Dylan Garret profile picture

Dylan Garret

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Finally Updated! May 17th 2007.
Hey guys. I've been letting this page rot for way too long, so I'm going to try to freshen shit up around here a bit. Gonna put up some new mixes, along with any other projects I've been working on. I'm up over at PopCultureShock.com now as their Senior Music Editor (even though I don't really edit much). But it means there's a few new music things in the work -- podcasts, radio-style shows, interviews and the like -- so hopefully I'll have some more stuff to prop over there soon.
In the meantime, always remember, that Bridge & Causeway thing in my name is there for a reason, and you can check the site right here for more music goodness to waste your time with.

The Mixes


Infinite Ways : A radio-show style mix made as a test for a future PopCultureShock streaming radio show. Light on the mixing, heavy on good tunes. Think "future roots".
--
Keeping It Up : Man, this is a bizarre mix. It started as a live recording of a set I played at the PopCultureShock.com party in Manhattan a couple months back, then my computer corrupted the file, so a couple other bits were cut in at home to fill the gaps. In the end, you’ve just got a really eclectic set. Some hip-hop, some randomness, a touch of the mainstream, a lot of funking it up, all with a healthy dose of ADD. All vinyl, as always. So if you’re cruising the internet because you have no idea what the hell you want to hear today, maybe there’s a little something in the randomness here for you.
--
Fire Escapes at Midnight : A downtempo set, pretty chilled out, pretty random. Some old school and alternative (but not goofy) hip-hop, along with a bunch of stuff on your Plug Research/Sound In Color/Stones Throw/Warp tip.
--
Live @ Shebeen : Just an old live set I recorded from Shebeen, in NYC (202 Mott Street). Captured on an old MiniDisc player, so don't expect the sound quality to move mountains (I think we might be talking mono here, people), but there were some nice blends and good tunes. Another chill-out downtempo-meets-hip-hop set from another lovely night in NYC.
--
The Jet Set Radio 3 Soundtrack : From a year or two back, this was an uptempo electronica set recorded while the classic Dreamcast graffiti game Jet Grind Radio looped its demo screen in the background -- a bunch of hip young Tokyo cartoon kids dancing in bright colors wearing oversized headphones. God, I loved that game. So I muted the soundtrack and spun a new one in honor (granted, focusing more on the electronica aspect than the more ecclectic aspects of the game's soundtrack -- the Beastie Boys's now defunct Grand Royal records put together the soundtrack for the game's Xbox sequel, so hey, go figure). A little dated now, but still good to trance out to at 4am while playing some video games.

Me:


Hi. I'm Dylan Garret, part-time DJ, part-time musician, full-time vagabond who still makes imitation-designer handbags in a basement on the Bowery in NYC to “keep it real”. I help run a little music-whatever called Bridge & Causeway . It's got a lot of mixes and MP3s and radio show style stuff, enough to keep your pods casting for days without ever having to hear the same song twice. I mostly use MySpace for music, even though I never thought to set up a music account, but I'm always down to network with positive people. --
Let's try this map thing out, shall we?
we?

My Interests

Music, writing, traveling, and caffeine.

I'd like to meet:

Good people.

Music:

In no order: gil scott-heron, antibalas afrobeat orchestra, wilbert harrison, art tatum, benny goodman, benny gordon, blackalicious, blowfly, boards of canada, bobby o, buju banton, caberet voltaire, cat power, cibo matto, cybotron, dave clark five, les mccann, ellen allien, d-train, larry levan, diplo, dj hell, debbie deb, dinosaur L, dinosaur jr, yoko ono, wilson pickett, the o'jays, kid creole & the coconuts, klein & mbo, the minutemen, eddie mo, fela kuti, visage, the b-52s, afrika bambaataa, fab 5 freddy, strafe, art of noise, first choice, alexander robotnick, betty wright, gloria jones, inner city, yellow magic orchestra, ram jam, PiL, happy mondays, marshall jefferson, primal scream, chicken lips, gary numan & tubeway army, frankie knuckles, freestyle, france gall, franciose hardy, jean sablon, antoine et les problèmes, brigitte bardot, serge gainsbourg, gang of four, climber, candido, francisco aguabella, glen branca, berlin express, 2 live crew, air, game theory, gentle giants, george clinton, bootsy's rubber band, kool & the gang, gucci crew ii, guitar vader, hank carbo, hashim, heptones, horace andy, hugo largo, james brown, james k-nine, james white and the blacks, lizzy mercier descloux, jean-jacques pierrer, jesus and mary chain, jj fad, john foxx, johnny dynell, joy division, juan atkins, the cramps, bob sinclair, oxygen, k-os, kool kyle, kraftwerk, les nubians, liquid liquid, looper, manu dibango, gilberto cruz, hopeton lewis, herbie hancock, isotope 217, u-roy, massive attack, mc frontalot, mc shy d, melt banana, metro area, morgan geist, kelley polar quartet, delia gonzalez & gavin russom, squarepusher, prefuse 73, 13 & god, pigeon jon, nullsleep, minusbaby. bitshifter, 8bitpeoples, j dilla, nobody, daedelus, souls of mischief, de la soul, kimidori, dabrye, bonobo, yohimbe brothers, the blue hearts, the high-lows, georgia anne muldrow, flying lotus, dj spinna, rich medina, ramm:ell:zee, colleen, ann peebles, meat beat manifesto, gang starr, cut chemist, milosh, brass construction, archie bell & the drells, dntel, oh no, dudley perkins, nujabes, fat jon, dimlite, domu, clark, meanest man contest, elliot lipp, lusine, the mobius band, peanut butter wolf, spacek, busdriver, i'm not a gun, geology, ali shaheed muhammed, mighty diamonds, miles davis, the meters, mongo santamaria, moody scott, mos def, my bloody valentine, new order, nico + the faction, oliver sain, pretty tony, radiohead, rakim, richard ace, roy ayers, russell simins, rhythm heritage, saul williams, sergio mendes, sigur ros, slim smith, sonic youth, spam allstars, speedy j, spoony g, spyder d, stacey kidd, paul johnson, charlie parker, stan getz, stereolab, stone roses, sylvester, talib kweli, gong, sly & robbie, jah wobble, 23 skidoo, 999, talking heads, tom tom club, tangerine dream, team dresche, isao suzuki trio, ryuichi sakamoto, george duke, the modern lovers, the bar-kays, the books, pere ubu, the buzzcocks, the clash, elvis costello, the gun club, fingerprintz, polyrock, digable planets, the juan maclean, the kinks, the new jersey queens, the pixies, the ramones, the sex pistols, the time, the smiths, the specials, the streets, the velvet underground, treacherous three, trickeration, ultravox, unkle, visage, warm excursion, willard burton, wire, yaz, coctueau twins, chakachas, savath + savalas, bizzy & co., luke vibert, sa-ra creative partners, platinum pied pipers, slum village, quantic, green velvet, dizzee rascal, a certain ratio, esg, prince, i-cue productions, grand puba, television, konk, lemonheads, joe bataan, edwin birdsong, eddie kendricks, charles wright, beck, siouxsie & the banshees, positive force, the delfonics. . . and a lot more I'll remember right after I hit "Save". playlists over here: http://www.bridgeandcauseway.net/playlist.html

Movies:

Last 5 DVDs: Bomb The System, The Killing Fields, Chungking Express, Style Wars, Grave of the Fireflies

Television:

No TV, but I've started downloading Heroes on iTunes.

Books:

Last 5 Read: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (by Haruki Murakami), Scott Pilgrim (by Bryan Lee O'Malley), Around The Bloc (by Stephanie Elizondo Griest), Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton), Preacher (by Garth Ennis)

My Blog

The real blog(s).

Yeah, so I don't really update this. Too many blogs in the world, I'll tell you, to give them all proper attention.Just to keep a post up top with some real info, I have a DJ/vinyl-nerd themed blog/co...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:59:00 PST

So I posted a blog about a Daedelus track. . .

There was supposed to be something to listen to with it. I never really got around to linking it because. . . I'm kind of a lazy bastard. But we're here now, so this is the story.I was playing at Sheb...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:47:00 PST

You know. . .

    Sometimes, I sit here in my office (actually the back part of a stockroom, where they kep the porn over-stock for one of my jobs), hungover and on two hours of sleep after working a...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:02:00 PST

New mix download: Dylan Garret, Live @ Shebeen, SoHo NYC

So, the website. It recently got shut down, then rehosted, and now has a new webpage I can hardly manage, and no new mixes. This is cause I work, in my estimation, about a billion new jobs, in additio...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:59:00 PST

Dear Williamsburg. . .

Dear Williamsburg,Suck my dick.Love,Dylan Garret(How's that for artistic expression?)
Posted by Dylan Garret on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:56:00 PST

Miami-bound G-train, leaving the station.

So here's the deal. I think I'm heading back to Miami for Winter Music Conference. Since I tend to do this shit on a whim, nothing is final yet, but it'll probably involve me leaving tonight or tomorr...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:57:00 PST

The B&C is down. Don't know when it'll be back up. Crisis and panic ensues.

Just noticed, while attempting to update the site, that www.bridgeandcauseway.net is down. Went to send an email to the server to find out what's up, and found I already had a message in my Inbox. The...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:10:00 PST

PopCultureShock NYC Comic-Con Afterparty @ Bowery Poetry Club (w/Dylan Garret)

Just another reminder about tonight/tomorrow-night (depending on when you consider the day to start -- I say sun-up, not midnight). Saturday night at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, across from ...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:25:00 PST

You better stop, and think about what you doin'.

Have I ever mentioned that it's my goal in life to some day be as cool as J Dilla (minus the health problems)? Seriously, you all can just start calling me "Dilla N", how about that? Aw...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:32:00 PST

Friday, January 27th, at Shebeen. Dylan Garret, putting the "fun" in "funky".

Another pseudo-flyer, for a gig I'm playing this Friday, January 27th 2006, in SoHo, Manhattan. So I got picked up, originally, to cover for Raeo while he's playing the Turntabels On The Hudson y...
Posted by Dylan Garret on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:37:00 PST