My Interview on Invincible Radio aired on 21 January 2009

Hey guys, for those of you who missed my interview on Invincible Radio last Wednesday, 21 January 2009, I've uploaded some parts of it here, but the whole interview was very long, you can also download the parts of it straight away to your computer to save for later from the player below.

Part 1 is about digital age we are living in and how it changes our lives
Part 2 is about striking a balance between virtual reality and life
Part 3 is about music equipment, software, microphones, studio monitors etc.
Part 4 is about me being an artist/producer/engineer and how started and got into music

Enjoy

Interview with M.I.A.

M.I.A. is nominated for Grammy and Oscar this year and she is also due to have her baby on the Oscar night, what a coincidence ;) I think M.I.A. is one of the rare talents, but I admire the fact that although she had a tough time when she was a child, she fled to England as a refugee from Sri Lanka, she became so successful representing Tamil people in the world, when genocide continues to go on in Sri Lanka and situation's getting worse there. Thank God that when there was a time to save her life she had a chance to go to England and survive. It's hard though.

Part 1:



Part 2:

K'Naan - "Dreamer"

Incredible performance of "I Feel Love" by Blue Man Group

Wow, this is a great show, so cool, the sound is tight, just keeps you moving, all these blue faces theme so fresh at DanceStar USA:

Exclusive Interviews: Caribbean Showcase

I was on Invincible Radio this week on Wednesday and got hold of very exclusive information that I feel need to share with you, I'm gonna start posting series of interviews with people across the globe bringing you different vibes, many of them you have never heard before.

So here is the first one, at the Caribbean Showcase.

Ron Cushnie speaks to Ky-Mani Marley:

Track 06 -

Ms Dynamite:

Track 10 -

I'm digging this new comeback tune "Bad Gyal" by Ms Dynamite [2009], the beat is sick !!!




Lee Jasper at the Carebbean Showcase in Hyde Park, talks about this event representing Caribbean culture and contribution to the community in the UK:

Track 08 -

Raymond & Co, Award winning UK based Urban Contemporary Gospel band with strong gospel vocals:

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click here to watch the video showcasing Raymond & Co live performance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzbJvwSZ1U

Forever living classic:

A Tribute to Nina Simone

P-Funk in Russia 'Regenerator The Video'

P-funk Garry Shider and Danny Bedrosian together with Russian Funkband C.L.O.N.E feat. Dusha Funky, MC Panda and Felix 'Funky Fiddle' Lahuti, recorded in 2008 the awesome monsterjam 'Regenerator'. This Video shows u, da Studio in Moskow, P-funk on stage in Russia, C.L.O.N.E in action and Amsterdam in a car listen to Regenerator



Official Myspace page of C.L.O.N.E.:
http://www.myspace.com/thecleantone

RivMixx - new networking web-site for music fans, artists, producers, record labels!

"Rivmixx.com is a music industry based networking site, which allows fans to keep in constant contact with the latest music, news and information from their favourite Artists, DJ’s, Clubs and Labels, as well as providing the perfect promotional platform and networking opportunities for upcoming and distinguished artists. Rivmixx strives to provide an end-to-end solution for all industry based networking and promotion; allowing industry users to provide fans with music, photos, discographies, videos and latest news, as well as targeting mail to fans via gender, country or cities and even file transfer between industry users.

Rivmixx is designed to keep more interaction between fan and user, fans can keep up to date with their MyMixx feature, which combines all news, releases and appearances / tour dates from each users favourite artists. MyMixx is a fan user’s very own, personalised Internet magazine. Fans can also write their own reviews of all news, gigs and other artist information as well as network with other fans that share the same tastes and musical interests." Danny Mac

- www.rivmixx.com

hit me on jahnasebastian.rivmixx.com

NAMM : Micro Korg XL

Presentation of the new micro Korg XL

Native Instruments Maschine

New groove production studio from NI plus software (Mac and PC), works as a plug-in or stand-alone application, can be used for live performance with its 5 GB library of sounds. According to developers, it will be out for sale on the 1st March 2009, gotta start saving for this little baby! :)

check out the video below

Introduction to Native Instruments Maschine

Me on Invincible Radio

Yesterday I gave two interviews on Invincible radio (www.invincibleradio.com), one of them live on Paul Hamilton show, played my songs which will be included into my EP and I also sang acapella "Please Forgive Dem Lord" -

vibe was great, the second interview was with Ron Cushnie and will be aired next week on his show, it touched technical aspect of our lives today plus we discussed music equipment.

My daughter is always with me (she's 8 months old)

Remix mag "In Session" with Danja

Interesting video about music production. Danja explains how he composed "We Taking Over", talking about sounds he used and the way the song came out:

http://remixmag.com/video/rh_la/2008/danja_panel_part1/

Apperently, Vanguard synth was used also on Justin Timberlake's song "My Love"

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION: THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

Here is a great movie that shares a secret we all want to know: the key to success, it is in visualizing what you want and seeing it being attracted to you as if you were a magnet. In simple words you get what you want, but I have to add that you should never forget about harmony and connection with the world around you and taking into account what other people want. You can't make somebody love you, if he/she don't want it, but wants something else. But you can visualize and achieve great results at work, get more clients, make more money through your business. And let's remember, everybody has their own historical role, so you can't be Napoleon if you are actually more talented in composing and supposed to make it like Beethoven :) You gotta take into accounts your talents. A few examples from my personal experience: before I launched my career as an artist, I attended Bob Marley festival in Moscow and I imagined how I would perform there the following year, and guess what - the following year, I was there on stage!

This is the first 20 min of the movie, you can get the full version here: http://www.thesecret.tv

How about moving to live on Mars in the future? Possible signs of life have already been discovered there!

NASA announced that methane gas has been discovered on Mars. The way in which the methane gas is being released has many scientists believing that it could be a sign of some type of biological activity. It means, that life may either be forming or has already formed on Mars. Most of methane on Earth is caused by living organisms, which make it as a by-product of breaking down food.

You can watch the streaming video here

Now scientists have said they need to send a mission to Mars with a probe that is capable of drilling down below the frozen Martian surface, to where water - and life - might exist.

Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory is due to start carrying out further tests on the planet in 2011.

If Mars has good enough conditions for life, it could be one of the possible destinations where we could relocate in case the Earth gets completely destroyed by human beings ... Just need to get my space ship ready for that, in fact I started planning that when I was a child ...

Man or Rabbit?

Chapter 12 in Part I of
God in the Dock:
Essays on Theology and Ethics
by C.S. Lewis
Man or Rabbit?

“Can’t you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?” This is the question on which I have been asked to write, and straight away, before I begin trying to answer it, I have a comment to make. The question sounds as if it were asked by a person who said to himself, “I don’t care whether Christianity is in fact true or not. I’m not interested in finding out whether the real universe is more what like the Christians say than what the Materialists say. All I’m interested in is leading a good life. I’m going to choose beliefs not because I think them true but because I find them helpful.” Now frankly, I find it hard to sympathise with this state of mind. One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human. As a matter of fact, I don’t believe any of you have really lost that desire. More probably, foolish preachers, by always telling you how much Christianity will help you and how good it is for society, have actually led you to forget that Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts—to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

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