The Short List: Miles Davis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Igor Stravinsky, Herbie Hancock, John Williams's scores for Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, various classical Indian music and other world music.
I played (or programmed) all the instruments on the tracks on this page. For instance, on "Cedars" I played guitar, wood flutes, and hand percussion. For "Song for the Body," all percussion was performed on a household iron wine rack (holds six bottles) struck with rubber mallets and wooden sticks. "Lantern Bowls" features samples I recorded of four stainless steel bowls from my kitchen, sequenced in Propellerhead's Reason software.
In addition to making music, I've had a couple of books published on the subject of how to use Reason music production software: Using Reason's Virtual Instruments, and Reason 4 Ignite. Both are available on Amazon.
Come see me_Cannibal Ape! + the Dirty Apes @ The Viper Room in
Hollywood CA November 23rd 8pm. YOU WILL CATCH WRECK! I promise. Bring
your mama, your baby's mama, your crew and your boo too. You won't be
disappointed.
Dirty Jesus-Cannibal Ape-Dre-Broc Lee-n special guest Firstperson! More details TBA. Stay tuned... DIRTY APES !
Yo Matt Piperasaurus. I just found out that we're related...and as a special family only present we've made a new song for you called "End of Days" (start doing backflips now). It's an epic instrumental opus to the moment when our ancient Dino relatives saw a large fiery object plummeting towards them. Please come to our page, give it a listen and let us know if it makes you feel like something catastrophic is gonna happen. If the song upsets you too much we will be holding several s support groups (read: comcerts) in the near future. Check our page for locations, dates and times.
"Let's melt our brains" is hauntingly beautiful. I LOVE ODD TIME SIGNATURES!!! 7/4 rules. Good work, love the bongos on the first one with the wood flute, too (can't recall the title since I'm on another page currently.) Keep birthing those tunes. Cheers!
Matt Piperasaurus our lost bretheren.....Oh when can we eat delicious leaves and roam the plains again like in the days of yore?
'Tis us Bossasaurus with more remix hotness excavated from the hottest volcanoes around. This time we've got a Redman and Method Man remix of "Dangerous MC's". Please come on over to our page and check it out. We will be making it available for free download very soon.
Hello! Just wanted to drop in and let you know that pre-orders for my new jazz standards album "Bittersweet" are now taking place! The first 100 pre-orders will receive a signed copy! Release date is set for May 5th, but you will get your copy a few days earlier! Kate and I are very excited about the record, and we can't wait for you to hear it. Head over to www.bittersweetthealbum.com to pre-order! Thanks! ~Mark