Artist History Been producing since 1993. I enjoy all music. Even country. I started out in the dance scene in 1989. Back in the Front 242 days. Then went through my Too-Short, Ghetto Boys phase. Then went through my Metallica, Led Zep, and Cream phase. I didn't need to go through a pop phase cuz it's on every radio station. But I've always came back around to electronic based music. I think my music is a mixture of all those influences including my dad, he does country and got me into it. I play guitar and a little keyboard. I've also been producing, recording and writing for over 10 years. I started with a guitar and a sampler. I know the amount of time and effort it takes to play an instrument and I also know the time and effort it takes to program instruments and drums. I'll tell you this. It's all the same "amount" of effort that goes into to either one. Learning how to program a drum beat that sounds human, is almost as hard as it is to learn how to play the drums. I speak from experience. Computers are instruments just like any other instrument. You have to learn how to make something sound good, know what buttons to push, when to push them, how hard to push them, and how long to hold them down for. Computers don't "do" anything for the human except store his mind. Example one, a simple drum beat isn't so simple in the electronic world when you have thousands of hi-hats, snares, kick drums, and effects to choose from. You spend most of your time trying to decide what sounds to use. That's why, not only do you need to know exactly what you want, but HOW to get the sound you want. Then you need to decide on a beat (pattern) that best suits the sounds you've chosen or vise versa. Don't forget, the kick drum you choose has a lot to do with what kind of bass sound you can use for your bass line in the melody of the song. The frequencies can't clash or they'll bleed each other out or distort. Example two, if you record a tune from your keyboard via MIDI, depending on what sound it triggers, depends a lot on what kind of dynamics are involved. Wind instruments have different breath variations, volume attacks, and sustain modulations than guitars or other instruments. These are things you need to learn whether you're playing or programming. People think that electronic music is "cheating" because they think computers do all the work. WRONG. These people haven't worked on both sides like some of us. I KNOW from experience. That's like saying recording a song is cheating because then the performer doesn't have to play music live for people to hear it, they only have to play the CD. When you're an electronic musician, you're the WHOLE band. You need to know how drum patterns work. 4/4, 2/4, 3/4, bars, beats, measures, units, beats per minute, quarter notes, 8th notes, 16th notes, quantizing, naturalizing, volume velocity etc. You need to know at least some basics in music. Notes, triads, 5ths, 7ths, 9ths chords. 12 notes to an octave. Sharps, flats, major and minor scales etc. And then, as far as engineering and recording you should at least know the ins and outs of a computer. Everywhere from hardware, sound cards, AD/DA converters, 16, 24 bit, 22.5, 44.1 sample rates, digital, analogue and the difference between the two. Effects, eq, compression and how it all works. Not just messing around with the buttons to see what sounds good, but knowing when to use it and how not to use too much. On the song, "Back in the Groove", I spent a good deal of time, sampling, recording and layering each drum sound to make it sound thick and authentic, then sequenced them. The sequencing could actually use some work, it's still a little "stiff" sounding. But what I mean when I say "electro-organic", is that the instruments chosen to be used in the song, whether they're synthesized or not, are organic, and the guitar and bass I play myself. The drums are real drums, but sampled, then sequenced. If you want to get REALLY technical, NOTHING is organic if it's on a CD....it's digital the second it’s converted into ones and zeros. Thanks for listening though...

Group Members Jordan Woollen

Albums Celebrate Life

Additional Info http://jordancelebratelife.iuma.com

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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