Free downloads of all tracks available here: Shazbot on last.fm
Shazbot is my alias for producing electronic music, both in studio and in live shows. I write soundtracks for the daydreams and nightmares of the lonely six-year-old boy that lives inside my head. Parts of me have never grown up.
I've been making tracks and playing shows both locally and internationally for about seven years now. I've played all sorts of shows: local battles-of-the-bands and other concerts, house parties, friends' weddings, marathon roadside entertainment, Ukrainian raves. No, I'm not making this up.
I've also gotten semi-regular airplay and DJ support on several internet radio stations, most notably Bassdrive.com, one of the central hubs of the global drum and bass community.
A note about the music store: The music store on this page is just here if you want to support my habit. It contains nearly my entire catalogue, including a few tracks that I made as soundtracks for video projects for myself or others. With those few exceptions, every track in the store was, at one time, available for free download, and I try to keep the player up top stocked with as many free downloads as they allow. I make exactly $1.00 off each track you buy, and if every one of my fans buys the entire catalogue, my music will still have cost me more than I've made from it (in strictly monetary terms, anyway). So don't think I'm selling out! I strongly support free digital distribution of recorded music, and I hope that if you like my work, you will choose to spend money on it in an amount of your choosing so that I can keep making more. For full-length streams of all my tracks, check me out on Facebook !
My gear, for those interested:
Korg Electribe MX drum machine/synth/sequencer/effects combo;
Korg MicroKORG synth;
Numark CD-MIX2 mixer/cd decks;
A computer I built myself, loaded with:
Sonic Foundry (now Sony) Acid Pro 4.0;
Propellerhead Software Reason 4.0;
Propellerhead Recycle;
Audacity Audio Editor ;
Several refills and sample packs.
My computer specs are here , for those interested.
If you are a musician or are involved in the industry, I welcome your criticisms and comments. I compose in a nearly total vacuum from outside musical influence, and I am quite starved for ways to improve.
Recently Played Tracks (via Audioscrobbler and Last.FM ):