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rustyredenbacher:

#ATFU #5OnTheBlackHandSide #CoverArt.

I’m uploading the zip of this right now and will be posting it here tonight. 5 tracks, yo, from concept to posting in approximately 36 hours. Yup. I friggin love making music, man. I’m glad to offer this little instrumental offering to y’all, man. If you dig it, share it with whomever you feel would feel like you do about it. 

I really wanna send a bog shout out to Mr. Kinetik who pushed me back into considering making tracks about six months ago. We were in the car and I was playing some ‘tracks’ I had made on a four track utilizing my buddy, Paul Bunyon’s oooold mixer with about 4 seconds of sample time. When he said, “Man, we could rhyme to some of these…”, I was like, “#Maby?…” but the sound quality is so lo-fi, and actually, a lot of it was made specifically to be heard instrumentally.

Due to the limitations of the equipment, I was forced to learn how to count the beats out (something I do naturally, but when it comes to making beats live, chopping loops and stuff, you gotta know where you are or you’re not making a ‘track’, you’re making noise…’on beat’.), trigger samples and parts live, all the way thru, learned a bit about mixing down a tape on a multitrack recorder…this was a while back, man. Basically I was making a ‘pause tape’ on a four-track. 

I use a lotta those same techniques now. I made all the rhythm beds for every track on the ‘The Tinkerer’ live on my turntables. Every rhythm bed is performed on the turntables live, chopping loops, flashing, blending the breaks with a sample…and then the instrumentation was added. In all honesty, the idea of adding instrumentation was totally foreign to me. I don’t have musical equipment and at the time, I didn’t even have a Midi keyboard. Shit done changed and I’m teaching myself more techniques. ‘The Tinkerer’ is Tesla, figuring things out…working on it, and if you ask me, doing not too bad. (I’m really happy with it.)

‘5ive On The Black Hand Side’ is a different in a few ways. 1) I learned how to chop and loop on my computer, so all these were actually composed in Garageband. 2) I got a Midi keyboard now, woo! 3) No rappin, yo…tracks. 

I’m releasing this cuz I love ya and I had a great time making it. Hope you enjoy it. The zip will be posted before midnight, #Naptown time, tonight. 

RR

#ATFU

#ATFU #5iveOnTheBlackHandSide 

Rusty givin y’all 5 tracks tonight…fonkay.

Stay tuned…and every cat in this crew is focused…

#ATFU - we work.

rustyredenbacher:

#LAZARUSTheRisingPart2 #WebVideo

Some of my #PUNKROCKTHISSHIT ethic at work. Use what you got when you feel the inspiration. Make it fly. Be creative. 

I love making these videos for my websites and such. I actually enjoy the process and over the last three years have taught myself a lot. If you use your imagination, a lotta the time, you can make some flyness happen.

All the videos on my page are shot and edited by me. I don’t make a big fuss about it, but people have given me some props for my editing eye lately, so there’s my horn…and I’mma tootin…I was shooting stuff with everything from the onboard camera on the laptop to the Bloggie (DON’T DO IT.) and this one was shot entirely with an iPhone. I edit everything in iMovie. Simple, man. 

I attempt to make the videos match the mood of the songs as closely as possible. If I can, I avoid lip syncing (although I’ve learned to sync the audio and video very quickly; I just like the usage of visual images and movement instead of standing there rappin or singin)

Anyhow, man…this is my latest creation. I was listening to this in the car and the ideas just hit me. I shot about 17 minutes of footage, sat down and edited it, and six hours later, I can show you this.

Rusty Redebacher & SPStar - ‘Lazarus’ is available on iTunes, Amazon, and wherever you buy digital music. 

Brought to you by the fine folks at AUDIO RECON

Rise. \o/

RR

#SHRUGLIFE #ATFU #NAPTOWN #TBM

Rusty Redenbacher with another web video, hitting stride again. This is ‘Lazarus (The Rising (Part 2)’ from his album with SPStar on the tracks, ‘Lazarus;

You may wanna subscribe to Rusty’s Youtube Page. The dude has an iPhone and is going bananas. 

Our man, Mr. Kinetik had surgery on his shoulder and will be in a sling for six weeks, but everything went fine and he is on the mend. All shows are still a go. Pray for our brother.

Here’s the next two #ATFU affiliated shows in #Naptown, 

FRIDAY, JULY 1 - Sir Doug of Old Soul Ent. presents:  Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher (#ATFU), The Tornado Alley (#ATFU), Scoot Dubbs, Whitney Coleman, Dwayne The Dork and more at THE JAZZ KITCHEN

Click here to go to the Facebook Event Page for July 1

THURSDAY, JULY 7 - THE SOUL CINEMA EXPERIENCE - alpha.live (#ATFU), The Native Sun Collective, DJ Metrognome, Kenye Fudiyah, Whitney Coleman, and The Tornado Alley (#ATFU) at HARD ROCK CAFE

Click here to go to the Facebook Event Page for July 7

Check out the video starring Rusty’s dreads, shadows, and rock n’ roll fury, ‘Lazarus’ is available wherever you buy digital music, man. Leave a comment under the video on YouTube. We appreciate feedback, reblogs and all that shit. Y’all have been great to us so far and we’re just firing the jets.

ALLEY. \o/

#ATFU