Donate to the Philippine Red Cross.

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Here at the Hai, we care — especially when it hits close to home. We interrupt our regular programming to bring to you a very special announcement.

To quote CNN: “Flood waters were rising around the Philippine capital on Tuesday as torrential rains that have killed more than 50 people in recent weeks continued to drench the country. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) issued a red alert signal for the metropolitan region of Manila, the capital, warning of serious flooding in the urban heart of the Philippines. Deep water in many parts of metropolitan Manila blocked roads, stranded cars and flooded homes. In several areas, the water was waist deep or higher, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said in its Twitter feed.” 

The BBC and the Wall Street Journal have published similar stories. Local reports from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippine Star and other local news entities offer more details, and bring to light the efforts of the Philippine Red Cross, which is the point of this post. This is how you can help.

YOU CAN DONATE ONLINE. It’s that easy. The Philippine Red Cross has been busy saving lives and has not had time to update their website RE: their current rescue/relief efforts, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that they saved many lives today. Help them save more. DONATE TO THE PHILIPPINE RED CROSS.

 

Profile II: Rekapper.

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1. Take a picture or shoot a video of your songwriting process.

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2. What’s the name of your WIP folder (a.k.a. that place in your computer where unfinished songs go to die)? Oddly enough it is rare that I have a WIP that rots forever, but when I do, I usually tag it “Needs Fixing” in my Rekapper library sorted by date, because I’ll probably find a way to save it or use it later, most likely in a mix. Everything prior to 6/7/2011 is in a folder by that name, and everything from 6/8/11-5/24/12 is in a folder by its name, and then I have all the mixing and mastering work separated out, and when the album launches it goes into my Old folder in the mixing and mastering folders. Though I do hope sometime in the future 32 bit-float masters become the standard, and I will release 32 bit masters, which I compress down to WMA (lossless) 24bit or just WAV’s (since FLAC doesn’t properly support 32 bit yet) in my music library to listen to all that tasty dynamic lossless music.

3. What is: (a.) the weirdest search hit on your Bandcamp’s Buzz stats, and (b.) the unlikeliest country hit on your Soundcloud’s play stats? I’ve had quite a few buzz stats from people searching “rekapper” on Bing, I suppose that would be quite odd. Otherwise I’ve had an interesting amount of searches through Russian search engines for “download+of+14+track+album”, both resulting in hits to Bandcamp and my webpage. On Soundcloud, I’m quite satisfied with my international fanbase and listeners, but I find it interesting that while I cover all of Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Southeast Asia and Oceania, and even most portions of Africa, I’m surprised that no one has ever listened to my music Mongolia. (more…)