yoshi: hahahhaa okay then ,... here's what i have, i have the dual mule (unmastered version) on my cd player with headphone, so ill be listening on headphones! mikro: oh god its happening, just like in the gmail song yoshi: hahahahah mikro: i was like what is this orange thing in my periferals yoshi: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorrysorrysorrysorrry mikro: *getting on headphonics lol yoshi: okay so let's start this up man! lets do this like a boodist sure one sec... yoshi: hhaha it is :) i fixed u tho okay just tell me when ur ready to press play and we'll do a play button countdown. or rather, unpause, so there's absolutely no delay! mikro: im ready... from 10! tminus yoshi: 10 9 8 7 6 5 u finish it off mikro: hahahahha 4.9 3.8 yoshi: duel muel mikro: 2.2 1 p la y yoshi: now! Track 01 wow... i havent heard ur version in a LONG TIME mikro: oh this is old.. yoshi: seriously.. hahah i was really lookin forward to it damn there u go.... mikro: thats funny you did a good job w.tracklist yoshi: oh good, thanks ;) man..... ben... im tellin u this song.... the words.... what ur saying! !!! ! ITS SO POWERFUL... mikro: i listened just a couple seconds for transitions, theyre interesting.. (maybe i cheated a little).. thats something im always thinking about yoshi: this is still my favorite thing u ever did.... sorry.. (im looking forward to hearing ur transitions etc... ) mikro: dont be. im glad you relate so much, it kind of opened us up to working on things yoshi: just caught up in this song yeah this was the first one really.. mikro: TMNT yoshi: teenage mutant ninja turles??? what? mikro: is disney frozen? "turtles lost in the sewer dont get magical powers" lol yoshi: no im lost, uve lost me hahah oh yeah hahaahaha did u say that? mikro: yessir haha yoshi: u msay so much here.. but tell me, it was one of those moments right? u wrote this all in one go? mikro: yeah its a large stream, a river yoshi: fully inspired... yeah ive been there, thats how most of myish, or my best ish is done... in a night.. mikro: for sure. one of my first where i wanted to "mc" yoshi: i can tell ur just feeling it yeah yeah mikro: like i'd tried one before and just decided to go instrumental, so i had to get over that, and the beats were there, and i was hungry! yoshi: it was the first time id heard u rapping and i rmemeber thinking that this was cool, cos it wasn't trying or unpretentious, it was still YOU but u were jus rapping yeah the hunger is what im talkin about ... u can hear it or rather an artist can im sure everyone can oh wow...it just stopped Track 02 mikro: the bell yoshi: yeah hahha that was the bell in my university room in egham mikro: haha i thought of daft punk as if human being was one more time.. yoshi: i never heard it ! by the way, we moved out at the same time, u out of kansas me out of egham... mikro: wow yoshi: so these arenice memories... id hear that bell every hour... and the birds... mikro: in lawrence, ks there is a like steam whistle that goes off during the schoolday. your bell is much nicer. yoshi: no way! mikro: a harmonium story!!!! i love these things! yoshi: sounds nice though... mikro: (i liked it when it was broke, people relaxed) yoshi: haah okay must have been an annoying sound i like the idea of the whistle though, like the train sounds i always hear when im in america mikro: so i got my 1st harmonium at goodwill and used it in a sculpture piece that was half conceptualized.. but i loved to play it.. yeah if it was farther away like the real trains haha yoshi: :) was ita box one ? that u sit down? II FEEEEEEEL OOOOOOOOOOOOOO-PEN. mikro: it was plastic, i stripped down the chassy to its innards (added a cover on the bottom to keep the air) yoshi: hahahaha okay mikro: haha yeah my friend billy bobcat will love this.. its so much like what we did, actually when i found this second harmonium yoshi: yeah??? i love this kind of playing, cos this is what i always do but i just happened to record this one... i have this feeling of regret when i havent recorded one of those moments mikro: anyway so after i was in school in oregon i moved to rhode island and in this snowstorm i had to abandon my place with futureboots and moved upstairs these folks i worked with... the basement was interesting they had a spot for laundry, but the rest was never really used. so i explored it a few times, kind of creepy dark... anyway (im too slow!!) Track 03 yoshi: :) mikro: i found a harmonium, it was beautiful yoshi: its good yeah well they are. mikro: wooden with four legs yoshi: i love mine, yeah minds wooden, afghanoriginally, my dad got it years ago mikro: i had to set it up a little so it could reach the outlet in the ceiling, and jammed right there in the basement darkness.. thats awesome man yoshi: oh urs was electro we're listening to asalaam alaikum , how do u do ? right??? im a slave to the rhythm! mikro: that song made me want to go back for it.. i felt like i passed on something important and kinda welled up. they will probably not use it/toss it if i dont rescue electro for air only yoshi: okay (mine i had to push with my hand) mikro: this track blew my ears off, its funny like the dule duel of sonic endeavour re: human being... oh thats righteous, i want a hand powered one! yoshi: hah what doyoumean u knew about the manu chao sample when u first heard it right? so did i when i made it but i knew this still needed to be done..>! mikro: i remember cruising around providence at night with my girl and i was like... "listen to this shit"... and we blasted it in all its glory yoshi: NO WAY! hahha asalaam alaikum? no way ! mikro: manu chao is 10x better this way yoshi: hahahaah thanks bro gives me pleasure toknow it was blasted in a car... i never drove in my life so thats fun mikro: yeah you sent me the western box cd, i played that out in my car till the cats came home yoshi: hahahahahahaa i think i remember u tellin me that actually mikro: i'll drive YOU? not this summer though :) nice outro... yoshi: damn... 2004! hehe yeah what are we on now? Track 04 oh GMAIL ! hahaaahaha mikro: we are HERE this is so postmodem yoshi: to the website, .dot com checkitout hahaha yeah it is hahha postmodern hahahah listen to you hahahaha mikro: that ghostface* story is bs :p yoshi: with headphones its so much more funny mikro: those faces are moving its crazy yoshi: hahahahaa hahhahaahahah we're just... both ... i dont kow wht to say we peak at he same time, its just too funny i can never tellu how much i laughed when i first heard what u had done it was the hardest id laughed literally in years mikro: i think this release is the best "rerelease" of music, it makes more sense to me than anything else ive seen. in a way its kind of an exception to what i'd thought made sense. its cool, it turns out this kind of documents our friendship aww yoshi: yeah yeah it really does. mikro: (oh pop out really helps - resizes vertically) im so glad you laughed heartily youre going to live so much longer now Track 05 yoshi: not in an obvious way... cos we dont talk all that mucha bout our personal lives much, but musical friendship... for sure. here u go with ur inspired freestyle-burstory :) thts a good way to think of laughter... i like it mikro: yeah i loved trying to work with what you were giving us at that point, trying to echo mirror reflect mix it up compliment, it was new to me i love the oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhms going now yoshi: ahahah, i love doing that,i wanted to do an acapella hiphop album with chants like this but bjork came out with that awful album and it turned me off the idea... but tell me this... u were not quite 'with it' when u recorded this were u?? or were u? mikro: microbursts are amazing and frightening... marissa jokes that i talk about them every time we went outside in lawrence, but you can still see it, how it rearrainged large objects slightly, trees/poles askew yoshi: what IS a mikroburst? mikro: uh oh passaro the bird is freaking out. i cant listen to this even remotely close to her or she will hear herself and get curious yoshi: hahahahah tape on the shoes to protect... longevity ... but when ur sponsored u dont need to tape your shoes.. u just ask for a new pair hahahahahahah mikro: microburst is what happens when two thunderstorms get near each other, and verticle winds hit the ground superfast and blow things out at amazingly deadly quick speeds. it all happens in a minute, before the tornado alarms go off yoshi: nO WAY! so its a technical term... ok mikro: yeah i looked outside and a metal chair was crossing the street, then it went back .. 9am.. i was sleepy but not that sleepy. Track 06 here is your robotized mc styles yoshi: oh my goodness mikro: i was worried for a while if youd dig it even, i mean you had to wait 3 years to hear this hahaha (sorry).. but i knew it was solid in my mind. its just abstract for sure yoshi: yeah ur dark crystal remix.. i have to say when i heard it was called the dark crystal remix.. i knew it would sound ... well, i knew i would know WHY u had called it that.. and for me its the way u played (or completely digitised) my vocals, and that nice synth high note which comes in... thats what makes it dark crystal. mikro: (i was "with it", i was just trying to remember the details, re:burstory) yoshi: it is VERY abstract...and I love it all the more for that. Wellll... no i dont LOVE it, it's a hard song to love or feel anything for emotionally but in as far as i love true experimentation, yes i DO LOVE this song... but it's more like.. its almost scary what uve done. and thats why i appreciate it so much... its very brave. i was also worried about u hearing my human being remix... God bless us, we both took such liberties mikro: well good. yeah, i think my logic was kind of here is our culture, which the crystal cracked, and i am so totally alien to even the main words of your song/lifestyle, it makes me sad. (this, a rare moment of vulnerability from mikro haha) yeah i got more to say on that one later haha :) yoshi: wow, really? yeah cos im talkin about the islamic stuff i guess.. yeah haha i neve thought of that. its good to know u took on my lyrics in that way ... and did something with how they made u feel. mikro: i upped the levels a lot on this one (10db), so its about the same as the rx yoshi: yeah yeah ! ! ! the trumpets rip my ears off, i love that. Track 07 okay so we're onto my muleologue here. mikro: is that you or a friend or a sample? i loved the noise i pulled out (trumpet) yoshi: thats my friend playing mikro: bump yoshi: rob heasman... he was also briefly on flowers and trees on the song DREAM he met posdnous of de la soul! he toured withthem :) mikro: it sounds like classic jazz i just loved it cool as yoshi: yeah it does huh? yeah... mikro: miles davis quote is: ? yoshi: oh ... u know i quoted it AGAIN to YOU on the first page of my book which im sending to u soon... mikro: all that equipment!! hahaha... mikro: laptop, headphones, underwear. yoshi: WHAT IS THIS MUSIC THAT WHICH DESCRIPTION CAN NEVER DESRIBE ETC>>>> hahahahhah ahahahaha mikro: haha awesome, man what the hell is the name of your book!?!?! yoshi: it was funny how u said so few things! compared to me.. dont u worry about that mikro: haha yoshi: ull find out soon enough hahhaha mikro: ok! Track 08 yoshi: ITS ROCK WITH YOU TIME!!!!!! mikro: haha yoshi: let's take on the world with a breakbeat !! ! ! hahaahaha mikro: tony robbie holly? abby! yoshi: people who listen are never going to get the full flavour of how mmany freestyles u did... mikro: no, jenny yoshi: who were those names u kept callin out? friends? in the room? random? mikro: both yoshi: okay mikro: they just rhymed nice i think your guitar works so well, i was so happy how it came together yoshi: man, yeah they do but --people will neverknow how many freestyles u did on all those other beats or chop ups of rock with u mikro: now they will haha yoshi: yeah i didnt notice it at first cos u had melded it so nicely yeah hahaha mikro: yeah its like days of work in a big soup yoshi: hahaha a big soup. this is minnestrone soup with bread and cheese and electricity mikro: feel my third charm is like that, lots of days at once. it works naturally hahahha yoshi: yeah yeah... i got th same vibe from this as i did from that album.. mikro: cheese and electricity yoshi: :) i didnt mean cheesy hehe thats the last thing people could accuse le mikrosopht of, but probably the first thing people will accuse me of when they hear my guitar and singing styles on furutre albums )! mikro: i like the idea of album components getting back into the mix later, myself or by others... like opensource. i keep it all around.. you down for something like that? yoshi: u mean as in someone else messing with all this ? i have no problem with it mikro: ahhh i feel cheesey a lot of the time haha. but i think honestly gets lumped in with the dairy too often in this age of hardestcore yoshi: :) its good to be critical of ourselves... mikro: yes yes yoshi: i tellu what, i hope i adapt as well to the singing and guitar stuff i am interested in now, as well as u did to the rapping on ur human being song hahaha ur screaming here is genius! 5:10 -- mikro: well i imagine youve been doing it for ages (and i had rapped actually since i was little, in church to DC TALK hahahaha) so its just a matter of assimilation... its bound to happen! hahahahhaha marissa was cracking up when she heard that yoshi: hahahahaa mikro: (5:50, am i too fast) yoshi: no i was counting backwards mikro: hahahahhahahah yoshi: for the benefot of reader.s.. im 6:25 benefit mikro: cool :) yoshi: oh man u added the mad guitar part too! :) mikro: those faces are scary shit yoshi: yeah i like them :) what else have u added here? its not just my guitar and ur beat is it?? i hear sounds!!! explain them!!! am i going mad/ mikro: theyre distorted freestyle tracks yoshi: just ur voice drums and guitar? wow mikro: i just freestyled/improvised the freestyles ;) well and that cough sampled track a bit yoshi: i never get over .... how many new sounds u can hear or what ur imagination makes u think u hear, when stuff is mixed together. i thought i was hearing all kinds of keyboards there that is how wonderful art is inspired, when ur imagination just gets those chances to input itself u get ideas mikro: yeah i love it. im getting too easily drawn into that echochambered false environment stuff though, its the easy out for electronic musicians... but its so pretty :p yoshi: yeah yeah Track 09 me too mikro: hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil yoshi: i dont want to overdub my voice or maybe even no reverb on my next joint mikro: nice mal yoshi: always a challege HHILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL mikro: hhahaha yoshi: IF I DIE ON TOP OF THE HILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL wow i love those sounds its so dark theres a dark universe in that silence its wonderful mikro: that was all mal! where is he? he was going to skate with me, we talked and said he had to take another call, and never called back. its hard to know whats going to happen if he'll go or not. but we did some good stuff together, like this one is his production - you thought it was me at first Track 10 yoshi: okay we're onto lions of the canyon now.... im gonna explain this to the homo sapiens who are listening.. i am rapping in the left side, and mikro heard my lyrics and just made up words that sounded like what i had said...it was too mad, and it works so well mikro: mals signature: guitar with the roughcut beats, some slowing perhaps, a light keyboard... crazy abstract environments yoshi: okay , i havent heard his stuff enough... mikro: he's reluctant to share it really, i had to pull it from him with my teeth and claws yoshi: i like all that he did on this album though.. burstory? lions in the canyon?? and the dark universe of silence in between my guitar on the previous track? hahhahaha mikro: yeah those three. futureboots, officially. yoshi: well some are like that.. im always fascinated by artists who dont want to share stuff as enthusiastically as me. mikro: i hope you dont use outlook anymore........... :p yoshi: theres a goodnes in that though, real goodness. Track 11 hahahaha i dont ! !! ! mikro: awesome yoshi: windows is so awful man! ;) mikro: haha yoshi: hahaha listen to u hahaha mikro: yeah, that mikrosopht bluh bluh bluh hahaha yoshi: i always wanted to ask u this, have u .... cos ur saying hahahahaha bluh bluh ur saying stuff that i say mikro: i love how you titled this track originally as the spam, all those viagra cialis etc yoshi: did u do this one take? or did u wrote it roughly? cos u are so damn quick! mikro: i pitched you down and did a take, yeah yoshi: i mean, u can freestyle better than me too (which is a shame upon me whose been rapping for 10 years) but ... ur quicker than me.. okay mikro: thats why im so small yoshi: hahahaha i get it its so good man bold viagra hahhahahaah listen to u mikro: its a pitch trick haha yoshi: yeah pitch trick mikro: its all from you! haha yoshi: pitchshifter Track 12 oh here's ben! mikro: 3982489239049824082384239080 4(computer noise) i am actually fond of this noise, its been my (MY) computer noise for a few years now. kind of like a sick cat purring cyborgcat yoshi: see what i was saying ... its so true..... listen to u on the previous track, u are a midget demon microsoft demon taunting me over my outlook express.. and a second or two later, this is the human who's done all this electronic work, and here u are talking as urself ! hahah yeahi like your noise on this recorder... better than my cleanliness, i miss noise! mikro: haha.. yeah i feel like voice exploration is endless, in a lot of ways like computerized sound is i think theyre my most interested/ing areas... i still am trying to find my voice, like i think its a constant thing really, to redefine refind re-emerging with the right, present voice.. also related to my digivoice haha man im typing about myself and listening about myself.. too much yoshi: for a long time ur digivoicewas the only one i heard, like that on ur human being track... its good. linen! books! what medicine was it? was this stuff packed away? ready for ur move to big tuna texas? mikro: i see the medicine? acetimenophen? you see the medicine! oh girl. yoshi: no viagra? no levitra? mikro: nope, not packed.. we moved in a couple (long) days yoshi: :) mikro: i have little to my name its mostly marissa's but i had to help haha haha funny guy yoshi: ur lucky... i have been thinking as imoved around last week, relocating back to brighton... mikro: hahah big tuna... thats more like kansas isnt it yoshi: i realised how i just have TOO MUCH posessions. big tuna , texas... (wild at heart- a david lynch film! ) mikro: since high school or so ive tried to keep it slimmed down yoshi: yeah thats how it should be... mikro: yeah i know it! yoshi: i havent moved enough.. listen ur talking about if the judge would have stopped u from leaving kansas right? mikro: true, moving does it. yoshi: cos u wanted to go do the skate of the union skate across america... mikro: yeah. but i got lucky and am gone to tunaland yoshi: and he wouldnt have let u if he had ruled against u? :) how is texas now? first impressions mikro: yeah i would have to report weekly,biweekly something to a probation officer, now i just mail something in once a month, thrice. cool deal. Track 13 yoshi: :) we're on rock with you fingerstyle now? mikro: well im just at marissas place, ive been here many times for breaks.. but i need to get going soon, i cant stay here, im still moving in a lot of ways... all summer.. this song always touches me like i said i cried when i first heard it even though it has this humor, its just honest yoshi: u did huh.... thats wonderful. yeah.. exactly, it's kind of funny, but i telllu i was transfixed when i wrote it mikro: this was about the time of the microburst, that session a year 1/2 ago yoshi: sorry wheni sung it i was staring at the screen of the michael jackson rock with u lyrics.. yeah this was whenwe did a sizeable chunk of work on the album 06 it was a horrible time for me personally but wheni think that just this song came from it.. i am happy, besides all the other stuff i did but i was so uninspired and unhappy at this time and desperate too mikro: i think the hypnotic,... the meditative aspect is powerful, sincere yoshi: yeah ... fosho this reminds me of joni mitchell when i lost it heheh singing high i mean mikro: i think this song is incredible, people hear it and really wonder about a lot hahaha i like the highs a lot haha yoshi: do they? :) this is what i like this part when u lose it 03:30 slowly slowly... thats where we merge nicely mikro: i think its the best kind of "remix" really.. recontextualizing our relationship, pulling at different parts of reality and emotion yoshi: ahhhhhhhhhhh those electronics u added i took out one of the harsher ones if u can remember, but its so tender,, its the tenderist moment ive heard in electronic music, what udid there mikro: i think your new timing changes the meaning a little, its not so jarring. i was a joker i wanted the open up your brain punctuated, but thats a bit rough haha hah thats the one yoshi: ! mikro: ahh thanks man. it didnt take long, but i had to consider it a lot Track 14 SWIFT yoshi: :) SWIFT hahahahaa BORIS hhahhaha thats the funniest quote what book is it from? mikro: it was totally by chance yoshi: some old history? yeah yeah mikro: one of marissa's one south america history recent yoshi: right :) okay mikro: it was dark in the room, i pulled a book off the shelf and opened it.. there it was. yours is something you must have really liked though. its good yoshi: i can imagine it.. dusty hahah im romanticising the scene mikro: haha im harry potter yoshi: well this quote is from .. i forget the name, but one of my favorite books, ive read it 3 times since 2005, 'conversations before the end of time' hahahhaahaah im jk rowling mikro: <3 yoshi: wow heart! mikro: oh shit that heart just moved me yoshi: hahaha it moved itself ! mikro: robots with heart thats a cool book title by the way Track 15 yoshi: u must check for it if u see it just read a chapter itll change ur thinking are we on ur string bone solo now? i am 0:20 mikro: yessir im trying to find a pic of what its made from yoshi: haha i was going to ask u i dont know if i realllllllllly want to know but i kinda do, i always just picture it.. its fun to picture it.... i see very thin and kinda weedy weak looking strings made of dental floss (in my minds eye) but lots of them attached with nails into a piece of wood mikro: its from a sesame street plastic ernie guitar billy bobcat sent me, and i tried to modify and the bridge broke in half so i strung it around the back so you can play both sides and i use a slothead screwdriver that fits in the top and it all fits in your pocket! im taking it with me this summer haha yeah its nylon again, romanticized notion! haha yoshi: wowww well if we meet then i cant wait to play it i would bring an instrument butwith my camera i probaby wont have room mikro: haha yes totally.. we can make some! yoshi: maybe ill buy a ukulele , i want one. mikro: theyre fun yoshi: we'll sing with stringbone haahahah what a name! mikro: its the size of a bone... and you can kind of play it sticking from your belly or er.. anyway its funny in a lot of ways. yoshi: i was telling my bro about it and he was laughing, whenveer he hears about u he just smiles and or laughs when i tell him the latest thing ur up to, he says "that guys crazy!" but he loves all ur stuff, we have a healthy appreciation of eccentrics , its an english thing of the middle classes i think, there's a history of these blake type people. hahhahaha the string bone! mikro: it makes me think of different types of music, indian, eastern, middle eastern.. foreign to me, but very attractive. blake? yoshi: "Benjamin Kellivanovich plays string-bone in C-Minor." William Blake! mikro: props to your brothers and cousins yoshi: :) its good that u have introduced my stuf to a few peoplein my life, and the sameon my side. mikro: hahahha i see. thats cool. yeah i felt a bit more accepted in my brief uk encounters. i felt more normal which was good and bad depending on the people. yoshi: when u just DO stuff like we do, then people have to keep usin mind, thats what i like about artists who are productive and dont just sit on their arses when wre u last in theuk? mikro: yeah man its cool to get that www.bleed into reality, people say Where is this from?! a friend in another land! haha awesome haha thank you ahha yoshi: yeah exactly a FRIEND mikro: aww i was in the uk for a week, then another as i couldnt leave during 9-11 yoshi: all the guys in my docuemtnary class saw u on the kansas city platform dancing and beatbooxig like a madman and theyknow u! yeah yeah, thats right, and i wasin america at that time! waiting to come back to the uK ! crazy, the duality continues Track 16 mikro: i walked in brighton along the beach with a sunset, listening to casino vs japan, drinking some light bubbly, all the way to hove. then i had to walk back (i had assumed my friend would have a car to pick me up haha) yoshi: hahahha wow, im gonna go ther after this! in fact in ten minutes i have to go ! lucky we're on the last song, but thats miraculous that uwere on brighton beach before we knew each other mikro: yeah a couple old roommates saw electric muscle at the going away party last week and they think we have to do some youtube stuff. we could, like a 100 performances of all kinds of shit, people would eat it up yoshi: hhahhahaha mikro: yeah man the pictures you had for this, for the art, of the abandoned ... yoshi: all the publicneeds is sincerity and conviction... but high art , as we agreed, is all about ideas. i feel like we started off onto something with this album.... its a good starting point for us mikro: i actually burned this and iermoc and mine on a cd and when i first met malcolm/futureboots i played it in the car with 3 other peeps and he really got into the drums in this... that was his intro to you yoshi: what this song ? human being remix ? mikro: yeah, and your how do u do yoshi: those are japanese drums :) this was one of my favorite solos on my korg... a good moment of expression, u should have seen my fingers! mikro: this was such a radical departure i had to absorb it a few listens and then i was like hell yes, and i was surprised and pleased and i just hoped to hear more farther more abstraction insanity coming from you haha yoshi: with ur sample achoring me it gave me such a strength... mikro: the rhodes this distorted sample of me sounds great with the pushed back instrumentation lots of good space yoshi: yeah man, working with u really frees me up in a way that a lot of other artists dont, i dontfeel like im shouldering any weight whenim working with u, we're both just going all out in our own ways which are somehow linked but basically we're very strong minded in a way, musically... yeah this song is all about space! it was a new thing i wanted to do... i think generally u have a good sense of space , u let things breathe a lot (ur songs are sometimes very long) but maybe my heart has a pop mentality, i tend to do things quicker, even improvisations end sooner with me) mikro: yeah this is definately not the last of le dual mule duelology! yoshi: hahahaha and there it ends! the cd makes that noise it makes when its done and we're done! man.... mikro: haha whats that noise? yoshi: congratulations its like HRRRRRRRRRRRRRR mikro: i have the digital absence. yoshi: oh too bad mikro: hahahahhaha thats proud yoshi: digital absense is awfuL! :) mikro: yeah i forget and leave the headphones on a lot, and go, why do i have these on? yoshi: :0 ill take mine off now, itll feel good.... fresh air on my ears, it feels good mikro: you said some nice things about me up there and i want to say so much back to you to equal it up but i am out of steam. i could say you make the flowers and trees live happier lives. ok, i will.. you make the flowers and trees live happier lives! yoshi: hahaaha mikro: yep texas limits headphones yoshi: thanks man, u are the dude, we are both doing our things im very proud of the both of us, but as i say , i love tomorrow, this is just thebeinning and i cant wait for what we come up withnext. mikro: absolutely :) hopefully we can jam realworld this summer/fall stringbones and all yoshi: so liten, i have arranged to play basketball on the beach for the first time in about 3 months, so i really have to run now, im so grateful we did this talk as well though... yes we will jam haha i cant wait for it! really. im so looking forward to being IN AMerica... but yeah, d ou know how to save this conversation now? do it ! ! cos i dont know how mikro: go do it! throw it up like an orange in the sun yoshi: hahhahaahah u remember ! :) mikro: i'll save it yeah thats awesome, on the radio even. beautiful work/fun good talking (rapid style) see you soon! get me that new art, then i can upload it and it'll be live in a few days yoshi: yeah it was too rapido! but its good we did it, and ill send out my book to u on mondy! oh the album art haaha mule-art wil be with u tonight promise! mikro: cool. later man! yoshi: take care man, enjoy the rest of the us-day! mikro: haha uk2 yoshi: :) Sent at 11:00 AM (CST) on Saturday, June 16, 2007 (via gmail chat interface) * from yoshi: " incidentally, do u know how modems got named? Well its a crazy story andnot enough people believe me when i tell it, Ghostface Killah was working in the 80's as an assistant at a computer lab in silicone valley, and when his boss came up with the ingenius machine to communicate phone lines with PC's, ghostface was so excited he just said to his boss, "Yeah YEAH, we could make a lotta money offa this shit yo, but you only made one of them joints man, we need mo o' dem, gimme some mo'dem joint an' we be aiight nahmean?" and a lightbulb went off in old inventor jones' head! " Sent at 5:56 PM (CST) on Friday, June 15, 2007 (via email)