dance music.

“The more I understood blockchain technology, the more I realized that the legal problems with the DJ mix were about to be a thing of the past,” stated DJ Deadly Buda. “All the permissions, paperwork, and payments could be done in an instant.”

Blockchain technology is basically a decentralized ledger system maintained by multiple computers. The most popular blockchain in the world is Bitcoin, and it has inspired other blockchains to target specific areas of the world economy. Musicoin, as the name suggests, is geared towards music, musicians, and fans.  When a user plays a song on musicoin.org the artist of the song gets paid one Musicoin (currently worth about $0.01-0.04 USD)—usually in a matter of seconds. This is significantly higher than average artists get paid per play on Spotify or iTunes.

You can sign up to Musicoin here.
You can sign up to Musicoin here.

Furthermore, the Musicoin blockchain system allows an artist to upload a song and attach what is called a “smart contract” that can distribute payments to multiple parties if needed. For example, the smart contract could be programmed so that every time the song is played, the drummer, singer, guitarist, and bassist in a band all split the payment.

“When I realized every song on the Musicoin system had its own payment address, I got as many people I knew that made great music to upload. Then, I asked their permission if I could use their music in my mix,” revealed Deadly Buda. After conferring with some of the artists, realizing they were helping to establish a new paradigm, the following formula was decided: 40% of the mix revenue goes to the DJ, and the remaining 60% is split evenly between each of the songs in the mix. “A DJ spends a lot of time sifting through a lot of bad music to find the gems he or she plays for the public, so I wanted to honor that time and money expenditure while at the same time leaving a fair amount of room for each song to make money as well.”

A new paradigm for how DJ mixes can be made and monetized is now officially live thanks to DJ Deadly Buda and Musicoin, but there is still work to be done says Deadly Buda, “In the very near future, there will probably be just a checkbox an artist can use that gives anyone on the system the right to mix their music so long as they get paid via a smart contract. As soon as that happens, the system will be unstoppable and will benefit the established music industry and new artists alike.”

You can sign up to Musicoin here.

The Hard Data and Musicoin Pilot Program

The Hard Data readers may have recently noticed the addition of banners and price trackers for “Musicoin – The World’s first smart cryptocurrency for music” on theharddata.com. Recently, The Hard Data and the Musicoin Foundation agreed to conduct an experiment to see how Musicoin might interact with The Hard Data’s readers and contributors, in essence: to see how its cryptocurrency would be used by real people, in a real market. Most cryptocurrencies are pure speculation at this point, but Musicoin has the distinction of being the first operating blockchain platform for music streaming. Think of it as Spotify combined with Bitcoin.

The Hard Data Wizard and Musicoin
The Hard Data Wizard and Musicoin

At the heart of the Musicoin system, each time someone plays a track on its platform the artist receives (almost instantly), 1 Musicoin, which he or she can split with other people that contributed to the track’s production. As of my writing of this article, 1 Musicoin or “MC” is worth about $00.02. Artists can opt to hold on to the Musicoin, or sell it on a cryptocurrency exchange should they want to sell the MC in exchange for US Dollars.

For the Musicoin system to work, it is thought that perhaps MC should be used for other purposes in the music world, such as event tickets, t-shirts, and other goods and services. So, a plan was drawn up where The Hard Data would catalyze this agenda item by trading MC to its work-for-hire contractors such as writers, photographers, social media experts and artists for their services. As online contributors to websites are often paid nothing at all, it is thought that the MC contributors receive would at least be some compensation for their efforts.

A schedule of tasks and compensation was then drawn up for a pilot program that will be in-effect until August 31, 2017.

Tasks and Compensation

Online (http://www.theharddata.com) :

Writing an at-least 500 word online article = 500 MC compensation

Sharing an article at least 30 different times (for example linking to the article in Facebook Groups, forums and other online gather places) = 500 MC compensation

Photographs (published) = 10 MC each compensation (most photographers upload a lot of photos)

Editorial overview of web article = 100 MC compensation

Share Checker = 100 MC compensation (this person would coordinate shares and check that the Share Reward links were valid).

Web coding/development = 1000 MC per hour

Print (The HARD DATA magazine):

Written Pages = 500 MC per page (or roughly 500 words)

Artwork or Photo (full page) = 500 MC per page

Content Photos/Artwork = 500 MC per page (half and quarter sizes are divided by that amount, so a half page photo is worth 250 MC for example).

Magazine Layout = 5000 MC

Editing Magazine = 100 MC per written page.

Proofing = 100 MC per written page.

Using Musicoin

So after a contributor receives Musicoin for what they did, what do they do with it? Here are the options:

  1. Hold onto it, hoping that it will become more valuable. Musicoins have traded for as high as $00.041. So, a 500 word article written and shared would be worth $41.00 at that exchange rate. Today, 1 MC is worth about $00.02, so the same article traded or shared is worth approximately $20 if the MC was exchanged for US Dollars.
  2. Should the contributor want to exchange their MC for US Dollars, the following process is currently necessary.
  3. The contributor sells their MC in exchange for Bitcoin on either Bittrex.com or Cryptopia.co.nz.
  4. The Bitcoin is then traded for US Dollars on Coinbase.com which will deposit the USD into your Paypal or bank account.

There will be small fees associated with each transaction, but if your Paypal account is connected to your Coinbase account, you can receive US Dollars instantly.

  1. Use the MC to buy things or trade with friends and associates. For example, The Hard Data offers subscriptions and T-shirts in exchange for Musicoin. Soon other goods and service providers will too.
  2. Simple use it for listening to music, tipping artists, or sending to your friends to enjoy the Musicoin platform.

Sign-up

  1. In order to take part in The Hard Data-Musicoin Pilot Program, you first need to sign-up to Musicoin. Use this link: https://musicoin.org/accept/bd71b3b7
  2. Send an email to writers@theharddata.com and tell me what you want to do for the magazine, i.e. Writing, Vidoe/Audio stories/interviews, Photography, Art, Editing, Layout, Web development, Social Media Sharing, and or checking.

Those are the basics. For transferring Musicoin to US Dollars, you will need to do the following.

  1. Download and install the Musicoin Wallet: https://musicoin.org/wallet.html
  2. Sign-up for an account on Bittrex or Cryptopia. https://bittrex.com/ or https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/
  3. Sign-up for an account on Coinbase. https://www.coinbase.com/

Conclusion

We hope that you find this pilot program intriguing and an opportunity to take a more active part, and to gain some compensation, from something that you are truly interested in. The Hard Data is honored that the Musicoin Foundation believed in it and its readers to undertake this musical journey.