Friday, January 29, 2010:
KiLiFAX RETURNS!
Desmond’s Tavern
9:00PM
with
at 10PM!
Desmond’s Tavern
433 Park Avenue South @ 29th St
6 train to 28th St/Park Ave
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*no cover*
Kilifax: Playing Schedule
January 2nd, 2010New stuff!
December 23rd, 2009Stuff-stuff, that is. I got myself a brand new MacBook, loaded with Logic Express and Superior Drummer. It’s the bomb. VST drums are the future. Now I no longer have any excuse for not recording more songs more often.
Vegan Drummer Wanted
December 3rd, 2009
Aegis Sonix: An Early Software Synth
November 17th, 2009
Hours and hours of fun. Late eighties, early nineties. Pretyy good sounding stuff for what it was.
Drum Master with Anvil
October 30th, 2009http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3135320cd0/anvil
Wurlitzer Sideman
October 27th, 2009The Wurlitzer Sideman was the first electronic drum machine ever produced (if you don’t count tape loops), sold as a Wurlitzer organ accessory beginning in 1959. It’s got some fantastically great sounds and the ’sequencer’ is actually a wheel covered in electronic contact points, with each point being a trigger.
More info here.
I Have A Car
October 26th, 2009Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Here is the “punked” version of Matthew Rose’s “I Have A Car”. You may be familiar with the original recording I did back in 1999. I recorded this version back in November 2008 as a test of my (then) brand-new Roland TD-3 drums — long since upgraded to a TD-4. I actually rather like the sound of this snare drum on the TD-3. I haven’t been able to find anything that punchy on the TD-4.
Other instruments: Gretsch Electromatic, Fender Jazz. Recorded on the Zoom H4, mixed in Garageband.
“Heroes”
October 22nd, 2009Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
A cover of one my favorite Bowie songs. I started this back in 2007, with acoustic guitars, and spent months noodling in Garageband to get something I liked. Then I added “live” V-Drums over the summer, and suddenly I remembered: less is more. So I kept the bassline (that I’m rather proud of) and the filtered Telecaster, and got rid of the other guitars and percussion and synthesizers. It could still use a touch-up in the mixing and mastering department, but I like where it’s at right now.
(Also, will I get sued over putting this up on a public website?)
Have You Ever Been Insane?
October 22nd, 2009Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
This song was written ages ago, when I was in high school, sometime around 1985. Teenage angst wrapped in cutesy English phrases I stole from music I was listening to. Me and Dirk performed this song once or twice at school events. We called it “bunck”: blues and rock and punk (with “c” because we lived close to Hattem.)
This version features Roland V-Drums, Fender Jazz bass and my Gretsch Electromatic. Recorded August 2009.
Inside
October 22nd, 2009Recorded live at the Starrett-Lehigh building, New York City, Memorial Day 2002.
