I remixed this track as part of an assignment in my Berkleeonline "Producing with Pro Tools" Specialist Course. It is inspired and dedicated to my good friend Barrigas, an awesome musicican and all round great guy. Here's to you Bellyman...

For Bellyman

Two Fingers and a Forehead (Take 1); a Remix of Amon Tobin's alter ego Two Fingers'  track "Fool's Rhythm" using the NinjaJamm app to weave and tweak the sounds and ProTools as the glue to hold it all together.

Fools Rhythm by Two Fingers / Amon Tobin [de Llera Remix] [NinjaJamm]

The 7th Beast is the 5th track from the Asthmosis Ep. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Asthmosis. 20 Years of OOTA

the 7th Beat

The 7th Beat as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

So Dry Your Eyes is the 4th track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Asthmosis: 20 Years of OOTA

Dry Your Eyes

So Dry Your Eyes as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

O Que Eu Puder is the 3rd track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

O Que Eu Puder

O Que Eu Puder as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

Ey Chiquita is the 2nd track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form. The track also belong tho Phuni Fingahz's "Feeling Mean" EP

Ey Chiquita

Ey Chiquita as Phuni Fingahz & One of the Asthmatics

Smoking Ganges is the 1st track of the Asthmosic EP. 20 years after initial work had begun on Asthmosis, the follow up Album to "Up in Smoke" is finally released as One of the Asthmatics emerges renewed from his exploratory hiatus to dive once again into the Rap/Hip-Hop paradigm. One of the Asthmatics has reentered the studio to once again bend the rules that dictate musical genres as separate aesthetic cultures and form new mestizo identities and musical hybrids between tradition, style and form.

Smoking Ganges

Smoking Ganges as One of the Asthmatics for the Asthmosis EP

Under and Weathered is the first Single from the upcoming album entitled "The Misadventures of Billy Blanes"

The Misadventures of Billy Blanes

Under and Weathered

Under And Weathered as Billy Blanes

Some of a Gun is the second single from the upcoming album entitled "The Misadventures of Billy Blanes"

Some of a Gun

Some Of A Gun as Billy Blanes

Phuni Fingahz is a controllerist and a producer that navigates pure beat rawness through his fingers. First played then produced and expanded upon, all of Phuni Fingahz tracks are born from beat juggling using controllers of all kinds and types, from classic grip buttons to movement analysis and home-made Arduino instruments.

Feeling Mean

Schochu Blind: Bro, the Klingon Armada!

Shochu Blind: Bro, The Klingon Armada! as Phuni Fingahz for the "Feeling Mean" EP

Taken from Bonobo's album 'Black Sands' - released 29 March 2010 on Ninja Tune. Tweaked and cut on NinjaJamm and Remixed in ProTools.

It was a welcome challenge to attempt this remix, as it would not have been my first choice of tracks, but the result outweighed the diffivulties by far.

Eyes Down by Bonobo featuring Andreya Triana [de Llera Remix] [NinjaJamm]

A remix of Mourad Belouadi's Guembri recorded live for and by remix-culture.org on April 25th, 2014 by Tyler Wood in M'hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco. Original recording was mixed and mastered by Tyler Wood at Sauce Farm Studio, Catskill, NY, and then remixed, mixed and mastered by Guillermo de Llera Blanes under the rights of a Creative Commons BY NC SA license.

Rockin' The Casbah [de Llera Remix]

What happens when you Join B.B. King on vocals, George Fludas playing a John Bonham beat and Guillermo de Llera on Bass? You get this!

"BB's Bonham And Cheez Sandwich - Sloppy Seconds and Smoke Hounder"

One take recording

BB's Bonham And Cheez Sandwich - Sloppy Seconds and Smoke Hounders - De Llera Remix

This one made an Apple playlist, so it might be ok.

Pass The Craft Biatch

Pass The Craft Biatch as Billy Blanes

What happens when you join Keela (vocalsynthesis) on vocals, George Fludas playing a John Bonham beat and Guillermo de Llera on Bass? You get this!

Thor's Bladder

Thor's Bladder as UNKN0WN feat. Keela (emvoice)

"Domingos Dreda" is the fourth release for controllerist Phuni Fingahz' premiere "Feeling Mean" EP.

Domingos Dreda

A de Llera remix of "Gunshotta" by Machinedrum using the  NinjaJamm app to spit out stems and Pro Tools to sow them back together.

Only used the original sounds provided by the application, no add-ons whatsoever. My intention was to see how far I could tweak things from the original track, and take them in a new direction.

Gunshotta by Machinedrum [de Llera Remix] [NinjaJamm]

A de Llera remix of James Blake's "Life Round Here" lifted from my mashup for "Drop the Bass", a radio show I produce for Portuguese Antena 3 Dance radio.

James Blake has been one of my favorite artists for a while now, and it was a real treat to remix this track for my radio show.

James Blake - Life Round Here (the Inner Animal - From William To Blake) [de Llera Remix]

Sketch-work of "Injarda Bygung or Grandfather Bitten [Mosquito Biting Me]", for an upcoming We Cut Hand release. Originally written as part of an assignment for the World Music Composition Styles course over at berkleemusic.com, the piece had to be under 3 minutes long. I'll expand on the track once I have all my sketches for my We Cut Hand project.

I played and recorded the Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), the Saz, the Bass and all the Percussion (Darabuka, Dumbek, Egyptian Tabla and Finger-Cymbals), and then programmed the Drums, Clapstick and Strings.

The goal was to 'fuse' together different World Music genres, so I picked Aboriginal and Middle-Eastern/Turkish elements to add to the mix as well as a Baião (Brazilian) beat.

"Grandfather Bitten [Mosquito Biting Me]" as We Cut Hand(2016 release)

A de Llera Remix of Bjork's "Army of Me" for the "Drop the Bass" radio program.

Bjork is without a doubt a reference of the experimental and underground electronic world, while keeping a firm footing in pop culture. It was a pleasure to work on one of my favorite Bjork tracks.

Bjork - Army Of Me [de Llera Remix]

Dub interpretations of Primitive Reason tracks.
No Weak Beginning is a re-cloacking of Weakness from Primitive Reason's 2005 release "Pictures in the Wall". One of Guillermo de Llera’s brainchilds and pseudonyms,’Red Shield’ utilizes a modern approach to reinterpret vintage Dub-Reggae remixing techniques, while staying true to the old school spirit of Dub; with a modern tongue speaking an old language of music.

“Axes to the Wall” is Red Shield’s debut album. In it Guillermo tackled a serious challenge by undertaking the painstaking task of sifting through every individual track from Primitive Reason’s “Pictures in the Wall” album, and re-organizing them from the ground up; using the same building blocks to make the 7 songs found in Axes to the Wall.

In this way ‘Weakness’ became ‘Enter the Dragon’, ‘El Caballero’ became ‘The Hanging Horsemen’, ‘Journey to the West’ became ‘Big Death at the Western Front’, ‘Caminos’ became ‘Them Ol Rascals’, ‘Eat My Bush’ became ‘The Burning Bush’, ‘Weakness’ redressed once again as ‘No Weak Beginning’, and ‘In Between’ became ‘Between Two Swords’.

It is interesting to note that Guillermo only recorded and added one track that is not found in the original “Pictures in the Wall” recordings. For it to be a Red Shield album, true to its essence, Guillermo’s bass lines are a mandatory presence.

As is routine with Guillermo’s work, “Axes to the Wall” can be found in instrumental form and with added vocals, as separate releases. This is the instrumental one.

Enter The Dragon by Red Shield

The Burning Bush by Red Shield for the "Axes to the Wall" (2014 release)

Strings - From The Metal Days is the fifth track for my upcoming album "The Vision" for my World Fusion project that goes by the name "We Cut Hand". I played and recorded the following instruments for this track: (Saz, 8 string Acoustic Guitar (in B), Zarb, Galician Pandeireta, Indian Shakers and Kanjira, and assorted bells from India and Japan).

Strings - From The Metal Days as We Cut Hand (2016 release)

"Mario's Journey" is dedicated to my friend Mario, who else? He flew to the old country to pay his friends and family a visit, and remembering what a good guy he is I decided to make a track for him. So yeah, that's the skinny on this track, hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

"Mario's Journey" as Moksha for the "Khor Ba" (2015 release)

I was going for a more dramatic track with The Unchanged, while trying to keep a simplistic approach, remaining as close to organic soundscapes as possible and pushing the envelope between genres. Not a reductionist direction, but one that stays in line with all the other Moksha tracks for the upcoming release.



"The Unchanged" as Moksha for the "Khor Ba" (2015 release)

Hariah II - Who Enters the Cave? Is the sixth track and part of the second installment of Diéh Buà, Head of the Elephant's 6th Album.

Diéh Buà

Hariah II - Who Enters the Cave

Modern songs of protest; ‘O Moço Árabe’ achieves a musical fusion between traditional music and contemporary musical modernism, deriving from a lack of cultural references, born as a product of a creativity that is fed by cultural displacement and forced migration.

Arising from an inward and pressing need to give voice to the feelings of those who feel Mozarabic, the project "O Moço Árabe" AKA “Moucharaby”, touches on issues raised by the displacement of Mozarabic culture, several centuries after the Iberian decolonization of Muslim invaders. 

Celebrating a unity; born out of racial, religious and cultural tolerance that gave birth to the Mozarab as a symbol of multiculturalism and fusion of philosophies, responsible for the reintroduction of the lost knowledge in Europe during the Middle Ages. 

O Jogo do Galo is voiced in Portuguese. Spanish and English versions will be released in the coming months.

Red Rights Led Lights

'Jogo Do Galo' as O Moço Árabe (2015 release)

Head of the Elephant's fourth album "O Retornado" was composed as a sonic memory-record of Guillermo de Llera's first years of life in Africa in the 1970´s.

The sonic vision for this album was to act as a memory induced catalyst to a world long gone and faded into the past.

Buy on iTunes

Yiendai (na estrada de poeira) by Head of the Elephant for the 'O Retornado' (2014 re-release)

Written and Recorded in Winter of 1997 and Spring of 1998 in Portugal and Mixed in New York, USA in 1999, "and Headed to Mars" is the follow-up release to One of the Asthmatics' "Up in Smoke" album. Both albums were idealized as a two-part or dual release, with "Up is Smoke" as and instrumental version and with "and Headed to Mars" as a re-mixed counterpart with added vocals, and some new tracks.

Dimensions by One of the Asthmatics' "And Headed to Mars" (2015 re-release)

A Soundscape composition using geo-located recordings chronologically depicting my hike up to Everest Base Camp during Sep./Oct. 2018.

2018

Sonic Diary: From Lukla to Everest Base Camp & Kalapathar

Sketch-work of "Assigning All Fours", for an upcoming We Cut Hand release.

Originally written as part of an assignment for the Producing with Pro Tools course over at berkleemusic.com.

I'll expand on the track once I have all my sketches for my We Cut Hand project.

I played and recorded the Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), the Saz, the Bass and all the Percussion (Uddka, Cajoncito, Qraqab).

"Assigning All Fours" as We Cut Hand (2016 release)

A remix of "How Long" by How to destroy angels for the Welcome Oblivion Remix Contest hosted at Indabamusic.com

Trent Reznor's work has always been outstanding, and his involvement in How to Destroy Angels is no less impressive; the sonic depth is beyond good and the choice of sounds equal in quality.

How Long by How to Destroy Angels [de Llera Remix]

Tripping balls with Music since Day 1, and loving every minute of it! I make music for the movies in my head.

Music Instructor at Berklee Online; Ethnomusicologist; Interdisciplinary Artist; Singer, Musician, Composer and Producer; Solo Artist (various projects);  DJ / Radio-Selector; Activist.

EMPLOYMENT: Instructor of the 'World Music Composition Styles' class at Berklee College of Music's Berklee Online
EMPLOYMENT: CEO of kaminari records
EMPLOYMENT: Custom Writer/Producer: Lusitanian Publishing
EMPLOYMENT: Board of Directors: AMAEI (The Portuguese Independent Music Association)

EDUCATION: Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology at the Faculdade Nova, Portugal
EDUCATION: Specialist Diploma of 'General Music Studies' from Berklee College of Music
EDUCATION: Specialist Diploma of 'Producing with Pro Tools' from Berklee College of Music
EDUCATION: Two Years of Indian Tabla studies with Misha Masud in NYC
EDUCATION: Certificate of West African Percussion with the Drummer's Collective NYC

Back in 1992 a great friend of mine convinced me to try playing the Bass so I could join a cover band he was starting. One year later I had pushed the notion to him that copying was far less rewarding than doing it yourself, and we founded Primitive Reason.

To this day I’m still going strong with Primitive Reason, although I try and ‘complete’ my need for a varied musical diet with other projects, of which most are solo experiments.

Although I started with the Bass Guitar, I quickly moved on to experiment with other rhythmic languages, particularly percussion. Although I am from Madrid, Spain and born of Spanish parents, my first few years were spent in Angola where according to what I am told I became ‘hooked’ early on percussive music. Still today this is the most important feature in musical construction for me, and so obviously all the music I write has a strong rhythmic component.

I’ve been recording albums since 1995, and there are 24 releases to date that I can call my own, not counting studio recordings for other bands and projects.

Staying true to my nature as a musician I have dedicated most of my earnings to musical instruments and studio gear, so I am fortunate to have a massive collection of ethnic and modern instruments, and professional gear with which to mix and master it.

My interests are everywhere, which is, well…everything, but I do aim to write only unique and characteristic material.

Guillermo de Llera

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