The Googly vs Jake J – DJ Mix October 11th 2009

New mix from myself and Mr. Jake J. Made this to get ready for a gig this friday and threw this together last evening over a 6 pack of Red Stripe. Tech House and Techno abound. Due to the nature of tag teaming I’m not sure of the tracklisting but there are some great jems from Still Going, The Field, Pezzner, Onur Ozer, Dixon, DJulz, Seth Troxler, Christian Burkhardt, and a few others that escape me at this moment. Have a listen. See you at Chop Suey on Friday.

For Download and streaming at Soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/the-googly-vs-jake-j-dj-mix-october-11th-2009

Two New Tracks! And some other stuff

So it’s been a little while since I’ve posted.

My bad.

But I’ve got some new stuff up and after getting a new computer and having my life settle down a bit I’m ready to give this whole blogging thing another try.

So first up. Two new tracks.

One is a original called Zoar Park. Named after a hometown park where the kids used to get crazy at in Virginia. It’s all about glitched drums and crazyness. Check the link below for downloads and listenings.

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/zoar-park

The second is one I’m pretty happy about. My completely crazy remix of the possibly leaked Daft Punk song from the new Tron movie. I got bored and cobbled this together and ended up liking this quite a bit. So enjoy.

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/maybe-daft-punk-fragile-the-googlys-not-what-he-expected-remix

Expect more posts soon as I get my internet life in order.

Some New Stuff Up

Thought I would take a minute and share my Soundcloud stuff with you. Some new tracks you can stream for right now until I figure out how I want to distribute them

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused

Glitch Mob Street Warfare

It’s been a little since I’ve posted something. Found this video floating around and thought it was cool as hell.

Now if you’ve known me for a while, you’ll know that this right here is something that I’ve always wanted to do. Just set up a sound system somewhere like a park and just go to town playing music until it gets shut down. Would be crazy.

Speaking of here is a video of Glitch Mob playing in the park during last year’s Decibel Festival.

If you’ll be in Seattle on July 28th, this show better be on you calender.

Reduction For Creativity

This is an idea that I’ve been fiddling around with a little bit. The idea that limitations are the only thing that really makes me explore my environment. Recently I decided to go vegitatian and it’s opened up my eyes as far as food goes. Now I’m eating lots of eggplant and avacado and the likes. Things I would have never thought to like but now don’t know how I went without.

It got me thinking about my music again though. The idea that I never really finish anything because the whole process is so open ended. Maybe that’s why I do well as a DJ though. The limitations of vinyl are a place where I can really streach out and find my place in. I can simply look to focus on finding great tracks and packing my bag well for the night at hand. I don’t know what the hell I would do if I had every record I owned on Serato or Ableton. What the hell would I play if I had unlimited options?

The irony is that more options is limiting for me. And it’s a concept I’m finally coming to terms with when I’m doing productions. I find myself setting up limitations for myself in my own music. Say, only making a track using one instrument or making something with the limitations of hardware. The more limited something is the more inclined I am to explore it to the brink of what it can do. It’s a idea that I’ll be playing with more now that I know where it all falls for me.

What limitations have been inspiring to you?

Back to life though, back home from San Francisco. Had a great time. Roomba is cleaning the house as we speak.

San Francisco!

Just a quick check up from San Francisco. I love the wine bars down here! Num Num Num

Still, I’m having a great time down here and I’m recording a ton of samples with my best friend field recorder. Looking forward to tomorrow where were taking a ferry ride under the golden gate bridge. Going to be fun. Check in here soon for some more tracks and new stuff. But for now this is vacation.

Early Version Of Black Dollar Bills Remix

Black Dollar Bills

This has been a passion project of mine that I was really eager to finish and then I just sort of put it off to the side. But for some reason today it just felt right to revisit it. I got to spend some time listening to really good ambient music last weekend and remembered that what I do is pretty good and I need to keep doing it.

So long story short here is an early version of my remix of Hope Of The States’ Black Dollar Bills. I’ve been working on it feverishly at a hotel while eating a bagel so I hope you guys out there in radio land enjoy it. I should have a finished version once I manage to get home and work on the levels and over all mix down.

So head on over to this link @ Soundcloud and check it out.

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/black-dollar-bills-the-pauseds-broken-people-remix

Much thanks!

Getting Ready For Vacation

Not much to post about today. I’m getting ready to head down to Portland tomorrow. Then San Fran on Monday. I’ve got some great hotel rooms that I’m happy about and you better believe I’m taking both my field recorder and laptop down there so expect some good tunes to come from this trip. Sometimes new scenery is just what you need to get some new perspective.

Other than that I’ve dived head first into the world of Twitter and decided it’s not the yelling into a black hole that I thought it was. Well, actually it is but it’s really got it’s uses. I was amazed yesterday watching all the MJ posts popping up. This really is the way we communicate now. It’s amazing and scary. Either way. I’ve tried to streamline my twittering to follow music production, friends, and wine (yum!). You can follow me at www.twitter.com/thepaused I’ll be posting phone pictures from my trip and maybe. Just maybe some early tracks in progress.

Well, It’s time to get to the gym and climb some rocks. I’ve been slacking on my work out the last week because of going to Idaho (which I really should post something about the crazy ass time I had there) but I got to get back on that gym horse before it rides off.

RIP MJ

Sad new breaking all over the twit-o-verse about the death of the King Of Pop. Hopefully it turns out to be a cruel prank but now that TMZ has confirmed it’s looking less likely.  Dead at the age of 50. Damn. A lot of my childhood memories come from his records and I’m sure a good portion of people my age have a lot of memories wrapped up in the first time they saw Thriller, or Beat It, or hell, maybe even going an riding the Michael Jackson ride at Disney World (which was amazing when I was a kid).

Well, there’s really not a lot to say. My prayers go out to his family and children.

Here’s a personal favorite video of mine for You Rock My World.

Getting My Online Life In Order

It’s been a sorta crazy month for me with lots of changes happening in my life. I’m finally off the USS Maine and enjoying the freedom that allows me. I went to Idaho and had one of the craziest weekends of my life. I’ve had several music experiences that have changed my perception of what I’m doing and opened me up to new ideas. So I figured it was about time I figured out what I want to do with this whole internet thing and make it fit my needs.

So with that said in the next few days I’ll be overhauling this blog to fit my purposes. Streamlined and more relevant to what I’m doing right now. I’ll be getting a Soundcloud pro account to let you hear tracks as I’m making them and give advice. Over all I want to tune this to deal with more production stuff.

More to come. Hope you come back.

To leave you here is a pic of my Yamaha SU700 that I picked up from those jolly fellas at Craigslist today.