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Tim K

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About Me

my site and info... www.todaysmodernhome.com
1/2 of the production team Home & Garden
Check out my various productions, writes and remixes on myspace...
Lucy Woodward ("Slow Recovery", "Submarine Love", "Too Much To Live For") last two produced with Itaal Shur
Home & Garden (Everything, with my partner Tim Shumaker)
Colette, buncha stuff off the new LP, and a few off the last with Tim Shumaker ("About Us", "All The Same", "Like The Sun", "If", "So Special", "Joy & Pain")
Janita ("No Words (Sophistifunk Remix)") produced with Jon Maron of Groove Collective
Rasalus,("Whatever it Takes", "Last Call")
Pais Donovan ("Star", "Through the Night")
Chris Jackson ("Promises to Keep", "Be the Light") produced with Mic Murphy
Cris Gunther, ("Gotta Give", "Sacred Sexuality", "Smoke and Mirrors")
Russell Taylor ("Somewhere In Between", "How Deep", "2 B Loved")
Alia Marie ("This Is")
Producer, programmer, musician, engineer, listener

My Interests

Music, Food, Politics, Reading, Listening, Writing, Arranging, Mixing
Procrastination, Talking Shit, Sleeping, Music Digging, Vibing, Observing
Couch/Movie Watching, Record Digging,
Gear Obsessing

I'd like to meet:

Beautiful Ones that hurt you everytime, Singers, Musicians, Programmers, Arrangers, Songwriters, Music Heads
All shirtless people and Over-Advertising Bands will be quickly removed. Please don't post self promo messages on my main comments.

Music:

Soul - Bobby Womack, Sylistics, Stevie, Marvin, Prince, Donny Hathaway, Al Green, Ron Isley & his bros, Teddy P

Amy Winehouse
Blue Eyed Soul - Lewis Taylor, Bobby Caldwell, Leon Russell, Michael McDonald, Hall & Oates
Garage-Era Classics - Sly & Robbie projects, Eddy Grant, Central Line, The System, Gwen Gutherie
Funk - Parliament/G Clinton, Cameo, Faze-O, Captain Skyy, Sly Stone
Real Jazz - Monk, Bill Evans, Dollar Brand, Shirley Horn, Frank Kimbrough, 70's George Benson, Eumir Deodat
Dub & reggae - Wackies, Studio One, Trojan, Greensleeves, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy
Roy Ayers and his projects and productions
Rick James and his productions
LOGG/Leroy Burgess
Joao Gilberto - especially Amoroso with Claus Ogerman arrangments
70's salsa like... Hector Lavoe, Fania All Stars, Roberto Roena, Papo Lucca & Sonora Poncena & Eddie Palmieri
Early 90's hiphop - Tribe, Jbs, Rakim, Premier, Large Professor, Grand Puba
Deep Folk - Devendra Banhart
Stepper's joints - Mary Jane Girls, Keni Burke, Dennis Edwards, Fonda Rae
Afrobeat - Antibalas, Fela Kuti and Tony Scott
Matthew Herbert
Bjork
Jill Scott
Radiohead
Brand New Heavies, Aloe Blacc, Dudley Perkins, Madlib, Jimpster, Metro Area, Jamie Cullum
Ambient Classical - Erik Satie, Mahler, Bartok, Stockhausen, John Cage
NY/No Wave - ESG, Liquid Liquid, Talking Heads, Bill Laswell/Material, A Certain Ratio, Gang of Four
Underground - MAW, Metro Area, Larry Heard, Carl Craig, Jimpster, Osunlade, Home & Garden!, Derrick Carter, DJ Heather, Colette, JT Donaldson
Coco Rosie
Valeze, Nabate Isles, Russell Taylor, Gina Breedlove, Shaka Zulu Overdrive,
Lucy Woodward, Waldeck, Massive Attack, Bjork, Henke H, Anja Gaborek, Portishead

Movies:

Bergman, Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar, P.T. Anderson, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Terrence Malick & Sofia Coppola
12 Angry Men, Adaptation, 12 Monkeys, 2001: Space Odyssey, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Airplane!, All the President's Men, American Pimp, Apocalypse Now, Autumn Sonata, Bad Lieutenant , Badlands, The Battle of Algiers, Best in Show, The Big Lebowski, Black Orpheus, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, Blow Up, Bob Roberts, Boogie Nights, Bottle Rocket, Boy and his Dog, Brazil, Broadcast News, Broken Flowers, The Brother From Another Planet, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Bullitt, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, City of God, Clockwork Orange, Colors, ****The Conversation****, Cool Hand Luke, Cowboy Bebop, Dark Days, Days of Heaven, Deerhunter, Donnie Darko, Escape from Alcatraz, Escape from New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Five Easy Pieces, For a few Dollars More, The French Connection, Gangster No. 1, The General, Glengarry Glen Ross, Godfather, Good bye, Lenin, Gummo, Happiness, Hard Eight, Harder they come, Heat, Heathers, Henry Fool, Hotel Rwanda, Hurlyburly, The Ice Storm, In the Company of Men, The Insider, The Jerk, Kids, The Killing Fields, The Last Temptation of Christ, Lawrence of Arabia, Leaving Las Vegas, Less Than Zero, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Live Flesh, The Long Goodbye, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, The Man who Wasn't There, Manhattan, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Million Dollar Baby, The Mission, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Nashville, the Natural, Nixon, Office Space, Once Upon a time in America, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Papillon, The Passion of Joan D' Arc, Patton, The Pianist, The Player, Primary Colors, Punch-Drunk Love, Ran, Rashomon, Ray, Red Beard, Requiem for a Dream, The Royal Tannenbaums, Rushmore, Salvador, Scarface, Secretary, Serpico, Seven Samurai, The Shining, Short Cuts, Snatch, Spellbound, Stripes, Super Size Me, The Sweet Hereafter, Tampopo, Taxi Driver, The Thin Red Line, Tie me up! Tie me down!, Traffik, The Virgin Suicides, Waiting for Guffman, Wild Strawberries, The Year of Living Dangerously, Yojimbo

Television:

Weeds, Dexter, Rome, Samurai Saturdays on IFC. Guilty Pleasure - Flavor of Love (Thing 2!)

Books:

Don De Lillo, Martin Amis, Chuck Palachiuk, Haruki Murakami, Noam Chomsky, Will Self, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Vladimir Nabokov, Buckminster Fuller, Hunter S. Thompson, Alvin Toeffler, Phillip K. Dick, Ken Kesey, Zadie Smith, Jeff Chang, Marshall McLuhan, Robert Littell, John O'Hara, Richard Yates

Heroes:

FDR, John Brown, MLK Jr, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama

Martin Amis, Nabakov, Chuck Palachiuk, Russell Banks, Will Self

Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Steve McQueen, Don Cheadle

Coltrane, Miles, Bjork, Aretha, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald, Lewis Taylor, Joao Gilbero, Roy Ayers, George Clinton, Rick James, Rakim, Bill Evans

Quincy Jones, Ted Templeton, Jon Brion, Russ Titleman, 9th Wonder, No-I.D., Teo Macero, Arif Mardin, Timbaland, MADLIB, J Dilla

Tom Elmhirst, Fabrice "Fab" Dupont, Rudy Van Gelder, Tom Dowd, "Spike" Stent, Al Schmidt, Serban Ghenea, Tom Schick

John Lennon, Elvis Costello, Gamble& Huff, MacFadden & Whitehead, Leon Russell, Babyface, Itaal Shur

Greg Calby, Bob Ludwig

George Massenburg, Hutch, Robert Moog, Rupert Neve, Bill Putnam, Geoff Daking, David Bock

My Blog

At long last.... Home & Garden LP

The rumor about the release of the long awaited Home & Garden LP... it is looking to be true.
Posted by Tim K on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:47:00 PST

Tim K at My Moon - 3/1 at 11p

Tim K - Deep and Funky set in Wlliamsburg, Bk, NY @ My Moon.N 10th between Bedford and Driggs - 3/1 @ 11p
Posted by Tim K on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:49:00 PST

METRO: Colette (with the live crew), DC, Heather, Tim Shumaker last night

We rocked the Metro last night. Great venue, great crowd. The live show went off great, after Heather whipped the crowd into shape. Colette sang her ass off, the band had a great time. Derrick cam...
Posted by Tim K on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

San Jose Jazz Festival = Petalpushers!

So I'm headed back out tomorrow to the west coast. The petalpushers are going to rock the San Jose Jazz Festival. If you are in the area, come see the Future Tent Saturday night.
Posted by Tim K on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

VFEST! Petalpushers, Amy Winehouse and the Police

So after a couple great shows with Shoshana, I went out to San Fran last week to rehearse with the Petalpushers, Miguel Mig's band. We then flew to Baltimore for the vfest. We played between the Sho...
Posted by Tim K on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:08:00 PST

Shoshana Bean at Joe's Pub TONIGHT and TOMORROW

7:30 - Joe's Pub. Come check it out. Paul Frazier, Abe Fogel, Nunzio Signore and yours truly backing her up, with a great group of bgrd singers. Come check it out.
Posted by Tim K on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:47:00 PST

LUCY AT THE BOWERY BALLROOM!

Best show ever!  I felt bad for anyone having to go on stage after that.It was Itaal, Lucy's and my Bowery cherry gig.  It was so great, the sound was fantastic, incredible, incredible, incr...
Posted by Tim K on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:59:00 PST

Lucy Woodward at Joe's Pub Last night!!!

WOW! I have been MD'ing for Lucy Woodward, three weeks of rehearsals, etc, drum triggers, chord changes, booty shaking choreography, etc. It all accumlated last night into a crazy amazing show!Lucy ...
Posted by Tim K on Thu, 31 May 2007 01:05:00 PST

Lisa Shaw at Tribeca Cinemas Last night

So Lisa, Mattias, Julius Papp and Miguel rocked out the Tribeca Cinema last night. I used to live on top of that place, even before the Screening Room days. Deja. Anyway, she was still the legendary...
Posted by Tim K on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:43:00 PST

DC last night

So Derrick brought WAY too many people into the Sullivan Room. There were easily 1500 people in the space of a small basement. It was mayhem, it took 10 minutes to fight to the bar, then another hou...
Posted by Tim K on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:32:00 PST