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Hey Visionaries,

Our Mindful Design is now up online:

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/

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Hi everyone,

I am looking forward to playing in Amsterdam later this month.

About the artists
Akrasi are a duo that produce mutations of dub and breakbeat with strong vocals, fierce beats and haunting melodies. Live performances combine digital and analogue instruments.

Akrasi met in Manchester organising jungle nights. They began to work on their own music which was heavily influenced by the eclectic style and D.I.Y attitude of soundsystem culture. German artists - Funkstorung heard this sound and invited them to Munich for their first performance supporting LTJ Bukem. An EP 'Zero1' was licensed through Funkstorung's label Sellwell. The duo performed several times to huge audiences in Germany and France alongside artists such as DJ Blame and Conrad. Encouraged by this Akrasi began to work on an album and set up their own label Zero-k.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce that we continue the artistic promotion of 'The Spirit Lives On - Association for the Non-Professional Arts' through a new Organization; Life is Art.

Life is Art is a non-profit organization which purpose is to give people in a difficult life-situation an arena to be creative together! Our main focus will be on children. We wish to spread creative joy, and bring attention to and understanding for physical and mental health.

We will be arranging workshops and classes in different art-directions, with professional and experienced artists to guide and teach. The participants of these events have to be connected with an institution, organisation or form of treatment. Further on, we want to arrange art exhibitions, where the participants of our previous events will get the opportunity to present the fruits of their creativity. These will exhibit for free. A smaller part of the show will be open for both professional and unprofessional artists for a smaller fee. We hope to be able to welcome to our first show in Stavern, Norway.

Hello everybody.
This is the first time i send here a blog because i am brand new at AMP, hope this work out fine;-)) I'm going to play a set on the 28th September at the AMP night in Amsterdam. I hope to meet some members and other people of this nice organisation that night! So please be free to just say "hello" at my email: cari@synchdub.com
You also can find some more info about me at http://www.broadjam.com/Synch and http://www.myspace.com/synchdub

I also have another question; are there some VJ's at AMP? Because normally i play with someone who do the visuals at my set, but there 's not much time anymore to get him...

Hello everyone. My band is currently set to play at cafe fantasio on sept 28. we are going to flying all the way from los angeles and we were maybe looking for some last minute bookings the week we play at the AMP fest. We really want to come out to Amsterdam and put on a great show, but we might not go if we can only play the one night at fantasio. We are a really new, powerful alternative rock group eager to book some last minute shows that week to go along with our show at cafe fantasio. If anyone can help that would be great! Let me know. My email address is Cherubrock1314@aol.com. Thanks!

From a recent show (July 2007), in NY. Just want to see if I can post this video here....
Love to get feedback. Let me know what you think!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xgMrfkqo4A

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeccakelly/
Http://bubbesbooks.blogspot.com/

Hi all -
this be my first blog on AMP. I will try to post with some regularity...

Anyway, the bog story for us right now is our search....for a booking agent!

I wrote a little letter, which I will be sending to prospective agents. If anyone knows how to improve the letter (or knows any agents....!) feel free to comment or contact me. Thanks in advance for your interest.

Well, here goes:

Greetings!
My name is Neil Alexander, and I am the leader of Neil Alexander & NAIL, a cutting edge musical group playing a crossover of jazz/funk/jamband/ambient. We are seeking representation. Our goal is an international touring schedule. After defining our sound, releasing a new record and establishing ourselves on the local scene, we are seeking a young, determined booking agent who is ready to go the distance. I am certain that with the right representation we could be the next Medeski Martin & Wood, Bela Fleck or Pat Metheny Group. I will stop at nothing to accomplish this. Our new CD “Tugging At The Infinite” is a musical tour de force, filled with virtuoso performances, cutting edge technology, and most importantly – ear catching infectious melodies.

Here is the proof that AMP helps artists to get noticed:

After responding to a post in AMP's forums, I have been featured in downtownlalife.com on-line magazine.

http://downtownlalife.com/

Dear fellow artists, post your work here on AMP, art supporters do check it out.

Cheers,
Anna Maly

A great magician left us this week.

Jerry Andrus was an incredible inventor: of card sleights, toys, and optical illusions. His performances were marked by two eccentricities:

1) He would never use a move or sleight that he had not invented.
2) He would never tell a lie. Not even on stage. He wouldn't say "The coin disappears" he would instead say "The coin appears to vanish", or "The coin is no longer in my hand."

Jerry was deeply committed to honestly, and had a rabid hatred of charlatans and fake-psychics. I remember he used to carry around an ad that he had clipped from a supermarket tabloid that had been placed by the Amazing Kreskin. Kreskin was offering to use his "abilities" to help the desperate for a price. When the subject of magical ethics came up, Jerry would pull the ad out of his wallet and fulminate.