Shane "the Doctor" Faber is the GOLD and PLATINUM award winning Producer, Mixer and Recording Engineer behind JeepJazz Music. The BIO and DISCOGRAPHY pages can provide you with more details. JeepJazz is a whole new bag. It's related to hiphop and acid jazz, it's crusty and it's melodic, it's a slammin' beat and a smooth vibe and it's...

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The Making of the JeepJazz LP outlines how the record was written and recorded as well as some of the production and MIDI techniques that were used. SOUND DOCTOR, is the studio where all the doctor's projects wind up at some point. It lists all the gear currently in use. Go to the COMPANY STORE to check out selections from the JeepJazz LP, "Digital Flavor On The Sonic Frontier" or the Doctor's Sample CD, featuring 60 minutes of drums, loops, guitars, vocals and all sorts of useful audio flavor from the Doctor's private libraries for your next jammie-pack! If you're interested in purchasing these or other official JeepJazz promotional items, this is the place.

alt.FLAVOR is all about new music that you can't hear anywhere else. These are productions recorded, mixed and produced by Shane 'the doctor' Faber. Flavor is what it's all about. I'm just trying to expand the sonic possibilities by combining what I've learned making hiphop records with my more formal musical education. No genre is safe! Acid country is around the next corner. Right On!

ASK THE DOCTOR is the place where you can leave your question about recording, MIDI hell, synch problems, etc. We'll try and come up with an answer for you and post it all where you can see if someone hasn't already hit that snag. There's also a free RECORDING HANDBOOK available here for the recording novice.

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I first got online on Delphi and P.A.N. (Performing Artists Network)in 1984 with a 1200 baud modem and a Commodore C-64. It was a great resource and helped me promote and distribute my band's music. After a couple of years I drifted offline, but I kept up my subscription because, in my own small way, I wanted to support the network and the concept of independent access to music industry information. Meanwhile in the midst of the other great "revolution of access", I was learning MIDI and music-making in the HipHop world.

This new format evolved along with the explosion of inexpensive samplers and MIDI sequencers which began to appear in the early 80's and it is perfectly suited to exploit these new toys. It has become the dominant influence on music-making and popular music in the 1990's. Not unlike what rock n'roll was to the 1960's; it's loud and obnoxious, i.e. kids love it and parents hate it, and at it's most basic level, you don't even have to sing or play an instrument!

So, the circle has come round again, and this time a lot more of us have access to the equipment and information. The possibilities and opportunities keep me optimistic. I choose the positive.

I originally constructed this site using WebEdit 1.1 and Netscape 2.1 in the spring of 1996. My friend, Kaysha(alias Cattybaby), a gifted graphic artist and songwriter and producer from France, who I met while I was mixing the DasFu record in Paris in April 1996, was a big help. The 'HTML for Dummies' book was a valuable resource as well. I stayed away from intense graphics because I wanted the site to load quickly. I also nixed frames for the simple reason that it effectively makes the screen smaller, and I hate that. I still do. I mainly update the page HTML by hand, using wordpad and Paint Shop Pro for graphics. The year 2000 facelift was done with Dreamweaver. Currently, I'm using FrontPage 2000.