Peter Gabriel, Solvent, Placebo, Kate Bush, The Orb, Orbital, William Orbit, TouchXtone, Tangerine Dream, Skybucket, Recompas, Electrobunny, Xeroid Entity, Dweller At The Threshold, Team Metlay, Spacecraft, SSI, Ma Ja Le, Mutation Vector, Binar, Headshock, Joint Intelligence Committee, Ozone Player, CASSIEL, Slaw, Shalmaneser, Phosphene Grid, Michael Thomas Roe
Conrad Schitzler, Eno, Wave World, Laurie Spiegel, Create, King Crimson, Yes, Martyn Joseph, Aaron Copeland, Beethoven, REM, U2, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, Afro Celt Sound System, Air, Alison Krauss, Segovia, Ani DiFranco, B-52s, Biil Laswell, Bjork, Bob Marley, BT, Bud & Travis, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Cluster, Midnight Oil, Dave Brubeck, Delerium, Depeche Mode, DJ Spooky, XTC, Enigma, Erasure, Neil Finn, Groove Armada, Underworld
Jane Siberry, Tori Amos, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schultz, Jules Shear, Kraftwerk, Matthew Sweet, Moby, Radiohead, Sinead O'Connor, Smashing Pumpkins, The Swimming Pool Q's, Synergy, Tomita, Ulrich Schnauss, Tears For Fears, Visage, Ultravox, Tangerine Dream, Miles Davis, Weather Report, James Figurine, Christopher Willits, Air
My iTunes library has over 16,000 songs in it across all genres. I'm a shuffle listener, so at any one time I can be listening to just about anything from electro to folk to classical to alternative to opera to jazz to rap to soundtracks to spoken word to experimental to techno to bluegrass to rock to goth to reggae. There's not many genres I won't listen to. There's good and bad music in all of them.
Television
American Chopper (I love those lugheads), Extreme Homes, CSI, Law & Order, that VH1 show about bands getting back together for a show, Behind The Music.
Books
Anything by Stacy Horn, Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, anything by John Irving, anything by William Gibson.
Heroes
People with a consistent vision and a drive to make it happen: Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Carter, Brian Eno, Mahatma Gandhi, Bjork, Nelson Mandela, Robert Fripp, Mike Metlay, Colin Fraser, Frank Gehry, Bob Moog, John Simonton, Jr., Laurie Spiegel, Peter Max, John Lennon, Brad Jones.
New York University
New York,New York
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Interactive Telecommunications
1984 to 1989
University Of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman,Oklahoma
Graduated: 1980
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism: Radio, TV, Film
Minor: Electronic Music
1976 to 1980
W T White H S
Dallas,Texas
Graduated: 1976
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Swim Team
Music producer for performers in Dallas, NYC, Washington DC, and Atlanta. I now primarily produce and perform electronic music, but have also worked extensively with rock, folk, alternative, new wave, reggae, and c&w performers.
Accomplished synthesist on both vintage, modern, and soft synths. MIDI and DAW-literate. Extensive collection of synths and well-appointed personal studio.
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I'm Atlanta's Creative Loafing Best of 2007 "Best Local Electronic Act" (also for 2005). My solo project called Sensitive Chaos is an Instrumental, Ambient, Down-To-Mid-Tempo, Drums'N'Bass'Loops vibe with a touch of soprano saxophone supplied by Brian Good, and guitar/synth/percussion by Otso Pakarinen. You can hear samples of my CDs Emerging Transparency by clicking the icon above or Leak and buy songs or buy the CD below on CD Baby or on iTunes.
#19 album on New Age Reporter Spin List for May, #52 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for April, #50 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for March, Emerging Transparency CD selected #1 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for April and March 2009, #3 on WXDU's New Frontier show for March 2009, #8 on WVKR FM's Secret Music Top 20 for April, #11 on KRSC 91.3 FM's Spectral Voyages Top 20 for April, #11 on KKUP 91.5 FM's Mystic Music Top 20 for March 2009, and WDIY 88.1 FM's Galactic Travels Top 20 for March and February 2009.
"Full of lengthy, dense, eerie instrumental bliss and a few selections that sound like happy-robot dance music." - Jeff Clark, Stomp And Stammer Magazine
"Another interesting and engaging ride on Jim Combs' blend of New Age, jazz and electronica." - John Shanahan, Hypnagogue
"A really stunning release, VERY well executed." - Darrell Burgan, StillStream.com
The CD is in current rotation on WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, and WBGU 88.1FM in Bowling Green, OH.
"Emerging Transparency" played on Echoes, the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California, WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA,, and Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, and WDIY 88.1 FM, in Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown.
"Fifty Light Years From Home" played on WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, KRSC 91.3 FM in Tulsa, OK, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, YLE Radio 1 in Helsinki, Finland, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, and WDIY 88.1 FM.
"Bazaar Behavior" played on WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, WDIY 88.1 FM n Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI.
"Erase Yourself" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
"Luck Of The Draw" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
"Tanzen Filter" on WMUH 91.7 FM, Allentown, PA and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI and KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA. All tracks played on Stillstream.com.
The CD Leak was selected as one of KKUP 91.5 FM's "Best Visionary Music of 2007," a "Top 12 Best Ambient CD of 2006" by New Age Reporter, and got lots of airplay on places like Public Radio International's Echoes syndicated radio show (145 stations across the US), WDBX, WTUL, SomaFM, KTUH, WDIY, KKUP, StillStream.com, Aural Innovations Radio, Ambient Ping Radio, and Finnish Broadcasting's Space Junk program. And positive reviews have appeared in New Age Reporter, Guts Of Darkness, Sonic Curiosity, Ping Things, Cool Streams Ambient Caverns, Melliflua,and Stomp and Stammer Magazine. Check out my blog for more details.
I play regular solo ambient looping gigs under my own name, perform in the ambient/experimental duo Bribing The Buddha with Klimchak, perform in alt/folk/pop The Good Graces with Kim Ware and John McNicholas, and host the regular City Skies Electronic Music Series on the 2nd monthly Saturday night at Kavarna in the Oakhurst area of Decatur (see ATL Songwriters and City Skies Festival in my friends list below).
I also produce, promote, and perform the City Skies Electronic Music Festivals and Events at Kavarna in Decatur, GA. Our 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival was May 7-9, 2009. And I'm on Second Life (Sensitive Luminos is my avatar).
Also, I used to be half of Atlanta-based TouchXtone (or here on MySpace) (or here on CD Baby), TouchXtone was formed in November of 2003, released 12 CDs, and was named Best Local Electronic Act in the Atlanta Creative Loafing Best Of Atlanta 2005 issue. We performed in Georgia (Eleven 50, Java Monkey, Agnes Scott College's Delafield Planetarium, Miro's Garden, Brandyhouse, EyeDrum), Chapel Hill (Nightlight), and Philadelphia (electro-music 2005 Festival).
I also collaborated at The Happenstance 2006 at The Earl and both the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Different Skies electronic music festivals, both as an ensemble player and as a member of Phosphene Grid. My contributions to Different Skies 2004 can be heard on the various artists compilation DVD "Arcs And Angles" on the Atomic City label available at Filmbaby.com. Recordings from the 2007 Different Skies jams are soon to be released on the Earth Mantra label (creative commons).
My most recent writings are magazine articles including reviews of MOTU's Digital Performer 6 appearing in the Oct 2008 issue of Recording Magazine and reviews of MOTU's Digital Performer 5 appearing in two 2007 issues of Recording Magazine and "Why Is My DAW My DAW?" published in the December 2005 issue of Recording Magazine.
I'm an Oklahoma-born (Poteau) and Texas-raised (Dallas) keyboardist/composer, recording producer/engineer, multimedia artist, and writer who began my musical forays both playing piano and manipulating tape machines while recording feedback. Synthesizers entered my life when I built a PAIA synthesizer kit and heard Rick Wakeman for the first time on a quadraphonic 8-track copy of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII. I've been making noise and music with synthesizers and recording gear ever since.
I produced my first independent record with the post-punk/neo-reggae/power pop Dallas band New Jetz, also playing synthesizers and organ. This led to a "Best Unsigned Band" nod from the Dallas Observer.
I lived in NYC for 12 years, producing rock recordings, mixing live sound at places like Studio 54/CBGBs/Kat Klub, and playing out in bands of my own.
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Who I'd like to meet: Artists, designers, photographers, and musicians.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
We do hope you can come out to a very special show we are playing. Friday July 10th. 8pm - 4 gogirls bands playing in support of our fellow gogirls members, the band Cornerstone from Austria. Playing USA for the first time! Let's show them a warm Atlanta welcome w/green bracelet, electricsoul, and cell fehrenbach! Uptown Loft 9700 Medlock Bridge Road John's Creek (Duluth area)
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Thanks for the add, I like your profile btw.
If you get a chance, please take a listen to our first Chill out release "Beach Music, Cafe Music & Bar Music Collection" by ACO Ambient Chill Out. We'd love to know what you think of it!
http://www.sanfrescorecords.com/SR/Chillout.html
Cheers
ACO
Thank you so much for the kind words -- I will be sure to pass it all on to the kids. I agree, they really shone this year, and for most of them this was their first music experience, and for all their first music technology/composition class. Next year will bring a whole new set of students; they will have great examples to follow (and big shoes to fill!). :-)
that would be fantastic! i'm trying now to repurchase lights video projection and pa.. hope to do a dry run very soon.. now you've given me added incentive! btw - the pic of the vintage gear.. i'm filled with respect tinged with jealousy! =) SO nice to meet you Jim!!
Hey there, 2 GoGirls shows coming up. Acoustic at East Point Corner Tavern Sunday the 24th Rock/Pop at Smith's Olde Bar Tues the 26th. Hope to see ya at one of these. Cheers!
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