Onyx Ashanti-FreeStyle Recursive Beatjazz

Holy fuck. it's really hard to believe right now, that 2 years ago, i was completely burned out. I had spent the previous 3 years wasting my time touring with a has been group from 80's and i had lost me artistic way. i was wondering "why?". why do music when people dont really care. why play live when lots of people seemed to rather hear a DJ? why put myself through all of that? why not just produce it all in my little studio (ie laptop) and DJ like everybody else (in the electronic/dance/exper… Continue

well, this is my first full set of live "Blips". I had an especially fruitful week playing down at the wharf this week. As i mentioned before, I record everything i do in the background and pick thru the resulting recordings when i get home. well, this week i ended up with a massive amount of live recordings. you can judge the quality for yourself, but i am VERY happy with them considering that they are all live and i had no preconception about what i'd play before i actually started playing. t… Continue

just for clarification. I dont call my live musical output "songs" or "tracks". I refer to them as "blips". have you ever seen those sci-fi movies where there is a "blip" of the radar, and then its gone? that's what these represent. when i perform my beatjazz live now, i improvise 98% of it, and record everything, so even though i could recreate some of the better stuff, each performance is just a blip that was there and then gone. now, some of these blips are fucking sick (to me at least), an… Continue