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what's up music fans! thanks for subscribing to the quphonic newsletter. a new CD is on the way to all your favorite download sites, it should appear any day now. it's called 88BPM (which stands for Beats per Minute). hope you get a chance to check it out. I'll be uploading new songs to N1M soon. PEACE

here's a free download as preview and thanks for checking my music! go get it, and enjoy!
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What's up quphonic subscribers!!! Thanks for adding your name to my list, means a lot.

I wanted to tell you the story of how I started wanting to make music. I grew up in Detroit, MI, USA and learned to play a few traditional instruments, poorly: piano (sucked), flute (not as bad, I can actually can play songs), bass guitar (also sucked). I was in a garage band for awhile with this guy: (expired link)
He is an amazing jazz artist now.

I got into electronic music when I heard three releases all around the same time in 2004:
• Dangermouse's The Grey Album (mixes Jay-Z's Black Album with The Beatle's White Album)
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• Beck's Hell Yes EP (where he play's songs from Guero as if they were all chiptune)
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• Kraftwerk's Tour de France Soundtracks (their first new CD in many years)
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I had read about Dangermouse -- at the time he was a dude that put together this amazing work of art by locking himself in his room for two weeks and chopping up beats and sounds from the Beatles and adding Jay-Z's lyrics. It was a bootleg kind of viral download at the time, totally worth finding if you haven't heard it. Beck's chiptune style EP showed me how much you can do with a limited amount of 8-bit sounds. and Kraftwerk, well damn.. they're Kraftwerk. So all that got me interested in making my own songs, and so I got busy.

Attached is one of the first songs I made that I really liked, see if you dig it! From 2007!!
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What's up people!!!!!??

Happy September from quphonic-- been working my butt off in the lab making new music, but it's taking some time... wanted to share a couple of song sketches with you guys, tell me what you think! The new CD will have 10-12 tunes on it, these have a long way to go, but are getting there.

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Hope you enjoy the fall... here are a few tracks I have in heavy rotation, hope you dig 'em:
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hey music fans-- what's up?! thanks again for subscribing to my mailing list. I'm working hard on a free song for you guys--it's turning out really good... but still a ways to go.

Until then, I thought I'd share some of the music I've been listening to the last month-- maybe you'll dig it too.

Check it:

Kool AD / Prove It
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Kraftwerk / Aerodynamik
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Thom Yorke / Black Swan (Christian Vogel Mix)
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Run the Jwewels / Report to the Shareholders/Kill your Masters
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RZA remixing Charles Mingus / II B S
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Prefuse 73 / Oh Linda You Lit up My Life with your Voice
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Mos Def / Umi Says
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Tricky / Contradictive
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MIA / ATENTion
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Future Sound of London / Just a F****n Idiot
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and here's one of mine-- it's really experimental, but I really like it. let me know if I should make more stuff like this:
quphonic / god fearing man
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that's it for now! next one will have a new free tune
--q

Hey, thanks for subscribing! I made a song a free download for you guys on soundcloud, go get it here:
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Just click on the "more" button to download (if you dig it)... it's inspired by a song I saw as a kid on The Jetsons:
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