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Lindsay worked for weeks on this mural we have on the wall of my and Amy's house. It is from a satelitte photo of the neighborhood - now that it is finished, our house is highlighted in red.

Interesting note: on the wall, up is south and right is west. This positions the map in real space just like the neighborhood. Very cool when maps and reality collide.

Music For Dozens got 2 new posts today. No idea where they came from, or how they heard, but we've got a couple of good hip-hop tracks on hand now. Very nice!

Tell Me What's Your Answer by sisla8 is smooth RnB, with steel drums and talented female vocals. Definitely worth a listen.

SO HOT : FEAT. MR.TUSSLE & RON SIZE by hostagemusick is harder hip-hop, East Coast style, with slick strings and rapping with echo and those backup vocal interjections everybody wishes they could pull off.

We're in business.

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First of all, I'd like to thank Tim Germer for talking up Music For Dozens on his Northwest Noise podcast!

For those of you who are interested in hearing some of Jeff's music, here is a pop-rock track from his most recent album, Perspectives, which I produced with him. His new material is more complex, with a classical bent, but this track, Being There, gives you an idea of how intense Jeff's style can be.






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My friend Jeff Johnston is one of the most naturally musical people I know. The music he makes, on the other hand, is not natural!

He's always been one for creating the brain-killingest acoustic guitar music, but now that he's got his hands on Reason, oh the thing he'll do.

I'm listening to one of his newest pieces (a music-school project), and I think he'd be happy to know that my headphones are CRANKED and my ears are BLEEDING.

But his stuff if more classical than dance or techno, although he does appreciate the value of a well placed break beat now and again.

The first thing I'm hearing, "Final.rns" starts out with a tiny metallic screech that is soon joined by chirping mutant infant assassins, and the lowest rumble of wooden belly-full monster ever. As it progress, all sorts of musical things involving keys and tone-rows etc. are happening, that I barely understand, punctuated by eerie silences and eastern calls to prayer.

Then, around bar 57, the beat drops, buttery, thick, and then thicker, like maybe a poundcake or a maybe its opposite, an entire season of aerobics class. You tell me.

Oh wait you can't because you can't hear it.

Jeff, put these things online so I can link to them!!!!

Here, just make an mp3 of them and follow this link to upload them to my website that I built for exactly this purpose, through a painful and vexing months-long process, so that you can share them with the world.

Next week I'll do a review of his other two new tracks.