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alt.FLAVOR
- New
Sounds from JeepJazz Music
- Recent
productions by "the doctor"
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the Company Store
- RealAudio:
JeepJazz on demand!
- the
JeepJazz Project LP
- the
Dr's. Sampling CD
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...
ONLY
AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE!
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.
MORE THAN
YOU WANT 2 KNOW Department:
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.
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