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About Fresh

Mac Fan/Sys. Engr - NASA planetary missions. guitarist/producer/AFOL/fitness fan/film+TV+sndtrk composer/podcast host/Python newbie coder. Music by me: http://SFTF.bandcamp.com. Mellowly Cool. Find me on X and Bluesky

A Day In The Life #1 – The Lab – 23 Oct 10: Yamaha TG77 Synth Strings

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Fresh

Just playing around with some of my rackmount synths, the Yamaha TG77, seeing what sounds I can incorporate into the balance of the CD project, as well as other ones. I recently read a quote by Brian Transeau, remixer, film … Continue reading →

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Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 3: Presently Speaking

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Fresh

Native Instruments’ Maschine Crew, Hello. Here I am, back with the final installment of this blog post. Took the day off (Happy Birthday to me), sitting in Starbucks, finishing up this blog post. Listening to Foreign Exchange’s “Authenticity” (superb new … Continue reading →

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Android classes for minority teens in DC

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Fresh

Crew… Good evening. I’d like to share this great opportunity for DC Black and Latino area youths sent to me via the DC Robotics list from @philshapiro. PLEASE RETWEET THIS WIDELY. All the info is below! It’s my understanding that … Continue reading →

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Welcome To The Sunday Soundtrack – 101010

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Fresh

Welcome listeners, to another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. Here we are in the last quarter of the year, 2010. Seems like a whirlwind of time has past. Sometimes I just wanna stop the world, and hop off, hahah. Hope … Continue reading →

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Sampling and Music Composition – A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt 2 – Sampling/Interpolation/Legalities

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Fresh

Photo Credit: Akai MPC 2500 w/black pads by: ficusrock Greetings crew… Hope all is well with you. I’ve finally gotten around to Pt 2 of this series. In Part 1, I gave a brief history of sampling and, specifically, the … Continue reading →

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Welcome To The Sunday Soundtrack – 19 Sep 10

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Fresh

“Morning Sky”- Photo Credit: Hey Kim! 2010 Good day listeners… Welcome to another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. I hope your week was (or is) going well. Here we are half way through September and I have to ask the … Continue reading →

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Sampling and Music Composition- A “Fresh” Perspective. Pt. 1: In The Beginning

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Fresh

Akai MPC 2000 Photo Credit: Dan Medhurst Welcome readers. I hope this post finds you well. The topic of this post is something I’ve been meaning to write about for quite some time. Sampling has been a long time tool … Continue reading →

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Sampling Tips From The Pros

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Fresh

Samples everywhere, User made, professionally sold. I feel a big blog post coming on. A few more sections of research to do. In the mean time, check out this article from Music Radar. Me, I’m going back to the music … Continue reading →

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What’s Happening – Current Music Projects

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Fresh

What’s up everyone? Hope all is well with u. Sitting in The Lab this rainy Sunday evening, thinking about the various projects I’m working on, and testing out a new WP plugin called Twitter Tools (which will hopefully work to … Continue reading →

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TTT

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Fresh

This a test of Twitter Tools Auto-posting. Had this been a real blog post, you would be instructed to read the blog post as directed by the included instructions. This is only a test….

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