“I guess this is my moment. You know how everyone has that ONE moment in their lives? That single defining moment, as if someone just smacked you upside your head right over the ears with an open-handed windmill Daryl Dawkins type slap and screamed WAKE UP! That’s about where I am right now…
Read MoreBollywood cinema posters are iconographic and convey a visual language. The images depicted Indian women as lonely housewifes, long suffering & heartbroken, and at times overly sexualized – but almost always, they were defined in relation to the yearning of a man’s love. In our series “Unwrapped”, our inspiration comes directly from these Bollywood posters, but we wanted to challenge these old visual narratives…
Read More1st in a series of videos leading up to my 2nd release, the debut LP, “1973” (9-15-2013). On my last day in Jaisalmer (Rajasthan), I made the beat you hear in the video at 6AM on the rooftop of Jaisalmer Fort, then took a final stroll through the grounds before we left. Here’s a small taste of the energy I felt within the fort that lead me to create this track – btw, you won’t find this on the LP…
Read MoreSeattle is, without a doubt, one of my favorite cities in the country. The people, the food, the music, the landscape, its all love. Now, I have to admit, I’m a bit bias to the city because my sister lived there for a few years while she completed her PhD at the University of Washington. If you know my sister, then you know what I’m talking about. She immerses herself into the local community…
Read MoreGot a call from my good friend, talented drummer Donald Barrett, to cover an event he was involved with sponsored by cymbal maker Paiste going down at The Musician’s Institute in Hollywood (March 2013). Donald was hosting a drum clinic and hired me to capture some stills from the afternoon…
Read MoreI am very excited to announce the official release of my FIRST RECORD, the debut EP, “A Film by Landa Hans”. “A Film by Landa Hans” is a filmscore-beat-centric-washed-out-vocal audible journey which describes the path taken when love is lost, the bridge between constant sadness and hope…
Read MoreFINALLY, 2 months after getting home, I’m done sifting through the mounds of images I captured while in INDIA. And of all the postings I’ve done thus far on my trip, this 4th & final portion of the visual story is the most meaningful to me because it covers my parents homeland, PUNJAB…
Read MoreI wanted to write this love story for you about the 3rd leg of my trip, a 4-city journey through the beautiful state of RAJASTHAN (Pushkar –> Osian –> Jaisalmer –> Bikaner), but I just can’t seem to do it…my heart is broken. I’ve tried a few times in the past couple of weeks since I’ve been home, but the words don’t come [past a single paragraph]…
Read MoreI think the picture above sums up DELHI in a nutshell –> MADNESS…and I mean that in the most sincere & positive way. This city is absolutely out of control. It is SENSORY OVERLOAD from the minute you get off the plane, to the minute you step out into the street, get in a car/rickshaw/auto/bus (take your pick), to the minute you lay down to sleep (if you can manage to pull that off), to the minute you wake up in the morning and all the seconds, minutes & hours in-between. It’s 24/7. Constant. Unrelenting…
Read MoreIt’s been about 7yrs since I last visited the MOTHERLAND (I was born & raised in the US, but for the literal translation, I am in my mother’s homeland, sooo). Every time I come back, the experience is like no other. Since my last trip, the advent of social media has kicked into high gear, so I have the tools at my disposal to keep a running log of my journey…and I intend to share my experiences in real-time as best I can. So, this will be my first post in a series of pieces about my trip to INDIA…I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy writing & sharing them…
Read More“Garren & Cohan” is the musical composer duo of the very talented Brady Cohan and Ross Garren. Brady has literally, I shit you not, in the last year dropped FOUR ALBUMS. Yeah dude. 4 records. Believe it, its true. A solo project, a rock trio project (Knee High) and 2 EPs w/Ross (a multi-instrument talent, keys, harmonica, you name it) as the duo “Garren & Cohan”…
Read MoreTONIGHT Aug 27th, I’m looking forward to dropping the “Appetizer” set at GRATUITY,which kicks off at 9:30pm at The Room in Santa Monica. This is by far one of my favorite venues in Southern Cali, not to mention one of my favorite crew of DJs to build with. They are always droppin’ quality cuts on the Tech12z and asked me back for another opening session…
Read MoreOne of the most beautiful things about living in your home town is running into old friends…and I don’t mean friends you haven’t seen in 5, 10 or maybe even 15 years, I mean friends you haven’t seen in 20+yrs…
Read MoreLast week marked the kick-off of DO WHAT CHA’LIKE!, our new THURSDAY NIGHT residency in Downtown Los Angeles at Seven Bar & Lounge, where the DJs PLAY WHAT WE LIKE! I’m very excited to get back in the mix this eve w/fellow resident selectors Anthony Valadez (KCRW) + DJ Ben G…
Read MorePeople find me to be very strange at times. When I get excited about something I see, most people don’t share my enthusiasm (that is, until they see the photos ;)). To be a friend of mine is to be on-guard for random photographic requests…
Read MoreOK, I’ve been sitting on this since Nov2011, was allowed to spread the word in late Feb/Mar2012, just after my last newsletter, but work consumed me since. None the less, here it is…I am very, very excited to share with you the release of my first official track, a remix I did for the talented singer/songwriter Yael Meyer…
Read MoreAlright people, this is probably THE one gig I’ve been looking forward to for a while, because it will house a variety of electronic-based-beat-cookers I’m accustomed to spinning on my Tech1200z. The hommie Tomas Wolfe reached out & asked if I’d like to join him as the resident selectors for a new experimental beat monthly called kik ROX…
Read MoreOne thing I love as a photographer is natural light. There is so much one can pull off in-camera with just the sun, diffusers and reflectors…
Read MoreJust in case you happened to be one of the unfortunate people who missed last year’s MOCA downtown exhibit titled “Art In The Streets”, not to worry…
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