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Monday, February 1, 2010

Carvin Jones


It's always amazing when aspiring artists and musicians come in the store and talk about stories about their experiences in the industry. Hearing their stories, and meeting them make you realize that Phoenix has tons of talented people. Almost everyday, Disc2day meets new fresh talents who like everybody else, want to make it big. Though, there is one particular artist that has been our proud costumer for as long as Disc2day has been around. His name is Carvin Jones.

Bio from CarvinJones.com
Carvin Jones was born in Lufkin, Texas. At a very young age, he was seduced to the blues by listening to BB King records his grandfather constantly played in the house.

By March, 1991, Carvin and his band had gained tremendous popularity, and were playing at clubs all over the Valley. They have maintained a consistent seven nights-a-week performance schedule since then. In March 2000, Carvin celebrated his 3000th performance!

Over the past years, the Carvin Jones Band has opened for guitar legends BB King, Santana and Albert King, and has performed with Joe Cocker and the Fabulous Thunderbird's at the House of Blues 1996 Tour in Phoenix. The Band opened for REO Speedwagon in 1998 at New Year's Eve, and has been a feature band of Fiesta Bowl's New Year's Eve Block Parties for the past two years.

The Carvin Jones Music Show, a 1/2 hour cable TV show promo, included interviews with Carvin, performance clips, local gig calendar, and website plug. The Show aired during February-March, 2000, once a week, on various local Arizona cable channels. The Band has also been featured on Arizona's Channel 3, Channel 15, and Channel 10 News stations and is still featured on Glendale's Channel 11 regularly. Carvin has been a staple of the Glendale, AZ Jazz and Blues fest for several years - much to Arizonans delight!

Carvin began touring Europe in 1999. He has performed with the likes of Buddy Miles, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, John Mayell, Jimmie Vaughn, Ten Years After, Eric Burden and The Animals. In 2007, Carvin and his band opened for the legendary Walter Trout - twice - with rave revews! He has made many appearances on European Television and has regular airplay on several Blues dedicated radio shows throughout Europe. Carvin regularly headlines many European Blues Festivals - including The Pokey Hole Festival (UK), Skegness Rock & Blues Festival (UK), The Warrenpoint Festival (Ireland), Bejar Blues Festival (Spain), Colne Blues Festival (UK), and several others throughout Italy, Spain, Germany, & Holland.

In 2007, Carvin welcomed into the band two amazing Italian musicians, who tour with Carvin full-time throughout Europe. On drums, Gianpaolo Feola - from Sant' Angelo d'Alife, Italy - has brought tremendous energy and excitement to Carvin's all ready electrifying show. Gianpaolo has played with many popular Italian bands throughout Italy and complements Carvin's versitility with his ability to play many types of music... from classic slow Blues & Jazz to classic Rock and Pop. Michele (Mike) Califano - from Naples, Italy - is a self-taught, natural talent. He began playing bass in December 1996 - watching and learning from 'Queen' concerts on DVD - loving the big sound of the bass. Among Mike's influences are Tommy Shannon, John Deacon, John Paul Jones, Paul McCartney, & Geddy Lee. Like Gianpaolo, Mike brings an amazing amount of energy and versitility to the Carvin Jones experience. Together, Carvin, Mike, and Gianpaolo have been heralded the "Best Blues/Rock Band in Europe".



Disc2day is proud to be the preferred duplicator of choice for all of Carvin Jones' CD Duplication and CD replication needs as well as DVD duplication and DVD replications.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

NEW PRICES ON DIGIPAKS


Have you ever gone to a music store and purchased an album just because of its packaging?

Well, DigiPaks have the way of doing just that. Since the majority of CD albums and DVD movies are still sold in jewel cases or amaray cases, anything that is packaged differently has a better chance of standing out. The packaging is one of the first alternatives for jewel cases that is why a lot of studios, costumers, and artists love it.

DigiPaks are like cardboard sleeves which open up like a book to reveal a plastic tray glued inside which holds the CD.

This year, Disc2day is lowering their prices on Digipak packages in order for costumers to have different looks on their cd and dvd packages. Plus affordable!

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Friday, January 22, 2010

STUDENT WINS ANOTHER FILM FESTIVAL


On January 16, 2010, Arizona student filmmakers gathered for the 4th Annual Arizona Student Film Festival. The festival recognizes talented student filmmakers that are enrolled in third grade through college in any Arizona public, charter, or private educational institution. The event showcases student produced films, videos, documentaries and animation anytime while the filmmaker attended a recognized Arizona public, charter, or private educational institution. The Overall Winner for Best Short College Category is our very own DVD Duplication and DVD Replication customer, Kenneth Yanga for his movie, True Colors which tells different stories of four homosexual men concerning love, hate, and acceptance. Being a winner of the festival, his movie will be going to the Annual Phoenix Film Festival, the biggest film festival in the state of Arizona. True Colors also won 1st Runner Up at the Moving Pictures Film Competition which Yanga has been invited to go to. The awards ceremony will take place at The Meyer Gallery on Main Street in Park City, Utah the same time as the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals.
There is no doubt that Disc2day is the proud duplicator for Mr. Kenneth Yanga and the True Colors.
Check more information about the film at www.truecolorsmovie.com

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Best way to archive files? DROBO


Everyone knows that hard drives are not man’s best friend. They either fail without notice, or they get full pretty fast. Data Robotics, Inc. seems to have the solution. The Data Robotics drive (or simply Drobo) seems unreal and too good to be true. To make long story short, it is a little black box with 4 hard drive slots. You can throw in any 3.5" internal hard drives you have lying around and it will turn them into one big drive. So if one fails, your data is safely stored on the other drives (so pretty much like RAID). Those companies like Disc2day will certainly need hard drives like this specially for all those videos, graphic design files, audio, and many more. For more info, see the links below:

http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobodemo.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sENCMKXBUc






(from the review of Ryan Block between RAID 5 and Drobo - engadget)

Setup
RAID 5 - Three or more same drives required. (Some arrays will accept dissimilar drives, but will function as lowest common denominator. So two 300GB drives and one 20GB drive will yield a 40GB array.)
Drobo - One to four drives supported; two drives necessary for redundancy

Installation
RAID 5 - Drives in caddies or typically somehow screwed/fastened into the enclosure. From here you may have numerous means of access, including eSATA, USB 2.0, FireWire, even NAS.
Drobo - Drives slide into and are secured by enclosure with no tools. USB 2.0 only, sorry.

Redundancy method and data awareness
RAID 5 - Block-level striping with spanning parity. Array is block-level unaware of data though, meaning nothing intelligent is done with free space.
Drobo - Virtual storage pool is redundant, but also block-level aware, meaning that it recognizes free space, and automatically uses it for multiple invisible backups should drive sectors become corrupt. (The added benefit of block-level data awareness is external storage indicators, which show how much storage is being used in its series of LEDs.)

Redundancy overhead
RAID 5 - Space cost of any one of the identical disks in the array. (So four 250GB drives yields a 750GB array, raw.)
Drobo - Space of the largest disk in the array. (So two 250GB drives and two 500GB drives yields a 1TB array, raw.)

File systems
RAID 5 - Format any file system.
Drobo - HFS or NTFS. (Limited FAT32 support, future file systems to be added.)

Failure
RAID 5 - If a drive dies your array is at risk and goes into rebuild mode when you swap out the bad disk. Depending on your RAID array, you may or may not be able to use it during rebuild. Alternately, if a drive starts writing corrupt data, that data may stay corrupt, with backup recovery being your only option of restoration.
Drobo - If a drive dies your array still goes into rebuild mode, but your data may still be protected. Depending on how much capacity you're using, if there's enough free space in the array, your Drobo may still be able to ensure full redundancy. (Again, thank that block-level aware array system.) If your Drobo doesn't have enough free space during a disk loss, your data will be at risk; after inserting a new drive it will go into rebuild mode, but will still continue to be available.

Upgrading
RAID 5 - Users must back up contents and replace their entire array of drives to increase array storage. (Read: no drive recycling.)

Drobo - Upgrade storage a drive at a time. If you have empty bays, simply insert a new drive -- that storage is instantaneously available. If you are out of bays then remove smallest drive and add its larger replacement. Once that array is rebuilt and the new storage is available, remove the next smallest, etc. until you've reached the capacity you desire. Drobo can support 4TB+, and can supposedly address an infinite amount of space as drives push past the 1TB mark.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

The Loveall Family


Born and raised in the high deserts of Arizona, The Loveall Family is made up of two brothers and two sisters. They are Joshua (21yrs), Andrew (19yrs), Rachel (15yrs) and Maria (14yrs). Rachel leads the singing beautifully with her sister Maria backing her up. Joshua is the heart and soul of the group. His gift of playing anything he picks up comes through as the heartbeat of each song. Andrew's rhythm guitar playing and harmonica fits like a glove perfectly. This group brings a mixture of bluegrass gospel and ballads with strong Christian beliefs and values. God is good.
The Loveall Family has recently released a new album called "On The Other Side".


Disc2day is proud to be the preferred duplicator for all of The Loveall Family's CD Duplication and CD replication needs.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Fair and Debonair

From robbing dollar movie theaters to making out with nasty women-like creatures in alleys,(Buy us beer) The Fair and Debonair has never stooped as low as to making the music that they do. (Buy us beer). They combine different genres of rock, southern rock, hardcore, hamburgers, fishing poles, and throwing axes at BMW's to create the most beautiful sounding music you will ever hear. (Buy us beer.) The band got together about 2 years ago. They were all friends and just decided to start a band. If you want them to play shows, let them know. Let's get this on the road.

Band Members:
Alex Arvizu- Vocals
Augie Arvizu- Bass
Wyatt Nelson-Drums
Sammy Lopez- Guitar
Matt Rangel- Guitar

Visit the Fair and Debonair: www.myspace.com/thefairanddebonair

Like many of Disc2day's costumers, we are always proud to be the preferred duplicator for numerous local musicians specially The Fair and Debonair's CD Duplication and CD replication needs.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!


JUST WISHING EVERYBODY A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!

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