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Correction to This Article
Washington Post – May 23, 2007
In 1995 he and a few partners had scraped together the money to open a bar called the 18th Street Lounge in Adams Morgan where Eric is still a partner. The first week of business Rob Garza came in to check it out. Rob had discovered electronic music in high school and had been pressing his own records largely created on the computer for a few hundred dollars apiece. He too was influenced by sounds from around the world and when he wasn’t working for his father’s security company he was making music. But never a profit. ver a drink the night they met Rob and Eric decided to see what music they could create together. They experimented extensively with sounds and influences combining slowed-down hip-hop beats with experimental electronic music guest vocals and sounds from Jamaican Brazilian and Indian styles.
Ents24 Chats To Nigel Clark
Ents24 – May 23, 2007
I hear that as well as making your own music you’ve been setting up music projects which offer music technology and songwriting workshops. Can you tell us a bit about that?At present I am working in the studio with troubled young people. I have been doing this for a few years now and enjoy the challenge. Most of the kids are excluded from mainstream education due to ADHD dyslexia and a host of other problems. I understand a lot of the kids’ needs as I also struggled at school and found it difficult to concentrate during lessons due to my own dyslexia which wasn’t diagnosed until recently. I’ve found that these kids believe themselves to be stupid and therefore lose hope in the system and this leads them into trouble. I have tried to tackle this as I believe most of the kids are intelligent – schools just haven’t found a way to teach all of its pupils yet.
Bang the Drum Slowly
Miami New Times – May 23, 2007
He found one of the hottest around joining local singer Nil Lara. Lara’s guitarist was Yeomanson who would go on to become DJ Le Spam. Yeomanson eventually asked Alfonso to sit in with the band during its Thursday night residency at Hoy Como Ayer the evening known as Fuacata! The group’s delicious fusion of funk salsa and electronic music was a hit not only with Miami audiences but also the national media. The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly (among others) heaped praises on the weekly jam session. Alfonso was delighted to have found a steady gig though he played with the Allstars in Miami not when they toured outside of the city. 1 2 Next Page » write your comment loadMgr.