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.

Minilogue - Animals
Just found this. Fun video by Minilogue. They’ve made some really great tracks that I like playing with when I DJ. You can read more about them at their website or on their myspace page.

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 [...]

Daft Punk - Something About Us (cover)
I thought this was simply genius.  A cover of one of my favorite songs, by one of my favorite duos.  The performer is Randy George - a thereminist.  More videos by him (including a link to his site) can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/ooo6
(Thanks to Sander Dennis (a.k.a. Eprom) for [...]

Autechre - Gantz Graf
I’ve always thought these two pieces should be in conversation. The piece of the left is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 . I’ve always loved the piece. It has influenced me in so much of the music that I make. The visual ’stuttering’ of the painting [...]

 Hail Mary - Pomplamoose
Of course I think this song is endearingly cool. But then as you watch it, it’s TOTALLY creative in it’s use of video/audio - each sound you hear in the song is shown, as it’s played, onscreen. The concept is a ‘videosong’ which basically has two rules:
1. What you see [...]

Richie Hawtin 2008 DJ Setup from Dean Koch on Vimeo
I totally dig this video and the things that Richie Hawtin is talking about. I’ve kind’ve come to the same conclusion about ‘djing’ with computers - when I ‘dj’ with my laptop, I’m really letting Ableton do all of the beatmatching for me, thus freeing [...]

Photo by Accent Creative
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.  [...]

I came across an interesting post related to electronic music from a blog I’ve started regularly reading. Create Digital Music wrote about how hardware controllers for electronic musicians seem to be limited or never quite what we need. I feel that for the most part, the software seems to be pretty much [...]

photo: Miguel Vega
In March, I had the opportunity to go down and play at Kadan’s infamous BrokenBeat nights. It’s always a good time playing and the electronic music talent in San Diego never ceases to amaze me. This time, Breakah, Louis, David and myself all got to play. In the [...]

Samim - Heater
Totally for fun.  Sent to me from my good friend Alex in Holland.  It’s hard not to feel happy seeing people get down.

Last week I completed some music for Flynn Witmeyer. Flynn is a movie producer (and good friend of mine!) in San Francisco working on a horror film called Imp of Satan.
I developed a score for it of about 10/15 tracks long with the remix of the main theme found on the myspace page for the [...]

This was a live set I did with my buddy Louis Haiman (a.k.a. Dubulator) at the Brokenbeat vs. ShareSD party at the Kava Lounge. A really good show. This set was all improvised.