Elvis Bigfoot

All of the music I have done has been strictly for my own amusement made with bare bones out of date equipment and mixed either through headphones or on home stereo speakers that were purchased in the late 70's so please be gentle with your criticism. First up, a short piece that I came up with after I bought a Korg N5. I wanted to do something with the cheesier sounds it had such as electric cowbell and "beat boxing", so I sequenced a beat and played the rest of the parts over that and recorded them to an 8 track HD recorder. Funky Korg I bought a Roland S-10 sampling keyboard at a pawn shop and used it to add some samples to a beat to crack one of my friends up. I sampled dialog from the movie Sling Blade to come up with... http://f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/gern_blanstin/vwp2?.tok=bcYNWZVB7ZcP3tkk&.dir=/music&.dnm=Doyle%27s+Song.mp3&.src=bc W A R N I N G! Contains STRONG language. I've used Acid Music and Fruity Loops to do a few remixes of Beastie Boys songs. I got the vocal samples for the first one from the Sonic Foundry website when they did a remix the Beastie Boys contest. The second one (Pass The Mic) features a synth riff that I came up with and played on the Korg. Nice To Be Alive Pass The Mic Remix p.s. Some of these use copyrighted material but I just did them for fun, not to make money or to advertise anything. I don't think I've violated any laws or broken any rules but I will remove the links if neccesary.

Ok, time for an amateur/hobbyist to speak up. My name is Jeff Johnson (the name you know), I'm 34 years old and I manage a retail store. I played percussion in middle school and high school band. I bought an Atari 520ST computer when I was 15 and a Casio CZ-101 shortly thereafter. I have been messing around with computers and music ever since then. When my Atari stopped working I taught myself to play the keyboard and years later bought a Kawai K1-II with full size keys. After I discovered Chopin and his nocturnes I spent many hours playing and learning a few of them, although I've never been really serious about playing. I sometimes think that I would have loved to have been a concert pianist (or a motocross racer, or a horticulturalist, or a ...etc.) I now have a Korg N5 and need to get rid of my Kawai and my Roland S-10 sampling keyboard and my Fostex DMT-8vl 8 track hard disk recorder. My interest in making music wanes from time to time and I haven't done much musically at all for a while. Most recently I did some Beastie Boys remixes. I bought their criterion collection DVD which contains some acapella tracks . I used Fruity Loops which is a really fun app. I also downloaded Tracktion but it doesn't seem very usable to me yet. Maybe if I mess with it some more it will make sense to me. Oh, also I bought the Klipsch 2.1 speakers after reading Gansu's thread. At Best Buy, had to ask a clerk to get them working and then only one of the satellites worked and it sounded like crap and they tried to charge me $5.00 more than the marked price. Got them home... . . . . . . . . . . . . and I love 'em!

I'm strictly an amateur, but here's a little thing I put together with a Korg N5 and a Fostex 8 track recorder. The N5 had some really cheesy sounds like the electric cowbell and beat-box that I wanted to use so I cheesed up some fonk wit' it. (All sounds including the drums came directly out of the N5) http://www.geocities.com/diggem74112/prefabFunk.mp3 (It's on geocities so it won't always be accessable) Please let me know what you think.