Author Archives: Ananda Mahto

An interview with Ananda Mahto

By Ananda Mahto | Published: February 6, 2009
Every year, pretty much everyone available from DHAN Foundation and its family of “themes” gets a chance to attend the “DHAN Retreat.” The retreat takes place in different places each year. There are also different themes each year. Because of my surgery, I wasn’t able to attend this last retreat, which was somewhat unfortunate since [...]
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Hi Drocoele, crowin’ under the coconut trees….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: January 23, 2009
Wow. Another post so quickly. And more new music. This was recorded at the same time as the songs in the previous post, but I didn’t get to play around with it before I had to go in for a surgery. Well, the surgery is over, and now I’m at home relaxing, and I decided [...]
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The long road to nowhere in particular always seems to get us right back to where we started

By Ananda Mahto | Published: January 18, 2009
It has been a little while since my last song, so I decided to get back onto my rooftop and spend some time with my cats and the crows and record something new. This time, I also decided to fiddle around a little bit and do something with the recordings on the computer. (Also something [...]
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A flashback to 15 years ago….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: January 15, 2009
I’m getting old. I must be. I was just sorting some of my random files on my computer, and I remembered that I had downloaded Ryan Gratzer’s post of the Jeberrekenelle/Rugburn split LP. While the Jeberrekenelle songs were already available, Ryan went ahead and also included the Rugburn songs (so you hear the songs in [...]
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Mr Grumpy’s 2009 “How-to-write” calendar

By Ananda Mahto | Published: January 4, 2009
Over the past few weeks, everyone has been going calendar crazy. I mean EVERYONE. I was sitting in meetings with colleagues trying to write “messages” and then find the right pictures to go with the calendar they were making. Amy was asking me how to edit some of her photos so that they would look [...]
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I passed 100 posts and didn’t even realize….

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 16, 2008
Well, honestly, that’s somewhat irrelevant, especially since I tend to have stuff posted in so many places. And that wasn’t the point of my writing today. No—the point of my post today was to share a nice hefty PDF file of “The Art of 2657 Productions” which you can also buy (in a different version—the [...]
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You Want to Rock?

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 6, 2008
I can’t think of a better way to rock than to put on some Sleeping Body and listen to the slamming crunchy chaos that ensues.
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I’ve been so busy…

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 5, 2008
… that I can’t really think of much to write about. So I’ll give you some doodles instead.
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More Core… Vinyl Retentive, Share Common Ground, Up for Grabs

By Ananda Mahto | Published: August 17, 2008
Again, it has been a little while since I last uploaded some good hardcore to rock out to. So, to make up for lost time, here is one double LP and two regular LP compilations filled with some awesome songs. The Vinyl Retentive compilation is truly amazing.
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Buy a book… make me happy

By Ananda Mahto | Published: July 15, 2008
I guess I should really say “Buy THIS book… make me happy.” I decided to try Blurb out to see what their hardcover books were like, so back in April, I gathered all of my CD covers and put them together into the book “The Art of 2657 Productions…”. Axle sent the book to me [...]
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