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New Release: Jondi & Spesh – Love Over Laps EP (and free download)

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I have a new tech house release out this week with Spesh: Love Over Laps EP. Four tracks, all 115bpm, with many parts and beats shared amongst them (could play quite nicely with each other in the context of a longer mix).

Just found out today the release is a Beatport Staff Pick in the Tech House genre, which is nice. Thanks Beatport, we like you too!

Only available on Beatport for now — will go into general release (iTunes, amazon.com, Spotify, etc.) in a couple weeks.

It was great to get back in the studio with Spesh. We had a good time, and took our time with it. A few of the tracks had over a dozen iterations. Quite a few parts cut, but many ended up recycled in one of the other tracks on the EP. Very organic, very groove-centric. We used the 303 for round, warm bass tones (acid house not so much, though we couldn’t resist a little knob-tweaking in Bare Knuckle Champ).

For those interested, the gear involved was:

  • Arturia Minibrute (analog synth)
  • Roland TB-303 (analog synth, MIDI-adapted)
  • Battery 4 (virtual drum machine from Native Instruments)
  • Massive (virtual synth from Native Instruments)
  • Kontakt 5 (virtual synth from Native Instruments)
  • Oddity 2 (virtual synth from GeForce)
  • Halion 4 (virtual sampler)
  • Cubase 8 (sequencer/DAW from Steinberg)

If you want to join the Loöq Records mailing list, you can download one of the tracks from the EP here. You can also listen/subscribe to our monthly Loöq Radio podcast on iTunes.

Blog posts I’m working on (titles may change):

  • Reinforce the Behavior, Not the Result
  • How I Experimented With Coaching and Decided Not to Continue
  • Update On No-Car Experiment ($, Fitness, etc.)

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Momu Mobile Studio Setup (MOMU-MSS): Making Electronic Music on the Road

Momu's Mayakoba mobile studio setup.

Momu’s Mayakoba mobile studio setup.

I recently had the opportunity to enjoy an all-expenses-paid resort trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico with Mark Musselman (the other half of Momu). While I’d written plenty of music on the road with an ultra-minimal laptop + headphones setup, this was the first time attempting to travel with a “mini-studio” that would make collaborative beat-making easy and fun and not involve additional checked luggage. The vacation (or “creative sabbatical”) happened to coincide with the release of Momu’s new album The Mission (now available on Beatport, also presale until April 8 on iTunes and Amazon).

When planning our gear we knew we needed the following:

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