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Producing “Take It Off My Back” by Swim Club
Producing Indie Rock Magic with Swim Club during the recording of Take It Off My Back, including a full walkthrough of music production gear, microphones, and recording techniques
Mixtape 26
Everytime Pharcyde’s “Passing Me By” starts, I have a hard time not singing out the first few lines. The gritty production, the personality in the performances, there’s a reason this is a classic. There are some well-known classics on this one, including…
Mixtape 25
This is a great summer playlist. When I wrote “Basic Bliss,” I was listening to this, trying to figure out how to make a song that would fit on this playlist in particular. Queen’s “Cool Cat” was really influential to me on that song. I just wanted to make something that felt like summer. Some standout tracks from this are the excellent DJ Premier produced…
Mixtape 24
When Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars announced they were forming Silk Sonic (and that bass icon Bootsy Collins would be involved) it felt like the world as a whole apologizing to me for the entirety of the COVID pandemic. This playlist leads off with the lead single from that album, but there are plenty of other gems, well-known and unknown on this playlist. I’ll say my favorite albums from this playlist are…
Mixtape 23
Listening back to this playlist now, I get transported back to my car, driving through a neighborhood where I no longer live, past I high school I never attended, on a late spring afternoon, with “Crawling Home When The Morning Comes” playing on my speakers, trying to figure out if I need to hire a mix engineer to finish off “Dead End Friends,” or it I could get my mix to sound as good as anything on this playlist. I ended up…
Japanese Vinyl Mix w Rafael Vidal
You’ve gotta forgive the transitions on this one - we were too busy having a good time to get those down. We went back and forth - I played something out of my…