my downloadable mix"tape":

for collabs, overflow, and oldness, check me under the name Tasty.

influences:

1978-1992 - whatever my mom had on (lionel ritchie, michael jackson, beatles, eagles, billy joel, ELO, ELP, motown, etc.)

1993-1995 - pop punk/early (pre-moniker) emo (descendents, fugazi, opiv, etc.)

1993 -1996 - bay area hip hop/gangster rap/psychedelic rock (casual, daz, pink floyd, etc..)

1994-2002 - deep vocal house/west coast funky house (dylan drazen, moodyman, CPEN, etc..)

2002-2009 - beach boys (beach boys) this was - for me - a critical shift in thinking music as I bridged my adolescent love of psychedelic pop (beatles and pink floyd) with my enormous infatuation with dancefloor hooks. it also taught me (via brain wilson's studio brilliance) music operated spatially as much as it did rhythmically.

2004-2009 - glitch/downtempo/inst. hip-hop (prefuse, edit, telefon tel aviv, dilla, madlib, coflo/el-p etc.)

2008-2009 - deep dubstep/grime/wonk/what-have-you (stuff that's happening now)

1983-2009 - beat music

kit:

Record/Reason 4.0 - Live 7 - MacBook 2.1ghz/2gb ram - Emu E4XT Sampler - Yamaha RM1X - Akai MPD 32 - M-Audio Oxygen 8 - Lexicon Alpha USB Studio - Dell 21" Widescreen Monitor - Alesis M1Active Monitors - a decent mic - a Stanton Dj Mixer for the live show - a Behringer 16-some track mixer for piping audio into the Mac - an XP machine to run some windows synths - a pair of 1200's and a partridge in a pear tree...

just a note regarding the hardware vs. software debate; there is no debate. the REAL debate is live instruments versus hardware.... just kidding. that's not a debate either. it's all just music with varying points of bodily access. it's not either/or; it's and, and, and. pick a "feel" you like and roll with it. leave the politics for something that matters...

method:

the sound i'm going for out of this mess is a deep vocal-tinged (but never really vocal-driven) garage-liness with lots of color set in a soothing amount verb space. it's a total personal fad/compulsion thing so i fully expect to be writing something suffixed with "core" by the end of the week. plus life is too short to start boxing ourselves up in particular sonic directions; we are hemmed in enough as is. seriously. being a music purist is just a euphemism for being an asshole, which is itself just a nice way to describe a fascist. live and let live.... especially when it comes to music.

when i'm not working on tracks (or writing or teaching or climbing) i'm listening to the following (in no particular order): rustie, paul white, kelpe, 2562, gemmy, milosh, mount kimbie, roof light, joy orbison, blue daisy, joker, bullion, hyetal, exile (Radio might be the best thing i've ever heard; EVER), floating points, jamie vex'd, starkey, mike slott, architeq, take, and tokimonsta.

if you haven't listened to these folks, then you should. like now. they write super-ridiculous tunes.

thanks for listening/reading!

tommy

interested in publishing some tracks? chatting about music? chatting about books? whatever?:

tbwilsonky--at--gmail--dot--com