I’m still at 500 views on this…I gotta get it back in ya face.
Shot this joint with the iPhone, edited it myself with iMovie,
Produced the track and recorded the whole thing on this laptop I’m pos
Really, it’s for the kids.
Part of my mission now is to let the youth (and your old ass that has always thought you had creative ideas that you wanted to verbalize, visualize, and communicate to others…) know that you can get FONKAY all on your own…you can get the word out all on your own…you just gotta stick to it and really believe in what you’re doing if you wanna go somewhere with it.
Someone asked me how it felt to be successful. I told them I really didn’t know
because I spend more time working and the reason for doing it than I do celebrating any kinda “success”.
…and I don’t feel like I’m “successful” in the way a lotta the world views “success”, but I’ve succeeded on some terms of my own that mean the world to me.
There it is. Slim gon tell it. If you like the tune, you can grab it from the link in the info box on the video. Right on.
#ATFU. Me and @MrKinetik will see you at ORANJE next week.
RR
OH, FACK YESSSSSS…! #STOOGES #IGGY #VINYL #ICONS #RAWK #PunkRockThisShit. (Taken with instagram)
“Anger is an energy.” - John Lydon.
Working on some new music. You gotta harness feelings and rein them in for your own purposes. I have often recorded music as therapy when angry, upset, sad. I’ve actually written and recorded happy songs to break me outta bad vibes, as well as dark ones to document them.
It’s all about what you do with your energies, the way you direct them. The way you unleash them. We all have these ‘energies’ (emotions, feelings, etc.) that push us one way or the other and sometimes go into the red. The key is knowing what to do with that energy and how to direct it. You hafta come to grips with it, ride it, and redirect, if necessary.
…at least I do.
Anger is an energy.
#ATFU #TheTinkerer #SpeakMonsterSpeakLive
Had a great time tonight and by some sort of grace, I was able to perform this song kinda close to how it sounds on the recording.
I been trying to figure out how to get the monster onstage with me. I was lucky enough to have my homeboy, TXTBOOK (DYOG), bring his gear and DJ, so my mixer was sitting off to the side looking all lonely, feeling ignored. Poor lil mixer…
I hollered at Doug the sound man, who happens to be awesome, was in the first group I was ever in with me, and is a KILLER sound engineer, about a ‘Monster Mic’. He didn’t have the effects unit he needed to pull it off. Being the #punkrockthisshit guy that I am, I came up with the idea of running a microphone thru my mixer. I would use the effects unit on my mixer to get the monster rocking. We sound checked it and got it right. I think it came off pretty cool and this is only the second time I’ve played this song, so I wanted to get it on tape.
I’m the toolbag holding the camera/iPhone and that other voice off-frame is my main man, Mr. Kinetik, who rocked as my DJ for the night. That’s love. That’s multitasking. That’s holding it down for your gee. My brutha…I love that cat, man. That’s how #ATFU does it, man.
Big shouts to @SleeperCellCrew, @GreyGranite, & @Eratic for rocking with me tonight and their support in general. Thanks to everyone that was at the release party tonight. I had a GREAT time. I hope you like the album. ‘The Tinkerer’ is available on iTunes this Tuesday, January 31. You can order the CD now at DADDYREAL.COM…and yeah, I’m geeked.
#GCE #IAintShit #GMEP #ATFU
Our man from upstate New York, GM. Always rough, rugged, and raw; raps from the guts. We been rocking with GM for a while, now we gotta give y’all the proper introduction over here.
Check out his newest video for ‘I Ain’t Shit’ and visit Refined Hype at the link below to download ‘GMEP’, the homey’s latest work. It’s some true boom-bap real-life shit, just like we act it and proudly endorse. Watch for collaborations from #GCE and #ATFU in the near future…
Refined Hype - #TwitterListeningSessions - GM - ‘GMEP’ (post with DL Link)
#GCE
#ATFU - we add on…
YUUUUUP!!!! @GM518360’s joint & the download link for #GMEP. Get it. #Shruglife jams and all that…we HERE.
#ZEROBOYS!!! #NAPTOWN #PUNKROCKTHISSHIT
In my humble opinion, there’s three perfect ‘punk’ albums. Now granted, I ain’t exactly the total expert on ‘punk’, but I know some shit, yo…and I’m gonna tell you the three perfect punk albums I have heard in my life.
The Ramones, ‘Rocket To Russia’. If you gotta hear one Ramones album, and you do if you haven’t yet, this is the one. You could damn near put all the first four Ramones albums on here. They’re the KINGS, the ORIGINATORS, the BLUEPRINT. I love them.
Bad Brains, ‘Bad Brains’…the one on Roir that was originally just a cassette. Holy SHIT, is this album EVERYTHING. They coulda stopped here and still been legendary. This is as perfect an album has ever been sequenced. It’s the fastest, heaviest, most from-the-guts shit ever…and then to keep you from banging your head into a wall like Mike, ‘The S(h)ituation’, they hit you with some roots reggae and dubs. WHAT? That’s hip-hop right there. Mix the shit up and rep what you’re on, ALWAYS. THIS ALBUM JUST RULES. In fact, some homeboys of mine that are in this badass band, You Will Die (now called LiverMortis) played the majority of this album live two years ago and it was as much fun as I’ve had ever ever EVER.
Zero Boys; ‘Vicious Circle’; Oh hell yes. This is likely the least well-known one on here and it’s not just on here because this band hails from Indianapolis. It’s soooo fucking good, man! When I was a kid, I was introduced to this album by the guys at Second Time Around. Man, this is a monster of an album. Paul Mahern is kinda one of my heroes when it comes to all things music, mainly based on his approach to it. It’s always pure, smart, and powerful. What really sets this album apart from a lotta punk albums is this band has a rhythm section that is so tight, it’s crazy. Tufty and Mark sound like a MACHINE…and they play FAST AF. Shit is just amazing and young and fierce as shit. I play this album when I’m wanting to be motivated, yo. It’s like an adrenaline shot.
I’mma hook you up with a link to see and hear some Zero Boys and I know ‘Vicious Circle’ was re-issued recently, man. You gotta hear this band. They still tour and record here and there too, yo. Just amazing shit and it’s from my hometown…OH, and my man Vess has been the new kid in the band FOREVER too. The dude when we were kids who turned me onto em cuz he loved em is the guitarist. Shit is so real!
ZERO BOYS - Live, Indianapolis, 1981
ZERO BOYS - ‘Amphetamine Addiction’ (Live) (GO VESS GO!!)
ZERO BOYS - ’Civilization’s Dying’ (Live at Emo’s, Austin, Texas, ‘08) (GO VESS GO!!)
If you like that, click the pic and go to the Amazon page to buy ‘Vicious Circle’.
That’s from the heart, man. This album should be heard. All these years later, still a BEAST.
#PUNKROCKTHISSHIT
RR
#SHRUGLIFE #TBM #ATFU #NAPTOWN ADIYM
![#ATFU #TheMinion #Production
I meant to write a bit about my production technique for some of this stuff. I didn’t make anything that I would deem an official ‘track’ until August 9th of this year. I love what I’m discovering and learning. I wanna talk about it, so I will. Consider this some kinda ‘digital liner notes’ or something for ‘The Minion’.
‘Dead In The Disco’ was the first track I produced using the method that I used for ‘The Tinkerer’. Whenever I make a mixtape, I have about 10-12 minutes at the end of the CD. I’ll usually make a ‘breakbeat/talkbed’ by mixing a break with some kinda loop, then freaking the blend a bit, playing the faders, cutting the loops into different lengths. My natural instinct is to play the loops/breaks as verses and choruses, just from years of writing songs and DJing. ‘Dead In The Disco’ started as a looped baseline and some funky drums. I don’t know what led me to attempt to put keys and other sounds on it, but I did…and when I did I liked it, so I ran with it.
I’ve never learned to play instruments or anything, but I think I can hear what works, so I just kinda ‘tinker about’ till I find what I hear in my head. At the time of these recordings, I didn’t even have a Midi keyboard. I played all the instruments on the very keyboard that I’m typing this post on. Call it ‘QWERTY Hop’, yeaaaaah…! That’s it!
Lemme tell ya; when inspiration hits and the tools are there…GO DO THAT.
‘Hello?’ and ‘Lifetime’ were produced and written specifically for this EP. By the time I was on those joints, I had been blessed with a Midi keyboard, allowing me to play some chords I’ve been trying to teach myself with feel on ‘Lifetime’ and giving me a wider range of ways I can freak the funk. ‘Hello?’ is one of the first ‘sample chops’ I did that I KNEW I wanted to write a song too as soon as possible. I’m glad I did. The resulting vibe was so good I sent to track to the team and the Maxi-Single came out real fly…
Oh.. download the ‘Hello?’ Maxi-Single here if you ain’t got it.
‘Jhobon’ and ‘Royalty’ are kinda tribute songs for friends AND artists that I love. Big shouts to Radiohead all over ‘Jhobon’ and my idolization of a certain ‘His Royal Badness’ will be obvious when you hear ‘Royalty’ . The original track for ‘Jhobon’ was a lot different. I felt like it was too murky though. The homey I wrote it for ain’t murky. “She’s 40. She’s a MAN!” \[._.]/ …so I had to redo a whole buncha stuff to make it funk right.
‘Royalty’…man I love that record. Everybody has a story about that dude and I had to tell mine…ALL OF THEM. The track is actually entirely produced on the turntables. I flashed the break, then I blended a beat in back of that…then I blended a loop in back of that…then I scratched on top of that. Considering one of the highlights of my career as a DJ was getting to spin his after party while he was in the building, creating this song entirely on the turntables was a no-brainer and felt mad natural.
‘High Chops (The Tinkerer’s Extended Dead In The Disco Dub)’ is a remix of a track that is featured on ‘The Tinkerer’. I always loved those radio promos back in the day where they’d just shot out all the bands they played on the station. That’s kinda what I was going for here, giving you a bit of insight on some of the influences on ‘The Tinkerer’ and paying homage to a buncha artists I wish everybody was into, at least a lil bit.
Oh…you ain’t heard this EP I’m talking about…click the pic or the link to go download it. It’s free, man.
Rusty Redenbacher - ‘The Minion’ EP
I hope you like that, feel the need to tell people about it and do. That’s why ‘The Minion’ is here…to pave the way for ‘The Tinkerer’.
Aight, check that out. Rawkawn and be great. Thanks for rockin with me, y’all.
#ATFU and U 2.
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#ATFU #TheMinion #Production
I meant to write a bit about my production technique for some of this stuff. I didn’t make anything that I would deem an official ‘track’ until August 9th of this year. I love what I’m discovering and learning. I wanna talk about it, so I will. Consider this some kinda ‘digital liner notes’ or something for ‘The Minion’.
‘Dead In The Disco’ was the first track I produced using the method that I used for ‘The Tinkerer’. Whenever I make a mixtape, I have about 10-12 minutes at the end of the CD. I’ll usually make a ‘breakbeat/talkbed’ by mixing a break with some kinda loop, then freaking the blend a bit, playing the faders, cutting the loops into different lengths. My natural instinct is to play the loops/breaks as verses and choruses, just from years of writing songs and DJing. ‘Dead In The Disco’ started as a looped baseline and some funky drums. I don’t know what led me to attempt to put keys and other sounds on it, but I did…and when I did I liked it, so I ran with it.
I’ve never learned to play instruments or anything, but I think I can hear what works, so I just kinda ‘tinker about’ till I find what I hear in my head. At the time of these recordings, I didn’t even have a Midi keyboard. I played all the instruments on the very keyboard that I’m typing this post on. Call it ‘QWERTY Hop’, yeaaaaah…! That’s it!
Lemme tell ya; when inspiration hits and the tools are there…GO DO THAT.
‘Hello?’ and ‘Lifetime’ were produced and written specifically for this EP. By the time I was on those joints, I had been blessed with a Midi keyboard, allowing me to play some chords I’ve been trying to teach myself with feel on ‘Lifetime’ and giving me a wider range of ways I can freak the funk. ‘Hello?’ is one of the first ‘sample chops’ I did that I KNEW I wanted to write a song too as soon as possible. I’m glad I did. The resulting vibe was so good I sent to track to the team and the Maxi-Single came out real fly…
Oh.. download the ‘Hello?’ Maxi-Single here if you ain’t got it.
‘Jhobon’ and ‘Royalty’ are kinda tribute songs for friends AND artists that I love. Big shouts to Radiohead all over ‘Jhobon’ and my idolization of a certain ‘His Royal Badness’ will be obvious when you hear ‘Royalty’ . The original track for ‘Jhobon’ was a lot different. I felt like it was too murky though. The homey I wrote it for ain’t murky. “She’s 40. She’s a MAN!” \[._.]/ …so I had to redo a whole buncha stuff to make it funk right.
‘Royalty’…man I love that record. Everybody has a story about that dude and I had to tell mine…ALL OF THEM. The track is actually entirely produced on the turntables. I flashed the break, then I blended a beat in back of that…then I blended a loop in back of that…then I scratched on top of that. Considering one of the highlights of my career as a DJ was getting to spin his after party while he was in the building, creating this song entirely on the turntables was a no-brainer and felt mad natural.
‘High Chops (The Tinkerer’s Extended Dead In The Disco Dub)’ is a remix of a track that is featured on ‘The Tinkerer’. I always loved those radio promos back in the day where they’d just shot out all the bands they played on the station. That’s kinda what I was going for here, giving you a bit of insight on some of the influences on ‘The Tinkerer’ and paying homage to a buncha artists I wish everybody was into, at least a lil bit.
Oh…you ain’t heard this EP I’m talking about…click the pic or the link to go download it. It’s free, man.
Rusty Redenbacher - ‘The Minion’ EP
I hope you like that, feel the need to tell people about it and do. That’s why ‘The Minion’ is here…to pave the way for ‘The Tinkerer’.
Aight, check that out. Rawkawn and be great. Thanks for rockin with me, y’all.
#ATFU and U 2.
#ATFU #FreeDownload #FreeEP #5iveOnTheBlackHandSide
Ok, friends, here it is…and I didn’t know it was coming either, so let’s just have some fun with this one.
This is ‘5ive On The Black Hand Side’, a collection of five tracks I made in the last 36 hours all inspired by Blaxploitation films, soundtracks, and style. I’d like to think of it as an introduction to a bit of my style as a producer. The zip #also has six covers, so you can freak it on your iPod how you want.
I hope you enjoy it.
Click the pic to download ‘5ive On The Blackhand Side’, totally free, man. Just jam.
…and get ready for ‘The Tinkerer’.
(P.S. - if you dig it, share it. If you got #BARS, record em. Just holler at me sometime. Enjoy.)
#5OnTheBlackHandSide, #FreeEP. Reblogging for the cheap seats.
#ATFU
#ATFU #FreeDownload #FreeEP #5iveOnTheBlackHandSide
Ok, friends, here it is…and I didn’t know it was coming either, so let’s just have some fun with this one.
This is ‘5ive On The Black Hand Side’, a collection of five tracks I made in the last 36 hours all inspired by Blaxploitation films, soundtracks, and style. I’d like to think of it as an introduction to a bit of my style as a producer. The zip #also has six covers, so you can freak it on your iPod how you want.
I hope you enjoy it.
Click the pic to download ‘5ive On The Blackhand Side’, totally free, man. Just jam.
…and get ready for ‘The Tinkerer’.
(P.S. - if you dig it, share it. If you got #BARS, record em. Just holler at me sometime. Enjoy.)
#ATFU #5OnTheBlackHandSide #CoverArt.
I’m uploading the zip of this right now and will be posting it here tonight. 5 tracks, yo, from concept to posting in approximately 36 hours. Yup. I friggin love making music, man. I’m glad to offer this little instrumental offering to y’all, man. If you dig it, share it with whomever you feel would feel like you do about it.
I really wanna send a big shout out to Mr. Kinetik who pushed me back into considering making tracks about six months ago. We were in the car and I was playing some ‘tracks’ I had made on a four track utilizing my buddy, Paul Bunyon’s oooold mixer with about 4 seconds of sample time. When he said, “Man, we could rhyme to some of these…”, I was like, “#Maby?…” but the sound quality is so lo-fi, and actually, a lot of it was made specifically to be heard instrumentally.
Due to the limitations of the equipment, I was forced to learn how to count the beats out (something I do naturally, but when it comes to making beats live, chopping loops and stuff, you gotta know where you are or you’re not making a ‘track’, you’re making noise…’on beat’.), trigger samples and parts live, all the way thru, learned a bit about mixing down a tape on a multitrack recorder…this was a while back, man. Basically I was making a ‘pause tape’ on a four-track.
I use a lotta those same techniques now. I made all the rhythm beds for every track on the ‘The Tinkerer’ live on my turntables. Every rhythm bed is performed on the turntables live, chopping loops, flashing, blending the breaks with a sample…and then the instrumentation was added. In all honesty, the idea of adding instrumentation was totally foreign to me. I don’t have musical equipment and at the time, I didn’t even have a Midi keyboard. Shit done changed and I’m teaching myself more techniques. ‘The Tinkerer’ is Tesla, figuring things out…working on it, and if you ask me, doing not too bad. (I’m really happy with it.)
‘5ive On The Black Hand Side’ is a different in a few ways. 1) I learned how to chop and loop on my computer, so all these were actually composed in Garageband. 2) I got a Midi keyboard now, woo! 3) No rappin, yo…tracks.
I’m releasing this cuz I love ya and I had a great time making it. Hope you enjoy it. The zip will be posted before midnight, #Naptown time, tonight.
#ATFU #TheTinkerer #Snippets
I produced, wrote, recorded, and mixed down an album between the 9th of this month and the 16th.
This is my first self-produced project. I had no idea I was gonna create this album and I have no idea as to when it will come out, but it will…likely as a ‘name your price’ joint, just as @MrKinetik did ‘Sounds Of Soul’
I will also release some tracks here and there via this page and @ATFU_’s Tumblr.
#ATFU - @ATFU_ (The Tornado Alley) on Tumblr
‘The Tinkerer’. Coming soon. Stay tuned.
#ATFU #SHRUGLIFE #LANON #TBM #NAPTOWN ADIYM
#ATFU #WonderGang #HomeRecording #GloryStory
We been hacking away at this track for a minute, just waiting for the right time to rally the troops and get to work. The right time was today.
Here’s a look at a bit of my home-recording process and a sneak preview of ‘Glory Story’, produced by @Feeray.
#ATFU #WONDERGANG #SHRUGLIFE #TBM #NOLANAPTOWNCONNECT ADIYM
#ATFU #LikeCaillou #21!! #RARE!! #VIDEO!! #FREEDOWNLOAD!
VERY VERY #CONTROVERSIAL #RARE #VULGAR #HISTORICAL RECORDING DEBUTED ON YOUTUBE!!
#SECRETE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THIS #HISTORICAL RECORDING SOMEWHERE IN THIS POST!!! YOU CAN FIND IT, I KNOW YOU CAN!!!
PLEASE VIEW MY VIDEO #ART FIRST TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF the #BASEDRUSTY. I HAD ‘RUSTY SCORSAYZEE’ COLLABORATE WITH the #BASEDRUSTY ON THIS VERY #RARE OCCASION AND THE VIDEO IS ALREADY VERY #CONTROVERSIAL!!!
LEARN AND COLLECT #RARE #BASEDRUSTY ART!!! SEND YOUR ART TO ME ON TWITTER!!! @RUSTYMK2
(P.S. IT HELPS IF IT OF ME OR MY LITTLE BROTHER CAILLOU…AND DON’T DRAW ME IN NO MATCHING CLOTHES AND THROW MY #SWAG OFF!!!
#swag
the #BASEDRUSTY
(P.S. - the #BASEDRUSTY DOES NOT SUPPORT THE USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS. THIS IS #RARE #CONTROVERSIAL #HISTORICAL ART!! YOU WILL FEEL HIGH WHEN YOU WATCH IT!! SO YOU DON’T NEED SYRUP!!! - the #BASEDRUSTY GOT YOU SEEING #230COLORS, BITCH!!! #SWAG ME OUT!!!!!)
(P.P.S. -HERE IS THE LINK!!! I TOLD YOU, YOU’D FIND IT!! the #BASEDRUSTY BELIEVES IN YOU TOO!!
#ATFU #NAPTOWN #SHRUGLIFE #TBM #LANON ADIYM
