Happy Holidays every one! Welcome to the December Newsletter.
So Much has been going on. I recently came back from Beijing China which was just amazing, did 3 shows over there including a runway show and party for Givenchy for China fashion week. As soon as I landed went right into the rehearsal room with Yossi Fine for a great gig at the elbow room the following week, packed wall to wall have to thank dj sep for hosting a great night.
Right after that gig, it was right back to the studio where I started recording with Mr. Vigs (Sub Oslo) and Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto,Tino Corp, Consolidated, Disposable heroes of hierocracy) We recorded around 15 tracks of Moogs, Oberheims, Glockenspiels, Wurlitzer’s and tons of echoplex and space echos.
The following week I was back in the studio with Mark Pistel, this time with Process Rebel mixing down a great new track, Pony Girl with the awesome vocals by Yo Majesty, if u don’t know these girls, keep an eye out, they just signed with Domino records and also just got out of the studio working with Basement Jax.
Then yesterday, once again, back in the studio, this time at Hyde Street studio in San Francisco, a legendary studio that has been recording classic albums since the 60s and has a wonderful Neve board.
This time I had Mee (Asian Dub Foundation) and Oz Fritz engineering, an amazing engineer who has man the helm on to many Bill Laswel albums to count as well as the last 3 Tom Waits albums, Ramones, Iggy Pop and many others. I brought over all the analog keys that I worked on at Mark Pistels studio and now got to do some fun stuff and bring in a full string section, which was truly amazing.
Next, I will be leaving back to New York for 2 weeks to take the session to Stratosphere studio owned by James Iha from the Smashing Pumpkins it is a great studio. There we will finish up the tracking with Aaron Kant on drums and Tom Gilroy on Guitar and will have the pleasure to have Michael Stipe from REM doing a guest vocals
After that I will be going back to California up to Sonoma to Mix down at Prairie Sun studio with Oz Fritz, so Hope to have the new album done right around the new year, this project has been close to 3 years of my life recording with amazing people around the world and am really excited about it.
Besides that, the other projects N.I.C. in dub has just cam out on Hammer Bass Records in France (My new fav dub label) and will soon come out on Azra in the US, also the new Bambu Brother, coming out on Azra, but still waiting on the release date.
Raiz album on Universal Italy is totally blowing up in Italy and he has been doing some amazing festivals in Italy for the album, def check out the live Mtv clips on Youtube.
All my New York friends, I will be in town till the 23rd, give me a shout, love to see ya!!
Hope every one has a good year, stay posted and many blessings!!!

Here is some video clips from in the studio
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