Hella Baked Tapes

Live performance recorded August 15th, 2008 at Laughing Lotus SF
Enjoy the free album download and thanks for all your support! 

Many thanks to my friends in Champaign, Illinois at WEFT, 90.1 FM for playing a variety of songs from Source Domain on their Wednesday programs, “Poodles Ahoy”, and in their normal rotation.

Join Poodles McGee of the FCC as he celebrates his weekly escape from the office and his home in Peotone with broken beats, savory meats, and sundry treats. Warning: may involve remix culture; may deviate into themes; may contain nuts.

http://poodlesahoy.blogspot.com/
http://weft.org

 
Special thanks to the music director and content programmers at WYCE 88.1 FM Community Media Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan for playing several tracks off of Source Domain. We’re in rotation on their 7-day music chart along with many other exceptional musicians! Thanks for the support!
WYCE 7 Day Chart

Some of you might have not known I had an impromptu performance the other week ago along with one of my cohorts, Painted Cakes, at the new Forthrite Printing gallery that just opened nearby in Oakland. It was one of my first shows since completing Source Domain and I was quite pleased with how it went. Well it turns out the show was reviewed by Shumit DasGupta, a freelance writer for Stereo Subversion, and he gave us quite a glowing review of our show!
Here’s an excerpt:

What sets these musicians aside from all of this is an approach I couldn’t conceive of before I watched them do their thing. Not only did they employ live musicians - on this night a bassist by the perhaps self-aggrandizing tag of Super Das G - but took their samples from the fertile grounds of the East Bay neo-jazz scene. That is to say, all of their clips were recorded directly, live, and unadulterated from real musicians, really close. Monstrous polyrhythms, textured chunks of double bass strokes, delicate strains of counterpoint melodies like air-whipped frosting through the nozzle of the noble violin - all of these harvested on local soil.

Master chefs make cooking look like a well-earned joy, and these DJs (and that is far too antiquated a term to describe them, but vocabulary is slow to keep pace with innovation) are no exception. They bring to the table prepared cuts, beats and riffs they’ve constructed beforehand, and liberally fuse them with both elements of improvisation and craft. At multiple points throughout the evening I watched them pass the buck from set to set, with no other obvious lead to each other but a two syllable vocal cue as to what time signature they were cooking in.

From: Stereo Subversion/Concert Reviews/Painted Cakes & Stevedood
Thanks for the review Shumit!
Stereo Subversion

Thanks to WMBR in Cambridge, MA and their morning show, “Breakfast of Champions” for playing “Hypervigilant”, track 4 off Source Domain.  
WMBR Breakfast of Champions  

01/24/08 Added: Thanks to WMBR for also featuring “Something Suppressant” on their “Breakfast of Champions” morning shows.
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011608 BoC 

Special thanks to Dave at WZBC 90.3 FM in Boston for featuring “Compassion Fatigue” (Track 2 off Source Domain) on his ZBC Rock holiday playlist. Much love to all our friends in Boston!
12-24-7 Spinitron Playlist 
WZBC 90.3 FM  

01/22/08 added: Also thanks also to DJ Paul at WZBC for playing Compassion Fatigue on January 1st 2008, 2nd track of the morning: 01-01-08 Spinitron Playlist 

Happy holidays and special thanks to KALX 90.7 FM and Marshall Stax for featuring two tracks off of Source Domain over the holiday season as part of his weekly “The Next Big Thing” show. Having listened to his show on past Monday evenings after work,  I was also stoked to hear he chose “Caterpillar” and “Something Suppressant” as the feature tracks for his Christmas Eve show. 

KALX is one of my favorite local stations here in the east bay and their support is much appreciated.

http://kalx.berkeley.edu/
Marshall Stax | The Next Big Thing 

Many thanks to Paul Glanting at URB Magazine for the music review of Source Domain and the plug for “Fake Beats”, track 6 of 13. It’s free on Imeem too, check the links below for review & download.
stevedood | URB Magazine | Fake Beats
stevedood | imeem | Fake Beats

Special thanks to Maya at KSER 90.7 FM in Everett/Snohomish County, Washington for featuring “Something Suppressant” (Track 8 on Source Domain) on her Starlit Skies Radio Show - Monday 8:00-10:00 pm PST
http://www.starlitskies.org/
http://www.kser.org/

 
Thanks to Nate Seltenrich at The East Bay Express for a quick review on Source Domain in his blog.
Read about it at Your Daily Lick 12-11-07
…and also appearing in print (page 43) on 12/12/07 too
 
Thanks Nate!