Thanks to Jonathan at Lab 24/7 for hosting a great party, and to everyone who showed up. To those who didn’t make it, you missed a great night of electronic and hip hop music courtesy of Elijah B Torn, James Forrest, and yours truly. The night started out with a PBR/burrito fueled electro-jam. Coming from years of playing guitar in blues and jam bands improv jams are nothing new to me, but...

You heard right. I’m playing in alongside electronic vünderkind Elijah B Torn in Bed Stuy, BK this Saturday. Check out the Facebook Invite to RSVP. Here’s a good summary of the show from the host: Humans love to explore the boundaries of sound. At times, these explorations are called “music”. Lab de Loops, on April 4th, will be one of those times. Enough said

J Dilla has always been among my top few favorite hip hop producers of all time. He left us with an amazing library of tracks after he passed away a few years ago. Amazingly, there are even more gems that weren’t even released. Pete Rock put together 25 of the mostly instrumental tracks on “Jay Stay Paid”. Whoooo Whoooooo! Find out more details about it on Moovmnt.

I made this beat a while ago, Geometree and Harlem L’s are now lending their smooth vocal stylings. This is a rough draft and I still need to do mixing work, but you get the idea. .

So it looks like djchima.com isn’t the only place you can play drum machines online. I came across this drum machine via Crate Kings this morning. Literally AS I was playing around with it the person next to me was playing a Daft Punk drum machine that he had just discovered. They’re both a lot of fun, but let’s not forget who built one of these over a year ago Granted, this is...

Ok, so I guess I got a little ahead of myself in my last post. Don’t get me wrong, I think a lot of the new features (looper, vocoder, workflow improvements) are awesome. I just got in a little over my head with the Beta version. I can’t say I wasn’t warned, Peter Kirn from Createdigitalmusic.com told me exactly what to expect months ago. Immediately after using it I started running...

Everyone who uses Ableton Live must know by now that Ableton is planning on releasing Live 8. As a long time Live user I’ve been overly-excited at pretty much all of the improvements that were announced. Unfortunately it is not going to be released to the public until 2nd quarter ‘09, they say. I was lucky enough to get a preview of the software at the Live 8 demonstration session at The...