Recently I have been lending my guitar playing skills to several electronic artists that have come through the studio, which has actually kept me quite busy just making "custom samples" as we like to call it. I realized that songwriting with a good friend of mine and client of the studio local poet and MC Pucona is an endeavour that enjoys a lot of productivity and fresh new ideas during every session. I have added many riffs to his new upcoming EP and we were discussing the possibility of starting a band together with our electronic producer collaborator Felipe. Pucona came up with the name Circus Familiah for the group and we started writing some live and studio material for the sound collective.
As I was working on some beats of my own in the studio, Pucona grabbed a mic in the vocal booth and just started absolutely slaying rhymes over the dubstep beat I was laying down, which was really great. We decided that with the collaborations that we have together to take the songs originally written by each artist and release the collection independently as our own EP's and then converge on all the new tracks. It looks as though I will be release my first solo EP at the end of February under the dubstep producer moniker AxCalibre.
I am really excited about this new EP release and I can't wait for my new tunes to hit the decks of DJ's spinning around town and abroad. I chose the name because I wanted to represent the fact that I write all my music on guitar and then I transfer it over to powerhouse synthesizers like Massive, Albino, Razor and Zebra. I leave alot of the raw guitar tracks in the mix using spatial imagers and many other processors to make the guitars sound fat and out of the rock n roll context. I will post some audio teasers on this blog before I drop this beast of an EP. Cheers
