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About me
- So here is my private little corner of the web...I consider this space to be my digital resume and portfolio in regards to my various focuses in music. I have recently founded my own business, the L.A. Sounds Collective, involved in Music Coordination/DJ work and have found this to be a convenient way to share both my work and my ambitions to collaborate musicallyThe links above are various examples of my work including:
- My Resume
- My Portfolio: contains the Music Coordination work I have done for the Pitfire Artisan Pizza Company Restaurants in Los Angeles, as well an overview of other projects/skill sets of mine in Djing, Music, and Graphic Design
- My Soundcloud: examples of my mixtapes, which I use as podcasts to distribute and define the musical environment of the Pitfire Artisan Pizza Restaurants, as well as my own personal music.
- the Rated Music Blog: a newly created music review blog, which I use as a public professional journal/workspace to collect thoughts I wish to foster, focus, and develop.
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My Equipment
- Musical ArchitectureI rely heavily on the Native Instrument Traktor S4 and X1 hardware/software as an integral center-piece of the musical architecture I am developing, both for its music production value, let alone being an impressive DJ midi/software unit.For those interested in musical collaboration, I also am incorporating the Korg MS-20 Midi Legacy Collection and the Korg padKontrol into my music workflow; however, I am mostly interested in translating and incorporating various actual instrumentation work (guitar, saxophone, mandolin, piano, are amongst other things I play) into the computer-based arrangement I have chosen.Beat-makers I am inspired by:
- Bonobo
- Onra
- Tone b. Nimble (from All Natural)
- Peanut Butter Wolf
- Madlib
- Flying Lotus
- Baths
- Daedalus
- Do Make Say Think
- K.C. Accidential
- Charles Spearin
- David Axelrod
- Oliver Nelson
- Tommy Guerrero
- Ray Barbee
- The Mattson 2
- Tortoise
- H.i.M. (off of Thrill Jockey Records)
- Isotope 217
- Chicago Underground Quartet
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Posts
Bruce Haack On Mr Rogers Neighborhood, Blowing Children’s Minds
synthhead, synthtopia.comMr Rogers Neighborhood with Bruce Haack & Miss Nelson Part 2 of 3 was uploaded by: MosesMolasses
Duration: 601
Rating: Continue reading →Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
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Also available on vinyl LP soon.LAPALUX: Do you think listening to other music while you’re creating music is an inspiration or a hindrance?
Thom Yorke: I think you have to listen to music that’s so far away from what you’re doing that it almost cleanses you. When we were doing OK Computer we listened to a really extreme Coltrane track, the one that apparently sent Syd Barrett mad after he had done acid. It’s so intense, just 20 minutes of freeform jazz – it’s like taking a shower, there’s so many notes. It’s like, ‘Okay, I’m ready now.’ I was beaten to a pulp after listening to it. Anything coherent after that sounds wonderful. (laughs)
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15469/1/uni-of-yorke-class-3-machinedrum-pangaea-lapalux
- Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001 Compiled 2012 TEXT021 Also available on vinyl LP soon.
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(No streaming audio available)4957 plays - Ages classical guitar cover of Nosaj Thing “Fog”… and i cried a little bit.
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(No streaming audio available)4639 plays - galapagoose: The above track is taken from my brand new Nuance, split with %’s Unfolding on the A-side of a beautiful white cassette. Available in highly limited quantities at live shows & via http://parallelogram.cc/releases/003/
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- A Daedelus Live Set My LIfe Lowly Ends: ”A short live setting from a while ago, originally created for The Low End Theory Podcast. Especially made for freeway driving.” I would recommend, oh about, 13 minutes in when he samples the beach boys and lets the beat drop pretty wicked. some dope smashing pumpkins samples earlier on… just sayin’.
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Info
- Experience
- Jun 2010 - PresentMusic Coordinator for Restaurant/Retails / L.A. Sounds Collective
L.A. Sounds Collective is a third-party music coordination company involved in assisting restaurants & retails in defining their music atmosphere and live DJ sets.
Currently, the L.A. Sounds Collective operates the musical needs of the Pitfire Artisan Pizza Company restaurant series throughout Los Angeles.
- Dec 2009 - Feb 2011Server/Music Coordinator / PitFire Artisan Pizza
Began as a Counter Server and advanced to become their head DJ and Music Programmer for all locations.
- Nov 2009 - Nov 2010Mac Specialist / Apple Inc.
Data Transfer Services Team Leader & Sales
- Sept 2009 - Feb 2010Cook Demonstrator / William Sonoma
- Nov 2007 - Mar 2008Intern for Office of Special Events / Los Angeles Mayoral Office of Antonio Villaraigosa
Intern under Deputy Mayor Larry Frank and the Offices of Constituency Services, duties included assistant for special event coordination (including Lation Heritage Month & May Day of Volunteerism). Others duties included creating cases for concerns or complaints of constituents and forwarding them to the proper governmental agencies.
Education-
2006 - 2008University of California, Los AngelesB.A. in Political Science/Theory
Activities: Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity UCLA Crew & Rowing Team
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Friends
- some people doing some pretty cool stuff
