BT robbed AGAIN!

[pilot]

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maybe he did it? hey, any publicity is good publicity, sounds like his move for a non-profit is what was more important, but in any event, I have had stuff stolen too and nothing makes you more sick than that. money is one thing but things are sometimes harder to re-coup

[darin epsilon]

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Wow that is absolutely terrible. I cannot imagine recovering emotionally after the first robbery, but the second time is just gut-wrenching. What is this world coming to? The man's heart and soul was in that laptop.

[supaz]

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Where was BT at when things were great for him? Remember Q6's rant?

[Localizer]

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here it is

the 06
Current mood: rushed
What a journey this year has been. One of the hardest, most confusing, turbulent, powerful, constructive, exhausting, overwhelming, important, frustrating, cacophonous, yet creative and beautiful years of my life.

I gotta admit.

Not one that I will be unhappy to say goodbye too.
With exceptions of course. What a beautiful year of growth watching and parenting Kaia. Watching her walk, sign, speak, swim?..beauty indescribable.

But personally, a train wreck, four huge legal wars, that alone have not only eaten my savings, but have put me so far in debt it may take me years to recover?.that is if I escape bankruptcy. One lawsuit is ongoing. There is a guy in New York, that claims ONE loop on my sample CD (a one bar loop) is his. A composer used it in a Pfizer commercial and he heard it, say?s it?s his (I made the loop in Reason in about 5 minutes, and furthermore after paying a musicologist 10,000$, found out that it?s the first beat in the book ?Intro to drumming?, literally the first beat they teach you when you learn to play drums). Well how?s this for the American legal system?..

He is suing me for 10 MILLION DOLLARS.

Not joking. He?s also suing East/West the company that distributed my CD for 10 million dollars and Pfizer etc. We have done FFT analysis of the loop, showed the judge waveforms, etc?..does not matter, in America, you can sue anyone for anything. Here?s the kicker?..I have to pay for my own defense, and this guy has some ambulance chaser attorney working on a percentage with nothing better to do than try to force a settlement with a huge corporation, and some guy that just loves making music and sounds, so he can sit on his ass and smoke weed all day. I swear sometimes I want to renounce my citizenship.

Anyway, all this anti-legal, expatriate sort of stuff may be coming from the fact that I am in one of the most beautiful, eco friendly, amazing people, food, diving, jungle, unreal places on the planet?

Costa Rica

God can I rant sometimes, you should try being in my head. Can you imagine borrowing someone else?s thought process? I bet that would be the most confusing but cool thing ever. Just as long as you could make it stop when you wanted. Some straight William Gibson stuff. I heard that Nicoli Tesla (one of my SUPERHEROES) was working on a medium for recording and playing back thought when he died. PS: almost all his discoveries were made classified and his citizenship renounced after his death. The government also took all his works in progress and notes, none of which have ever been published. We get the Tesla coil and the neon light?..meanwhile, it is rumored (yet highly corroborated) that he also invented means for group thought entrainment (see HAARP if your interested, but get ready to walk down a dark scary path) and wireless power. But I suppose it made better bombs than commercial technologies. Can a mofo at least get some wireless laptop power? Lol

Anyway, I am at a dusty sweaty corner in Montezuma, a cacophonous overture of languages and colors flurrying around me. The green is truly greener here and the sky in bluer than I?ve ever seen. This is a corner, throbbing with life and culture.

I am growing weary of growing weary of the way we live in Los Angeles.
I am tired of complaining.

It?s time to slowly act. Or more act cautiously with speed.

I love what America stands for and is founded on. What a beautiful document the deceleration of independence. Beautiful like religious texts and full of altruism and clear intention.

Now we are starbucks, and consumption, FOX news, persecution of peoples of other colors and religions, a country divided, segregated, separated and unconscious.

Not all, but most.

What did you do today? Go to work, slave for someone else, put yourself further in debt paying for food and goods on credit cards, had your buying preferences ranked and logged in a database that categorizes demographically buying habits and preference so you can be properly marketed too.

We are fucking sheep.

[supaz]

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Where did you find the info on BT getting sued and he's claiming bankruptcy bc of it?

The dude has cash money

[simonr]

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My understanding it that BT went bankrupt having to defend a stupid lawsuit (i.e. typical lawyers being opportunistic leaching money over nonedescript case as usual). Now BT puts his money back into creating music and writing ground-breaking music software that others in the EDM music community will, ultimately, benefit from - that is, regardless of the style they play out or whether they like BT's music (or hairstyle for that matter). I feel sorry for any Artist, Musician, DJ or Producer that has his or her gear stolen.

[sakio pod]

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i'll pay you 20gs but my shit is worth 150gs

go fuck yourself BT don't you get the clue that your too old and the reason people are stealing your shit is cause you suck

ps you should worry more about you hair than your studio

[jeffrey collins]

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I just hope the guy has back ups of everything, and a lot of insurance.

[supaz]

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It sucks that his gear was stolen, but the whole story seems suspect.

1. No insurance?

2. He didn't back up his music on the laptop? it was the only copy in the world?

3. The dude has at least a cool fukn million. Cry me a river.

[rubyraks]

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This is the kicker- you have to be a completely stupid igonrant idiot to make as much money as he does and not have a security alarm installed in your house, especially if you have been robbed once before. And to not have an off-site backup of your newest release that you toured and toured and promoted, then its damn near deserving. Somebody knew what they were doing and what equipement he had. It wasnt someone just walking by and breaking in.

+1...had he not been robbed and lost everything once before I'd sympathize with him much more, but the fact that the exact same thing had happened once before and he hasn't learned the lesson...

[jarble187]

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The guy got robbed and NOBODY wants to live somewhere where you do not feel safe.

The guy lives in LA for one and its highly doubtful that he lives in Long Beach or Compton, rather his trendy frosted hair ass probably lives in the Hollywood hills where it is completely safe.

you would think he would have insurance. Or have back ups of all his works.

This is the kicker- you have to be a completely stupid igonrant idiot to make as much money as he does and not have a security alarm installed in your house, especially if you have been robbed once before. And to not have an off-site backup of your newest release that you toured and toured and promoted, then its damn near deserving. Somebody knew what they were doing and what equipement he had. It wasnt someone just walking by and breaking in.

[TomTom]

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If everybody I called an asshole or did not talk to in an appropriate way in the past would rob me afterwards because he's angry with me I would have no flat to live in and run around naked in the streets. The guy got robbed and NOBODY wants to live somewhere where you do not feel safe...nothing worse than to be scared in your own flat or house and fuck the people who do this to others just to make some bucks.

[palmer]

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I'm NOT saying he desrverd it, but I remember reading in Mix Mag I think something where he was being a jerk to some guy and stating that the guy had "gear" envy. I felt he was very harsh with the guy, went on too long. Maybe he made some enemies then. I remember thinking that he was being an asshole... Obviously some people took it a step further. I hope he gets his stuff back though.

Karmas a motherfucker......

The shit is probably long gone honestly. That much gear I can't imagine someone just stumbled into all. I'm sure it was planned with buyers and the whole nine yards. Thats too much gear for a smash and grab.

[res0nat0r]

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i am suprised they stole all his gear, i thought it would have been hard to find underneath all of his hair dye, gels, combs, highlights, and blowdryers.

[unkownartist]

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i will return his stuff if he doubles MY ransom

edit : u realise that the guy who nicked its gonna find this picture and sell it as a novilty for 25000