Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money" (dj Jesster Fazeo Remix)

rihanna remix..  i love BBHMM.  about time i did a remix.  was feelin' kinda mellow on a flight from ATL to LGA and put this together.  i do some of my most focused work on a plane, i guess it's 'cause you don't have much else to distract you from the beat.

always loved "ridin' high" by faze-o.. inspired by the NWA song "always into something" and the EPMD song "please listen to my demo"  love the bassline and the high pitched synth sound and how they work together.

soundcloud's been a little weird lately with putting remixes up.. i got a message from them saying a remix of "happy" i did was in violation of some copyright protection thingey blah blah so they removed my remix and i now have "one strike" .... we'll see if they have beef w a rihanna remix.  there are so many remixes of this song already on soundcloud i don't see it being an issue.. but really what would be so bad about two strikes, i mean, i pay for this.

hope you enjoy.

-jesster

new beat with DJ LOMA P on the mic.

new from the "beats on a plane" series

two new beats on soundcloud from the "beats on a plane" series.  one is a dedication to paloma...

Paloma's First Beat

here's paloma's first beat. she was in the lab while the beat was being made and her voice is on the track... she wasn't in the best mood but i felt like it would be cool to have her voice on there either way... documenting this period of time.

Team Supreme vol 76 rejected submission

i really dig what the guys at team supreme are doing.. every now and then they have an open submission for beats.  tried to get one in there for vol 76.  didn't make the cut but i ain't sour about it.. maybe next time 'round.
here's what i made:

here's what the mix ended up being:

New Beat: Dj Jesster "why me"

while i was driving home from work yesterday i heard an interview with linda rondstadt on NPR.  it was pretty interesting, and i thought to myself "i probably couldn't name more than one or two of her songs." so i went back to the lab, pulled some up and hooked up this beat..

Beats On A Plane

workin' out a new airbook this past week.. took a trip up to maine and boston.  had a nice little week and a half off.  while on the plane got to put these two beats together.

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.

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...

Composing Music :06 Seconds at a Time...

usually when you think of "making a beat" you think of something clocking in at around 3 min or so... well here's a little project i put together for my homie clabo at the village theatre and the atlanta hawks.

they're doing little :30 comedy videos to promote hawks home games .. 1 for each game.. clabo asked me if i would put together the end tag, which was to consist of the matchup, the day and time and the hawks web address.. then transition to the VT logo.  i put together the end tag and came up with some music.

bonus points if you can guess where the drum beat is sampled from...

Persian Wedding Song Remix (in Farsi)

A couple of weekends ago i DJed a wedding party for Sarge and Leyla.  Leyla's mom brought me a couple of CDs with some persian wedding music to play.  I thought one of them was pretty interesting to i kinda worked it into a beat i was working on.

The lyrics are in farsi so i don't know what is being said and i'm not sure that the arrangement is in a way that the lyrics make any sense now.  i do think it sounds kinda cool though.  When i put this together i did it because i like the idea of blending different musical styles together, i sincerely hope this isn't offensive or rude towards anyone.

Some of the tricks i tried to use involved some grouping of effects in a timeline.  Using a simpler in a bassline and warping and cutting in arrangement mode.  there's a couple filter delays in there, oh and i used a corpus effect on the bass drums after i wired them through their own audio channel.. that was a trick i learned in a tutorial from dubspot.

The wedding was great by the way and both Leyla and her mom are adorable.  Thanks for the tracks.....

Big House Pimpin' - dj jesster [jay-z house mix]

here's a house music mix i put together..  the concept was to weave "big pimpin'" throughout it and make it a quick little mix.  it's about 35+ minutes.  i looked for about 6 months for the jay-z acapella but had no luck (even tried to tweet the man himself.)  i gave up and did the mix with the original.  thanks to my main man Kev Goreham for the v.o. work...

It's Time For the Percolator (dj jesster Re-Edit)

always loved the song "percolator" by cajmere.  on the flight back from LGA today i put most of this together.  i finished it off back here in atlanta.   it's short and sweet, clocking in at 2:00 min on the nose.  the breakdown with the high-pitched synth got the auto-pan xformer trick which is one of the tricks i got from abe duque in the dubspot workshop.  unfortunately i didn't get to say "thanks" to him in person after the class, i had my head in the apc when he took off.