DJ Chima

DJ Chima embeddable streaming media player

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:50:28 +0000

I got tired of uploading every new song to 50 different places so I’m going to try to stick with this one player and embed it everywhere else. Feel free to embed it on your site or social media profile

Create a playlist at MixPod.com

Podcast: Nas is Like Remix

Andy Chimicles — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:48:19 +0000

Here’s another remix I did. I’ve been finding that using an acapella track along with one of my beats is a great way to mix a song. It’s a lonely world doing only instrumental hiphop, having a vocal track to work off of gives you much better direction and forces you to keep the track sparse. Anways, without further ado here it is…

Podcast: “Never Enough” Remix

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:55:47 +0000

Here’s a track I made for a remix contest: Tanya Morgan “Never Enough” Remix Contest

I decided to take the track in a completely different direction from their original. I made a new beat from scratch, giving it an upbeat, grooving reggae kinda feel. Give it listen…

And here’s the original track if you want to compare. I think you know the real winner here

New Podcast Plan

Andy Chimicles — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:16:34 +0000

I recently decided that unless I force myself to buckle down and release finished tracks on a regular basis I’ll just continue to have hundreds of unfinished tracks in my library (yeah, there are lots of them). My plan now is to release one song per week, offered up to you as a podcast.

I was inspired by a post on createdigitalmusic.com about how an artists typically group songs and release them in album format, due to the fact that up until recently albums were the only way to reasonably release music. After all, releasing a record after every song was written would cost too much to produce, distribute, market, etc. Now, however, production is done in the bedroom in many cases, distribution is free, and marketing can be as easy as getting a good track some connected people’s ears who can then spread the word (ok, that part still isn’t easy, but easier). So now the artist can release their songs in any format that fits them, whether it be an album, an occasional release, a weekly podcast, whatever.

My first mission is to figure out how to podcast in the first place. Since this blog is built on Wordpress I just needed to install a plugin called Podpress and follow their instructions. I have a song attached to this post so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the plugin will make the song available as a podcast. Stay tuned, because there’s a poostorm of music about to slap you across the face and if you’re not careful you might get hurt.

—-Chimcast9000 OUT—

Lab 24/7’s Lab de Loops Show: a Success

Andy Chimicles — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:10:52 +0000

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 electronic improving definitely is. I must say that it is damn fun. Later on in the night super-MC’s Geometree and Harlem L’s took to the mic to add their freestyle rhymes.

All in all a damn good time, and rumor has it there’s going to be another show coming up so stay tuned.

(all photos courtesy of Johnathan@Lab24/7)

DJ Chima Live! – Lab De Loops, Apr 4

Andy Chimicles — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:38:23 +0000

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

New Dilla being released June 2 – “Jay Stay Paid”

Andy Chimicles — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:51:15 +0000

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.

New track in progress – ‘People Get Ready’ with Geometree and Harlem L’s on vocals

Andy Chimicles — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:08:58 +0000

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.

Other online drum machines

Andy Chimicles — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:21:50 +0000

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 reminding me that it’s time for me to update the drum sounds on mine

Ableton Beta 8 verdict – it’s not for me

Andy Chimicles — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:59:42 +0000

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 into problems with MIDI mapping – a big part of my setup. Then there were a few times that the program randomly locked up. There were also some minor little problems that happened only occasionally, but combined it was enough to frustrate me.

I guess that’s why the program is still in Beta. It’s just not practical to make music on the software if you don’t know when it will actually work the way you want. Incidentally, a public Beta version was just released, allowing anyone with a version of Ableton 7 to try out Ableton 8 beta. I wonder if this means that they solved a lot of the major problems. I’m not going to bother finding out this time around.