made a video mashup with some country line dancing...

DJ jesster "Big Attack" tribute to the Notorious B.I.G.

hooked up a new beat and turned it into a tribute to the Notorious B.I.G. .. a little special ed hook in there to completes the old school feel to it.  hope you dig it.  -jesster

Slow Jam City/Screet 2013

czzle's homegirl nelly's birthday was this past weekend.  she's been into the slow jams lately so i made her a mix cd..  her other homegirl screet's birthday was the night before.. she gets a mix cd of the gutter stuff.. basically once she told me she liked 50cent and i kinda latched onto that.  now every year i make her a 'thug life' mix cd.

the lost art of the mixtape is not dead.. it's just gone digital like everything else...

Radio Spot for WABE

i like to support public radio.  it's what i listen to in the morning on the way to work.  get in some news, weather, traffic, current events, no commercials and no annoying "drive-time" DJ yelling about this and that.

at the end of the year i donated to WABE which is the local NPR station in atlanta.  felt like since i'm always listening it's only fair.. (plus i got a dope eco-friendly bag, oooh.)  and on the donation page online there's a little comment section.. so in the comment section i said something nice about the station.

about a month later i got an email from Eric Durban who works at WABE asking if he could record me answering a few questions for a promo spot.  i was cool with it so we set up a little phone interview.  i was a little nervous at the time (i kinda think you can tell..) but whatever.

here it is.

Made a new beat: "KRS Floss" dj jesster

new beat posted on soundcloud.  i feel like this one's arranged a little better than the last one.. maybe could've used some more layers but i like it to not be too cluttered, so it is what it is at least for now.

started with the drum beat, layered a bunch to give it a phat low end.  then added the bassline and synth.  the "think" part was kinda some icing.  actually, the icing was the krs and "pony" stuff.

REMIX COMP: Cazzette "Weapon" DJ Jesster Remix

put together a remix of "weapon" by cazzette.  layered up a bunch of drums and filtered some sounds.. added a simple little bassline and BAM.  this is a remix...

The Funk Hunt

Now that i've got the studio more or less set up i can go back to my ways of enjoying vinyl and diggin' through the crates.  one of the things i want to do though is rip some of these records to mp3.

One record in the vaults is called "the funk hunt" .. it's a weird three song EP from a short film that someone did about a record and how it starts out being recorded with this band and then over the years the album gets used in a club, sampled, passed around etc..

i was looking around recently for digital copies of those three songs on the internets but wasn't having much luck.. so i decided to just rip it off our vinyl.  it's sounds ok.. not preferable to a clean .wav file but it's better than nada.

• the funk hunt
• it's like that
• bring that beat back