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Pizza Party – a Pause for Herb

Thursday 25 August 2011 – 15:35
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Title: a Pause for Herb
Artist: Pizza Party ft. DJ Noggin
Album: Side B
Date: 2010

Beatjuggling during a Pizza Party session.
The juggling is incredibly sloppy at the beginning but that’s kind of the point…Pizza Party is more about that spur of the moment gamespit, not calculated practice.
It’s our good buddy Herb Alpert and the TJB on the decks.
Download: Pizza Party – Pause for Herb (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pizza Party – What’s your sign? (demo)

Monday 18 July 2011 – 16:00
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Title: What’s your sign (demo)?
Artist: Pizza Party
Album: Pizza Party demos
Date: 2010

The Red House Studio was like an orphanage, we left so many tracks to fend for themselves in the wild.
This is a demo I worked out solely on the ESQ-1 to a) prove that I could do it and b) get that 80’s teen movie vibe. Mix that with ultra-smooth r&b vibe and now yer getting into stirring territory.
Pizza Party vocalist – let’s get some vox, alright?!
Download: Pizza Party – What’s Your Sign (demo) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pizza Party – Spookane

Thursday 24 February 2011 – 19:14
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Title: Spookane
Artist: Pizza party
Album: demos
Release Date: 2010

Request!
This is from some Pizza Party sessions rocking a 1986 Ensoniq workstation synthesizer. Well, sort of, the original demo was kind of jammy, so I bounced down the constituent parts, edited, and added vocals this afternoon. Here’s hoping you dig.
ps. The mix/master slider on this one was set to -4.
Download: Pizza Party – Spookane (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pizza Party – Another pause for Herb

Thursday 3 February 2011 – 18:49
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Title: Another Pause for Herb
Artist: Pizza Party ft. DJ Noggin
Album: Side B
Release Date: 2010

From the Pizza Party sessions.
This is an impromptu beat juggle that happened during a Pizza Party recording session. I dedicated an entire wall to Herb Alpert in my last house, and so we had tons of these records floating around, and doubles of many of them. This track is appropriate because I just reinstated the Herb Alpert wall at my new house.
For those that don’t know, beat juggling is where you have two copies of the same record on both of your turntables. You cue them both up at the same point, start one, then at the end of your ‘loop’, start the other. While that is happening, you silence the other one, and rewind it. Do this back and forth and you can keep this loop going for infinity. It gets tricky, especially if your records are old and beat up and prone to skip (guess what, my Herb Alpert records, culled from trashbins and garage sale barrel-bottoms, are not in the best shape).
Download: Pizza Party – Another pause for Herb (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pizza Party – You Keep the Beats

Saturday 22 January 2011 – 13:42
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Title: You Keep the Beats (Plug Cover)
Artist: Pizza Party
Album: 4 covers
Release Date: 2009

More Anacortes Red House tomfoolery. This one features a stunning vocal track from the super-player that Robby, one part of the amorphous Pizza Party collective.
Our good ‘mate’ Mark, a right English ‘bloke’, commissioned these pieces with unfulfilled promises of pizza and soda bread (ok that was fulfilled). We were happy to do it. This is one cover of 4 songs off an ep by an English group called Plug…not to be confused with another English artist called Plug (who has actually been a great inspiration to me).
You keep the beats, I’ll keep the money.
Hip Hop nu-skool baby.
Download: Pizza Party – You Keep the Beats (Plug Cover) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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