Archive for the 'Artist Spotlight' Category

Worst Friends ready 2 EP’s + CD for Moodgadget including remixes of Thom Yorke, Benoit Pioulard, Smashing Pumpkins and more

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Tom Croose and Ry make up this Brooklyn DJ duo. Everything from lo-fi folk to slow motion disco fill in their crates and if you listen close at their weeklies you can hear Will Ferrell and Will Arnett samples sometimes deep in the mixes.
Here is a new mix available thru Moodgadget Records for free with […]

Artist Spotlight - JDSY

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Birth Name: Joseph Sims
Your hometown: I was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Instruments used in your music making:
Korg ESX-1, FruityLoops, CoolEdit, AM Radio, Tapes, Vinyl, Yamaha PSR Keyboards, Casio Privia, and lots of BUZZ effects…I used to use Rebirth- a casio SK-1, CE96…
What albums inspired you to start making music?
I listened to Beastie Boys ‘Pauls […]

Artist Spotlight - Praveen

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

MGT ASKS
What’s your hometown?
Hyde Park, New York
What instruments do you use in your music making?
Piano, Drums, Guitar, Vibraphone, Harmonium, Drum Machines, Synths…
What albums inspired you to start making (electronic) music?
Not so much an album but when I first heard Run DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” I swore to myself I’d figure out how those […]

Artist Spotlight - Viul

Monday, January 14th, 2008

MGT ASKS:
What’s your hometown?
nyc
What instruments do you use in your music making?
mostly guitars, an old half-broken sony cassette recorder, lots of tapes and other extraneous stuff. garageband and live and a few smaller programs. sometimes a Moog Prodigy as well.
What albums inspired you to start making (electronic) music?
around the time i began to record […]

JDSY Readies EP for January 2008 release date

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

We are proud to announce JDSY’s “Understander EP”, it will be available digitally January 8th 2008.
A master of the sonic “quick change”, JDSY, aka Joey Sims, continues to captivate listeners with his kinetic array of musical concepts that evolve at a pace that would prove difficult for a lesser artist to maintain. He makes […]

 
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Artist Spotlight - A Setting Sun

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Photo credit to: Mike Perry
MGT ASKS:
What’s your hometown?
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
What instruments do you use in your music making?
laptop computer, FL Studio, Max/MSP, Adobe Audition, MIDI keyboard, samples, guitar.
What albums inspired you to start making (electronic) music?
Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus
Squarepusher-Hard Normal Daddy
DJ Krush-Cold Krush Cuts
What have you been working on recently?
Developing a heart […]

MGT-012 - A Setting Sun “Views from the Real World” album cover, release date, and tracklist revealed

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Artwork by: Adyo aka Direwires
For those that have followed Moodgadget from the beginning, which probably isn’t too many of you, you might know “A Setting Sun” as Jay Bodley who has releases under Iggy Ignotius for his instrumental Hip Hop and Intelligencia which was a collab with Warez.
“Views from the Real World” follows up his […]

Artist Spotlight - Tonight

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Photo and Art Direction by: Philistine DSGN
MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Ann Arbor / Ypsi, MI
Instruments used in your music making:
We use a whole bunch of analog/digital synthesizers and drum machines, our favorites being the Juno 106, the Roland D50, and the monomachine.
What albums inspired you to start making music?
The Beach Boys Greatest Hits
Bee Gees Greatest Hits
The Monkees […]

Artist Spotlight - Mux Mool

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

photo credit: Shandra O’Connell
MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Minneapolis, MN
Instruments used in your music making:
Midi Keyboard, G4 mac laptop, Reason, Ableton Live, Traktor (for remixes), Coffee, Rock Star energy drinks, and of course, Marlboro cigarettes
What albums inspired you to start making music?
Early on it was Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, and Fatboy Slim. Now it’s all about J Dilla.
What […]

Artist Spotlight - Brael

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Ann Arbor
Instruments used in your music making:
Fender Stratocaster, Fender Precision Bass, Austin Acoustic-Electric, Guild Classical Acoustic, Prophet 600, Musser M 55-G Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Djembe, Casio SK1, Found Noise, Reason
What albums inspired you to start making music?
Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream”
Autechre’s “Amber”
Cevin Key’s “Music for Cats”
Download’s “III”
Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”
What have you been working on […]