This was a track I made shortly after seeing Chris Clark. I really liked his dense, gritty textures found on ‘Empty the Bones of You‘ and attempted to emulate a little bit of that in this track. The opening bar is me beatboxing into a MicroKorg vocoder. I made heavy use of [...]

I love electronic music. I love making it, listening to it, promoting it and of course, helping other people create it. While I didn’t write them myself, I thought I’d share some helpful PDF manuals and guides I’ve compiled to get you started.

Awesome kinetic, musical sculpture I found posted over at Mat Dryhurst’s blog. The interview with Felix Thorn is excellent too. In it he is interviewed with multiple questions fielded from artists, writers and musicians at Gasworks around the relationship between machines, humans and music.

This was a track I remixed off of my good friend Louis’s Dubulator project. This particular brand of Louis’ music is harder - and of course dubbier - than his more pastoral pieces under fwdthought. You can listen to my remix in this post, or download the original track, ‘All Good’ here.  You’ll also [...]

This was a track I made after seeing Plaid play in San Francisco a few years ago.  It’s an oldie, but I was inspired by Plaid’s technique of having really fast, rhythmic percussion in the cymbal/hi-hat frequency range with other rhythms in the lower percussive ranges (like kicks and even snares) slowly merging in to [...]

This is one of my first pieces.  I made it completely in Reason 2.0 in 2001.  I’ve not much to say about it except that it’s probably the most complex ‘tonal’ piece I’ve done.  Lots of different melodies are in it.

This is a mix I recently completed this month. It’s the mix I want to use to start getting gigs in and around the Bay Area (and beyond?) for minimal/tech house nights.
Here’s the track list:

Loco Dice : Black Truffles in the Snow
Audio Soul Project : Community 2007 (Peace Division Remix)
Alexi Delano : What Is [...]

This is actually quite an ‘old’ piece. I made this after seeing Squarepusher sometime in July of 2003. I was 23 and think I’d had a bad trip on some wierd mushrooms I ate. Ended up wandering around the streets of San Francisco gibbering to myself, freezing cold, wondering how I’d stumbled [...]

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I love Ableton .  I’d probably swear by it as a compositional and performance tool.  As far as multi-track recording, I’m sure there are some better ones, but Ableton Live is not really about that - it’s about performing and having the most intuitive interface for expressing your musical ideas.  [...]

This is a song I wrote nearly 4 years ago.  I think I’ve gotten all the arrangement down for it, and I’m happy with the sounds though I wonder if there might be a few things to finésse.  There’s a brief bridge in the middle of the song (made with my Alesis Micron) that I’ve [...]

I <3 Weird Techno was made after a night of obtuse raving in Tijuana, Mexico on the roof of a squatted parking lot. There were holes in the concrete roof with exposed rebar and rubble everywhere we danced.  With the intense laser show, 2 story high video screen and e’ed up kids everywhere,  [...]

Track I made today after spending nearly the whole day waiting in the Oakland Social Services office for foodstamps. Humbling and frustrating at the same time.
I don’t think this song is really connected to it. In fact, it’s not. I was feeling pretty mellow and simultaneously inspired.
Enjoy.

Café Mix Rendered was created 20 minutes before an audition for a weekly at a coffee shop in Encinitas, California. It was my improvised audition piece and kind of gave me my start performing in and around San Diego - a meaningful mix for me of some of my favorite artist that typified the weekly.

6 Weeks In… is some general in-bedroom wankery with a Korg Electribe + laptop.

This song I made while thinking about Luke Vibert and Orbital. I don’t now if it sounds anything like those two, but I kinda like it.