A years-out-of-practice classical pianist and church organist, I bought
a MPC Live II to get
back into music. Here are some tracks I've made on it. Further down, you
will find some of my super old recordings from a past life.
I'm not much of a producer but I love writing hooks.
The first time I've plugged a bass guitar into the MPC, just a 12
bar jazz progression that I noodle over with some keyboards.
Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II
The only house track on here right now. I plan on finishing this.
Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II
Not far from a complete arrangement. "blast.wav" is homophonous to
"blastwave", after whom this track is named, since it was previously
unnamed and he seemed to enjoy it.
Date: April 2025
Using: MPC Live II
Featuring guitar samples I recorded. It's a Yamaha electric-acoustic
I got off Amazon and just ran direct into the MPC.
Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II
One of the few things on here that's not a hip-hop beat, this is a
song by Sunny Suljic that I covered to get better at using the MPC
like an actual DAW. That is, no samples, just audio recordings. I
used a Presonus Audiobox USB as the MPC's audio interface, and a 20
year old MXL pencil condenser to record.
Date: January 2025
Using: MPC Live II
This was used as the theme in a
Naxeon Pro Electric Motorcycle Review
on YouTube, for which I also shot the drone footage. It's name is a
portmanteau of "Tonka" (the guy in the video) and "Tron" (because
it's supposed to evoke that vibe).
Date: February 2025
Using: MPC Live II
Also for Tonka, this was just background music in a video somewhere.
Date: February 2025
Using: MPC Live II
I used my Numark PT-01 Scratch turntable to sample the beginning of
a live Art Blakey Orchestra record, in which the MC introduces them
with "How bout a big hand for Art Blakey, Art Blakey and his
wonderful All-Stars!"
Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II
I had some friends over who wanted to rap over a beat, so I did a
15-minute speedrun to see what I could make. This is what I got.
Date: December 2024
Using: MPC Live II
This is an unfinished, unnamed idea in which I was playing around
with automating sweep filters.
Date: January 2025
Using: MPC Live II
Unfinished, unmixed, etc...
Some random thing I don't remember making, the name is a portmanteu
of Sada Baby (the rapper) and "allegro", the musical tempo.
Date: October 2024
Using: MPC Live II
Unmixed, heavily unfinished.
I sampled a recording of protestors in Los Angeles chanting "Si, se
puede" (Yes, you can). The guitar is that same Yamaha. If you'd like
to know
what that means...
Date: March 2025
Using: MPC Live II
Very much a "sketch", not a full arrangement. In which I was
experimenting with the Performance Pads functionality on MPC.
Date: November 2024
Using: MPC Live II
These are songs written by a friend of mine in high school, Teddy Roberts, which I recorded and produced in a garage when I was 16 with my childhood best friend (now tour managing for 311 and I Prevail). Many of the other tracks are still lost, so the ones I have found are here for archival purposes. I still think they are quite good music.
Here are a few older tracks from 2008-2010, when I was a rock musician recording each instrument track-by-track in my room on Logic Pro. Everything you hear in these recordings is me.
Recorded on a porch in 2010.
Date: 2010
Using: Logic Pro (7?)
This song was a b-side on an early Coldplay record, but was only
ever acoustic. I made a full band arrangement and recorded it in my
room.
Date: 2010
Using: Logic Pro (7?)