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Monthly Archive for: ‘February, 2012’

New and Updated Production Guides

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Over the last few months I’ve had a number of people request PDF versions of my Production Guides and Tutorials, mainly for storing and referencing on their iOS devices.  I apologize that it took me so long to get this done, but things have been pretty busy here lately to say the least! But, at long last I now have …

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Blue Dream DJ Set

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  Blue Dreams Downtempo DJ Set What can I say, I’ve been on a roll lately I guess.  :) Here’s a new downtempo DJ set, recorded live on Feb 13, 2012 using Ableton Live 8, Allen & Heath Xone62, Akai APC40, and NI Traktor Audio 6. Tracklist: Time – Artist – Track – Label 00:00 – Culture Cruisers – La Piscine …

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Outside Realms – New Live Set Teaser

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  This is the first run through of my new live set, something a little more upbeat than my usual downtempo.  I had a lot of fun doing the downtempo set I posted two weeks ago (Here), so I decided to go ahead and convert some of the more clubby tunes from my Ableton sets into something for the Elektron …

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Music Tips From My Dad

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Like I’m sure a lot of fathers do, over the years my dad used to repeat a lot of different phrases that he liked.  And while he never originally intended any of them to be about music-making at the time, none the less I’ve recently come to realize how many of these I’ve inadvertently adopted myself over the years. So, …

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Learning New Gear

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  Since about the time I got my first groovebox (Roland MC505), I noticed that it generally doesn’t take me that long to learn and start using a new piece of music equipment.  Usually within a week or two I feel pretty comfortable with something I recently purchased, and most likely it’s already gotten used in one of my songs …

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Elektron live set video

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Normally when I wrap up a project, I look forward to moving on and putting it behind me. But I’ve been having so much fun performing on the Machinedrum and Octatrack this week, I wanted to give it one more go.  Plus, I felt bad that I wasn’t able to capture the last peformance on video, when I knew so …

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