New site up for The Professor check it out!!!

www.thedjprofessor.com

Bedrockk

Bedrockk is a very unique group with a lot to offer this city. Heading the group is Dave Marquess, singer, musician, and producer. In the project, he plays guitar and synthesizer, sings, and is accompanied by electronic production. Music has always been an influential part of his life, being the grandson of a jazz man hailing from the Bronx. Attending school at CU Boulder, Dave met fellow rock-climber Scott Schorr, who is Bedrockk's production specialist. At school, Dave also met drummer, Spencer Perkins, who is also known as Sparks. The trio began playing music together about 5 months ago after Dave moved to Denver. That marked the formation of Bedrockk.



Bedrockk playing the Fox Theater in Boulder, 04/30/10

With a sound they can definitely call their own, Bedrockk’s material still reflects some of the group’s influences, which are many and varied. Influences range from classics like Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Bob Marley, to modern electronic artists such as Joker, Mimosa and Marty Party. These influences are easily heard in their music, but in a unique way. The sound can be summed up as electronic soul/funk with some grime and dubstep undertones, though it varies pleasantly from song to song. The songs “Future Child” and “Diamond in the Night” are very reflective of the soul and blues influences, while others like “Amazon” and “Fly in the Sky” have a grimey, westcoast dubstep feel. All in all, the music is upbeat, melodic and very conducive to booty shakin. Bedrockk is starting to play shows around Denver and is definitely an act to catch if the opportunity arises.


Latest tracks by Bedrockk


http://www.myspace.com/bedrockkmusic
http://www.soundcloud.com/bedrockk

Jon Black (cloud-d)

Next up on the New Sound roster is young up and coming Denver producer Jon Black, aka cloud-d, aka earth tones. Jon is Denver born and raised, djs, has been producing for a little over a year and is a graphic designer. He currently attends the Art Institute of Colorado. Jon tells me he's always loved downtempo, started making it and this eventually led him into darker dubstep. I met Jon randomly shooting the shit on Soundcloud comments, liked each others stuff and realized we had a bunch of the same friends (btw.. time to buy stock in Soundcloud??). Most recently, I caught his set at Cervantes on the 7th and it was pretty impressive. A few of the other kids from The Mile High Sound Movement (a CO collective similar to ours, links below) also threw down good sets. I especially liked Wyatt and Project Aspect. Jon's set struck me as restrained (rather than over the top) and well-arranged. Any laptop kid can ask around, download the newest bangers and throw them together into shitty sounding "transitions", but i noticed Jon using minimal dub tracks (a bunch of them his own production) and drum loops to have his set flow up and down properly. Extra points for using a Maschine rather than an MPD. Another producer on our label (TK Kayembe, aka .anansi) also plays on and produces on a Maschine. A bunch of links are below for further exploration, including Jon's websites, old flyers and whatnot. His set from Cervantes this past week will be posted soon. This kid has a good work ethic, a good ear and is on the up and up. Watch out.

Latest tracks by cloud-d

influences:
-yukmouth
-three6
-techn9ne
-mrk1
-heyoka
-vinyl mind

Latest tracks by cloud-d

Review from last year's Mile High Meltdown

Mile High Movement Facebook Page

Ableton Workshops

Anyone know about any good sources for Ableton education here in Denver? Workshops and the like?

- Colin


checkers (jamie) said...

colin i'm going tomorrow night to a workshop put on by the Denver Ableton User Group and Creative Electronica. There are links on our facebook page to the event, but heres one anyways. hit me up if you or anyone else wants to roll with.


http://creativeelectronica.com/

Ableton Colorado -
"We have a free meet & greet on Weds 7pm central denver focusing on electronic music (industry) w/presentations on Ableton and Serato, you sound like our type of people!"

The Professor

Hey guys. I'm Braden... more recently known as The Professor. I live in Scranton, PA working during the day and making music by night. I started messing around with Reason and a 25 key M-Audio keyboard in late 2007. Since them I have definitely upped my game. I am 1/3 of the band Laser Sex and do mostly DJ stuff for them. Lots of sound manipulation, looping and beat dropping using Ableton Live and Reason. I work with my APC 40 only because that's all I really need at the moment. When I'm not playing with Laser Sex I do a lot of my own podcasts and have recently been releasing originals. Check them out at www.soundcloud.com/djprofessor. I just launched my own website at www.thedjprofessor.com. I also have a facebook page and a twitter www.facebook.com/thedjprofessor and www.twitter.com/thedjprofessor. When I'm doing my own stuff I try to stick to danceable music whether its Dubstep, DnB, Electro house or breakbeat. I'm not sure what my future plans are for right now, but I do know I would like to end up back in Colorado sooner rather than later. For right now I'm a solid east coast connection for any of the boys out west. I'm really excited to be working with A New Sound and am ready to give it my all. If you have any questions hit me up at thedjprofessor@gmail.com. Thanks. This is the start of something big.



Latest tracks by DJProfessor

Michael Grab

Mike Grab is a.. "Vinyl Collector, DJ (Dubstep, Hip Hop, various electronic), Visual Artist, Rock Stacker, Researcher, Brother, Friend, Canadian, Jedi Shaman, Moon Watcher, and all around badass."

I've watched Mike grow as a DJ and artist immensely in the few years I've known him. Mike is the homie, kills records like its his job, takes ill photos and makes some really freaking cool rock stacks in various rivers and streams.

Mike will be posting regularly on a New Sound, with original material, various art projects and commentary on aliens and reptile people. Mike prefers tasteful and sometimes minimal dub as opposed to unnecessary wobbles and loud, harsh noises. In his free time Mike likes to drink crown and play with mika.





Mike has some dope mixes sitting around, some of which were in consideration for this post, but in the endless quest for perfection he has been in the lab for the last week mad scientist-style putting together a new set. There are a few Grab staples in there along with some new records. I just gave it a listen and it is pretty sick. Dope transitions, varied sub-genres of dub and solid song selection make it a keeper. For me, highlights are the buildup and mid-song drop of the Kromestar track, the mixing into the White Lies track (one of my all-time favorite dubstep tracks), and the last song, a seldom-played BoC record mixed uniquely with a much heavier Excision track.

Dubstep Dawn by GRABASS

1. Kromestar - Heavy Mental
2. Headhunter - Entity
3. Bar 9 - Murda Sound (Eskmo Remix)
4. Synkro - Hornz
5. Dread Foxx - Clash (ft Werd 2 Jah)
6. Kromestar - Poltergeist
7. White Lies - Death (Chase & Status Remix)
8. N-Type - Dark matter
9. Skream - Rottan
10. Bar 9 - Murda Sound (Riskotheque Remix)
11. Uncle Sam - Round the World Girls
12. L-Wiz - Amy Diamond
13. Dj Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like
14. Excision - Too Late
15. Boards of Canada - Dawn Chorus





Mike's Flickr (tons of dope shots)

Mike's Blog (art, photography and crazy conspiracy theories)

post on Denver Art Walk and the whomp truck


Recent flyer from the Lazy Dog in Boulder

a New Sound

Hey everybody,

This blog is changing in a major way. This blog, along with another website in the works, is now the home of a New Sound Colorado, a Denver-based musicians and artists collective. The aim of this collective is to function as an umbrella under which artists can both express themselves individually and learn from and collaborate with one other. The whole point is to bring much-needed fresh sounds to the Denver music scene and beyond. There are a lot of unique and forward-thinking musicians and artists in Colorado that have yet to receive proper exposure, and this collective hopes to bring that talent to light. We all have a lot to offer in many different ways. A New Sound Colorado is a multi-faceted entity including a blog/website/podcast with frequent posts of original production, mixes, artistic endeavors and highlights of the beat music scene. Among us there are producers of all sorts, drummers, synth players, acoustic guitar players and DJs both vinyl and digital, all with too many different projects to name. Not to mention the Denver art scene has never looked better. I'm excited to see where this all goes..




"obama production" - unknown artist - denver, co - http://endlesscanvas.com/?p=983