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Hey all!

I have read the forum newbies post and decided to participate with some information about myself.
I'll try not to make a wall of Text.

My name is Joseph T. Vasquez (or j03 for short), I just turned 30 April 25th, 2011. I am from San Francisco California.
I don't really play any instruments per say, although I managed to teach myself piano and studied others which are typical band and orchestral instrument types so I can try to make it sound real as possible only using a keyboard and some software. Anyways, I have been producing Beats/Instrumentals since I was 14. Started out with Rap, HipHop, and R&B. I then experimented doing soundtrack/theme/instrumental type music. Which turned out quite fun and cool sounding when I made a melody using bird chirp samples.

So, through the years ive had many friends(and strangers) that rap or sing come over to my house and record on my beats. I was the beatman in my area. I then landed doing some beats for some Bay Area Rappers such as Mr. Kee, Messy Marv, Tension, RBL Posse (Which didnt go down), and others for a compilation CD which didnt do too well.
I had took about 1 1/2 yrs of college majoring in Music Composition but I was undecided for a number of years and ended up majoring in Electronics Engineering.

So thats my history in music.

Now I am here...
I have found out about Taxi about 3 years ago, and ever since been watching almost all the uStream videos, youtube videos, observing the forum, reading all the information on the site, basically getting all the information I can about the company. Now, I am a Taxi member since April 23rd 2011.

I have a few songs uploaded, all are 5-7 yrs old except for "Grimesta" and "Tree Of Life", which I submitted to some listings, mainly ones that give critiques to see where I am at. If you would care to listen my page is: http://www.taxi.com/j03 - Feedback/critiques always welcome, I take the positive approach.

And, for anyone that cares to know, here is the Gear I currently use:

Hardware:
!Just Upgraded! - Custom built Pentium i7, 8GB RAM, Win 7 64Bit PC
2010 Macbook Pro 13"
Presonus Firestudio Project
Focusrite Saffire 6 USB
M-Audio Audiophile 192
BBE 382i Sonic Maximizer
KRK Rokit 8s
Korg Triton Extreme 61-Key
Novation Remote SL MKII 49-Key
Novation Launchpad
Akai APC40
Numark Mixtrack
White Fender Strat (Which I don't know how to play yet)

Software:
Steinberg Cubase 5
Propellerheads Reason 5
Ableton Live 8

VSTi:
East West Symphonic Orchestra GOLD
East West Stormdrum 2
MOTU Symphonic Orchestra
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Musiclabs Realguitar 2

If any questions on how to use any of this stuff, feel free to ask, cause I will! lol

I hope this isn't too much.

Thanks all for having me!
j03

Hey Joe, welcome to the forum. Some nice tracks on your page there. I really liked the vibe of Tree of Life. Seems like you have an impressive array of sw to use too. Look forward to hearing more from you. Best to ya.

Derek.

All right, another SF guy! I live just up the coast in west Marin County. Welcome aboard!

eo

Hello, Joe! Not sure if it's a good or bad thing if your posse "didn't go down", but welcome to the forum!

Joe: I rarely listen to "beat" tracks, but i did listen to your first track on your TAXI link. Do you realize that it has a sort of classical music vibe? At least it did for me. Very nice, welcome.
Ott

Hey! Nice to meet you all, and thanks for the greetings and listens.

@ llama - Thanks, glad you liked. That one I had Moby in the back of my mind while doing it, so it has a dancy feel to it.

@ eeoo - Right on man, you know how we do in the bay area lol, I love SF!

@ Mr. bones - It isn't a good or bad thing, either way I will always make music, so its just a thing lol.

@ ottlukk - I cant say too much about it being classical sounding, but I tend to always have this soundtrack/theme style going on whenever i touch a black or white and I try to stop it (even when some slips out) when I want to make a specific genre of music, or else if my fingers do the work ill end up with an orchestral score.

j03

welcome to the forum j03 - looking forward to checking out your music!

Hi Joe.
Nice range of tracks. Clean production.

Welcome.
Dave.

I'm new myself, but welcome all the same! Those are some nice, clean tracks there.


-Nick

Welcome Joe.

Stuart