Just a quick lil note to let you know what’s goin’ down in PDX. Heavy Rotation is the word! Jyant, local b-boy/DJ, hosts a rotating cast of DJ’s at downtown club, Pi-Rem. This Friday is extra special. DJ Exile (production credits include: Blu, Aloe Blacc, Mobb Deep, Jurassic 5, Akon, and Snoop Dogg) comes through to rock the decks. Guaranteed to turn the party out! Come down, show some love, and dance yr ass off.
Click here (zshare) for a promo mix featuring some of Exile’s finest work expertly crafted by PDX’s own, DJ Flip Flop.
Peace,
P
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Here’s a lil ditty from way back when. This track was created in 4 hours by Main Sequence and myself for a super cool event called Ingredients PDX. Each team was given a disk of random audio samples and asked to create an original composition. Here’s what we came up with.
Ahhh man. This is epic. I’ve lived with this dood. Some days I am this dood. Brilliant!
“a short film about having an annoying roommate with a lot of synths.” By Martin Schoeneborn
If you dig tripped out synths (if you’re still reading this im sure you do) check out both volumes of Bridgetown Breaks. Each record contains a special Analog Synth section recorded directly from a Multimoog, a Yamaha SY-2 and a Korg MS-10. It’s filled with massive bass notes, detailed textures, boops, beeps, and modulated sweeps. Fun for days. Try it with a loop pedal and some friends! Add efx for astral traveling.
Peace be with you,
Plutious Vandertone
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This is an audio/video collaboration from an event called Ingredients. Main Sequence, DJ Tant, Mano-Destra, and myself created the audio track with Jamal Qutub and Melinda Swenson working their video wizardry. We were given 24 hours to create an original music video from random audio samples and found video clips. Enjoy.
Here’s a new joint from PDX’s Boy Eats Drum Machine (aka Jonny Ragel) called “Demonic with Horns”. This track features a seismic break from Talkdemonic’s Kevin O’Connor. Kevin’s Bonham-esque drumming can be found on both volumes of Bridgetown Breaks. God bless the 1176!
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Jonny Ragel, our good friend & dedicated Bridgetown Breaker, is up to his usual awesomeness. He just sent over a link to his remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” from their groundbreaking album, In Rainbows. BEDM’s version also happens to include a slammin’ break from BBV1 contributor, Josh Skins. You can listen to it below. If you dig, which im sure you will, just hit the vote button to share the love.
Rumor has it BEDM is currently working on his next album. Stay tuned for more info…and perhaps some early leaks of the new material?
Adios,
Señor Whiskers
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Our friend Steven Kray, drummer and audio doctor for Portland/SF/Houston neo-funksters’ Lockboxx hit us up with some of his studio outtakes from the sessions for their new album “Drop Shop“, out now on Character Records.
Steven takes a “shitty is pretty” attitude to recording; if it sounds good, it is good. This break was recorded with just two mics and a little four-track recorder. He put a Radio-Shack dynamic mic in the kick, hooked up a cheapo condenser for overhead, and red-lined the suckers to get that oh-so-nice saturation. We present it here un-effected for your tweaking pleasure.
