Sometimes joined by Billy Jam
(master of comedy), DJ
Pone (master of skratch), Zachariah
Veley (master of keys), Piseas
(master of ceremonies), Shing02
(master of faderboard), DJ A-1
(master of cuts), DJ Stoic
(master of drunken-style), DJ
DnZ (master of your moms), and whoever else is around.
Influences
(Semi-Chronologically...)
Family,
George Clinton / Bootsy Collins / Bernie Worrell / P-Funk,
The Beatles / George Martin,
Lene Lovich,
Sirens,
Prince,
David Bowie,
Quincy Jones,
George Benson,
Frank Zappa,
Stevie Wonder,
Devo,
The Residents,
The Cars,
Talking Heads,
The Police,
Eurythmics,
Duran Duran,
The Cure,
Herbie Hancock,
Chaka Khan,
Newcleus,
Art of Noise / Trevor Horn,
Kraftwerk,
Jaap Drupsteen,
Fishbone,
"Wierd Al" Yankovic,
Howard Stern / Baba Booey,
Carl Stalling / Looney Tunes,
70's-80's Movie Scores,
Wendy Carlos,
Steven Halpern,
70's Sesame Street Funk (Pinball Song!!!),
The Meters,
WAR,
Ohio Players,
Average White Band,
Booker T & The MG's,
Isaac Hayes,
Run DMC,
Too $hort,
Ant Banks,
Turntable-Tee / A.P.G.,
Prince Paul,
Dr. Dre,
DJ Pooh,
Sir Jinx,
415 / DJ Darryl,
Diamond D,
Showbiz / D.I.T.C.,
Premier,
Marley Marl,
Tribe Called Quest,
De La Soul,
Jungle Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Bob Power,
K.M.D.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultramagnetic MCs / Kool Keith,
Erick Sermon,
RZA,
The Roots / ?uestlove,
Organized Konfusion,
Rap-A-Lot,
Digital Underground,
Del / Hieroglyphics,
The Coup,
Sick Wid' It,
Khayree,
C.M.W. / The Unknown DJ,
Dust Brothers,
Afrika Islam,
Pharcyde,
DJ Muggs,
Organized Noize,
Timbaland,
The Neptunes,
Invisibl Skratch Piklz,
Bullet Proof Space Travelers,
DJ Shadow,
Dan The Automator,
Madlib,
Luke Vibert,
Squarepusher,
Funki Porcini,
Visit Venus,
REQ,
Peace Orchestra,
Morcheeba,
K/Polar,
UFO!,
Photek,
4-Hero,
Sade,
Jill Scott,
Erykah Badu,
D'Angelo,
Fiona Apple,
Billy 'Muthafuckin' Jam & Hip Hop Slam BBQ Crew,
Radio Shit (the good and the evil),
Video Games,
Internets,
Nature,
Noises,
The Bay,
Oakland,
Soul Beat,
KALX / Beni B,
Amoeba Records,
DnZ's Mom
Sounds Like
Kinda crunchy mellowy instrumentally beat-driveny funky smoothy quirky jumpy sampley 8-bity backgroundy loopy bumpy bassy whatevery shit... put it on while you wash your cat!
NOTE: Have been hanging out daily on Facebook now (the bandwagon has officially been hopped on)... check my page there for more current songs, info and other good shit. Thanks!
1974/ Grew up in Oakland,
CA ... like to make beats n'shit... wanted to play drums, but got
into samplers instead...
1991/ Started working on an 8-bit, 4-channel Commodore
Amiga tracker prog called MED
(Music EDitor) from Norway or somewhere... made some tapes to give to friends
for feedback... added MIDI
box around 1996... worked with a few folks between these years (Amadi/A.K.,Toy, Turntable-Tee,
Kasimu the Irritated Genie, Billy
Jam, Product
Pushers, Jayare?and Manphu)... mostly
sub-100 BPM kinda weird hippy-hoppy shit or something...
1998/ Moved on to Mac
+ Cubase
+ E-mu
sampler and experimented with Jungle/D'n'B
for a while (with DJ Sifu
and Flemme Fatale/Balanceman
as H.$.O.
(Hot $tewed Opposums, etc.))... learned a ton of useful technical shit and met
some cool folks, but it wasn't for me... so, back to square one and a half...
2000/ In the middle of smashing head into bricks over D'n'B,
start to record old Amiga tracks for my own pleasure and to "put them to rest"...
compiled output onto CDs and started giving them out to more people again (always
whoring for feedback)... CD's are titled "8.bitz.o.luv://dump.or.die.vol.01-05"...
2002/ Making experimentally hippy-hoppy shit again, but with
less samples and more variety... still not sure of direction, but having fun
again at least...
2005/ Time to get more focused... putting small runs of all
five Dump
or Die CDs out thanks to Hip
Hop Slam... a sixth in the works(?)... and also figure out what
to do with this newer shit, which is a bit cleaner, mellower (sometimes), more
sparse, and something-ish... also trying to add to the studio again and step
it all up a notch... yup.
What's good, Geoff? Man, you've got some nice sounds! We should hook up one of these days and put something together! I'm going to be putting some new tracks on my page pretty soon...I'll let you know when they're up -Check them out when you get a chance!
hey hey geoff!! i haven't forgotten about tryin to finally link with you!! hope life is good and we can make it happen sometime in the coming months!!!
talk soon!!! and if you can make it out for a bit on wednesday even better!!!
Always apleasure seeing you Dawgishter. This might come up twice as Myspace glitched on me. Yeah the time was short. How was the rest of the show? Anything coming up on the datebook ?
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