Yam's Harvest - Abdul Smooth by indianelectronica

(A track I put together in 2008 and never released till now)

A few weeks back I dropped some impromptu beats with my co-conspirator from People Downtown, a one mr Nathan Lee, at a fund-raiser organised solely through the interwebs for the Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank called #hohoto- it ws a smashing success and raised near $50,000 in one single night!

Cheers to Hyfen for the shot!

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I'm terribly excited to spend some time this winter working on some new AV performances that feature fully-synced audio and video clips (got some groovy live film remix concepts I'm working on) using both Ableton Live and Resolume 3x at the same time!

Here's the new track I did with DJ Spooky, which is out on his new album the Secret Song:

Salt Satyagraha by DJ Spooky & Abdul Smooth by indianelectronica

DJ Spooky's new album and DVD, the Secret Song, is now available for purchase in stores and online.  Its an amazing listening experience that brings together diverse artists such as myself (check Salt Satyagraha, which I co-produced with Spooky - track 16), Vijey Iyer, Thurston Moore (of the Sonic Youth), the Jungle Brothers, Rob Swift, Sussan Deyhim and many more.

LINKS:  read more »

• Purchase @ iTunes
• Album review - All Music
• Album Review - All About Jazz
• HIPHOPDX REVIEW
• WALL STREET JOURNAL: SPOOKY ECONOMICS
• iPhone App

Download this new 90 minute mix here:

http://peopledowntown.com/blog/091119/podcast-002-abdul-smooth-mix-live-...

You can grab a new mix of mine hot off the decks; its the 20th Indian Electronica podcast and features some new cuts from Kailash Kher, Anuj Rastogi, Balkan Beat Box (remixed by NYC's Nickodemus) and more...

Check it out on indianelectronica.com

http://www.udk.com

They just announced that the Unreal Engine 3 is free - apparently this is a cutting edge animation tool/rendering engine/etc that can be used to program video games or make movies...  As you can see from the image above - the sofware's come a long way in its 3 releases and is now super-powerful...

More info @ CDM...

People are rumored to be working on cross-platform versions of the software; imagine coding a game on your iPhone!

Some great shots of me up on stage bustin cuts from Blair Francey @ BFdesign / That Night in Toronto

(Taken @ a fundraiser-party I was spinning @ in Toronto called SpinTO)

(You can see the full set on flickr here)

Its become a habit to press record whilst randomly going through tracks in prep for a gig (i.e. unrehearsed track selections and transitions) - this mix runs just over an hour and surveys a bunch of 4/4 rhythms - from all types of dance/house to rock, funk and more.

Please pass the word around about the gig the mix is being posted to get you excited for - that's our 'I Need Sugar' launch party on June 13th, 2009. 

You'll find all the necessary links about the party + to listen/download the mix @ peopledowntown.com :)