Karina Colis Percussionist, Drummer, Singer EPK
This is my good friend’s Karina Colis’ EPK. She’s an excellent drummer, percussionist and singer that I recommend for any gig. She’s also playing in my band Rioh. This is a video from her website karinacolis.com, please check out her work.
Roman Rojas Composes and Produces “Oscuridad” by Rioh
Roman Rojas has produced and composed the song “Oscuridad” by his latest project Rioh. Arragement by Roman Rojas and Jose Gallegos.
Rioh is:
Roman Rojas, Mireya Ramos, Karina Colis and Nestor Villar.
The recording features master percussionist Luisito Quintero.
Lady Gaga Telephone (Pomplamoose Version)
I love these guys!
AC-7 Pro Control Logic Studio with i-Pad Review
This is one of the many reasons why the i-Pad is so brilliant! So far the only complaint that I hear about this i-Pad app is that it has problems with Pro-Tools, it seems to be running just fine with Logic.
Korg Electribe for iPad
Things are beginning to get extremely interesting in music production when it comes to the i-Pad and is not even a week after its release. These are sings of things to come, I’m going to buy the i-Pad so that I can start applying and using new i-Pad apps to come for music production.
Here’s an excellent review of the Korg Electribe for i-Pad:
Specifications:
Sound Engine: Analog Synthesizer Modeling; PCM Samples; Virtual Valve Force Tube Modeling
Instrument Voices (Parts): 8 Total: 4 percussion synthesizer parts; 4 PCM synthesizer parts
Effect Section: Master Effect: Assignable per step/per part
8 Effect Types: Short Delay, BPM Sync Delay, Grain Shifter, Reverb, Chorus/Flanger, Filter, Talking Modulator, Decimator
Sequencer Section: Patterns: 64 steps maximum per part, Motion Sequencing can memorize all knob motions in a pattern
Tempo: 20-300BPM (with Tap tempo and Swing function), Pattern-set function
Memory patterns: 160 Total: 32 preset patterns x 2 banks; 32 basic patterns x 1 bank; 32 blank patterns x 2 banks
A special introductory price of US $9.99 is being offered until June 30, 2010.
Pianist Pro – i-Pad Application
Soon we are going to see a band using the i-Pad on stage, count on it. I’m also thinking of the possibilities of using the i-Pad to control ProTools sessions, that’s coming to.
Creating The Music For Avatar with ProTools HD
This is a really incredible video and article on the creation of the music for the film Avatar. Click on this link to read and watch:
Beat Box Pad
I’m not a big fan of Apple’s i-Pad yet, I was expecting a real computer, anyways! This is the first music related application that I’ve seen for the i-Pad, Beat Box Pad, check it out!
America Ferrera’s New Show: Zulia State City Planner?
This is another one of my posts that’s completely unrelated to music, but I couldn’t help notice the resemblance between Venezuela’s Zulia state city planner Odalis Caldera and the beloved ABC character Ugly Betty. Maybe she got her inspiration from the show, who knows? Is she aware that she looks just like Ugly Betty? We’ll never know.
Amazing Commercial
This is too cool.
Michel Gondry Levi’s Commercial
This has got to be one of the greatest commercials of all time, I love the father’s face at the end, classic!
Your Quick Guide To Japan
Nothing to do with music, but I would love to go to Japan someday 
Seeking a Kidney Donor
I just learned that our deer friend and great singer Pepper Swinson is in urgent need for a kidney donor. Please pass this information along. This is the text from the Ann Ruckert music blog regarding Pepper:
Today I learned that my dearest friend, Pepper Swinson, a great singer, is in jeopardy. I met her when she became ill with lupus and had to move East, leaving her wonderful career and home in Los Angeles. She had recorded and toured there with Boz Scaggs and recorded with The Brothers Johnson, produced by Quincy Jones. She has also toured with top groups including Wilson Pickett’s band.
The lupus attacked Pepper’s kidneys. After a five-year wait, doing self dialysis (a grueling, expensive process, that’s required four times a day) she received a healthy kidney that has lasted an astonishing 17 years.
Now, due to natural causes, that kidney is failing. This time, she will have to wait five to seven years unless a donor is found. Pepper had been teaching Spanish, Latin and was choral director at a theater arts high school in the Bronx. She has had to quit work in light of her illness.
I am asking for kidney donors. As someone who loves music and the folks who make music, Pepper has made major contributions to us all—with her teaching and being a spokesperson for the New York Organ Donors Network. She has given tirelessly. I am not a match and the two others who have offered are also not viable, so we have to make bigger circles. So if you can get the word out, God will smile.
Candidates for a kidney must be healthy and have an O Positive blood type. If you know of volunteers who fit this description, please contact Pepper at 914-355-5693 or 917-816-1549.
Making Music With Augmented Reality
Somtime in the future we’ll be producing with augmented reality music production applications, until that day comes we’ll just have to play around with this:
This is a demo of the new Wrigley’s 5 Gum Augmented Reality Music Mixer campaign which is taking AR technology to a new level by tracking multi-points at a single time allowing you to mix tracks like a virtual DJ. The best I’ve seen was the Eminem Augmented Reality competition a little while back where users could literally draw, colour, save, vote and share a virtual AR Eminem Logo. But this is pretty good too! Check out the campaign website here.
R.I.P Nujabes, a Japanese DJ and Hip-Hop producer
Nujabes was a Japanese hip-hop and Jazz musician, DJ, producer, he passed away at the age of 36 in a car accident in Tokyo.
Dedicating Piano Odes Online – Mysterious Merton
We only know him as Merton, our mysterious pianist goes on Chatroulette, finds a victim, and improvises a song for him or her — then clicks “Next!”.
Jusntin Nozuka “My Heart Is Yours”
This guys has a really great voice, really dig it, beautiful song, this is independent artist Juntin Nozuka. I just wish that the production would have been a little bit more updated to today’s sounds and production tricks. Nevertheless a great song and great artist. I couldn’t help but to be reminded of Bob Marley towards the end when the back up singers start saying Everything’s going to be alright, the melody is very similar to “No Woman No Cry”.
Enjoy!
Die Antwoord – Enter The Ninja
Is this a real band or some kind of a viral/joke fake group video? That was my reaction the first time I saw this video. They are South Africa’s rap group Die Antwoord signed to Interscope Records. Not only that, their next video is rumored to come under the direction of District 9’s Neill Blomkamp.
The music production on this track has some interesting twists and turns even though I can’t help but laugh every time I hear the girl singing the high pitched chorus.
