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West Coast Promotion Man

chasw88

About Me

Some people move to Los Angeles, seeking fame and fortune and instead finding only broken dreams. Hell, I was born there; fortunately, no broken dreams. Growing up, my fellow Angelenos frequently talked about escaping the Southland, moving "up north". Fat chance for most of them, except me and a few others. Going back there now is like descending into a hothouse of culture, technology, police, criminals, crazy drivers and smog. Mi puebla, City of Light, harbinger of a new civilization.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

DJ Krush, DJ Sasha, The Prodigy

Music:

My CURRENT FAVORITES, their CDs riding with me in my Cadillac, are - The Crystal Method - Amon Tobin - John Daniel Winters - Chemical Bros - and of course, all 4 volumes of Myspace Favorites (see my blog). FYI, John is also my son, no wonder I like his music. I've been searching through countless myspace sites looking for others in this same league. Most mainstream pop/hop/rock/metal is passe, cliched, burned out. The new wave is techno, electronica and jazz with virtuoso guitar, horns and other melodic instruments mixed in. There are also a few visionary pop, rock, reggae and hiphop artists who dabble in electronica to good effect. They are part of the wave too, but mostly its instrumental music, with vocals used more for the sounds they make and feelings they evoke than the words they convey. This new kind of music has global appeal, neatly crossing all boundaries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PLAYING NOW is “Pendulum Fantasie” by John Daniel Winters, a gifted acoustic guitar player from North Carolina. This number was composed for string ensemble on Notion 2.0 software which provides playback from samples of live instruments. Enjoy – CW, November 6, 2007

Movies:

- - "Eraserhead" by David Lynch (far and away the most obscure) - - - -"Amarcord" by Federico Fellini and the "Ghostbusters" series (all time best comedies) - - - - - - "American Gangster" (best recent crime drama)

Television:

Watching TV makes you sterile, however, Current TV is not all that bad.

Books:

"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin - - - - - - "The Templars" by Piers Paul Read - - "Secret History of the Mongols" - adapted by Paul Kahn

Heroes:

The Crystal Method - - - - - - - John Daniel Winters - - - - - - - Amon Tobin - - - - - - - - - - - - Eleven Eyes - - - - - - - - - - - Vitalic - - - - PS: See my videos above for a short clip of John Winters playing his Haxton acoustic guitar

My Blog

Myspace Favorites vol 4 - July 2006

Hello, friends.  There are currently 89,000 musicians in myspace who claim to dabble in electronica.  Once again, Ive been spending quality time surveying this fertile field, looking fo...
Posted by West Coast Promotion Man on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:52:00 PST

Myspace Favorites vol 3 - June 2006

Since early April, the total number of electronica musicians at Myspace has grown from 56 to 75 thousand.  During that time, Ive continued surveying of these artists from around the globe, pickin...
Posted by West Coast Promotion Man on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:34:00 PST

Myspace Favorites vol 2 - May 2006

My grand tour of Myspace musicians continues, truly a goldmine of new music.  In keeping with my own tastes, which are influenced by my son Johns music, I confine my search to those who list el...
Posted by West Coast Promotion Man on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:27:00 PST

Myspace Favorites vol 1 - April 2006

Myspace hosts countless undiscovered musicians, each with their own site where people can listen to and sometimes download music that can't be heard anywhere else.  In the course of promoting Joh...
Posted by West Coast Promotion Man on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:22:00 PST