Title: Shallow Night (Deep Dive in a Shallow Hole mix) Artist: CNCTR Album: Classic Trash Date: 1998
Early buzz funkery. Fell in love with slap bass on this one.
It’s a remix of a much mellower tune that I’ll be posting up later this week. It’s like, it was so mellow, I had to do this funky version just to keep the yin in the yang, the pb with the jelly, the froyd with the seigfried, you know… Download: shallow night (deep dive in a shallow hole) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: 96 (Nog Jam) Artist: Karl Blau Album: 96 Nog Jams Date: 2010
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karlblau/give-a-hand-for-klaps
The above is one of these kickstarter fundraising webpages for my good friend Karl. I’d like to point out that, by pledging to support the project, you’re not just giving money away. Quite the opposite, you’re investing in the most unique and delicately-crafted, totally 100% hand made in America projects that exists right now. Karl has a subscription service called ‘Klaps’ (Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society), wherein he records the music, does the artwork, hand-sews a lot of the packaging, and then sends it out to those who have paid the dues. I’m not joking around here, folks…it’s not only some of the most creative and honest music you’ve ever heard, it’s an entirely personal experience from the artist to the fan. Not to mention, it’s almost made from totally recycled materials – and I don’t mean recycled like, thrown in the trash bin, picked out, sent to a plant, and turned into an egg carton – I mean that the packaging for the 96 album is made from a trash-bound record sleeve, reformed and screen printed into a cd case.
Here is a remix I did of the title track off Karl’s ’96’ record. He lent me his original 4 track and I just went to town throwing bits an pieces into the sampler. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karlblau/give-a-hand-for-klaps Download: Karl Blau – 01 – 96 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Welcome to the Jungle (book trailer) Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2010
My roommate at the time, Hilary Smith wrote a really great book called “Welcome to the Jungle”, and this was the soundtrack I made to a stop motion promotional video she had made for the book release. She had mentioned something about cutesy, so I imposed a 100% casio synthesizer policy to go with the animated pills popping and rolling around our basement fun / scary land. This all came about very quickly, but that’s something that’s nice about working professionally – deadlines.
Download: hilary20100425 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Furnace Jam 2 (funkymusruf) Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Release Date: 2011
Hot off the press! Check the timestamp!
I mean, I am bouncing the track down right now. This thing needs serious editing, there are parts where I have to just stop for a second and gather my thoughts to figure out where the hell everything is…this track is, in it’s entire life span from vinyl->mixdown, maybe 3 hours old.
This is some jam I wanted to do tonight to get that Saturday vibe going, and get some more work in with the EPS. Some vinyl sampling from the Classic Funky Music records, some 909, some 3630, and a dash of incroyable…here’s my french jam in respects to the ‘french comedian’ that guy from good burger does on SNL…he is a lot funnier now ZUT ALORS!!!! Download: noggin-furnacejam2 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Kaleem Artist: Noggin Album: The Shoebox Release Date: 2000
Thursdays are request day. And if you make a bunch of requests, you get the pleasure of waiting to see them roll out a week at a time.
I remember making this one to sound a bit tracker-y and funky on purpose, amidst a slew of trying to make things sound generic and polished. I was also still totally riding the high of some synth heavy stuff I had been jamming the year before. This was all about the FATness of synth programming and also using horns which is something I never do.
This one goes out to Ilya. Download: Noggin – Kaleem (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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