New DJ Set: Zenith - O:Dark:30 - 18 Nov 2014

Apparently you have to make a video trailer for your channel. I bought this product, WonderShare, on the internet 4 years ago & it's so easy even this fool figured out how to use it.

Feather River Campout this weekend & a new mix

I'm super stoked to be playing Friends N Family's Feather River Campout again this weekend. I play at 4:45 AM which is the perfect time for me... So if you're going... Save your last dance for me, yo!

In honor of this weekend & also the fact that it's campout/festival season & also because I had to do this special project... I recorded this set. Because frankly, the best campouts & festivals definitely feel like a trip to outer space. Or one could *trip* to outer space. That's all on you. But.

Well we could also call this set Weird Like Me but I'm reserving that title for one of the new tracks I'm coming out with this year. So. Drum roll please.... BOOM

In Honor of Spring I Give You this New Set

I've been busy in the studio learning how to use my new drum synth to make beats & having a blast! I caught spring fever so I thought I would take some time out of making beats to record this set. It's a lot lighter than I normally go but I thought it fits the season. Enjoy

All Hail Maschine!!

due to unforseen circumstances including an operating system upgrade & travel & such. i am just *now* getting around to using Maschine. Wow!!!! Did I say wow? Wow.

my frustration with production before was I couldn't get the exact drum sounds & things out of ableton. You can get some really weird, cool, & amazing things from Reaktor but a girl needs a fundamental kit of just rad instruments. All the extra packs just weren't doing it.

it's going to take me a bit to go through all these kits & instruments & sounds & figure out what extra stuff I need to take these tracks from my iPhone voice memo to finish but I am looking forward to every single minute.

i am such an idiot. i should have gotten this so long ago. i would have had a ton of tracks out already.

anywho. w00 h00!

What's Next

I'm buying a Mac Pro lap top. Why? Well, good question. The answer is: Serato. I'm switching from vinyl to digital, not because I want to, but because I have to. To stay competitive. So in a little bit I go to look @ what likely is going to be my new lap top.

I'm also taking ballet. I am LOVING this new ballet workshop I'm into. There's something fantastic about dancing to classical piano. And this class is geared towards people who are interested in the why we do moves a certain way, complete with a skeleton she uses to show us joint rotation. Ballet is the fundamental of all dance. And ballet is all about balance and knowing where your center of gravity is.

Yoga: We follow that up on Saturday AMs with a yoga class. All I can say is phew. This is only the fourth yoga class I've ever done. And the first one in six years. And if I hadn't done gymnastics as a kid I would have been dead from this one. D-E-D (just kidding folks. I know how to spell dead). Gone. Poof. Expired.

Piano. yes! I finally got my key set back out and started playing again. I just love playing piano. It feels like it's where I belong. I'm thankful that my parents put me in front of a piano @ such young age. PARENTS: Give your kidz the gift of teaching them how to play an instrument. It's everything.

German: Still studying my fool head off.

Running/lots of long walks/walk-to-work-day/exercise: Still crazy into that.

A new CD: I have one more CD in me that's going to be all vinyl and I'll record it in the next few weekends. It will be a studio CD. It's a dance-drive mix that's going to be Deep Deep Tech House.