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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.

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 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 [...]

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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.  [...]

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.

This was a track I did after I had been listening to L’usine.

This is a track I improvised using Ableton 3 and a loop from my trusty Yamaha PSR-36 (pictured above).

Yes, it is spelled in correctly. This song is partially dedicated to my friend Flynn Witmeyer. He once had a box that he kept his ‘Dark Crytal’ in. He had gotten a hold of a label maker when young and labeled a box of his after his favorite movie.