Wednesday, October 30, 2013
DJ Cash Money live @ Guitar Center 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Vera Humanitas (A 9/11 Tribute)
So my homeboy pulled out some Fu-Schnickens vinyl and played "Tru Fu-Schnick". Hadn't heard that in a minute. After he played it, I was playing around in Torq and started finger drumming the beat to Beanie Siegel's "The Truth". So I pulled up the track and looped the first 8 bars. A commercial came on about a 9/11 special or news story or something and it made me think. So I sat there and listened to this loop for a couple of hours. Then I decided to chop up (cue points) "True" by Spandau Ballet and played it over top of the beat to see how it sounded. It sounded alright.
So I found some 9/11 sound bites online and as I listened to the speeches and the emergency responses audio, it struck me that so many voices were captured and extinguished in an incredible act of desperation. I say desperation because someone somewhere felt diplomacy was no longer an answer. But there was a real time human event happening on the ground and I wanted to capture some of that, albeit 12 years later. I guess it was a chance to vocalize some feelings I had about that time. Enjoy.