Millioniser 2000

Dr. Manhattan gives us a demo into the future of synth blowing. Thanks a million to Phil for sending this to me.



I was honestly pretty unsure if this was really a new thing or actually from the '80s... until the jam session at the end.

The Nice Guys: The Hyphy Experience

It all started last Saturday evening. Nate Jones pulls into our driveway honking his horn, ecstatic about this thing he's discovered called "gettin' hyphy" or "goin' dumb." Many a Bay Area resident may be familiar with this youth craze among kids that bump Mac Dre and ghost ride their parents' whips into telephone poles. Nate Jones recognized it as the perfect opportunity to enthuse the locals on the streets of LA along with CB and a film crew ( me and Andy Mill$$ ).

Guerilla style filmmaking at its finest.



Beat by Nate Jones
Shot by MegaWeapon and A. Mill$$
Cut by A. Mill$$

MEGAWEAPON: Rabbit Hole (iNdigo) remix

I promised my buddy Steven that I'd finish this remix for him about a year ago. I got about halfway done and wasn't feelin' it, so I let it sit on the shelf for a while. Then as I was backing up all my "unreleased" music (as if any of my music is truly "released") over the weekend I stumbled across this little unfinished ditty and ended up locking the rest of it down. And then I put it up on this cool site that's gonna let me stream tunes here... sweet! Just goes to show you that sometimes you gotta let things marinate before they can be fully realized. The MEGAWEAPON abides.

Rabbit Hole (iNdigo) - MegaWeapon remix by MegaWeapon

Movie Magic with MJ

Here's a video I pooped out on the side to grace youtube until The Man shuts me down for ripping off some copyrighted video footage. It's an experimentation with an effect that usually looks cooler, a kind of scan line offsetting that makes people look like they're twisting, or in outer space or something. I did it by literally chopping the video into little pieces that were each offset by a few frames.

Chinatown Cypher

Here's a few snippets of a recording I did on my phone of the cypher outside the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown after the Onra show. I love it just for the Michael Jackson beats by Dibiase. Somehow these guys riffin' over MJ's music in some late night session makes way more sense than all the media hype going on. Beat it.

Chinatown Cypher part 1
Chinatown Cypher part 2
Chinatown Cypher part 3

Onra Makes His U.S. Debut

French beatsmith Onra, hailing from Paris, made his stateside debut performing at The Grand Star Jazz Club in LA's own humble Chinatown. Seems like it was the perfect setting for the guy who made his album Chinoisere (which is French for "Chinese-ery") by fusing traditional Asian samples with modern beat bangin' sensibility. Some of LA's finest sound system rockers such as Kutmah, Ras G, SAMIYAM, and of course TheMotherFucking Gaslamp Killer turned up to dig Onra's first United States performance.

Before the future funk began, Computer Jay blew minds with a blast from the past by hooking up his Atari system and blasting the loudest and craziest "Not 8-bit... but 4-bit" tunes ever heard. I've been a huge fan ever since hearing Jay's collaboration with the Grey Kid on seminal classic compilation From LA With Love and was pretty pumped to see him perform at Low End Theory earlier this year. Complete with the witty on-stage banteur between Jay and his Computer, and jamming a bit on his insanely rigged synthesizer setup that I have yet to wrap my head around, Computer Jay remains one live show that I am ALWAYS stoked to see.

Onra came out next bringing the future of funk with two MPCs and two Kaossilators. It was a hypnotic and awesome set of downtempo, soulful and head-nodding soundscapes all tapped out and patterned with articulate precision. Never thought you'd be getting funky to Vietnamese mallets and flutes? Onra says think again. After the show, in the alley known for the monthly Firecracker street event, we witnessed our own CB (aka @chucksauce) hop into a casual cypher presided by Watts beat-heavyweight Mr. Dibiase with a boombox pumping his own simply amazing set of Michael Jackson Thriller album remixed beats. I have to try and track that -ish down...