My latest release “Mechanisms” on Subspec is now available in online shops, including Beatport. I’m really happy with this release and I’m really glad to be working on Subspec. We’ve got some great stuff planned. Check out the Mechanisms previews on the Beatport player:
Video by T-120
Starting March 6th DE Radio will stream Josh Garrett’s new 2-hour show ‘From Xynthetic Space’ the first Tuesday of each month from 8pm to 10pm. Expect an eclectic mix of electronic music styles, discussions of related topics, and special guests in the studio.
My next EP is due out in March on Subspec Music.
This is what my Greatgreatgrandmother’s House in the Briggs neighborhood in Detroit still looked like in 2009. Briggs is the neighborhood just north of Corktown, near where Tiger Stadium used to be… The Fisher Freeway (I-75) forms the current boundary between Briggs and Corktown.
When I was a little guy my Greatgrandparents still lived here. I have clear memories of the living room and the kitchen. We used to drive in on Michigan Ave. from Ypsilanti because I-94 was such a mess of potholes.
In 2010 I drove by to see what was up with the house and someone had set fire to it. You could see the charred remains of the oak staircase through the door. In 2011 it was a pile of bricks. For now, Google has a window into the recent past for 1525 Elm St.
My latest promo set is now available for listening and downloading from SoundCloud. It may be due to the winter but this one is a little more on the dubby/TechHouse side than a lot of what is in my complete set. I’m probably picking up some warehouse vibes in the wind somewhere.
JGarrett – Winter 2012 Live PA Promo:
Things are coming together for the next Bridgemen event: 2012 on NYE. Checked out the space today and we’re psyched. I think it’s going to be a really cool year with lots going on. I’ll share more info when I can.
Check out http://bridgemen.net for more info about 2012.
Wow, Seattle was great last weekend. It’s taken me a little bit to get caught back up and get back to my site to do a write up. First off, I just have to send out a huge thanks to the whole From 0-1 family for putting something so amazing together. Especially Keith and Brian for doing most of the leg work. From 0-1 are some of the warmest people I’ve had the opportunity to work with in the Techno scene in the last 16 years. The sound system in the place was killer and sounded fantastic.
Cyanwave opened the night perfectly with an hour of chilled out ambience. I came on after them and did a set of mostly new JGarrett material, but mixed in some stuff from Super 6 and my Xyn project’s cover of Big Black’s “Tiny, King of the Jews” which was a hidden track on the en:peg digital release “A Strangely Mirrored World,” for this show I performed the vocals live… my first time performing live vocals! The crowd was awesome and with me for the whole set. The Automatic Message was up after me, and they do a fantastic A/V set… they were having some trouble with the V part of it and needed a couple extra minutes to get some stuff straightened out. “Tiny, King of the Jews” was meant to be my ending track, but I filled in the gap with an unreleased, big, grotty bassline breaks tune, which brought all the hippies back in from outside.
The Automatic Message were great as always. Their visuals meld so well with their music it creates a new thing when they come together. They started off quite open and experimental before shifting into more dancefloor-focused grooves about halfway through.
Milkplant and John Massey both played really solid, straight-ahead Techno, with no fooling around. Wicked, compelling grooves kept the crowd going. Let’s Go Outside’s set was all about tension and builds with big payoffs. It was really cool getting to see him from the VIP… he was using a touchscreen and custom software to perform. There was definitely some wizardry going on on that screen… I didn’t get the full lowdown on what he was doing with it, but I know he was using a no-latency audio library and what looked like sequencing of loops with relational, node-based modulation and application of effects. And, unlike many situations where I’ve seen people get too involved in the tech to the point that they lose the funk in the sound and don’t deliver… his set delivered in both the tech wizardry as well as what was coming out of the speakers. Attention to detail was placed on both the technical and artistic side.
Sone’s set was a perfect way to end the Live PAs for the night. Tight, moody, and deep, which is what I look for in his music. Sone really knows how to let a track breathe and build for perfect waves of tension and release over a shadowed foundation. Perfect of the end of the night tracks leading into DJ Rubidium’s set. She kept things tech and the beats chunky. It was the best experience I’ve had in quite a while. So, thanks again to From 0-1 and to Seattle for giving us a great weekend. Also thanks to The Square Root of Evil for coming by after her show and, of course, to April for continuing to support my mania.
Touchdown after re-entry.
I’m gonna be down in Seattle next weekend hanging out and performing with my buddies in the From 0-1 family. It’s gonna be a solid night of Techno from a great group of people. I’m truly honored to be included in this line up. If you’re in the Emerald City you should come by and check it out!
Click here for the Facebook Event Page for Details here.
I’ve been playing around with creating a couple tutorials for some features of Audio Effects Racks in Ableton Live. Here are my first two stabs at this:
Creating Multitap Delays in Ableton Live using Audio Effects Rack