My main passion is music. I dabble in computer based art, but music is always on my mind. I'm always up for trying new music gear (synths & VSTs). The home studio is slowly growing & becoming more complete which has allowed me to alter, add, subract from every track I buy. Each track that I play dj wise or through my live pa act is cut up, re-arranged, or constructed in the way I think flows best & adds the most "umpth". But more about the gear... check out this link for my gear list:
Kayaking & jogging are my physical outlets for fun.
I'd like to meet:
I'm always up for meeting awesome people...
In the mean time, enjoy some pictures I've done & some photography that I've recently gotten into.
Photography
Computer driven images
View more photos & art at my website! www.jacksinmusic.com
Music:
One of the things I hate the most is when folks say "I listen to everything" because I know they're not jammin polka or bluegrass. So I'll just say that I dig just about every type of electronic music except for gay house, cheesy trance, or bleepy tech house.
Downtempo is hot with me right now & some great artists are: Audiomoe, CPU, M7, Slavens, & Younger Brother.
House wise I dig the hell out of Jeff Bennett, Jordy Verduyn, Mara, Martin H, Matt J, Max Graham has come out with some good house stuff lately, RPO, Luke Fair, & Wawa has some hot stuff.
Since I mostly play progressive stuff, here are some artists I'm diggin: 648, Antix, Antidote, Blackwatch, Flatline, D-Lux, Greed, Junkie XL (man is a genious), MRZ, DJ Remy, & Martin H once again.
I don't listen to much DnB mainly because it all sounds too... I dunno, wamp wamp wamp wermp wermp meerrrrrrrr... you know, it's just that too many tracks have the same sound in it, kinda like cheesy trance all has that "sound" but I do like Captivo & DV8 for those iches that only slammin DnB can scratch.
I don't like practically every track on the radio these days. Seems like all the rock stuff sounds over produced & lacking any originality but I've never liked music with words because most of them are empty lyrics & I also have a hard time concentrating on the "message".
Hip-hop... bluh... I just can't relate to it. Besides, it's all just corporations taking some kid from the "streets", making them look "tough", & marketing them to white teens that think those guys are really "hard core" & feel that they can really relate with the crap those underprivileged guys went through & by buying their cds they're just making the fat white guy at the head of Sony Records richer by the minute. I just can't buy into all that. Dub records with no lyrics are cool for the bass lines, but the lyrics don't do it for me.
Am I bitter? Yeah, a lil bit. It's just that even hip-hop is too played out in my opinion.
Movies:
I have a strange taste in movies. The Cell is one of my favorites from an art direction/set design perspective. The Bedford Incident is a great old film, has a lot of suspense & I never saw the ending coming! Super Troopers is just plain hilarious. A lesser known film, Wet Hot American Summer, has a lot of subtle humor that I like. Of course the Star Wars films (Episode 3 rocked!) Half Baked still makes me laugh even though I don't smoke pot anymore....
Movies I don't like too much are comic book & all the scary flicks that seem to come out every 2 weeks... although House of a 1000 Corpses was cool in that the entire film did a constant downward spiral into a creepy gross world that I think Rob Zombie wants to live in.
Television:
Adult Swim! I wish those cartoons were around when I was younger because that's the type of stuff I make up in my head! Wish I could be a fly on the wall when they write shows. Genius!
Family Guy has entertained me since it aired many years ago.
Arrested Development is one of the best written shows I've ever seen!
How I met your Mother is plain hillarious.
History Channel has some good shows.
My buddy got me hooked on Naruto. Thanks a lot, like I needed to be any more of a dork.
Books:
I have enough going for me in the nerd department that I shouldn't even list it, but the Sword of Truth series from Terry Goodkind is full of great characters & what not. Fantasy isn't my thing at all, but those 8 or 9 books had me hooked. Sci-fi books are cool as long as its more fi & not so much sci that it gets boring. The Dune books rock!
Heroes:
Heroes? Musically, the three times I've seen Max Graham he just tore the place up. Junkie XL has such depth to his songs &, like myself, he's a Live PA act which is commendable. Deepsky blew the roof off when I saw them in early 2001... freakin amazing! They filled every possible millisecond with sound & it truly represented the music that goes on in my head. Rabbit in the Moon really needs to make some new tracks, but I love the way they perform... Bunny dropped out of the rafters in a straight jacket while hung by a noose & was slowly lowered to the ground & proceeded to speak distorted lyrics over the mic... how cool is that! Jeff Bennett has bass lines that make me wanna cry they're so groovy. I can't get enough of Martin H's more slammin tracks. A buddy of mine I met online, Shoko from Germany, is a constant inspiration in that he'll take any track I send to him & deem "jammin" & play it across the ocean & mix it a way I never thought to. He changes up tracks faster than I've ever heard & can hold an audience the entire time. But considering he's 40 something so I reckon if you're that old djing you'd better know what the heckle your doin.
Oh yeah, & John R.
