What up World? Zoocrew’s back with yet another freshly unearthed gem. Featuring beastly triplet flows from Dunn -D, PreCise and Nasty Nations over one hell of an instrumental laid by Perth Australia’s own Red Bull Alumni, TAKU BEATS. More Golden bars than Fort Knox, with a beat that bangs harder than an Escalade crashing into a college marching band. Straight from the OkiZoo catacombs, BarZ and the BeatZ.
Greetings readership. E@5E-95 here with an easy and affordable way for all you blue-faced bloggers to decorate that dungeon of yours. Papercraftis a hobby that was originally popular in places like Japan and Europe in the 40′s. It is a spawn of Kirigami and Origami and the European style of paper craft which was used mainly in the scaling of actual things like buildings, planes etc. It’s an inexpensive art form that is being reinvented with iconic characters, street art styles and graphic design. With today’s sloping economy, it’s the perfect way to add eye candy to your home or workspace. Harlan Core, the creator of The Box Punx Series is a great place to start your paper craft experience. And with several unique designs to chose from, you’ll be well on your way to assembling your own well-dressed army of paper minions.
Hello again readership, Ea5e-95 reporting from North Seattle for OKIZOONEWS with this tragic story of hiphop’s demise. For years now, several “new school” rap artists have continued to confirm the death of the vivacious 31 year old sub-culture, named Hiphop. My colleagues and I at OKIZOONEWS are proud to relay that hiphop is not dead, but undead actually. In the late nineties, she was infected with a corporate-developed super virus which was being tested in record companies nationwide. Many successful rap acts were infected and tons fell to the clutches of the evil virus and haven’t been heard from since. Until now. A local Scientist at North Seattle Community College has discovered a mutation of the virus he calls Hipsteria. Several outbreaks of the mutated virus have been reported by military personnel. In fact, we have an exclusive clip of the survivor’s last audio log entry before he was eaten alive by the infected. Warning, the contents of this audio clip is extremely graphic, and may not be suitable for kids or young adults.
We been listening to you hip hop fans that want to hear more of our music. The Exhibition Files is our chance to give you some of the music we been working on. First up is OkiZoo’s Chi town transplant PreCise. This song is about a young lady named Colors and what the wrong choices can lead to. Produced by Big Lo.
Happy Zoo Year Readership, hope everyone’s New Year has started off well. I took a brief hiatus from the internet to focus on some New Years resolutions I’m making. However just like today’s Cinema Saturday series I have returned. You know how this goes down every Saturday we post up some dope videos as a part of OkiZoo TV. Hope you all have enjoyed some of our favorite Anime series, documentary’s, and other videos. Sit back and relax and enjoy yourself, and check us out on Monday for The Boomin’ System.
Sidenote: Check out the song at the end of the episode. Many of you who know our music might here the sample for one of OkiZoo’s first songs.
Today’s Cinema Saturday features the epic Anime Series: Lupin the 3rd
Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the pen name of Monkey Punch. The story follows the adventures of a gang of thieves led by Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc’s series of novels. Lupin and his gang travel throughout the world to steal treasures and escape from the law.
Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of the fictional gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, is considered the world’s greatest thief, known for announcing his intentions to steal valuable objects by sending a calling card to the owners of his desired items. His right-hand man and closest ally is Daisuke Jigen, an expert marksman who can accurately shoot a target in 0.3 seconds. Although Lupin and Jigen frequently work as a two-man team, they are often joined by Goemon Ishikawa XIII, a master swordsman whose sword can cut anything, or Fujiko Mine, a femme fatale and Lupin’s love interest. Although Fujiko usually works together with the others, she occasionally exploits Lupin’s interest in her to steal a treasure for herself. Lupin and his gang are constantly chased by Inspector Koichi Zenigata of the ICPO, who has made it his life’s work to arrest them, chasing Lupin across the globe. On the rare occasions he catches Lupin, Zenigata secretly hopes Lupin will escape so he can continue to chase him. Regardless of whether Lupin and his followers succeed or fail, they are always looking for the next heist.
This is a warning to anyone considering using 800Hosting as a monitored dedicated server host. They have a GREAT web site and they sure sold me BUT my web sites all went down just before holiday season of 2009. Completely down so that I was out of business for 6 days with much data lost forever. Then following that failure of 6 days during which time we were repeatedly told “four more hours, one more day” we finally resumed at about 50% of our pre-failure effectiveness and slowly we re-built over time what they ruined in one minute! If your business can afford a loss such as that easily then please disregard this post. If not and you are still considering 800Hosting please read on.
I have e-mails, web history from Google analytics to substantiate my claims and am personally available to talk by phone with qualified business owners considering 800Hosting who reads this post and seeks verification.
At the end of November 2009, all our web sites went down. My staff from Asia and the US were all in San Francisco for a meeting and company outing. Since I was the only person working I was checking our sites on a Sunday night. I was shocked to discover all were down. Apparently our sites went down due to some catastrophic failure at 800Hosting and when I called to ask what is going on they did not even know there was a problem.
I had to notify 800 hosting they had no idea, and never provided monitoring. Previous issues as well, required us to first notify 800Hosting!
No Monitoring
We purchased monitoring 24/7. If they were providing that monitoring how could our sites all go down and they not know?
In their dealings with me and my company 800Hosting continually over promised and undelivered. This aforementioned monitoring is but one example.
Based on their website homepage we really believed we had found the solution for our hosting. We checked and they were well reviewed too. You obviously were impressed or you would not be reading my post. In my experience there is no relationship between their home page claims and the service they deliver.
No Managed Hosting
With the managed hosting, what we asked for SPECIFICALLY we were assured the health of the server would be maintained and monitored and we would be secure from malicious attacks.
However once the server went down, we had to notify them. They never notified us of any problem and often erroneously reported all was well when it was NOT!
Then they suggested maybe we were the victim of an attack by a competitor until they realized protecting us from that was also their job. Another exaggeration or lie.
During the aforementioned 6 days they repeatedly called or e-mailed us that everything is now fixed.
No Communication
When we would discover nothing was fixed and we were still down you will not believe what occurred. They disabled our E-mails claiming we were sending “too many”. Their excuse for that insensitive and bad behavior was we already know you are down and that and it wastes time to respond to your e-mails that could be spent fixing the problem. What were we to do? They called and said everything is OK BUT it was not. If we said nothing maybe it would never be repaired BUT when we attempted to tell them that nothing had changed our E-mails were returned. By this time we realized we had been had and were dealing with incompetents or people who at best were very careless with the truth. We had to contact them by phone, and when the tech answered they noticed it was down and question if we even had a website hosted at the domain that existed for 14 years.
No Backups
As soon as we noticed data was missing we requested back-ups. We were told they were already restored, but “this could not be verified until the server was back online”. I do not know why but at that time we still bought that. Wishful thinking I guess. However once we had FTP restored and we were able to view or site to compare files, we realized MOST of our images were gone and a lot of additional files were missing as well. 800Hosting had no complete copy of our websites and had NO idea what they lost! It seemed as if they thought they could mislead us to believe everything was ok when it obviously was not!
We had bought daily back up BUT when it came time for them to deliver our backed up data they finally said we only keep data three days! We realized however it occurred the missing data was gone forever and there were no back-ups. We lost secure customer data that is unrecoverable and cause a serious strain to our companies.
Four months later we are still replacing missing images and apologizing to customers for missing data that they must resend.
No Explanation
We were NEVER given an explanation as to EXACTLY what happened even though we said repeatedly that was a prerequisite to continue using 800Hosting. We said we need to know how it happened and what steps have you taken so it will not happen again. They said your request perfectly understandable and all promised to do that BUT never did so!
I asked our tech please tell me what we have to buy from you to be safe? They took days to work up a proposal which was unacceptable but what I remember was that when we finally talked on the phone their head tech asked, “How much down time can you afford?” Can you believe that?
I told 800Hosting IF I was making my original decision to use 800Hosting for all my businesses someone had told me one of the choices I had to make was how much downtime I could afford; obviously I would have gone elsewhere immediately.
Has anyone asked you that question yet?
No Character
FINAL blow for me was the owner refused to come to the phone to explain, apologize or tell me to go to hell. NOTHING from him. From my dealings with all at 800Hosting I believe it is fair to say they are an organization with NO CHARACTER and never did they seem embarrassed by their poor performance – NEVER! You know sometimes when something like this happens someone from the offending company will acknowledge the error BUT that did not happen at 800Hosting. They all seemed comfortable telling me that is the way it is. I guess it is their policy and they are following their leader. They did issue a free memory upgrade retail value $10-$15 USD WOW!
I realize this is my side of the story and there are always other sides BUT I left 800Hosting and I am still in business. My independent web monitoring service now rates my sites performance much higher since leaving than when they were hosted at 800Hosting. I do not know exactly what that means BUT I suspect it is another reflection on 800Hosting’s competence to do their job. We have changed nothing but our host and have already seen a drastic improvement! I am not a technical guy so all I can say is the facts are correct.
If you are a business owner considering 800Hosting and want to verify my story give me a call. I will talk only to owners with a web site that will identify themselves and their business. I will not spend time bashing 800Hosting to amuse others. I am in Bangkok BUT this number is a US toll free number: 888 842 4633. If you get voicemail please leave a message and I will call you back.
Happy Zoo year to everyone. We are back after a small hiatus on the Arcade Archives. The holidays have been fun for all of us. Expect big things from this blog in 2010, as we begin to separate ourselves from the pack with content that will be uniquely OkiZoo. With that being said, here are 10 hot selections from Tek Steez that are dance floor ready and head nod approved!
C:\Users\Tek Steez\Desktop\New Folder\Basement Jaxx – U Dont Know Me (Solid Groove Remix).mp3
C:\Users\Tek Steez\Desktop\New Folder\Floating Points  -  Vacuum Boogie.mp3
James Pants – Thin Moon
The retro funk machine that is sure to stay in the disco light for a while.  This particular track is a refection of  his Psychedelic side, layed down with some deep synths and light guitar. James Pants is a Stones Throw Records affiliate, based out of Spoken, WA.
Mr. Oizo – Half an Edit
Bringing you the glitchy sounds that only a daft robot could break dance to.  Mr. Oizo, meaning Monsieur Bird in French , is a recent addition to the French Electro Label Ed Bangers. Mr. Bird is also a director with the likes of  Justice working on the soundtrack for his current production titled “Rubber”.
My My – Secret Life Of Pants
Back in 2005, My My started out as one of my favorite minimal techno producing teams coming out of Berlin . As their production was all electronic it seemed easy to them to bring the much needed soul or heart others were lacking in minimal techno music at the time. Lee Jones, from England, and Nicolas Höppner, from Germany, have expanded their sound and now incorporate many other influences into their music. Secret Life of Pants is packed with quirky samples that complement the funky baseline and choppy drums.
Jimpster – Dangly Panther
Jamie Odell aka Jimpster and Audiomontage is a old school house head thats been co-running his label Freerange Records for the last 13 years. I have always respected Jimpster for his attention to detail in deep house projects, always adding that subtle jazz feel in all the right pockets of his tracks. If you are feeling Dangly Panther then chances are you are going to love anything else he touches, check him out at www.freerangerecords.co.uk.
Daedelus – Sambe Legrand
This epic, Brazilian dance flavored track is one of the true definitions of Daedelus’s production sound. Â Based out of LA, California Daedelus is know for his deep crate digging skills, mixing 30′s and 40′s jams with heavy synths and computer sex. Do yourself a favor and check him out on youtube, he is the first to use the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. Â Daedelus Preforming on youtube
Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie
Yet another new comer based out of London, Floating Points AKA Samual Shepherd is exactly what we need in 2010. Floating from genre to genre his style rest somewhere between IDM, Deep house and soul. Peep his jam session on youtube…..the dude truly is an amazing artist. FLOATING POINTS JAM SESSION YOUTUBE I would also found a live show with Points, Olivier Day Soul, Shuanise and Fatima on the vocals. Floating Points @ Roundhouse
Pantha Du Prince – The Splendour
Hendrick Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German electronic music producer and DJ affiliated with Hamburg’s Dial music label. Pantha production seems to always incorporate a  heavy Detoit Techno feel, the splendour being no different as its a little more chilled the fundamental detriot industrial sound still shines through.
San Serac – Music Never Ends (Morgan Geist M’s Music Mix)
Morgan Geist, from New Jersey, is another Detriot music pioneer, cruising the sounds on that big body Cadillac, fantastic voyage your mom and dad remember riding on…..let the music take control. Just a little something to bounce to in the new year….. hope the music never ends.
Basement Jaxx – U Dont Know Me (Solid Groove)
Part Producer, part remixing beast, David Taylor aka Switch or Solid Groove is no doubt one of my favorite house producers of all time…..let that be known. Switch coined the genre fidget house, fusing quirky tech house and hip hop samples with wonky baselines. Solid Groove seems to be more of the jazzier sides of Dave, but trust me , he has been very busy in the game since the early 90′s with 200 plus tracks and productions with the likes of  M.I.A and Diplo …. all of his sides are dope. Dave Taylor is also one half of the Major Lazer a experimental Dancehall group signed to Mad Decent.
The Littlemen – Deep Squeek
The Littlemen are a duo from Nottingham, England. Both have been DJing on the UK free party scene, clubs and festivals since 1993, Steve as a part of the legendary Smokescreen SoundSystem and Gav as a member of the Giddy Fruit Collective. What the two really stand out for is the beautiful breakdowns in all their projects, melodies that really grab your thoughts and direct them to some sort of dance move….. do what you do, DANCE.
