Flamboyant for life

So I was able to resurrect my laptop long enough to finish up my first dubstep/crunkstep/thugstep song, check it out

listen here:

http://www.myspace.com/wabberjocky

download here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?iem3iq2mm2q

so anyways I'm doing random projects right now, I've made a few dubstep tracks, listened to more dubstep, decided to not like said dubstep tracks so I'm back to making more, along with trying to make another 12-minute instrumental hip hop thing. Tempted to combine the two into one, dubstrumental hip hop? Also some Oberlin house parties have been most excellent so far, Halloween was crazy and this past Saturday across the street from Barrows felt good as well, Safety and Security being very quick this year at times.

Also check out this video

finally gettin to work

So I've become obsessed with Dubstep since the end of summer, so I'm starting to dabble in that direction. Last night I rekindled by love with the electrocomp, something straight out of the sci-fi 50's that's in the TIMARA lab at school.

blam! With fall break coming up and midterms ending I think I finally have a good opportunity to release some stuff. I plan to pull together some of my unused beats and make another 12-minute trip for instrumental hiphop and then start making some dubstep tracks to compliment the fact I've been DJing dubstep alot lately. I got a spot to open up for Flosstradamus when they come by Oberlin, but I'll be in the DJ booth so bringing all my equipment is impossible as I'm stuck with my mobile dj set up that consists of a controller (BCR2000, just a wall of knobs) and my laptop rather than my turntables =(

Also I do dubstep night at the 'Sco now cause I'm on a mission to get these sounds into peoples heads. I'm not kidding when I said I've been hardcore into the step lately, big fan of the direction that whole genre is going, mixing together elements of natural/old school sounds (like violins or dub beats) with hardcore electro sounds. Very cool, I'm excited to make what I hear i my head.

So I'm fearing that my blog is become less and less relevant as I don't really seek to update it that often anymore. I'm glad I was able to make so much original stuff over the summer as the busyness of the college life has certainly taken away from my time to experiment and create some more tunes, and instead I've just been seeking playing live. The best so far was playing the first TGIF at Oberlin, and be on the lookout for more in the future aside from the normal party DJ scene.

Also the turntable class is going awesome (field trip to Cleveland thursday to see Rusko = sick nasty) and I'm starting to see a strong DJ culture emerge out of here. For example check out these 2 beat CDs made by my dude Dan Oshima, awesome JDilla inspired shit.

check one

check two

Also as far as mini updates I just twitter these days (still mixed feelings on the whole thang) so say hey to me there

Cheers

Turntablism 101

So I finally found out today that my class (exco for those who know Oberlin speak) I plan on teaching next semester got approved! woohoo! Very very excited as I see this as a golden opportunity not only to have lots of fun but as a chance to put turntablism into the cultural limelight, the instrument of the futuuuuuuure [said in a Duck Dodgers kind of voice]. Check out my course description below.

Introduction to Turntablism:

Here is your chance to learn the basics behind the instrument of the future! In this class we will survey everything a beginning DJ needs to know; turntablism, sampling, beatmatching, laptop DJing and of course how to scratch. This course comes with a $35 entry fee. The catch? All the entry fees will be pooled together to buy two turntables and a mixer (a.k.a the DJ's set up) which will be the classes' set-up to practice on for the next 12 weeks. At the end of the semester we will have a party and DJ battle between everyone in the class, where the winner will walk away with the set-up to call their own. OH SNAP. Beginners only.

Weekend with Ben

So Ben came back from glass blowing in Kalamazoo this weekend,

and brought with him this $30 yamaha sound bank he bought off

craigslist,

so the weekend turned into a solid session of jamming out together.

We made lots, and I figured this is a good sample to share

since I didn't want to edit anything.

Very improvised, all in one take even though there are 3

"instruments" playing, but that's because I had the drum pad

hooked up to my drum kit and one of my sample kits (the violin

sounds) so I was playing both at the same time.

So enjoy our jam sesh.

Sessions by The Wabberjocky

hotttt

This year's jerseys for the Cleveland club ultimate team Lake Effect.