Jams F. Kennedy - Women Overseas - Produced by: Joker & Rustie

“Badbeat exclusive drip of Jams F. Kennedy’s offering from the Dubstep LA mix that just dropped.  If you don’t got it get it, the mix was crazy (done by the one and only Plastician).  Most everybody on it “went in”, including Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Sir Jams, and Badbeat bredren 12th planet.  But Mr. Kennedy’s joint is the only vocal on there that doesn’t lean towards the aggressive undercurrent of dubstep that inspires the rollicking hoods up “dudestep” stereotype.  A song “for the ladies”, albeit with no less masculine panache, Jams channels the best of vintage Lox with a wild southern swag.  Dig in.” - Esquire

Dazed Digital is hosting the premier of the 3-D video version of my track Freak-A-Zoid Robotz. They also included a quick interview.

Great minds think alike. This month, as Dazed releases the Another Dimension 3D issue, the progressive Echo Park-based hip hop producer Bobby Evans sees his robotic electro smash Freak-A-Zoid Robots twisted through a retro 80’s time warp with a 3D video. Directed by Marcus Herring (who recently worked with Roman Coppola on an intimate Sebastien Tellier film) as part of the Delicious Vinyl family, it’s Weird Science meets an Electroma neon escapade. Bobby Evans is also still working on new material with the creative mic talents of Jams F Kennedy, as LA low end rap duo Brother Reade (you must check 2007’s Rap Music, one of the best hip hop debut albums of recent years) as well as flexing his art and design skills with OBEY.

You can check out the full piece and video here.

Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch - Bobby Evans Remix

I’ve been waiting a sec for Dangerbird to release this jam but perfect timing on their parts since Silversun Pickups have just hit #1 on the Billboard rock charts. It’s actually the first time in 11 years that an independent artist has done that. Congrats to the band, the label, and producer Dave Cooley.

“Bobby Evans has taken the reigns at remixing the chart-topper, using industrial touches and heavily thumping drums…more rocker than rave-hit and not for the faint of heart.” - Filter Magazine

I started this remix only knowing that I wanted to keep the entire vocal. In most cases I strip a track down to its most minimal structure then slowly build from there but once I pulled out the guitars and drums the vocal just wouldn’t sit right in anything else, it seemed overly soothing and lost the force that the original had. I was laying in bed one night and realized a minimal approach was all wrong, it needed to be full and loud, overly aggressive and distorted.

I went back to the studio and started re-compressing all of the guitar and drum stems, pushing them to distort, record them, then push them back out to the compressor again and EQing through the board as they came back. After that I sent the drums back out through a transient designer to bring even more of their characteristics to the front making them very loud, full and distorted. I wanted them to take up as much room as possible. From there I broke the tracks down to their most basic parts and notes, keeping the original song structure but not the structure of the songs parts. I went through cutting and repeating bass notes and drum hits, removing the melody from the verses, and made the track build to a wide open chorus only to then fall apart to feedback and near slience. In the end I added no extra instruments to the original, its all distortion, feedback, and editing. Enjoy.

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The Works - Live and Direct feat. Jams - Bobby Evans Remix

Copenhagen’s The Works have just released the fantastic EP “Yokohama” featuring Jams F. Kennedy available now on limited edition vinyl and iTunes.

“These guys plainly and simply snap necks day, in day out.” - FACT Magazine

So true. I worked from those neck snapping traits and pieced together a crawling bass and staccato harp remix of their jam with Jams, Live and Direct. Download now @320 includes the instrumental and a cappella.

Choreographer Merce Cunningham died last night.

From the Nytimes article:

“Until 1989, when he reached the age of 70, he appeared in every single performance given by his company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company; in 1999, at 80, though frail and holding onto a barre, he danced a duet with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the New York State Theater. And in 2009, even after observing his 90th birthday with the world premiere of the 90-minute “Nearly Ninety,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music he went on choreographing for his dancers, telling people as they went to say farewell to him that he was still creating dances in his head.”

Bad Beat Is Here!

BADBEAT.LA is a music/events squad headed up by Paul Chang and includes Them Jeans, Jams and Bobby Evans (of Brother Reade), Devin Foley, Chris Stewart and Dan Oh. BAD BEAT creates focused, carefully curated content and covers a wide spectral range of sounds and happenings around LA and the world. Loosely based around the internet and fishing, the group also does events that occur in real life and on land such as parties, shows, readings, and gallery openings where there is generally a long line out front which may or may not be due to the free alcohol (from 10-11 so get there early!!!). In the immediate future, the group have a flurry of upcoming releases planned, some sure-to-be-killer parties, and a mix series in the works. To keep up go to http://www.badbeat.la

Power 106 Presents:

Girl Talk w/ Brother Reade

7/24/09

The Fox Theatre
113 W 3rd St
Pomona, 91766
+18

FREE SHOW you just have to bring 1 Squirt can or bottle (benefits Habitat for Humanity). Get there early, for real. Brother Reade / Girl Talk tour coming very soon…

RJ Shaughnessy

King Blade.

“With more than 300-miles of ocean, wind and sand, North Carolina’s Outer Banks is one of the premier surfing destinations on the East Coast.” - NYTimes.com