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The real Jojo Mayer revealed (feat. Neal Stephenson)

17 September 2008 171 views No Comment

The Digital Truth came to me from reading one more time some pages of Snow Crash, the visionary, incredibile and beautiful 1992 novel by Neal Stephenson. A milestone of cyberpunk and a portait of our possible, probable future. If you have read (and loved) the book, ask yourself who can be The Deliverator, the greatest sword warrior in the world, last of freelance hacker, co-creator of Metaverse and a guy with an hurricane running on his back. [If you haven't read the book, pls consider to be sorry for yourself]

The revelation came to me one morning at, more or less, 4 am: Jojo Mayer IS Hiro Protagonist

Jojo is a cyberpunk kind of drummer. He’s the greates drumsticks warrior in the world, a real hacker of drumset and tecnique, the warrior of ghost notes and the man who’s writing the code of the 21th century drumming, where human beings and machine are wired together. And, after all, he himself define his drumming as “reverse engineering”. And this, Your Honor, is an evidence.

Listen to some Jojo’s tune with Nerve while reading one random chapter of the great Neal Stephenson’s novel. Isn’t the perfect sound of a Franchised World?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXbnqj3uCHo&hl=en&fs=1]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1tNfBEHIs&hl=en&fs=1]

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